Category: Botanical Illustration

Tulipiana Grafica

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Graphic Export Centre : 1966

Seller ID: 018554

Condition: Very Good

[Not dated - 1966 ??]. Slim quarto, 8 pages, paperback, with three loose illustrations of seventeenth century tulips by Judith Leyster; the text comprises merely one page each in French, English and Dutch. A very good copy. SCARCE. The plates are reproduced from watercolours owned by Th. Hoog, Haarlem which are dated 1643 - it is unlikely that they have been reproduced elsewhere. [Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster) (c. 1609 - 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She painted genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Although her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries, Leyster and h...
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Drawings of Florida Orchids

By: Ames, Blanche & Oakes

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Botanical Museum, Harvard : 1959

Seller ID: 012705

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp x, 190, paperback, covers very slightly worn, but really a very good copy. [The illustrations are mainly line drawings, though some were originally etchings or heliotypes, now converted to lino-cuts.]
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Image for The Kew Magazine (incorporating Curtis's Botanical magazine) Volume 5 part 2 - including 'Some Confusing Cassias' and Some Hawaiian Mountain Plants

The Kew Magazine (incorporating Curtis's Botanical magazine) Volume 5 part 2 - including 'Some Confusing Cassias' and Some Hawaiian Mountain Plants

By: Andrews, Susyn; Knees, Sabina & Beckett, Kenneth A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Basil Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : 1988

Seller ID: 009050

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Illustrated, pp 48, a very good copy. [The main two articles are illustrated with a few line drawings. The six fine botanical plates, with accompanying text, are by Mark Fothergill, Christabel King and Pandora Sellars and feature Lemboglossum cervantesii, Dendrathema yezoense, Sarracenia psittacina, Corydalis popovii, Zaluskinskya microsiphon and Arum pictum.]
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An Alphabet of Garden Flowers

By: Angel, Marie

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Pelham Books : 1987

Seller ID: 017550

ISBN-13: 9780720717754

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with small coloured paintings, small slim octavo, pp 65, vey clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped but otherwise very good. [Postage will be reduced]
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The Kew Magazine, Volume 8 Part 2. (Curtis's Botanical Magazine] (Curtis). Includes articles on Bromeliads and Nepenthes

By: Argent, George. Andrews, Susyn. Nelson, E Charles. Green, Peter S.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Royal Botanic Garden Kew : 1991

Seller ID: 002936

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Illustrated with 6 botanical colour plates by Christabel King, Mary Bates etc, paperback, a very good copy. [Includes George Argent on Three Interesting Bromeliads from South America, Peter Green on Ligustrum Sempervirens, Susyn Andrews on Cornus nuttallii, Rosemary Simpson on Nepenthes rajah, and entries by Isobyl La Croix and Kenneth Beckett. Also a 5 page article by Rosemary Simpson on "Plants in Peril : Nepenthes rajah", and for the accompanying article by Charles Nelson - "The Waxing of a Glorious Rajah" which descibes the history of the plant in Victorian times, the wax model which was m...
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The Kew Magazine, Volume 8 Part 2. (Curtis's Botanical Magazine] (Curtis). Includes articles on Bromeliads and Nepenthes

By: Argent, George. Andrews, Susyn. Nelson, E Charles. Green, Peter S.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Royal Botanic Garden Kew : 1991

Seller ID: 019773

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Illustrated with 6 botanical colour plates by Christabel King, Mary Bates etc, paperback, a very good copy. [Includes George Argent on Three Interesting Bromeliads from South America, Peter Green on Ligustrum Sempervirens, Susyn Andrews on Cornus nuttallii, Rosemary Simpson on Nepenthes rajah, and entries by Isobyl La Croix and Kenneth Beckett. Also a 5 page article by Rosemary Simpson on "Plants in Peril : Nepenthes rajah", and for the accompanying article by Charles Nelson - "The Waxing of a Glorious Rajah" which descibes the history of the plant in Victorian times, the wax model which was m...
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Image for The Kew Magazine Volume 5 Part 3, (incorporating Curtis's Botanical Magazine) - includes 'Some Attractive Vireya Rhododendrons', 'Australasian Ferns in Irish Gardens' & 'Riverine Forests of the Jubba River, Somalia'

The Kew Magazine Volume 5 Part 3, (incorporating Curtis's Botanical Magazine) - includes 'Some Attractive Vireya Rhododendrons', 'Australasian Ferns in Irish Gardens' & 'Riverine Forests of the Jubba River, Somalia'

By: Argent, George; Maunder, Michael; Nelson, E. Charles.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Basil Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : 1988

Seller ID: 008579

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Illustrated with 6 colour plates by Rodella Purves and other line drawings, 8vo, paperback, a very good copy. (This volume covers mainly Vireya Rhododendrons. Other articles : The Riverine Forests of the Jubba River, Southern Somalia - by Michael Maunder, (who also contributes Plants in Peril - Ulmus wallichiana), Some Australasian Ferns in Irish Gardens - by Charles Nelson.)
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Birds of America: The Complete Collection of 435 Illustrations from the Most Famous Bird Book in the World

By: Audubon, John James

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ware, Wordsworth Editions : 1997

Seller ID: 017439

ISBN-13: 9781853264917

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small folio, 435 colour plates, pp 504, a little age-toning to the margins, fore-edge very slightly marked, otherwise clean and sound internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is lightly worn, slightly faded on its spine. A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary. [The stunning technique of Audubon never fails to impress; and with so much interest for the botanist and entomologist also.]
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The Garden of Pinks

By: Bailey, L.H.

