Batten, A. Flowers of Southern Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Southern. 1988 pp.xv, 401 with colour plates throughout. Dustwrapper a little darkened and chipped in places otherwise a thor. vg. copy. Limited edition, this being No. 3516 of 4000.
£100.00 [ref: 44279]

Blockley, A. Country Flowers in Watercolour.
Pub. Harpercollins. 1993 pp.127 with colour illus. and photos throughout. Ex-Library copy. A vg. copy in same dustwrapper.
£7.50 [ref: 44190]

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]

Blunt, Wilfrid. & Stearn, W.T. The Art of Botanical Illustration.
4th. Ed. Rep. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1995 pp.368 with colour and b/w. illus. 4to. A fine hdbk. in fine dw.
This new edition includes 126 colour plates (more than twice as many as the orginal edition) and 140 black and white illustrations, thus making available numerous examples of the work of great botanical illustrators past and present.
£25.00 [ref: 49471]

Brenan, J.P.M. A Vision of Eden: The Life and Work of Marianne North.
1st. Ed. Pub. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1980 pp.240 with colour illus. 4to. A nr. fine hdbk. in vg. dw., with one small repaired closed tear to top of spine.
£7.00 [ref: 51005]

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]

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 illus. Royal 4to. A fine hdbk. in fine dw.
Flower Paintings from the Apothecaries’ Garden contains fifty-six colour reproductions of paintings, one by each artist. The plants depicted range from small alpines to magnificent trees and from food plants to those which yield life-saving drugs.
£50.00 [ref: 49432]

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]

Clay, Rotha Mary. Samuel Hieronymus Grimm. Of Burgdorf in Switzerland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Faber and Faber. 1941 pp.xxxii, 111 plus b/w. plates. 4to. A fine hdbk. in good to vg. dw. From the library of the author Nigel Temple with his bookplate to front paste down.
The life and art of the 18th Century Swiss painter and poet Samuel Hieronymus Grimm are the subject of this book. His continental work is illustrated by 30 plates, many of them Swiss Alpine Scenery. His English work covers a wide range of subjects including his views of Selborne, which he made as a guest of Gilbert White. White considered him ‘a most elegant colourist’.
£40.00 [ref: 49282]