BOTANICAL from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Italy: Instituto Geografico Agostini, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. The work reproduces the botanical plates preserved at the Institute and Botanical Garden of the University of Turin. They include the artists Francesco Peyroleri, Antonio and Angela Bottione, Maddalena Lisa Mussino, and drawings of Australian eucalypts and bottle brushes. Sml. folio, 14.5 x 11.25", 328 pp, 282 color… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2001. First edition thus. Very good condition. Leonhart Fuchs [1501-1566] is considered a founding father of modern botany. As a teacher and scholar, he married his botanical knowledge with medical research in his New Herbal, a catalog of 500 types of plants and their healing properties. 'This edition is based on Fuchs's personal, hand-colored original and… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. The LARGE FORMAT facsimile of a work originally issued in parts from 1799 to 1807 by Robert John Thornton [1768-1837], an English physician and botanical writer. The plates in the Temple of Flora are remarkable. The images are works of art that used multiple intaglio techniques, the flowers always the center… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile of a work originally issued in parts from 1799 to 1807 by Robert John Thornton [1768-1837], an English physician and botanical writer. The plates in the Temple of Flora are remarkable. The images are works of art that used multiple intaglio techniques, the flowers always the center of attention, but with dreamy… Read more about this item

Munich: Prestel, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Merian [1647 - 1717] was a German entomologist and scientific illustrator. 'She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly.' (wikipedia dot com) Her lifelong study of insects and incorporation of the various stages of insect development into her illustrations established that insects had life cycles… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Ellis Rowans' scarcest printed title - this is only the second copy we have had in 47 years of business. Rowan [1848 - 1922] was a well known Australian artist and illustrator of botanicals, birds, butterflies and insects. The 12 full page, full color chromolithograph… Read more about this item

London: printed for T. Osborne, et al., 1757. First printing. Print. Very good condition. A beautiful engraving from the first edition of this important 18th-century gardening book. The book itself was issued in 60 weekly parts between 1756 and 1757, and was available with plates uncolored or colored. Folio, 16 5/8 x 10". Copper engraving with… Read more about this item

St. Louis, Mo.: Sacramento Valley Improvement Co, 1909. Good + overall. Prospectus to advance the cultivation of eucalyptus as a timber crop in the U.S. Dr. Olseen-Seffer is held out as an expert, reproducing two printed letters from him , along with a portrait of a handsome gentleman whose credentials include graduating from Stanford and spending three years… Read more about this item

London: printed for T. Osborne, et al., 1757. First printing. Print. Very good condition. One of the premier engravings from the first edition of this important 18th-century gardening book. The book itself was issued in 60 weekly parts between 1756 and 1757, and was available with plates uncolored or colored. The Van Huysum family had considerable fame as… Read more about this item

Rochester NY, 1850. Ephemera. Very good condition. King of Tompkins County Apple" is an illustration from "The series of Fruits, Flowers and Ornamental Trees." The image is of a bright red and yellow apple with serrated leaves and a broken stem set against a blank background. Dellon Marcus Dewey (1819-1889) was a bookseller and publisher in Rochester, N.Y.… Read more about this item

London: Country life, 1913. Second revised. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. This second edition is an expanded version of the classic study of traditional gardens and landscape architecture for English country homes. Gertrude Jekyll [1843 - 1932] was a giant in British garden design who not only created hundreds of gardens through out the world but also… Read more about this item

Columbus: Hann & Adair, 1894. Hardcover. A beautiful copy. The subscription edition of this volume describing all aspects of taxidermy from tools to mounting to care of finished specimens. Royal 8vo, 150pp, 8pp index, 13pp subscribers, 90 b&w plates, marbled endpapers. Brown 3/4 leather and brown cloth, 6 compartments on spine with gilt title and rules.… Read more about this item

Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1920. Hardcover. Good +. The University of the State of New York, State Museum, John M. Clarke, Director, Memoir 15. 4to; 2 Parts:185pp; 187-362. Profusely illustrated, full page color photographs (264 plates). Publisher's original dark blue cloth, with gilt title at spine. Spine tips and corners slightly rubbed, very… Read more about this item

Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. Humphry Repton was the last great English landscape designer of the 18th century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the 19th century. A facsimile of the 1803 edition published in London by T. Bensley for J. Taylor. The… Read more about this item

London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773. Copper engraving , folded, printed on watermarked paper . Impression size 12 ins x 14 ins. The work of John Frederick Miller (fl.1759-1794), the artist was employed by Joseph Banks to make drawings of some of the specimens collected on Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in the Endeavour. This image appeared as plate… Read more about this item

Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, 1886. Wraps. Very good overall. 130 magnificent aquatint plates of the plants of Madagascar. All the plates are bright and clean. Sold as a collection of plates. Plate 1 slightly dusty, otherwise bright and clean. These are detailed plates of Madagascar plant species currently facing a wave of extinction due to habitat degradation and deforestation… Read more about this item

London: G. Henderson, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Full collection of the engravings from the four volume atlas, neatly trimmed just outside the margin (retains all printed text) and beautifully laid out in an album complete with the title page. A total of 432 plates from Mammalia & Birds, Reptiles & Fishes, Mollusca and Insecta &… Read more about this item

London: Reeve and Benham, 1851. Wraps. Very good condition. Complete single issue illustrated with 6 hand colored engraved plates, with 2 pages of descriptive text. Two noteworthy color plates are: Dr. Hooker's Chrysobactron, "detected on Lord Auckland's Islands", and recorded in 'Flora Antarctica' (Tab. 4602); and The Elegant Water Lily, discovered in New Mexico by Dr.… Read more about this item

London: Charles Tilt, 1839. Six engravings of English flowers published in Our Wild Flowers. Two have black ink on upper right corner. 4 5/8 x 7 3/8". Meredith is a well-known botanical artist who illustrated this book before she migrated to Australia (1839) where she drew fascinating flora & insects with a beautifully composed Victorian sensibility. Meredith continued painting… Read more about this item

London, 1810. Very good overall. A fine engraved head and shoulders portrait of William Curtis, in an oval with flowers above. With a vignette below, "The Frontispiece to Mr. Curtis' Flora Londinensis". Engraved by Evans. Sheet size, 12 3/4 x 18 1/4". Scattered fox spotting in three margins.