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Kunstformen der Natur
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Kunstformen der Natur: Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit bechriebenden Text

by Ernst Haeckel

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A beautiful copy of Ernst Haeckel's influential book on natural history that married art and science.First complete book edition following the original edition in parts published from 1899-1904. With the 51-page supplement. 100 fine plates, some printed in colour, chromolithographed by Adolf Giltsch after sketches by Ernst Haeckel. "First edition of this famous and marvelous work which had a considerable influence on decorative design in the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau period during the beginning of the 20th century and depicts fantastic, real forms and structures found in animal and plant life." Many artists of the era, such as French glass designers Emile Galle and Rene Lalique, kept a copy of Haeckel's illustrations at home. French architect Rene Binet incorporated forms of Radiolarians in his work on the Porte Monumentale at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Dutch architect Henrick Petrus Berlage designed a chandelier based on Discomedusae jellyfish. German photographer Karl Blossfeld also explicitly… Read More
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Kunstformen der Natur
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Kunstformen der Natur: Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, Allgemeine Erläuterung und systematische Übersicht

by Ernst Haeckel

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A beautiful copy of Ernst Haeckel's influential book on natural history that married art and science.

Set of the first five (5) parts only.

With 50 beautiful chromolithographed plates in the original printed wrappers and pictorial box.

The 50 fine plates, some printed in colour, chromolithographed by Adolf Giltsch after sketches by Ernst Haeckel.

"First edition of this famous and marvelous work which had a considerable influence on decorative design in the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau period during the beginning of the 20th century and depicts fantastic, real forms and structures found in animal and plant life."

Many artists of the era, such as French glass designers Emile Galle and Rene Lalique, kept a copy of Haeckel's illustrations at home. French architect Rene Binet incorporated forms of Radiolarians in his work on the Porte Monumentale at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Dutch architect Henrick Petrus Berlage designed a chandelier based on Discomedusae jellyfish. German photographer Karl… Read More
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Flora Homoeopathica
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Flora Homoeopathica: or illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants used as homoeopathic remedies

by Edward Hamilton

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Very good- copy of the first edition of this early classic of homeopathy.Two volumes bound in one, but missing the first six plates and 44 pages of text (never bound in).With 60 (of 66) hand-coloured lithographs by Edward Hamilton, Henry Sowerby, A.M. Traice, Charlotte Caroline Sowerby, L.W., A.W., M.D. and A.E.Green watermarked silk binding in need of some TLC.Edward Hamilton (1815-1903) was an English physician and early exponent of homeopathy. Along with the first British homeopathic physician Frederic Hervey Foster Quin, he played a role in the founding of the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1851. Henry Sowerby (1825-1891) was an artist and lithographer, grandson of botanical artist James Sowerby. From 1854, he worked as a gold miner, mining engineer and art tutor in Australia.Charlotte Caroline Sowerby (1820-1865) was a British artist and granddaughter of botanical artist James Sowerby. She also worked on Henderson's Illustrated Bouquet (1857-1864).Green watermarked silk binding coming loose… Read More
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Holbenii Pictoris Alphabetum Mortis
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Holbenii Pictoris Alphabetum Mortis: Todtentanz-Alphabet, vollständig in 24 Holzschnitten nach dem Dresdener Originale

by Hans Holbein, Heinrich Lödel

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Good copy of Heinrich Lödel's reproductions of Holbein's Alphabet of Death.The painter Hans Holbein's Dance of Death Alphabet, fully reproduced in 24 woodcuts from the Dresden originals for the first time by H. Lödel in Göttingen.According to the exhaustive Dance of Death website dodedans.com, Holbein's alphabet of Death was first used in 1524. Holbein's designs were cut in small woodblocks in incredible detail by the engraver Hans Lutzelburger. These are really dynamic scenes, full of action and drama. In many, two skeletons grapple with their victim, violently grabbing, pulling and murdering with boney arms to fill the tiny square behind the initial letter with action.
All 24 initials printed in black, with decorative borders in sepia by the painter Georg Osterwald.
Heinrich Lödel (1798-1861) was a German painter and etcher, based in Göttingen from 1819. He was later the university engraver at Georg-August University.
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Keika Hyakugiku
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Keika Hyakugiku: Keika's 100 Chrysanthemums

by Keika Hasegawa

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Rare complete copy of Keika Hasegawa's Keika Hyakugiku (100 chrysanthemums by Keika)(The British Museum only has Volumes 1 and 2, the Smithsonian only 2 and 3.)75 colour woodblock prints (all published), including eight double-page, from this seminal book on the cultivation of chrysanthemums. Volumes 1 and 2 published in July 1893 and Volume 3 published in December 1903. Chrysanthemum cultivation came to Japan from China in the 8th century and the flower was later adopted as the Emperor's crest. Over the centuries, extraordinary hybrids of elegant shapes and vibrant colours were produced, many of which are recorded in this book.Little is known about the artist Keika Hasegawa. (The name Keika is usually a woman's name.) Active in the final years of the 19th century, he also produced books of patterns for kimono and washi paper such as Biko Zukan (Art Book) 1894, and Kyoka Zuan (Patterns of Kyoto), 1897. Original wraps are grubby and worn, interior slightly browned and edges worn. A few prints with… Read More
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Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds,
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Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds,: with their Descriptions, from the Menagery of Osterly Park

