Fine colour plates of Athens and Constantinople. 'Hobhouse was an intimate friend of Byron with whom he made the journey described in this book... ...

Birds depicted: Bucco Cayennensis, Calbula Viridis, Calbula Paradisaea and Jacamerops Grandis. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio d...

Birds depicted: Pipra Militaris, Pipra Serena, Pipra Setifera and Pipra Galeata.Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He ...

Birds depicted: Pipra Strigillata, Pipra Erythrocephala, Pipra Chrysocephala and Pipra Aureola. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Ri...

Birds depicted: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor and Tanagra Chrysogaster. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de...

Birds depicted: Muscipeta Filicauda, Muscipeta Leucocephala, Muscipeta Psalura, Muscipeta Alector and Muscipeta Coronata. Descourtilz worked for ...

Birds depicted: Phibalura Flavirostris, Querula Rubricollis, Turdus Orpheus, Turdus Flavipes and Turdus Brasiliensis. Descourtilz worked for the N...

Birds depicted: Pipra Pareola, Pipra Gutturosa and Pipra Caudata. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of ...

Birds depicted: Euphonia Chlorolica, Euphonia Vittata, Euphonia Diademata and Euphonia Psittacina. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of R...

Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourt...

Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourt...

Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourt...

Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourt...

George Brookshaw's 'Pomona Britannica' is the finest work on fruit and flowers ever produced. Its breathtaking images display a level of technical...

A fine example, from the first edition of the 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbu...

A fine example, from the first edition of the 'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbu...

Fieding was a watercolour painter who, in 1826, was appointed teacher of drawing and perspective at the East India Company's Military Seminary, Ad...

Jean Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a Swiss-born painter of natural history subjects. He first worked as an illustrator recording specimens in the...

Jean Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a Swiss-born painter of natural history subjects. He first worked as an illustrator recording specimens in the...

Nicolas Hüet (1770-1830) was one of a family of artists, though arguably the most famous because of his exquisitely detailed natural history studi...

Very handsome, fully hand-coloured copy of best edition - here in a fine binding, with wide margins and fresh plates, showing erotic subjects in a...

Prideaux describes this work as 'a good specimen of the early literature on missionary effort, giving a sufficiently vivid record of personal expe...

Original lithograph with fine later hand-colouring for the "Ramphastidae or Family of Toucans". good condition

Original aquatint. For Brookshaw's most famous work "Pomona Britannica" or a "Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present Cultivated in this ...