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Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 15 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. Common name of plant added in elegant 19th century script to top of page. No other names or markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.8 x 8.5 inches.

Large chromolithograph depicting assorted views and cross-sections of Agaricus terrigenus, Pholiota punciulatus, & Hebeloma nudipes mushrooms. The original colors remain vivid.Plate XIV from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae by Karoly Kalchbrenner.10.25 x 14.5 inches.

Hand-colored lithograph depicting Agaricus glancopus. The original colors remain vivid. Plate XXX from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.12.5 x 10 inches.

Large chromolithograph depicting Agaricus plebejus (also known as Entoloma plebejum) & Clitopilus carneo-albus (also known as Entoloma plebejum). The original colors remain vivid.Plate XII from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae by Karoly Kalchbrenner.10.25 x 14.5 inches.

Large chromolithograph depicting Agaricus decussatus (also known as Pholiota lubrica) & Agaricus thraustus (also known as Leratiomyces squamosus) mushrooms. The identifications of the mushrooms have been pasted to the bottom of the page. In pencil, "Karoly" (the first name of the author) has been added before Kalchbrenner in the top left, and the word "Hungariae" has been written in the top right (see image). Otherwise, there are no previous owners' names or other markings on the print. The original colors remain vivid.Plate XV from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae by Karoly Kalchbrenner.10.25 x 14.5 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, from Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.13 x 8.5 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 149 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.13 x 8.5 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving from Woodville's Medical Botany. Common name of plant added in elegant 19th century script to top of page. No other names or markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." 6.1 x 8.5 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 110 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. Common name of plant added in elegant 19th century script to top of page. No other names or markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.83 x 8.5 inches.

Rebacked in linen over marbled paper boards. Lacking original endpapers and fly. This copy does not contain the plates.1845 stamp to initial three pages, page 9, and the final page. Wear to corners. Notations to title page (see image). Clean interior with no other owner's names or markings.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 141 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.25 x 8.5 inches.

Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis, This is Plate 60 from Volume 4 of this series. Great or Common Carex. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches.

Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts." Slender Spiked Carex. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 140 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.25 x 8.5 inches.

Hand-colored lithograph from John James Audubon's second octavo edition of Birds of America published in 1856.Sheet size: 6.5 x 10.25 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 112 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.25 x 8.5 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 145 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.9 x 8.5 inches.

Oversize plate from Icones Plantarum Rariorum. Beautiful large hand colored engraving. Clean former fold-out plate. 41 x 64 cm

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 153 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6 x 8.5 inches.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 147 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.9 x 8.5 inches.