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Very good copy of Volume XVIII (18) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1832
Complete with all 88 (8 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1477-1564).
Most by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake (59), the others by J.T. Hart and (his sister?) M. Hart, William Herbert, John Lindley (1) and Charles Morgan Curtis (1).
Includes many new exotic species of showy orchids (13), as well as camellia, aster, acacia, air plant, azalea, fuchsia, delphinium, lotus, cactus, pears, etc. Sarah Drake's dynamic and graceful flowers really stand out here compared to the rather stiff and angular designs of the other artists.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XXVIII (28) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1842
Complete with all 69 (3 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-69).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake (67) and the remaining two by William Herbert.
Includes 19 exotic species of showy orchids (Cattleya, Oncidium, Epidendrum, Coelia, Vanda, Laelia, Lycaste, Bulbophyllum, Grammatophyllum, Mormodes, etc.), as well as jasmine, azalea, airplants, pelican flower, indigo, syringa, nasturtium, hellebore, Brunsvigia, Habranthus, etc. Sarah Drake's dynamic and graceful flowers really stand out here compared to the rather stiff and angular designs of the other artist.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XXIX (29) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1842
Complete with all 66 (6 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-66).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake, with a few by William Herbert and William Beattie Booth.
Includes 22 exotic species of showy orchids (Mormodes, Cuitlauzina, Trichocentrum, Catasetum, Bulbophyllum, Cycnoches, Acineta, Dendrobium, Renanthera, Gomesa, Lycaste, Stanhopea, etc. ), as well as rhododendron, agapanthus, crocus, daffodil, Japanese lily, Peruvian lily, squill, hogvine, magic flowers, etc. Sarah Drake's dynamic and graceful flowers really stand out here compared to the rather stiff and angular designs of the other artists.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XXX (30) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1844
Complete with all 67 (5 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-67).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes 21 exotic species of showy orchids (Cattleya, Laelia, Oncidium, Bulbophyllum, Encyclia, Calanthe, Prosthechea, Anguloa, Diaphananthe, Polystachya, Pinalia, Bromheadia, endangered Aerides odorata, etc.), as well as sacred lotus, hibiscus, lupine, mountain hydrangea, crocus, astiria, rocktrumpet, Kashmir sage, hill glory bower, etc.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main illustrator of the magazine, and she would go on to… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XXXII (32) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1846
Complete with all 69 (3 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-69).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes 21 exotic species of showy orchids (Cattleya, Anguloa, Cypripedium, Dendrobium, Rhyncholaelia, Trichopilia, Cycnoches, Acanthephippium, etc.), as well as peony, gardenia, fire lily, bellflower, passionfruit, desert rose, indigo, balsam, snake gourd, speedwell, primrose, etc.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main illustrator of the magazine, and she would go on to draw over 1,000 plates.
Miss Drake or Sarah Anne Drake… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XXXIII (33) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1847.
Complete with all 64 (2 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-64).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes 20 exotic species of showy orchids (Coelogyne, Dendrobium, Cattleya, Staurochilus, Bletilla, Encyclia, Pinalia, Rhynchostylis, Oncidium, Calanthe, Brassia, Ascocentrum, etc.), as well as iris, hibiscus, bindweed, ginger lily, primrose, columbine, forsythia, Oriental paper bush, Chinese snowball, Japanese snowball, etc.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main illustrator of the magazine, and she would go on to draw… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XXV (25) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1839.
Complete with all 69 (3 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-69).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes 20 exotic species of showy orchids (Stanhopea, Maxillaria, Laelia, Dendrobium, Promenaea, Prosthechea, Bifrenaria, Huntleya, Tolumnia, Rodriguezia, Rhynchostele, etc.), as well as two endangered species, lignum vitae and Daubenya aurea, and varieties of iris, crocus, peony, carnation, lupin, cactus, sage, coral drops, Japanese lily, Peruvian lily, powder puff plant, etc.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XIX (19) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1833.
Complete with all 86 (8 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1565-1651).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes nine exotic species of showy orchids (Oncidium, Dendrobium, Gongora, Encyclia, Leptotes, Miltonia, Calanthe, etc.), as well as varieties of poppy, cactus, Banksia, strawberry tree, peach, passionflower, costus, hibiscus, spider lily, heliconia, etc.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main illustrator of the magazine, and she would go on to draw over 1,000 plates.
Miss Drake or Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857) was born… Read More

