A rich multi-volume collection of exceptionally fine Chinese watercolours. With an outstanding variety in subject matter, the collection exhibits ...

Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...

Possibly one of the last copies in private hands. The truly spectacular 'deluxe' second edition of Jacquin's Plants of the Americas from the celebr...

With the rare supplement. Gould's masterpiece ... an incomparable catalogue and compendium of beauties (Fine Bird Books).Of all the bird families, ...

John Gould's most popular and perhaps finest work, and his first collaborative work with Josef Wolf. The German natural history painter Josef Wolf...

One of the most magnificent of fruit books. Sandra Raphael notes that 'from 1807 to 1835 a new edition of Duhamel's Trait des Arbres frutiers, exp...

A gift from King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical art...

An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...

One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after paintings by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Georg Dionys...

The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...

The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-coloured engravings of shells...

This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the new syst...

An exceedingly scarce book. Of the few copies in existence only a handful are known with the full complement of 114 engravings. ESTC lists only BL,...

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

An attractive collection of fine botanical mezzotints by Weinmann, one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Rege...

A beautiful watercolour on vellum by the greatest flower painter of all time.Belgian born Redouté (1759-1840) achieved success as a painter workin...