Search Results: Authors starting with W from Florilegius

Set of 3 volumes of this finely illustrated review of the manners, lifestyles and costumes of all the peoples of the world.Complete with 3 handcolored title pages and 365 handcolored illustrations on 184 lithographic plates of native costumes, customs, weapons, views, etc. (Missing the volume on Europe.) Text in German. Vol. 1, Asia, engraved title page, 278pp, 68 plates; Vol. 2, Africa, engraved title page, 256pp, 52 plates; and Vol. 3 North and South America, Australia and the South Sea Islands, engraved title page, 136pp and 36 plates (Americas), 134pp and 28 plates (Australia). Rare to find even partial sets with handcolored plates.Condition: Cloth spines frayed and repaired, marbled boards scuffed, stamp of Carl Schmidt on fep and title pages, interior clean and unfoxed, lithographic plates with fine handcolor. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. The volumes were self-published from 1830 to 1839.Heavy set, extra shipping charges apply.

Incomplete copy of a popular book on the Regency spa town of Scarborough.18 (of 21) handcoloured aquatint plates etched by Thomas Rowlandson after original sketches by J. Green. (Plates aquatinted by J. Stadler and J. Bluck.)Missing the title page and frontispiece Widow Ducker, pages I-XV, and the plates The Breakfast Room and The Shower Bath. The surviving 18 plates show life at a fashionable resort town, with scenes of people drinking the healing waters at the Spa Wells, swimming in the sea, dancing at the Ball Room, promenading on the Terrace, shopping at the Shoe Shop, borrowing books at the circulating Library, etc. The naked woman bathing in The Warm Bath is said to be the poet Mary Robinson, George IV's mistress, The poems are by Rowlandson's frequent collaborator William Combe, John Buonarotti Papworth and Francis Wrangham.Condition: Half red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration, red buckram boards. Binding strong and solid, a few pages and plates with damaged edges, some… Read More

Complete set of all the 15 ornithology volumes from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 478 steel engravings (463 handcoloured plates including title vignettes, one uncoloured title vignette, 14 uncoloured portraits) engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by famous nonsense-verse poet and caricaturist Edward Lear, Rene-Primavere Lesson's illustrator Jean-Gabriel Pretre, ornithologists William Swainson and Prideaux J. Selby, and Jardine's illustrator James Stewart.
With portraits of several extinct species such as the Norfolk Island pigeon, passenger pigeon, great auk, and the endangered green peafowl, great green macaw, Congo grey parrot, New Zealand kaka, purple-naped lory, Kuhl's lorikeet, western ground parrot, etc.
Includes the very rare supplement to the Hummingbirds, Vol. 3, with 15 plates (1st edition, 1852)
All from the second edition of 1843 with duplicate title pages
Gallinaceous Birds, Sir William Jardine, 32 steel… Read More

Very good complete set of both volumes (all published) of this rare zoological masterpiece
Two volumes (bound in one) of the continuation of the 24-volume Naturalist's Miscellany by George Shaw
With all 120 engraved plates in superb hand-colour
Subjects include the critically endangered American burying beetle or giant carrion beetle, Nicrophorus americanus, and the black abalone, Haliotis cracherodii, as well as many birds, insects, butterflies, marine creatures, crustaceans, shells and a few reptiles and mammals.
Although the publisher is listed as E. Nodder (Elizabeth Nodder, Richard's mother) on the title page of Vol. I, Richard Nodder's name appears on the title page of Vol II and on most of the plates in both volumes as artist, engraver and publisher.
With title page and index pages to both volumes, dedication to Sir Joseph Banks in Vol. 1, 120 hand-coloured engraved plates, and advertisement announcing Volume III to appear 1st January 1817 (never published) at rear.
William Elford Leach… Read More

Very good copy of the first edition of Richard Doyle's fantasy masterpiece.

Complete with16 colour woodblock plates printed by Edmund Evans, each with one to four designs, for a total of 36 charming illustrations. Fairies and elves with dragonfly wings flirt and tease, ride snails, fly in the air on butterfly-drawn leaf carriages, sleep under mushrooms, and joust riding on beetles.

"Looking within himself, Doyle found a fantastic but consistently imagined world in which fairies and elves live in the open air among birds, butterflies, snails, and beetles as large as themselves." (Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914)

Richard "Dickie" Doyle, 1824-1883, was an English artist and illustrator, son of Irish caricaturist John Doyle and uncle of the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His began his career at Punch magazine, drawing the cover of the first issue and the masthead. After his success with the Brothers Grimm'sThe Fairy Ring in 1846, Doyle began to specialize in fantasy… Read More

Very good copy of one of two volumes on West African ornithology from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
Birds of Western Africa, William Swainson, Vol. II, 34 steel plates by William Lizars after illustrations by William Swainson, 32 hand-coloured, plus hand-coloured frontis and engraved portrait of French explorer Francois Levaillant
With list of volumes (up to Vol. XIX), half title, frontispiece portrait of Levaillant, hand coloured vignette title page with ring-necked parakeets, two title pages, advertisement 2pp, contents 6pp, memoir of Levaillant, text 263pp and 32 hand-coloured plates
Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) was a Scottish naturalist. He is best known for writing and editing the 40-volume series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library from 1833 to 1866. "In addition to the description and depiction (mostly finely coloured plates) by various well-known contributors to almost the whole range of the subject, the series is supplemented by… Read More

