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[A Group of Twelve Mezzotints of Aloes in decorative pots].
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00An attractive collection of fine botanical mezzotints by Weinmann, one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Rege...
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White rose with other flowers. Floral watercolour on vellum.
REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £20,000.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00A beautiful watercolour on vellum by the greatest flower painter of all time.Belgian born Redouté (1759-1840) achieved success as a painter workin...
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A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.
GOULD, John.Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00In original parts. Rare example in original parts of John Gould's Partridges of America.Gould was inspired to undertake this study by the sight of ...
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Brazilian Flowers,
NORTON, E[dith] H[olland].Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00Rare Brazilian flora with two original watercolours. Edith Norton's magnificent, large format flora of Rio de Janeiro, this copy with the addition ...
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[A Group of Three Watercolours of Hyacinths].
LOO, Pieter van.Original price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00Pieter Van Loo (or Loon), Haarlem 1731-1784, was a noted flower painter who spent the whole of his life in Haarlem. His paintings are sought after...
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A history of the birds of Europe.
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £17,500.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00The first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since Gould. Dresser's Birds of Europe is the first complete work on the avifauna of Europe since...
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Illustrations and descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order camellieae,
CHANDLER, Alfred; BOOTH, William Beattie.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Important work on the Camellia Japonica. One of finest works on camellias, here in its most desirable state.Described by Wilfred Blunt as 'handsome...
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[A Group of Four Parrots].
GOULD, John.Original price £16,500.00 - Original price £16,500.00Original price £0.00£16,500.00£16,500.00 - £16,500.00Current price £16,500.00John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious od all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...
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[A Group of Four Parrots].
GOULD, John.Original price £16,500.00 - Original price £16,500.00Original price £0.00£16,500.00£16,500.00 - £16,500.00Current price £16,500.00John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...
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Birds.
HAYES, William.Original price £16,500.00 - Original price £16,500.00Original price £0.00£16,500.00£16,500.00 - £16,500.00Current price £16,500.00This work contains 40 finely coloured plates, mostly hand signed by Hayes himself. His Natural history of British birds ([1770-]1775) contained 40...
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Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis.
AUDEBERT, Jean Baptiste.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00With monkey tools by Bozerian. A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph ...
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A Monograph of the Lories,
MIVART, St. George Jackson.Original price £14,000.00 - Original price £14,000.00Original price £0.00£14,000.00£14,000.00 - £14,000.00Current price £14,000.00Parrots by Keulemans. Mivart's Lories is perhaps the greatest and most desirable monograph on the nectar feeding parrots ever published. Mivart (18...
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The Tulips.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).Original price £13,500.00 - Original price £13,500.00Original price £13,500.00£13,500.00£13,500.00 - £13,500.00Current price £13,500.00Second state.Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentia...
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Iconographie des Perroquets
SOUANCÉ, Charles de.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive s...
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[A Group of 10 Watercolours of Flowers & Butterflies.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...
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Zoological Illustrations,
SWAINSON, William.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00First bird book with lithograph plates. A handsome set of Swainson, the first bird book and one of earliest natural history works to be illustrated...
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Flore des Quatre Saisons.
ROBIN, Armand.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Rare floral bouquets. Very scarce artistic botanical work showing highly finished decorative bouquets of flowers for the twelve months of the year....
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[A Group of Four Peonies].
BESLER, Basilius.Original price £12,000.00 - Original price £12,000.00Original price £0.00£12,000.00£12,000.00 - £12,000.00Current price £12,000.00Magnificent plates from Hortus Eystettensis, one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record...
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A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.
SHELLEY, George Ernest.Original price £11,500.00 - Original price £11,500.00Original price £0.00£11,500.00£11,500.00 - £11,500.00Current price £11,500.00Attractive Keulemans plates. first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the ...
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[A Group of Four Plates of Pheasants].
WOLF, Joseph (artist).Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...
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