Category: Botanicals

Album of Ten Chinese Botanical Gouache Paintings on Pith Paper

Price: $10,000.00

Seller ID: 006585

Binding: Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards.

Condition: Very Good

Spectacular groupings of flowers, all brightly colored and finely shaded. N.d., early 19th Century. Oblong, 24 by 33 cm. Each of the paintings is framed with blue paper strips, as typical. Condition: as inevitable with the brittle, fragile pith paper, some tears, holes and stains; in our judgment and experience, lighter by the norm, or put another way, not disconcerting ever. The album binding itself has abrasions and wear, but again, this is lighter than what usually encounters with such album covers.
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Album of Twenty-Four Original Watercolors of Flowers and Leaves

Price: $725.00

Seller ID: 002832

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

A lovely collection of botanical watercolors that are both realistic and tinged with a bit of Art Nouveau. N.d., , circa 1900. Probably English, but it could be American alternatively. The watercolors are all mounted onto card, which was then mounted onto the card stock leaves of the album. The flowers are all neatly captioned and include Purple Spurge, White Heather, Daffodil, Sweet Scented Coltsfoot, Yellow Monkey Flower, Bullace, Polypody Fern, Hart's Tongue Fern, Gromwell, Trefoil, Stork's Bill, Rest Harrow, Lesser Periwinkle, Hellebore, Wood Sorrel, Gladwyn Iris, Snowdrop, Purple Will...
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Bingley's Practical Introduction to Botany; Illustrated by References Under Each Definition to Plants of Easy Access, and by Numerous Figures; Comprising Also a Glossary of Botanic Terms.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy : 1827

Seller ID: 002629

Binding: Quarter Morocco

Condition: Good

8vo. 104 pp. With 9 hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Foxing of last few text pages, and some scattered elsewhere. Plates gathered in back have light soiling, but mostly offsetting. Dampstain on boards, mostly on upper front. Spine is somewhat dry. Still an attractive, side pocket sized botanical.
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Fine Hand Painted French Bolting Cloths

Price: $1,200.00

Seller ID: 006052

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Beautiful collection of original watercolors of birds and flowers on bolting cloth. Besides the botanical and ornithological paintings, there are three picturesque paintings of children in the Queen Anne-style vein evocative of illustrators such as Kate Greenaway. N.d., late 19th century or very early 20th century. Folio, 36.5 by 29 cm. Unpaginated, 24 leaves (48 pages). 64 different swatches with original watercolors on the bolting cloth swatches, 36 of which we would describe as larger swatches, 28, as smaller ones. These are mounted, rather crudely using pieces of labels to hold the sw...
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Jamaica D'Oyleys.

Price: $2,750.00

Publisher: : 1898

Seller ID: 004595

Binding: Card.

Condition: Very Good

With six highly unusual and beautiful mixed-media specimens of folk art, each of which is accompanied by a few lines of explanatory material on the source of materials -- and this exposition is in our view part of the value of the whole, as it makes explicit just how the doilies were made. The doilies are 16.5 cm in diameter, with a light mesh center onto which is mounted exquisite tropical fern leaves. This mesh is made of the tissue of the lace bark tree, we are told Surrounding this is a ring with original watercolored floral decoration using Jamaican flowers. The material used as the ba...
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Japanese Botanical Book

Price: $400.00

Seller ID: 004581

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

25.5 by 17 cm. 38 pp., 24 of which are very colorful botanical plates, and of these, a few of those facing one another can be viewed as a single larger illustration, but either side also holds its own. Peonies, poppies, of flowers like them, with big splashes of red, bright white, yellow, orange, purple, and stems of green. Text in Japanese, with a few flower names at the end rendered in Latin as well. Light soiling and wear.
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Japanese Leporello with 24 Original Mounted Signed Watercolors, Circa Early 20th Century

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Japan,

Seller ID: 004436

Binding: Leporello

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900. 183 by 151 mm, when closed. Mounted watercolors are of waterflow, a crane, other birds, flowers, fish, insects, landscapes, a fantastical depiction of men painting the foot and leg of a giant (or tiny men doing that of an ordinary man, or some other interpretation), a giant mask being lifted by children, other human studies. The watercolors are notable for their bright, vivid colors, their sharpness and precision of detail, their elegant spare composition. While each illustration can stand on its own, and the subject matter is by no means uniform, there is something quite...
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Japanese Manuscript with Watercolors of Ikebana Flower Arrangements