by William Hayes

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First volume only of the two-volume set with 100 plates published from 1794 to 1799.56 finely hand-colored etched and stipple- and line-engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic, by William Hayes and members of his family. {The family worked chaotically, issuing volumes with different numbers of plates to subscribers.} With two unnumbered plates (the Erne and King of the Vultures) and 54 numbered plates (Pl. 3 to Pl. 56) with their text pages.Second edition of this work on the birds of the famous menagerie at Osterley Park commissioned by the banker and politician Robert Child. Child may have obtained some of the exotic species from Asia and Africa from his business with the East India Company.The birds include endangered species such as the purple-naped lory, Lorius domicella 27, blue-headed quail-dove, Starnoenas cyanocephala 41, horned currasow, Pauxi unicornis 49 and critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea 56.Hayes was the first author to record a single private… Read More
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English Pearls
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English Pearls: or Portraits for the Boudoir

by Charles Heath

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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.
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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
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 1
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 1: vom fruhen Mittelalter bis Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts nach gleichzeitigen Originalen

by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck

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Volume 1 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs, many finished in gold, numbered 1-72 and 38 pages of explanation in German.Plates include religious subjects, suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, fine jewelry, etc. from the 5th to 12th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, some foxing and discoloration to plates.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 10
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 10: vom fruhen Mittelalter bis Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts nach gleichzeitigen Originalen

by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck

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Volume 1 of the Supplement (Volume 10 of the series) of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 1-72 (649-720 of the series) and 28 pages of explanation in German.Plates include portraits, costumes, weapons, pistols, suits of armour, goblets, fascinators, musketeers, etc., from the 16th and 18th centuries in Europe.Condition: Top half of leather spine missing, but plates vivid and clean. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 4
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 4: vom fruhen Mittelalter bis Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts nach gleichzeitigen Originalen

by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck

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Volume 4 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 217-286 and 31 pages of explanation in German.Plates include suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, jewelry, combs, mirrors, tournaments, etc. from the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, but all chromolithographic plates clean and vivid, many handfinished in gold and silver.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.
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The Floral Magazine
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The Floral Magazine: Figures and Descriptions of the Choicest New Flowers

by Henry Honywood Dombrain, Worthington George Smith, Frederick William Burbidge

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A very good run of the first five volumes from the New Series of this very rare botanical.

Complete with 240 handcoloured botanical plates by Worthington George Smith (212) and Frederick William Burbidge (28)

Flowers include many species of elegant orchids, roses, camellias, dahlias, hyacinths, rhododendrons, pansies, geraniums, and many other popular Victorian garden flowers.

Bernard Quaritch in a General Catalogue of Books in 1874 praises the series for its "beautifully coloured plates" and notes it was already "very scarce."

Five volumes edited by Henry Honywood Dombrain (1,2), Worthington George Smith (3,4) and Frederick William Burbidge (5), published from 1872 to 1876. (Volumes 11 to 15 in the complete series).

The Floral Magazine launched in 1861 and introduced exotic flowers from tropical lands as well as hybrids raised in British nurseries. The lithographic plates were dynamic, full-page botanical illustrations in large format Royal or Imperial Octavo size. Unlike the French and… Read More
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Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
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Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen: in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erlauterndem Texte

by Hermann Adolph Köhler, Gustav Pabst

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Very good complete copy of Hermann Köhler's celebrated German study of medicinal botanyWith 283 dynamic botanical chromolithographs mainly signed W.M. (Walther Otto Muller), with others by Carl Friedrich Schmidt and K. or E. Gunther. The botanical plates are justly famous for their attractive design, with all parts of the flower, leaf, branch, fruit and seed displayed over the entire plate.This monumental German herbal was written principally by Hermann Adolph Köhler, edited after his death by Gustav Pabst, and published by Franz Eugen Köhler from 1887-1890. The third volume was published later in 1898 with the subtitle Latest medicinal plants and confusions (Neueste Medizinalpflanzen und Verwechslungen), revised by Max Vogtherr and M. Gürke, curators at the Botanical Museum in Berlin.With an advert for the fourth volume with another 100 plates (never published).Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834-1879) was a Prussian German physician and chemist. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his work as a… Read More
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The Dance of Death
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The Dance of Death: from the original designs of Hans Holbein

