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Flowers & Botanical Books
View our flowers and antique botanical books for sale at Shapero. Contact our rare book specialists for enquiries.
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3 vols, 4to (26.4 x 20.1 cm); hand-finished chromolithographed half-title in volume I, 137 hand-coloured lithographed plates, light foxing, heavier to volume II, affecting some plates, some age-toning; contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, elaborately gilt in six compartments, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers, spines slightly sunned, extremities slightly rubbed, overall an attractive example.
£4,500 -
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Hand-coloured woodblock prints on handmade rice paper, each numbered and captioned at top, each outlined in ink. Framed in perspex frames; overall size: 49 by 36.7cm.
Sale Price £750 Regular Price £1,250 -
A fine mezzotint engraving , printed in colour and finished by hand. Plate N. 654.
Mounted, size: 36cm by 49cm.£375 -
First edition. 3 volumes, folio (35.7 x 25.9 cm.) 300 fine stipple-engraved plates, partially printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary navy calf with gilt romantic style decoration, spines gilt in compartments, pink watered silk endpapers, occasional light spotting. a few plates lightly toned.
£47,500 -
A fine mezzotint engraving , printed in colour and finished by hand. Plate N. 700.
Mounted, size: 36cm by 49cm.£375 -
A fine mezzotint engraving , printed in colour and finished by hand. Plate N. 699.
Mounted, size: 36cm by 49cm.£375 -
A fine mezzotint engraving , printed in colour and finished by hand. Plate N. 660.
Mounted, size: 36cm by 49cm.£425 -
A group of four fine mezzotint engravings, printed in colour and finished by hand. Plate N. 1014, 1015, 1016 & 1017.
Mounted, size: 36cm by 49cm.£1,500 -
A fine mezzotint engraving , printed in colour and finished by hand. Plate N. 698.
Mounted, size: 36cm by 49cm.£375 -
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Large folio (72.5 x 54.7 cm); 50 hand-coloured plates and 2 original watercolours, plate 9 with light damp stain to upper margin not affecting illustration, plate 49 soiled in upper margin (affecting plate number but not illustration), a few plates with a tiny water stain to very edge of lower margin not affecting illustration, plate 50 creased at extremities and with light damp stain, loose as issued in original morocco-backed cloth portfolio, joints worn.
£19,500