Early 20th-century reprint of Utagawa's famous book on Japanese women's fashions originally published in 1802.Volume 1 only of the 2 volume set.With 25 full-color woodblock prints depicting 12 scenes over double pages with different classes of women, 23 pages of Japanese text.Includes woodcuts of noble courtiers under cherry blossom, samurai wives relaxing, concubines, merchant women, servants at bathhouse, dancers, laundress, nursemaid, etc.Condition: blue embossed paper boards scuffed and discolored, but interior clean and bright, woodcuts free of foxing. Traditional Yotsume Toji four-hole stab binding stitched on the right-margin. Toyokuni Utagawa (1769-1825), was a grand master ukiyo-e print designer and woodblock artist, known for his portraits of kabuki actors.

Very good suite of five (of six) woodcuts from this scarce edition of the Dance of Death.Five large dramatic anti-socialist engravings accompanied by lettered verses by Robert Reineck, inspired by the revolutionary uprisings suppressed by the military in Germany in 1848.The five plates are: Death rises from the grave to be greeted by Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; Death holding scales in front of a crowd at a tavern; Death delivers a sword to the people; Death stands on a barricade; and Death as victor riding on horseback over corpses. (Missing plate 2, Death on horseback riding into town). The woodcuts after Rethel's designs were supervised by Hugo Burkner, executed by Carl Friedrich Robert Berger 1, (Richard Julius Jungtow 2, not present), Oskar Friedrich Schmidt 3, Gustav Richard Steinbrecker 4, Carl August Zsheckel 5 and August Gaber, and printed by F. A. Brockhaus. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, it was for his Dance of Death, "executed in a technique founded upon that of Durer, and… Read More

Very good copy of a pirate edition of the John Bewick woodcuts
Rare copy of this delightful Georgian oddity
(Listed by Francis Douce as example "XII," chapter 8, page 119, The Dance of Death, 1833.)
With 51 woodcuts in a distinctive octagonal frame.
Bewick's copy of Holbein's Dance of Death was published by his mentor T. Hodgson in 1793. The woodcuts were re-used for new editions in 1795 and 1801 by printer Robert Bassam, and were probably destroyed in a fire in his printshop in 1803.The plates here include a version of Bewick's original frontispiece with numerous skeletons leading royalty and aristocracy out of a castle town to a grave. The cuts are an amusing mix of medieval costumes, religiously copying Holbein and Hollar for the royal and clerical figures, and the Georgian, depicting modern gents in bicorne hats, coats, gilet waistcoats, and breeches, and ladies in elegant gowns with ostrich plumes in their hair.
According to Douce, "Emblems of Mortality, Printed for Whittingham and Arliss,… Read More

One volume only from the 8-volume series of guidebooks to the Enchuro School of ikebana or flower arrangement first published in Tokyo in 1807. 8 pages of text and 52 pages of woodcuts of ikebana featuring flowers in vases on tables, in hanging baskets, etc. Condition: Washi paper covers worn and fragile, binding resewn, the delicate woodcuts on thin washi paper mostly clean and bright. Ikebana was a very popular leisure activity in the Edo Era. The Enchuro-Ryu was a new school of ikebana that emerged in the early 19th century alongside the Senke-shinryu, Ko-ryu, Enshu-ryu, Yoken-ryu, Doku-ryu, Shofu-ryu, and many others to challenge the established Genji, Ikenobo and Senke schools.

Suite of 109 fine plates illustrating native costumes from around the world, copied from 18th century travel books.All copperplates within gold-lined frames under tissue guards, engraved by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. This is an early prospectus with 36 parts and 109 plates showing samples from all volumes of the proposed set: Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. The prospectus or "Programme et Plan de l'Ouvrage" appears at the front, and the title page midway through the volume. The complete set was to comprise 48 parts with six plates each in four volumes (288 plates) beginning from 1 August 1792. It was eventually published in 1795-96 in Paris and included some 433 plates in four volumes.The literary part was to be written by Jean-Francois Cornu. The images were copied from 18th century travel books, most notably Captain James Cook's Voyages. There is an element of charming fantasy about many of the images along with the remarkably accurate details. The dancing… Read More

