John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...

This work contains 40 finely coloured plates, mostly hand signed by Hayes himself. His Natural history of British birds ([1770-]1775) contained 40...

With monkey tools by Bozerian. A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph ...

Parrots by Keulemans. Mivart's Lories is perhaps the greatest and most desirable monograph on the nectar feeding parrots ever published. Mivart (18...

Second state.Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentia...

Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive s...

First bird book with lithograph plates. A handsome set of Swainson, the first bird book and one of earliest natural history works to be illustrated...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...

Rare floral bouquets. Very scarce artistic botanical work showing highly finished decorative bouquets of flowers for the twelve months of the year....

Magnificent plates from Hortus Eystettensis, one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record...

Attractive Keulemans plates. first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the ...

A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...

Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

a beautiful example from the school of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical artist of his day; Redoute's patrons included two E...

A lovely example of 19th century flower painting in fine condition.Adele Poissant was a female miniature artist, who worked in Paris and sent seve...

[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...

A 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...

Manetti was an Italian physician, botanist and ornithologist. Among his works is the treatise on birds, Ornithologia methodice digesta or Storia n...

An attractive collection of fine plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary wh...

Seven 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...

Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing exotic fruit.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexp...

Spectacular South African flora. Roupell (1817-1914) was married to an East India Company official who in 1843 was posted to the Cape for a period ...