Antique Botanical Prints from Prints with a Past

EARLY EUROPEAN BOTANICAL PRINTS
     Paxton's Magazine of Botany   - Sir Joseph Paxton (1836)
     The Botanic Garden    - Benjamin Maund (1829)
     Flore des Jardiniers (Flowers of the Gardener) - Pancrace Bessa (1836)
     The Botanical Cabinet - Conrad Loddiges (1820-1821)
     North American Flowers - The Botanical Register    (1828-1834)
     Heather Prints - Henry Andrews (1804)
     Dictionary of Natural History - Charles D'Orbigny (1849)
     British Flowering Plants - William Baxter (1834-1843)
     The Botanist   - Benjamin Maund (1842)
     Sowerby's English Botany - James Sowerby (1835-1839)

CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE
     Curtis's Botanical Magazine    - Sydenham Edwards (1802-1803) NEW
     Curtis's Botanical Magazine - New Series (1948)

FRUIT and VEGETABLE PRINTS
    Vegetable Prints from France (1891) NEW
    Fruit Prints - US Dept. of Agriculture - D. G. Passmore (1892-1895)
    Mother Earth's Children - Fruits and Vegetables (1914)
    Strawberry Prints
    French Apple and Apricot Prints (1868-1869)
    Pineapple Prints
    Fruit Grower's Guide   (1920s)
    German Fruit Prints    (1882)
    French Grape Prints (1889-1891)
    Vegetable Growers Guide (1920s)
    German Apples and Pears (1894)
    Fruit Prints - Horticultural Society of London   (1815-1824)
    Fruit Prints - US Dept. of Agriculture (1892-1893)
    Fruit Prints from Sweden (1912)
    Fruit Prints - Food Encyclopedia (1911)
    History of the Vegetable Kingdom - Walter Hood Fitch (1862)
    Orange Prints

ORCHID and ROSE PRINTS
    Album of Orchids of Europe - Henry Correvon (1923)
    Rose Prints from The Genus Rosa - Ellen Willmott (1914)
    Orchid Prints - Iconography of Orchids - Jean Linden (1893)
    Roses from Sowerby's English Botany - James Sowerby (1794-1813)
    Orchid Prints - Paxton's Flower Garden (1882)
    English Rose Prints   (1903
    Orchid Prints from The Botanical Register (1828-1834)
    Orchis from Sowerby's English Botany (late 1700s-early 1800s)
     Van Houtte Orchids (1877)
    Roses (1885)

FANTASY FLOWERS
     Les Fleurs Animees (Animated Flowers)   - Jean Grandville (mid-1800s)
     Flower Fairies of the Spring
     Flower Fairies of the Summer
     Flower Fairies of the Autumn
     Flower Fairies of the Wayside
     Flower Fairies of the Garden
     Flower Fairies of the Trees
     Flower Fairy Alphabet

MEDICAL BOTANY and HERBAL PRINTS
    The Universal Herbal - Thomas Green (1820)
    Flore Medicale (Medical Flowers) - Pierre Turpin (1818)
     Culpeper's Complete Herbal - Nicholas Culpeper (1830s)
     Medical Botanical Prints - Stephenson and Churchill (1834-1836)

GARDEN FLOWERS and GARDENING
    Familiar Garden Flowers - Frederick Hulme (early 1900s)
    Favorite Flowers of the Garden and Greenhouse   - Edward Step (1896)
    Japanese Floral Prints (1936)
    Fragrant Garden Flowers (c. 1890s)
    Parks and Gardens of Paris (1861)
    Japanese Flower Arrangements (1935)
    Familiar Garden Flowers - Frederick Hulme (early 1900s)
    The Flower Garden (1840)
     Amateur Gardening for Town and Country (1896)
     The Gardener's Assistant - Mrs. Withers (1859)
    Flowers of the Greenhouse (Flore des Serres) (1877)

FERN and MUSHROOM PRINTS
     European Ferns (Late 1800s)
     Mushroom Prints - Various Artists
     Fern Prints by Anne Pratt (c. 1860s)
     Mushroom Prints from Flora Londinensis    (1777-1828)
     Mushroom Prints from Atlas des Champignons   - Leon Rolland (1910)
     Mushrooms of Germany (1915)
     Ferns of Great Britain - John Sowerby (1859)
     Ferns - British and Exotic - Edward Lowe (1872)

WILDFLOWER PRINTS
    British Wild Flowers   - Jane Webb Loudon (1846)
    Flora of the Alps (1896)
    British Wild Flowers - John Sowerby (1876)
    Alpine Wildflowers - David Wooster (1874)
    North American Wild Flowers - Mary Vaux Walcott (1925)
    Familiar Widflowers - Frederick Hulme (Late 1800s)
     Wildflowers of the Holy Land (1875)
     Alpine Plants of Germany and Switzerland (1872)

TREES and LEAVES
     Trees of Kew and Windsor - Walter Hood Fitch (1850)
     Tree Prints by James Sowerby (1798-1808)
     North American Trees - Francois Michaux (1857)
     Beautiful-leaved Plants (1865)
     Familiar Trees    (Late 1800s)

LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
     Flowers of Shakespeare   (1846)
     Moral of Flowers - Rebecca Hey (1849)
     Language of Flowers - Kate Greenaway (1884)
     Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden - Walter Crane (1906)
     In Love's Garden - John Cecil Clay (1904)
     Poems of the Wayside Flowers - Birkett Foster (1873)

OTHER BOTANICAL PRINT SERIES
     Economic Botany (1853) NEW
     Poppy Prints
     Amaryllis
     Coffee and Tea
     Lupines
     Notes on the Tulip Species    - William and Elsie Katherine Dykes 1930)
     Pine Trees
     German Botanical Prints - Fruit of the Fields (1950)
     Passionflowers (Late-1700s - 1842)
     Delphinium (Larkspur) Prints
     L'Illustration Horticole (1883-1885)
     Violets (1789-1896)
     Flowering Plants of South Africa (1921)
     The Genus Crocus (1886)
     Paxton's Flower Garden (1882)
     Italian Botanical Atlas (1888)

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These unique hand-colored prints portray plants with an emphasis on their botanical and commercial characteristics (hence the term "economic botany").

The plants shown on the plates are identified for use in for food, clothing, tanning, dyeing, building, medicine, perfumery among other applications.

As noted in the preface to this series "It will appear strange to many when they hear for the first time that no popular work has yet appeared devoted exclusively to the commercial properties of the vegetable kingdom".

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Plate 8

Palm Trees


	NEW BOTANICAL PRINTS THIS MONTH Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Sydenham Edwards (1802-1803) Vegetable Prints from France (1891) Economic Botany (1853)


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