Good copy of this suite of 10 portraits of English Victorian beauties
The 10 beauties include royalty (Queen Victoria herself), aristocrats, and various sultry ladies in off-the-shoulder gowns making eyes at the portraitist.
The exquisite portraits by eminent artists John Hayter, William Drummond and Claude-Marie Dubufe, stipple engraved on steel by William Henry Mote, H. Hall, W.F. Holl, H. Robinson and W.H. Eagleton.
Supervised by Charles Heath, 1785-1848, British engraver, currency and stamp printer, publisher and illustrator.
The subjects include:
Queen Victoria, when a young beauty (she was just 23 when this book was published).
Lady Grey Egerton, possibly Mary Anne Elizabeth Egerton, only daughter of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 9th Baronet.
Lady Jane Georgiana Seymour, later Duchess of Somerset, 1809-1884. In medieval costume as the Queen of Beauty, with crown over headdress, fur-lined cape over bejeweled robe.
Honourable Louisa Hay, daughter of 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, later Lady Louisa Jane… Read More

Very good copy of this classic of 18th century entomology, the first book on British beetles.

Complete with 42 finely hand-coloured copperplates of beetles, arrayed on the pages like specimens in a tray in a cabinet of curiosities.

The plates show some previously unpublished beetle and bug species, many in their tiny original size. The European stag beetle, minotaur, dung beetles, carrion, leaf and weevil beetles, click beetles, tumbling flower beetles, tiger beetles, water beetles, longhorns, carabids, ladybirds, and many others are shown in beautiful colors in 535 intricate illustrations.

The two plain numismatic plates show various gold medallions presented to Martyn from the Pope, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, King Ferdinand IV of Sicily, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, etc.

The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, including upwards of 500 Different Species, arranged and named according to the Linnean System.

With an engraved title page, dedication… Read More

Suite of a 25 hand-coloured etchings of British fashions of the Georgian era
Elegant fashion plates depicting Regency belles and dandies from the pages of a Jane Austen novel
Ball gowns, court fashions, promenading clothes, and more
The etchings by A. Guillaumot Fils (Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr.) based on contemporary prints in the collection of the writer Victorien Sardou
While many are signed only by the etcher, a few of the gentlemens' costume plates include the name of the original artist, Horace VernetAuguste Etienne Guillaumot (1844-1890) was the son of architect and printmaker Auguste Alexandre Guillaumot (1815-1892), and published several books of architectural views and costume plates including Costumes du XVIIIe Siecle after paintings by Watteau, Desrais and others (1873), Costumes du XVIIIe Siecle taken from Sardou's musical play Les Pres-Saint Gervais (1874), Costumes du Directoire (1875), Costumes de la Revolution (1879), Costumes de l'Opera (1883), Costumes des Ballets du Roy (1885)… Read More

A very good copy of Volume I only (of 3) of Hooker's seminal work in a poor binding
Complete with 79 fine hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by William Jackson Hooker, Robert Kaye Greville, Lansdown Guilding, John Lindley, and Archibald Menzies, all engraved by J. Swan.
With 15 orchids, as well as alstroemeria, trumpet pitcher, cactus, lily, canna, spurge, honeysuckle, begonia, osbeckia, and a dozen ferns and mosses. (Hooker would later specialize in orchids and ferns.)
Complete with all 79 plates, many folding, most with tissue guards.
First and only edition of one of Hooker's rarest and most beautifully illustrated works, including many specimens from Australia, the Americas and the West Indies.
"The Exotic Flora of Dr Hooker is like that of all the Botanical publications of this indefatigable author, excellent; and it assumes an appearance of finish and perfection to which neither the Botanical Magazine nor Botanical Register can externally lay claim." Loudon
"This important work reflects… Read More

A very good copy of Volumes I and 2 (of 3) of Hooker's seminal work
Complete with 163 fine hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by William Jackson Hooker, Robert Kaye Greville, Lansdown Guilding, John Lindley, and Archibald Menzies, all engraved by J. Swan.
With over 30 orchids, as well as alstroemeria, banksia, trumpet pitcher, shaving brush tree, cactus, lily, canna, spurge, honeysuckle, begonia, osbeckia, and a dozen ferns and mosses. (Hooker would later specialize in orchids and ferns.)
Complete with all 163 plates, many folding, most with tissue guards.
First and only edition of one of Hooker's rarest and most beautifully illustrated works, including many specimens from Australia, the Americas and the West Indies.
"The Exotic Flora of Dr Hooker is like that of all the Botanical publications of this indefatigable author, excellent; and it assumes an appearance of finish and perfection to which neither the Botanical Magazine nor Botanical Register can externally lay claim." Loudon
"This… Read More