Aitken, Richard. Botanical Riches. Stories of botanical exploration.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Lund Humphries. 2007 pp.xi, 243 beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. Large 4to. A fine hdbk. in fine dw.
A super work. Divided into 4 main sections; ‘Plants of the ancient and classical worlds’ (from the dawn of time to 1450), ‘The great age of maritime exploration’ (from the 1450s to 1750s), ‘Scientific imperialism and exotic botany’ (from the 1750s to the 1900s) and lastly, ‘Living Fossils’ (The 1900s and beyond).
£38.00 [ref: 53477]

Blunt, W. & W.T. Stearn. The Art of Botanical Illustration.
Rep. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1995 pp.368 with 125 coloured plates and many text figs. A thoroughly vg. copy in similar dustwrapper. Out-of-print.
£50.00 [ref: 43666]

Brenan, J.P.M. et al. A Vision of Eden. The Life and Works of Marianne North.
Pub. Webb & Bower. 1980 pp.240 with reproductions of her work in colour throughout the volume. Fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.
£9.00 [ref: 28788]

Brookshaw, George. Pomona Britannica. The complete plates.
1st. Ed. Pub. Taschen. 2002 pp.200 with colour illus. throughout, many full-page. Large 4to. A nr. fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.
'Pomona Britannica' was originally published in 1812 by George Brookshaw (1751-1823), an admired draughtsman and engraver of fruits and flowers. In 2002, Taschen published this book, celebrating Brookshaw’s achivements through the reproduction of the original plates. With introductory texts describing the nutritional value of each fruit and their social and cultural history.
£18.00 [ref: 52445]

Brown, A. Flower Paintings from the Apothecaries’ Garden. Contemporary Botanical Illustrations from Chelsea Physic Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 2005 pp.135 with colour plates throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Small address label to front cover of dw.
Contains 56 colour reproductions of paintings, each one by a different artist. The plants depicted range from small alpines to magnificent trees and from food plants to those which yield life-saving drugs.
£40.00 [ref: 58142]

Burnett, M.A. Plantae Utiliores or Illustrations of Useful Plants. Vol.2.
Pub. Whittaler & Co. 1845 with 61 fine hand coloured lithograph plates. Beautifully bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt design to boards and spine. Handsome, some plates loose (perfect) binding. Plates very clean and bright.
£450.00 [ref: 34406]

Burnett, M.A. Plantae Utiliores or Illustrations of Useful Plants.. Vol. 1.
Pub. Whittaker & Co. 1842 with fine hand coloured lithograph plates. Beautifully bound in full green morocco with elaborate gilt design to boards and spine. Binding becoming loose and front board becoming detached. Plates very clean and bright. Overall a good to vg. copy.
£375.00 [ref: 34405]

Butler, P. Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters.
1st. Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 2000 pp.143 with b/w. and colour illus., throughout. 4to. A fine hardback in fine dw.
This book is the first to chronicle in depth, the significant contribution artists living and working in Ireland have made to both botanical illustration and flower painting over the last two hundred years.
£30.00 [ref: 58076]

Church, A.H. Types of Floral Mechanism. A Selection of Diagrams and Descriptions of Common Flowers. Arranged as an Introduction to the Systematic Study of Angiosperms. Part 1, Types I-XII (Jan. to April).
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1908 pp.vii, 211 with full-page colour plates throughout. 4to. Hardback. All published. Neat signature dated 1963. Very minor spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth in nr. fine condition. One of the best copies we have seen. Scarce.
A quite superb and unique work. ‘The revolutionary drawings of Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937) are considered some of the finest botanical illustrations of the twentieth century. By dissection and the study of flowers at different stages of their development, he was able to portray their mechanisms in words and in brilliant illustrations that exposed their structures’ Mabberley (2000).
£120.00 [ref: 58167]

Clapham, A.R. et al. Flora of the British Isles Illustrations. Parts I to IV.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1957-65 Four volume set. 4to. Neat inscription to ffep., of Part 1. Minor spotting to top of text blocks, o/w., all fine hardbacks in thor. vg. to fine dws.
Companion volumes to the ‘Flora of the British Isles’, with the arrangement of species following the order in the Flora. Drawn by Sybil J. Roles from fresh specimens to give an impression of the living plant.
£40.00 [ref: 58756]

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