Price: $750.00

Seller ID: 004849

Binding: NA

Condition: Good

N.d., but 19th century. 4to. 27 by 20 cm. With 98 pages, including cover, with a painting of a flower arrangement, and vases, tables, and other accessories, on each page. Colorful, and lovely. Slender yet long-ish wormholing affecting about half the pages to a degree, but generally not disconcerting as it doesn't affect the watercolor. (Occasionally touching on the calligraphy, though.) Some other wear and light soiling. Still a beautiful album.
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L'Orchidophile: Journal des Amateurs d'Orchidees (Six Volumes): 1885, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, Godefroy-Lebeuf, Paul Dupont : 1885 - 1891

Seller ID: 001675

Binding: Quarter Morocco

Condition: Good

8vo. (23 by 15.5 cm, 9 by 6 inches.) 48 color lithographic botanical plates, many of which are folding or double-paged. The journal ran from 1881 to 1895. Scarce journal, with only known institutional copy at the BNF and no copies otherwise found on OCLC First Search. Text leaves are heavily toned and brittle, with some edge chips or tiny closed tears. A few loose leaves. Minor soiling to some plates. Generally plates remain bright and attractive. Heavy rubbing to brown morocco spines and edgewear to marbled boards.
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The Christian Garland; Or, A companion for Leisure Hours: Consisting of Original and Selected Pieces in Poetry and Prose. A New Edition.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society

Seller ID: 001653

Binding: Blindstamped and gilded cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1870. 12mo. v, 252 pp. With eight chromolithographic color plates of bouquets of flowers, fruits and shells. Plates engraved by Kronheim. Some fading of gilt on spine. Light wear to blue blindstamped cloth. Minor crack by frontis. One plate with small corner dampstain. Generally clean.
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The Language of Flowers, Poetically Expressed; Being a Complete Flora's Album

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Leavitt & Allen : 1847

Seller ID: 001654

Binding: Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Good Plus

16mo, 4.75 by 3 inches. 128 pp. With four hand-colored plates. Miniature version of popular anthology/botanical book format. Cloth has soiling. Introduction page has two tape repairs by spine. Some occasional foxing.
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The Moral of Flowers, Illustrated by Coloured Engravings.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman and M. Robinson; printed by A. Spottiswoode : 1835

Seller ID: 001601

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

8vo. xiv, [1], 227 pp. and 24 hand-colored botanical plates. Occasional light foxing, and one plate and a few text pages with a bit more, but still light, foxing. Overall clean and fresh. Some wear to the morocco spine and corners.
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Lilies and Orchids. A Series of Drawings in Color of Some of the More Interesting and Beautiful Species of These Families Together with Descriptive Text

By: Boardman, Rosina C.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: New York, Robert Grier Cooke Incorporated : 1906

Seller ID: 003370

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

Lovely Art Nouveau full green morocco binding. 4to. 25.5 by 21 cm. 24 pp., plus 24 chromolithographic plates. Binding by Mahan. Light sunning to spine. Minor wear to corners.
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Group of Flowers, Groups of Fruit, Six Birds (Three works By Brookshaw bound as one) Full titles: 1. Groups of Flowers, Drawn and Accurately Coloured after Nature, with Full Directions for the Young Artist; Designed as a Companion to the Treatise on Flower Painting. 2. Groups of Fruit, Accurately Drawn and Coloured after Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist: Designed as a Companion to the Treatises on Flowers and Birds. 3. Six Birds, Accurately Drawn and Coloured after Nature, with Full Instructions for the Young Artist; Intended as a Companiobn to the Treatise on Flower Painting.

By: Brookshaw, George

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: London, Thomas McLean : 1819

Seller ID: 006816

Binding: Full Decorated Gilt- and Blindstamped Straigh

Condition: Very Good

Folio, 36.5 by 27 cm. Unpaginated, all with half title and title pages, 16, 12, 14 pp. With a total of 18 hand-colored plates, each rendered in two states, one, hand-colored, the other, uncolored. The inclusion of the two states serves an instructive purpose of imparting not just how to color generally but also, how to shade the application of color. (In the page count, we did not count the plates, but we did count blank versos. Essentially, each plate is accompanied by an one or two page text. The first and last books have additional pages for a preliminary "Advertisement", which, notwit...
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Flore Médicale (8 volumes)

By: Chaumeton, François-Pierre. Jean Louis Marie Poiret; Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-Anne-César Tyrbas de Chamberet Illustrated by E.P. and P. J. F. Turpin

