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William Curtis was trained as both a botanist and as an apothecary. William Curtis (1746 - 1799) was born in Alton, Hampshire. He was responsible for England's three finest series of late eighteenth century botanical art' Flora Londinensis (1777 - 1798) , Assistant Plates to the Materia Medica (1786) and the still surviving publication, The Botanical Magazine (founded by him in 1787), He also established famous botanical gardens at Lambeth and Brompton.William Curtis Botanical Magazine 1787-1826

Plate 585

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1807. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£10

Plate 866

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1805. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£10

Plate443 Erica

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1805. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£10 with text

Plate447 Erica

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1805. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£10 with text

Plate 558

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1805. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£10

Plate 1030 Iberis

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1805. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£10 with text

Plate 2062

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1805. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£12 sent mounted or framed to collect

Plate 1027

Hand coloured copper engraving published in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1805. Size: 9" x 5 1/2" Pub. by T. Curtis Mar. 1, 1802...Syd.Edwards del. F. Sanfom sc.£12 sent mounted or framed to collect

James Sowerby was the first of a long line of natural-history draughtsmen.Sowerby went to work for Wm Curtis contributing c. seventy plates to volumes of The Botanical Magazine and about fifty to the fifth part of 'Flora Londinensis' (1777-1798). He designed, and engraved some of the plates for 'Flora Londinensis'. From 1790 onwards he was chiefly occupied in illustrating the works of Sir J. E. Smith and is usually associated with the long series of works that he illustrated for Sir J. E. Smith, in particular the thirty-six-volume 'English Botany, for which Smith wrote the text. By the mid 1790's James Sowerby had established himself as perhaps the finest botanical artist in England.

Plate 2333/1365

Salix

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 1342/1321

Oak

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 456/551

Myrtle

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 1346/1323

Fagus

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 862/737

Potentilla

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 94/1203

 

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 865/289

Azalea

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 1404/1367

Salix

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Plate 1340/1807

Salix

Hand coloured copper engraving published in 1804 by J Sowerby, London size 1/2 X 5 1/4 in..£10

Medlar + Marigold

Hand coloured copper engraving, image approx. 5 x 7 1/2" on sheet 5 1/2 x 9". Published by G. Kearsley. London. 1810. £10

Gladiolus + Helionas

Hand coloured copper engraving, image approx. 5 x 7 1/2" on sheet 5 1/2 x 9". Published by G. Kearsley. London. 1810. £10

Fucus + Erica

Hand coloured copper engraving, image approx. 5 x 7 1/2" on sheet 5 1/2 x 9". Published by G. Kearsley. London. 1810. £10

Fuschia + Euphorbia

Hand coloured copper engraving, image approx. 5 x 7 1/2" on sheet 5 1/2 x 9". Published by G. Kearsley. London. 1810. £10

Cornus + Cypredium

Hand coloured copper engraving, image approx. 5 x 7 1/2" on sheet 5 1/2 x 9". Published by G. Kearsley. London. 1810. £10

Fucus

Hand coloured copper engraving, image approx. 5 x 7 1/2" on sheet 5 1/2 x 9". Published by G. Kearsley. London. 1810. £10

Ásparagus Sylvaticus Tab 201. vol 3 full page good colour bad pic £55 mega RARE

from WALDSTEIN, F. DE PAULA ADAM GRAF VON & P. KITAIBEL. Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae. pub Vienna, Matthias Andreas Schmidt, (1799) 1802 to1812. 3 volumes. Folio (465 x 332mm). With large sepia aquatint view at beginning of preface to vol I and 280 handcoloured engraved plates, 16 folding.The first (and only) edition of this monumental flora of Hungary and adjacent territories, including Croatia, with splendid plates in the Viennese 'Jacquin' style. The text was by Paul Kitaibel (1757 to1817), professor of botany at the University of Pest. 'He spent much of his career roaming Hungary and collecting botanical, zoological, and mineralogical specimens as well as folklore. His collections of botanical and mineralogical specimens formed the basis for the natural history collection in the Hungarian National Museum' (Johnston). The work was financed by Count Franz Waldstein (1759-1823), an Austrian military leader who fought against the Turks and North African states as a Maltese knight and in the Austrian-Turkish war and the Prussian campaign. From 1789 he devoted himself to botany, travelling with Kitaibel through Hungary collecting plants, interspersed with military service. His herbarium is in Prague. The aquatint view is signed by Hirscher. The plates are engraved by Karl Schutz after drawings by his son Johann. The work was intended to be completed in four volumes but a note on page 310 states that publication was suspended because of 'multiplicia impedimenta, quae e gravibus temporibus in quibus vivimus inseparatibilia sunt' (the many impediments which are inseparable from the troubled times we live in).