by Wenceslaus Hollar

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A very scarce, hand-coloured edition of Wenceslaus Hollar's Dance of Death.With 33 plates engraved by Hollar, comprising 31 hand-coloured engravings of the Dance of Death, one hand-coloured engraving of the Dance of Macaber, and two engraved portraits (of Hollar and Holbein).According to the exhaustive Dance of Death website dodedans.com, Hollar's engravings are based primarily on Arnold Birckmann's copies of Holbein's woodcuts. Most of the plates have the initials HB (Holbein) and WH (Hollar), apart from the frontispiece, Mortalitum Nobilitas, which is engraved with HB and DD (David Deuchar?).
Hollar's suite of engravings was first published in 1651 and the copperplates "which appear to have been little used, have been till lately preserved in a noble family" according to Francis Douce's introduction. The original plates have been "retouched, ... with the utmost attention to the preservation of their original spirit and character." English antiquary and curator at the British Museum, Douce would… Read More
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 115
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 115: Comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew

by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

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Very good copy of Volume CXV (45 of the Third series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1889.
Complete with all 59 (13 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 7033-7092).
All plates drawn by talented woman botanical artist Matilda Smith, lithographed by John Nugent Fitch.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the licuala, pandan, broad thatch and carludovica palm trees, blue bird of paradise flower, prickly pear, sarsaparilla, dragon tree, stapelia, Australian stinging tree and the voodoo lily, Amorphophallus eichleri. There are several orchids including Dendrobium, Sobralia, Spathoglottis, Catasetum, Arachnis, Phaius, etc., as well as new hothouse and garden species of iris, lily, passionflower, delphinium, etc.
The dynamic illustrations of flowers and leaves take up the whole plate, and are crammed with details of the seeds and fruits, and often feature a sketch of the entire plant in the background. The influence of mentor Walter Hood Fitch is undeniable.
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 73
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 73: Comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew

by Sir William Jackson Hooker

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Very good copy of Volume LXXIII (73) of the whole series (Volume 3 of the Third Series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1847.
Complete with all 70 (13 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 4275-4344).
All plates drawn and lithographed by the prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the giant Victoria water lily, Java rhododendron, peyote cactus, mottlecah eucolyptus, hibiscus, pitcairnia, jalap, pitcher plant, etc. With several species of orchids including Cattleya, Vanda, Anguloa, Bulbophyllum, Phalaenopsis and Dendrophylax.
The dynamic illustrations of flowers and leaves take up the whole plate, and are crammed with details of the seeds and fruits.
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was one of the great botanists, professor at Glasgow University and later director of Kew Gardens in 1841. He edited Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1826 onwards, and brought in talented young fabric printer Walter Hood Fitch in 1834.
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Exotic Flora, Vol. I and II
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Exotic Flora, Vol. I and II: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants

by Sir William Jackson Hooker

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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
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Exotic Flora, Vol. I
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Exotic Flora, Vol. I: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants

by Sir William Jackson Hooker

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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
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 72
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 72: Comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew

by Sir William Jackson Hooker

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Very good copy of Volume LXXII (72) of the whole series (Volume 2 of the Third Series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1846.
Complete with all 72 (11 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 4203-4274).
All plates drawn and lithographed by the prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including 14 orchids such asPaphiopedilum, Cattleya, Acineta, Miltonia, Mormodes, Cycnoches, Catasetum, Lycaste and Bulbophyllum. Also includes plates of tropical plants such as Japanese hydrangea, bell-fruited mallee, magnolia, fuchsia, alligator-apple, angel's trumpet flower, lipstick plant, lotus, basket vine, etc.
The dynamic illustrations of flowers and leaves take up the whole plate, and are crammed with details of the seeds and fruits.
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was one of the great botanists, professor at Glasgow University and later director of Kew Gardens in 1841. He edited Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1826 onwards, and brought in talented young… Read More
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Icones Lignorum exoticorum et nostratium
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Icones Lignorum exoticorum et nostratium: A Representation of Inland and Foreign Wood

by Martinus Houttuyn

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A beautiful guide to the identification of woods by their grains and colours, a "Cabinet of Wood."With 66 fine hand-coloured engraved plates depicting over 550 types of European and exotic woods from India, China and America in cross section, each with a page of wood names in Dutch, German, French, English and Latin. The title page states that the book was meant "for natural history lovers and keepers of cabinets of natural curiosities." The book was issued in parts from 1773 and thus the number of plates varies from 24 (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) to 66 (here). The final 1791 edition had a different title and 106 plates, including a 40-plate supplement. Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739-1811) was the son of the German instrument maker and cartographer Christiaan Sepp. J.C. Sepp established himself as a bookseller and publisher specializing in natural history.Martinus Houttuyn (1720-1798), born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. Houttuyn published his own natural history books… Read More
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A New Work of Animals
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A New Work of Animals: Principally Designed From the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus

by Samuel Howitt

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Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Read More
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