Price: $4,000.00

Publisher: C. L. F. Panckoucke. Dictionaire des Sciences Médicinales : 1814-1820

Seller ID: 005966

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Seven volumes in eight. 8vo. 20.5 by 13 cm. 425 hand-colored stipple engravings. Condition: volume I leather on rear board and upper left of spine with dark, ugly dampstain, and board corner by spine and part of joint has leather completely worn through (area is triangular, with sides about 4 cm each). Otherwise, calf generally healthy and attractive, and set, when on shelf, remains handsome despite the flaw of the first volume. Within, scattered foxing, soiling, and heavy-ish age toning, but most plates read as clean.
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According to Season Talks about the Flowers in the Order of Their Appearance in the Woods and Fields

By: Dana, Mrs. William Starr [Frances Theodora Dana]. Embellished by Catharine Westinghouse

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1894

Seller ID: 003050

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled Boards.

Condition: Near Fine

Containing nine original watercolors applied directly to the page by Catharine Westinghouse, setting aside this copy from all others. 8vo. 16 by 10.5 cm. 159 pp. The book proper is an appreciation of plants, with snippets of poetry interspersed liberallly, and the objective of the author is to impart a sort of botanical connoisseurship. The additional watercolors are beautifully rendered, and are a true expression of the author's spirit. While there were other Victorians who performed their own private embellishment of books such as was done here, it was far from a common practice, and h...
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Les Orchidees Histoire Iconographique Organographie -- Classification -- Geographie -- Collections -- Commerce -- Emploi -- Culture avec une Revue Descriptive des Especes Cultivees en Europe . . . Ouvrage orne de 244 Vignettes et de 50 Chromolithographies Dessinees d"Apres nature sous la Direction de M. Leroy, dans les Serres de M. Guibert

By: de Puydt, P. E. [Paul Emile de Puydt].

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, J. Rothschild : 1880

Seller ID: 004566

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

4to. 27 by 18 cm. viii, 348 pp., with 50 color chromolithographic plates, touched up by hand. Plates done by Leroy and Guibert. With 244 text vignettes. Nissen BBI 1572. Light wear to the binding. Offsetting of the tissue guards onto the plates.
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Album of Eleven Fine and Original Watercolor Botanical Studies

By: Emma S.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: : 1874

Seller ID: 002070

Large oblong. 14.5 by 11 inches, 37 by 18.5 cm. Nine leaves with artwork, meaning two leaves have two drawings each, the rest have a single watercolor of varying size. All watercolors were done on separate sheets then inserted into grooves neatly cut into the album. Many blank leaves behind those that are used. The watercolors were executed by one hand without question, an Emma S. who was a German speaker, based on the tiny caption, mostly illegible, that is written neatly in the corners of a few sketches (the cursive is antiquated and thus not easy to decipher but the umlaut, rendered wi...
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Image for The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations: being a Selection of Flowers drawn from Nature. Arranged emblematically with Directions for Colouring them, by Eliza Eve Gleadall

The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations: being a Selection of Flowers drawn from Nature. Arranged emblematically with Directions for Colouring them, by Eliza Eve Gleadall

By: Gleadall, Eliza Eve

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: Wakefield, Eliza Eve Gleadall at Heath Hall : 1834

Seller ID: 001690

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Fine

A flower "sentiment" book that transcends the genre! Privately printed, with only 115 copies produced for the list of subscribers. Small folio, measuring 13.5 by 10 inches, or 33.5 by 25.5 cm. viii, 40 pp., plus 20 hand-colored botanical plates, as well as title garland vignette. Nissen 715. Note a second series was issued two years later. Some scattered very light foxing on text leaves. Plates are very clean and bright. Modern half morocco binding is pristine.
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Image for Eden: or, A Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the Several Useful Products of a Garden, Fruits, Roots, and Herbages; . . .

Eden: or, A Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the Several Useful Products of a Garden, Fruits, Roots, and Herbages; . . .

By: Hale, Thomas. John Hill.

Price: $15,000.00

Publisher: London, T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder, H. Woodgate : 1757

Seller ID: 006604

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled paper pastedown.

Condition: Very Good

First edition, hand-colored version, of this landmark botanical survey. Folio. 42 by 26.5 cm. [2], iv, ii, 714 pp., plus hand-colored frontis and 60 hand-colored numbered plates, with all plates engraved. Note that not all copies of the first edition were hand-colored. With first edition error points in pagination, with following pagination sequence: 591, 584, 595 594, 595, 598, 597, 598 . . . Posthumous work attributed to deceased Hale in part and also attributed to Hill. This copy had belonged to Mario Buatto, the "Prince of Chintz", one of the most famous of New York decorato...
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Category: Botanicals