Price: £11.25

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1938

Seller ID: 014205

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and 44 plates of charming line drawings, octaveo, pp x, 142, fore-edge foxed, endpapers heavily browned, otherwise clean and sound internally, blue cloth age-toned, the spine very dull and slightly worn.
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Old Cottage Garden Flowers

By: Banks, Roger

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Kingswood, World's Work : 1983

Seller ID: 016639

ISBN-13: 9780437012012

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with 54 colour plates by the author, large octavo, pp (2), 151, (3), very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and very slightly worn and stretched. [was a botanical artist, extensively published writer, period-house restorer, expert on the Antarctic and "harbour master emeritus" at Crail, the East Neuk of Fife fishing village. There he gained considerable notoriety for his habit of serving nervous dinner guests road kill and pates made from parts of various animals washed up on the beach. Returning from the Antarctic in 1955, he st...
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Japanese Botany During the Period of Wood-Block Printing (The Asa Gray Bulletin, N.S. Vol III number 3-4)

By: Bartlett, Harley Harris, & Shohara, Hide

Price: £58.50

Publisher: Michigan, Ann Arbor : 1961

Seller ID: 018922

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp vi, vi, 561, ix, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly marked and just slight signs of use. [Now very scarce] {The Asa Gray Bulletin, N.S. Vol III, numbers 3-4}.
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Japanese Botany During the Period of Wood-Block Printing (The Asa Gray Bulletin, N.S. Vol III number 3-4)

By: Bartlett, Harley Harris, & Shohara, Hide

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Michigan, Ann Arbor : 1961

Seller ID: 018923

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp vi, vi, 561, ix, very clean internally but the title page and the inside cover have adhered slightly at some point with slight damage, paperback, covers slightly marked and worn. [Now very scarce] {The Asa Gray Bulletin, N.S. Vol III, numbers 3-4}.
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Flowers of Southern Africa

By: Batten, Auriol

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Sandton, Frandsen Publishers : 1986

Seller ID: 018320

ISBN-13: 9780620089821

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated with 100 fine botanical colour plates, large thick quarto, pp 401, xxxii, a slight stain to the fore-edge, a bookplate removed from a blank page, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is unevenly faded, but with only slight signs of use. [ Limited edition of 4,000 copies - this being number 359.] A heavy book - extra postage will be required.
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More Cape Flowers By a Lady - The Paintings of Arabella Roupell

By: Bird, Allan

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Johannesburg, The South African Natural History Publication Company : 1964

Seller ID: 016476

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Beautifully illustrated with 12 colour plates and descriptive text, very large quarto, slight age-toning at the margons, otherwise very clean internally, cream cloth with black faux-leather spine, upper corners very slightly bruised, a very good copy in dustwrapper with clear protective cover.
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Mediterranean Wild Flowers

By: Blamey, Marjorie & Grey-Wilson, Christopher

Price: £24.00

Publisher: London, HarperCollins : 1993

Seller ID: 018347

ISBN-13: 9780002199018

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: Good

Very well illustrated with over 2500 colour drawings and many hundreds of small line drawings, thick octavo, pp 560, fore-edge a little thumbed, otherwise clean internally, pictorial boards in good condition, the dustwrapper has been semi sealed to the covers and is slightly worn. [From the Kew botanist David Field with just his tiny initials on the front endpaper.]
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Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir. [Two volumes]

By: Blatter, Ethelbert

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson

Seller ID: 019314

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

[1927 - 1928]. Two volumes, octavo, illustrated with two colour frontispieces, 61 colour plates and one plain plate, pp xvi, 198; xvi, 204, becoming weak internally, light foxing on the fore-edges, a little used generally internally, inscriptions on the endpapers, brown cloth rubbed and slightly worn, traces of labels on the spines, a duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library with their labels and barcodes on the front endpapers.
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Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir. [Two volumes]

By: Blatter, Ethelbert

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson

Seller ID: 019772

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[1927 - 1928]. Two volumes, octavo, illustrated with two colour frontispieces, 61 colour plates and one plain plate, pp xvi, 198; xvi, 204, slight foxing of the top and fore-edge, but an unusually fine copy internally, the brown cloth extremely clean and bright, and with the original dustwrappers [the first one being a bit worn and repaired and with a few pieces lacking; the second one being just lightly worn].
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Flower Books and Their Illustrators: An Exhibition Arranged for the National Book League [Jim Russell's copy]

By: Blunt, Wilfrid

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, National Book League : 1950

Seller ID: 018271

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A colour frontispiece but no further illustrations, small slender octavo, pp 58, xii, slightly used internally, paperback, cover slightly marked. [From the library of the designer and planstman James Russell, with his bookplate; and with the later blind-stamp of the botanical artist Wendy Page.] [Postage will be reduced]
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The Art of Botanical Illustration

By: Blunt, Wilfrid (with William T. Stearn)

Price: £16.50

Publisher: London, Collins : 1967

Seller ID: 018323

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, octavo, pp xxxii, 304, the endpaper slightly unevenly faded, a tiny nick and crease to the margin of the last few index pages, otherwise remarkably clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is very lightly faded on the spine, otherwise extremely bright.
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A Northeast Folio, produced to accompany an exhibition of works by contemporary botanical printmakers at the Hunt Institute

By: Brindle, John V. & White, James J.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation : 1979

Seller ID: 010133

Binding: Loose in folder

Condition: Very Good

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF 750 COPIES.Comprises brief introductory text and 17 folded sheets, each showing several examples of each artist's work - Grace Albee, Steven Barbash, Gerard Brender a Brandis, Marvin hayes, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Alex Katz, Hugh Kepets, Robert Kipniss, Vaino Kola, Michael mazur, Tjelda Michas, Barry Moser, Lowell Nesbitt, Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn, Gabor Peterdi, Elaine Simel and Richard Claude Ziemann]
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