Natural History & Science
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants.
PAXTON, Sir Joseph.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00Paxton wanted to create an important botanical magazine with 'Engravings of Plants, of the natural size, beautifully coloured, from original drawi...
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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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Set of Three Bromelia (Pineapples)
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £10,000.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...
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A pair of Still Lifes of Roses in Vases
[SCHOOL OF REDOUTE] -Original price £9,750.00 - Original price £9,750.00Original price £9,750.00£9,750.00£9,750.00 - £9,750.00Current price £9,750.00a beautiful example from the school of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical artist of his day; Redoute's patrons included two E...
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A bouquet of roses.
POISSANT, Adele.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £9,500.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00A lovely example of 19th century flower painting in fine condition.Adele Poissant was a female miniature artist, who worked in Paris and sent seve...
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[A Group of Six Tulips].
BUCHOZ, Pierre Joseph.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00A fine group of these rare flower plates, the complete volume of 40 being part of Le Jardin d'Eden, which was intended as the supplement to the Co...
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A Monograph of the Coraciidae
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00[ornithology] one of 250 copies. A scarce monograph published in an edition of 250 copies only.Keulemans was the last of the great bird illustrator...
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A History of the Birds of New Zealand [with] Supplement.
BULLER, Sir Walter Lawry; Keulemans, J.G. (illustrator).Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00First work covering the birdlife of the Maori world. The much-enlarged second edition of Buller's richly illustrated History of the Birds of New Ze...
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A Group of Seven Apples
POITEAU, A. & TURPIN, P.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £8,500.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00Seven plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it i...
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A Group of Six Hand-Coloured Etchings of Parrots
[MANETTI, Saverio.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00Manetti was an Italian physician, botanist and ornithologist. Among his works is the treatise on birds, Ornithologia methodice digesta or Storia n...
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[Series of Four Grapes].
BROOKSHAW, George.
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[A Group of 8 Watercolours of Exotic Fruit].
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing exotic fruit.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexp...
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[A Group of four engravings of Flowers, Insects and Fruits].
[MERIAN, Maria Sibylla].Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...
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An Essay About the Origine & Virtues of Gems,
BOYLE, Robert.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00First edition. The 'beginning of the modern development in knowledge of crystal structure' (Fulton).Robert Boyle (1627-1691), a natural philosopher...
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The Roses.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00First state. Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiat...
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British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,
[ORNITHOLOGY]. THORBURN, Archibald.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Bound by Sangroski & Sutflcliffe. A fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860-1935), a S...
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