Very good copy of one of four volumes on British ornithology from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2, Incessores, written by Sir William Jardine, 33 (of 32) steel plates by James Stewart including portrait of Scottish obstetrician William Smellie engraved by William Lizars
32 finely handcoloured plates bound at rear, including three plates of eggs, frontispiece vignette of a robin bringing food to its young in a nest and one duplicate plate, Pl.7 the nightingale.
Birds include shrike, dipper, blackbird, oriole, goldcrest, bluetit, finches, jay, woodpecker, kingfisher, swallow, roller, etc.
Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) was a Scottish naturalist. He is best known for writing and editing the 40-volume series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library from 1833 to 1866. "In addition to the description and depiction (mostly finely coloured plates) by various well-known contributors to almost the whole range of the… Read More

Complete set of the two Hummingbirds volumes from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
With all 68 steel engravings engraved by Scottish engraver William Lizars after illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Pretre
In the description to the very first plate, Jardine writes "This fine specimen has been figured in the beautiful work of Mr. Lesson, from which we have borrowed so largely for the illustrations of this present volume." Rene Primevere Lesson's seminal studies of hummingbirds had appeared from 1829-1832.
Hummingbirds, Vol. I, 1833, 35 handcoloured steel plates including frontis, plus engraved portrait of Carl Linnaeus
Hummingbirds, Vol. II, 1833, 31 handcoloured steel plates including frontis, plus engraved portrait of Thomas Pennant
Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) was a Scottish naturalist. He is best known for writing and editing the 40-volume series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library from 1833 to 1866. "In addition to the description and depiction… Read More

Very good copy of the Sunbirds volume from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library in a handsome Root and Son binding
Sun Birds, written by Sir William Jardine with 32 steel plates by William Lizars after illustrations by James Stewart including a portrait of ornithologist Francis Willughby
30 finely handcoloured plates bound at rear, frontispiece vignette of two "little nectarine sunbirds" from India
Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) was a Scottish naturalist. He is best known for writing and editing the 40-volume series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library from 1833 to 1866. "In addition to the description and depiction (mostly finely coloured plates) by various well-known contributors to almost the whole range of the subject, the series is supplemented by biographies of famous naturalists of all times and all countries. It is well described as a remarkable little library of early nineteenth zoology, as well as a brief account of the lives of the chief… Read More

Very good copy of William Wood's influential guidebook to conchology first published in 1815.With [2], iv, 8, lxii, 246 pages of text and 60 delicately hand-coloured engraved plates with tissue guardsPlates numbered 1-59 with one bis plate 4* illustrating 260 species of shellsWilliam Wood (1774–1857) was an English surgeon, zoologist, conchologist and entomologist. Among his works are Zoography, 1807, Index testaceologicus, 1818, Index entomologicus, 1839, British Marine Conchology with G.B. Sowerby, 1844, etc. Bound in half green morocco, gilt-decorated spine with shell tooling, marble boards, missing leather title label, a.e.g., scuffed and bumped. Plates clean and bright with delicate handcolour.

Good copy of this classic of natural history illustration
Famous for its dramatic illustrations of animals, birds, insects, plants in almost Gothic landscapes, initiating the new style of picturesque natural history against exotic backgrounds used by Robert Thornton in Temple of Flora, 1807.
With 51 (of 60) dramatic aquatints drawn and engraved by William Daniell, some after original drawings by his brother Samuel Daniell.
Vol. I, quadrupeds and birds, xx, 572, 18 aquatint plates; Vol. II, reptiles, fish, insects, and shellfish, viii, 618, 19 aquatint plates; Vol. III, plants and minerals, viii, 612, 14 aquatint plates.The fascinating text includes anecdotes about the animals extracted from natural historians such as Count Buffon, George Shaw, Thomas Pennant, Anders Sparrman, and explorers including James Bruce, Giuseppe Acerbi, John Gabriel Stedman, etc. The illustrations are drawn from living specimens, many on location or in the menagerie at the Exeter Exchange. The backgrounds feature Gothic… Read More

Illustrative of Granger's Biographical History of England, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, Burnet's History of his own Time, Pennant's London, etc.
Very good copy of the First Edition complete with all 200 copperplate engravings
An eclectic collection of engraved portraits of "persons celebrated for their diplomatic services, military or naval achievements, literary acquirements, eccentric habits, or some peculiar feature in their lives." Includes many equestrian prints from the Illustrated Clarendon, 12 portraits of King Charles I and II, printers Laurence Koster, William Caxton and John Guttemberg, poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, assassinated bishop Thomas Becket with a sword in his head, Kings Edward I-VI, several portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Guy Fawkes and his conspirators, pickpocket Cut-Purse Moll, Kings Henry I-VIII, death of King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, water-spouter Floram Marchand, the great eater Benjamin Marriott, dandy Nym the… Read More