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Filippo ARENA
Anemone
Copper plate engraving with later hand colour, published in La Natura e Coltura dei Fiori Fisicamente Esposta in Palermo, Italy 1767. |
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Filippo ARENA
Anemone & Aquilegia
Copper plate engraving with later hand colour, published in La Natura e Coltura dei Fiori Fisicamente Esposta in Palermo, Italy 1767. |
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Filippo ARENA
Narcissus
Copper plate engraving with later hand colour, published in La Natura e Coltura dei Fiori Fisicamente Esposta in Palermo, Italy 1767. |
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Filippo ARENA
Orchid Ornithogalium
Copper plate engraving with later hand colour, published in La Natura e Coltura dei Fiori Fisicamente Esposta in Palermo, Italy 1767. |
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Joseph WOLF after Daniel Giraud ELLIOT
Thaumalia Picta [Golden Pheasant]
A magnificent hand coloured lithograph by Wolf, Smit and Keulemans published as part of Elliot’s famous work, A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, in New York in 1872. |
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Hartinger's Wall Chart
The ORANGUTAN
A large chromolithographed plate of an adult orang-utan published in Vienna and Prague circa 1890. |
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J. OTTMANN
Hereford Cattle. Sir Bartle Group of Yearling Grade Hereford Steers and their Sire
A hand coloured lithograph by J. Ottmann published in New York in 1886. |
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Daniel Giraud ELLIOT
- EUPLOCOMUS ALBO-CRISTATUS ~ White Crested Kaleege
- EUPLOCAMUS NOBILIS ~ Bornean Fire Back
A magnificent pair of hand coloured lithographs by Wolf, Smit and Keulemans published as part of Elliot’s famous work, A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, in New York in 1872. |
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Mark CATESBY
The Red Curlew
A copperplate etching, coloured by hand, published in the Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands in London between 1731 and 1743. |
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Johann Baptiste HOMANN
The Crocodile
A copper plate engraving with original hand colour published by Homann in Germany in 1753. |
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Prideaux John SELBY
Bittern
A copper plate etching with original hand colour, by P. J. Selby and William Lizars after Selby’s original drawings, published in London in 1834. |
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Prideaux John SELBY
Goosander (male)
A copper plate etching with original hand colour, by P. J. Selby and William Lizars after Selby’s original drawings, published in London in 1834. |
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A Selection from
Dr. Robert Thornton's
TEMPLE OF FLORA
Dr. Robert Thornton was a lecturer on medical botany at both Guy's
and St. Thomas's hospitals. He published many of his own works including
the "New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus"
which culminated in the magnificent volume of colour plates entitled
The Temple of Flora. Thornton devoted his modest fortune to
this publication, which he vowed would be the most magnificent botanical
work ever produced. The resultant plates are quite breathtaking: colour
printed mezzotints and stipple engravings depicting both familiar
and unusual plants set against romantic landscapes. Sadly, the expense
involved in producing the Temple of Flora reduced Thornton
to bankruptcy as he relied upon subscriptions that were not forthcoming.
In an attempt to recoup some of his losses he published a smaller
edition of the work and arranged a 'lottery' for 6th May 1813 at which
the original paintings were offered as prizes. Unfortunately the lottery
was also undersubscribed and, despite his affluent past, Thornton
died penniless in 1837. He left behind what is arguably the finest
botanical work ever to be printed in England.
The plates are mixed-method engravings, printed in colours and hand
finished, separately issued in London by Thornton between 1799 and
1807, when the complete volume was issued. |
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G. WARNER after Henderson
The Winged Passion Flower
A magnificent, mixed method engraving by G. Warner after the drawing by Henderson published in London in 1802, then subsequently reissued in 1807 as part of Dr. Robert Thornton’s The Temple of Flora. |
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Richard Earlom after Thornton.
Roses
The only plate drawn by Thornton. First State, published
1805. |
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CALDWELL after Henderson.
A Group of Carnations
First state of two, published in 1803. |
£4,200 |
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WARNER after Edwards
Hyacinths
Published 1801 |
£3,500 |
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Thomas MEDLAND after Reinagle
The Aloe
Published in 1798. |
£2,200 |
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George EDWARDS
[Group of Six Parrots & Tropical Birds]
Six etchings in exceptional, original hand colour published
in A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, in London
between 1748 and 1764. |
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Prideaux John SELBY
Black Scooter. Male.
Copper plate etching with original hand colour, by P. J.
Selby and William Lizars after Selby’s original drawings.18½
x 22¼". |
£350 |
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G. SEVEREYNS
Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias
6 x 8¾"
From a series of finely chromolithographed plates
of camellias after the designs of Bernard Leon, published
by Severeyns in Brussels between 1848 and 1857. Originally
the work was intended as a catalogue of camellias for a nursery
operated by the Verschaffelt family in Belgium but the plates
were soon recognised as decorative pieces in their own right.
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£265ea
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Johannes WEINMANN
Carnations
A magnificent set of four copper plate engravings of carnations,
published for Johannes Weinmann's famous botanical work, Phytanthoza
Iconographia, in Germany between 1737 and 1745. |
£3,250 |
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EDWARDS & DE SEVE
Set of eight copper engravings of monkeys, after George
Edwards and de Seve, published in Germany c.1760. |
£2,800
Framed
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Jacques BARRABAND
Parrots
A series of colour printed stipple engraving by Jacques Barraband,
published in Paris between 1801 and 1805. |
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£950 |
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John GOULD
Four Ducks
A group of four lithographs in fine original hand colour. These
prints are engraved by H. C. Richter after the drawings by John and
Elizabeth Gould and published in John Gould’s The Birds of Europe
between 1832 and 1837.
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John GOULD
Birds of Australia
Lithographs in original hand colour
These plates were drawn and lithographed by J. Gould and H. C. Richter
and appeared in Gould's famous ornithological collection, The Birds
of Australia, published in London between 1840 and 1869.
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The Spotted Harrier [and] The Little Eagle
A pair depicting the Spotted Harrier (Circus Assimillis)
and the Little Eagle (Aquila Morphnoides). Framed. |
£1,900
Pair |
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Athene? Strenua: Gould
The Powerful Owl with a very unfortunate koala bear. Framed. |
£950 |
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Marcus BLOCH From a selection of copper plate engravings,
watercoloured by hand and then heightened with silver leaf.
Published in what has often been described as the most beautiful
work on fish ever produced: Ichthyologie, ou Histoire Naturelle
Générale et Particulière des Poissons,
by the German physician, Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723-1799).
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Alexandre BIVORT
ANNALES DE POMOLOGIE BELGE ET ETRANGERE
One from a series of hand coloured lithographs of fruits by
Alexandre Bivort, published in Brussels by F. Parent between
1853 and 1860.
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£150 |
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