Galium infestum Tab 202. vol 3 full page good colour bad pic £55 mega RARE

from WALDSTEIN, F. DE PAULA ADAM GRAF VON & P. KITAIBEL. Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae. pub Vienna, Matthias Andreas Schmidt, (1799) 1802 to1812. 3 volumes. Folio (465 x 332mm). With large sepia aquatint view at beginning of preface to vol I and 280 handcoloured engraved plates, 16 folding.The first (and only) edition of this monumental flora of Hungary and adjacent territories, including Croatia, with splendid plates in the Viennese 'Jacquin' style. The text was by Paul Kitaibel (1757 to1817), professor of botany at the University of Pest. 'He spent much of his career roaming Hungary and collecting botanical, zoological, and mineralogical specimens as well as folklore. His collections of botanical and mineralogical specimens formed the basis for the natural history collection in the Hungarian National Museum' (Johnston). The work was financed by Count Franz Waldstein (1759-1823), an Austrian military leader who fought against the Turks and North African states as a Maltese knight and in the Austrian-Turkish war and the Prussian campaign. From 1789 he devoted himself to botany, travelling with Kitaibel through Hungary collecting plants, interspersed with military service. His herbarium is in Prague. The aquatint view is signed by Hirscher. The plates are engraved by Karl Schutz after drawings by his son Johann. The work was intended to be completed in four volumes but a note on page 310 states that publication was suspended because of 'multiplicia impedimenta, quae e gravibus temporibus in quibus vivimus inseparatibilia sunt' (the many impediments which are inseparable from the troubled times we live in).

Plantago hungarica Tab 203. vol3 full page good colour bad pic £55 mega RARE

from WALDSTEIN, F. DE PAULA ADAM GRAF VON & P. KITAIBEL. Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae. pub Vienna, Matthias Andreas Schmidt, (1799) 1802 to1812. 3 volumes. Folio (465 x 332mm). With large sepia aquatint view at beginning of preface to vol I and 280 handcoloured engraved plates, 16 folding.The first (and only) edition of this monumental flora of Hungary and adjacent territories, including Croatia, with splendid plates in the Viennese 'Jacquin' style. The text was by Paul Kitaibel (1757 to1817), professor of botany at the University of Pest. 'He spent much of his career roaming Hungary and collecting botanical, zoological, and mineralogical specimens as well as folklore. His collections of botanical and mineralogical specimens formed the basis for the natural history collection in the Hungarian National Museum' (Johnston). The work was financed by Count Franz Waldstein (1759-1823), an Austrian military leader who fought against the Turks and North African states as a Maltese knight and in the Austrian-Turkish war and the Prussian campaign. From 1789 he devoted himself to botany, travelling with Kitaibel through Hungary collecting plants, interspersed with military service. His herbarium is in Prague. The aquatint view is signed by Hirscher. The plates are engraved by Karl Schutz after drawings by his son Johann. The work was intended to be completed in four volumes but a note on page 310 states that publication was suspended because of 'multiplicia impedimenta, quae e gravibus temporibus in quibus vivimus inseparatibilia sunt' (the many impediments which are inseparable from the troubled times we live in).

"Voyages de Pallas' 1803 France ;It was published in the very first grand folio atlas, by Peter Simon Pallas, Titled: " Voyages du Professeur Pallas, dans Plusieurs Provinces de L'Empire de Russie, et Dans L'Asie Septentrionale; Traduits de l'Allemand par le Cit. Gauthier de la Peyronie. " It is in French (en Francais ) Large plate copper engravings of botanic specimens some colour wash. Mounted in neutral cream card apperture /picture size exceeds 22.5 x 27 cm. £20 ea. Full size images available upon request. These are A3 scans and in many instances are incomplete due to plate size

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Cytisus Austriacus

Omnithogalium Reticulatum

Lacerta Aurita

vol 5 pl 9 page 142

Pterococcus Aphyllus

1) Lapidium Ceratocarpon

2)Mus Arenarius

3)Sungorus

Vol 3 pl 8 page 174

Scorzonera Caricifolia ; Spartium Aphyllum

Vol 5 pl 8 page 138

Dryas Anemonoides /

Pedicularis Myriophylla/

Astrogalus Ampullatus et Vesicarius,

vol 4 pl 29 page 485

1) Cotyledon Malacophyllum;

2) Myosotis Rupestris

Vol 4 pl 6 page 271

Sagittaria Natans

vol 5 pl 21 page 515

Salicornia Foliata

Salsola Arbuscula

vol 1 pl 24 page 647

Rindera Tetraspis

Vol 1 pl 20 page 353

Astragalus Spicatus

page 424

Vol 2 plate 9

Polycnnnemium oppositi Folinium

Salicornia Caspicia

Vol 1 pl 27 page 662

Salsola Prostrata

Vol 1 pl 12 page 346

KOELPINIA LINEARIS PL 340

SLIGHT TEAR £15

Cytisus Anigricans /

Lithospernum Retortum /

Myosotis Echinospora

Vol 5 pl 16 page 203

GRAMMINIS SINGULARIS SPECIES

;ORNITHOGALIUM Bulbiferium;

Crinium Caspicum

Page 469 vol 2 pl 11

Hesperis Tatarica

Vol 1 pl 22 page 638

Betual fusca /

Betual Fruiticans

Salsola Hyssopifolia;

Salsicornia Herbaccea

Vol 1 pl 28 page 696

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Salicornia Foliata

Vol 1 pl 26 page 662

Iris Dichotoma Anacaulis /

Spirea Aquilegifolia

Vol 4 pl 11 page 299

Glycirrhiza Aspera

page 543

1) Myagrum Rigidum

2) Koelpinia Linearis

Salsola Sedoides

Vol 1 pl 21 page 342

Onosma mMicrocanthos

vol 3 pl 7 page 160

Pterococcus Aphyllus

Vol 2 pl 16 page 473

 

Sirsymbrium Salsuginosum

vol 3 pl 4 page 134

Polycneumum Triandrum

Vol 1 pl 25 page 659

Grammminis singularis Species

5

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Polycneumum Sclerospemum;

Salsola Monandra

Vol 4 pl 12 page 243

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