Plants and Gardens

1	(BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS).   ABBILDUNGEN In Und Ausländischer Pflanzen [Ms. Title on Spine].   [Germany: c1835]   4to. 237 x 190 mm. 250 full-page watercolour drawings of flowers, each with ms. title in Latin & German & number. with 57 pp. manuscript in German containing a brief description of each flower & 5 pp. manuscript index. 19th century bds. (bit worn, a few spots of paper adhesion on first watercolour, lacking flyleaf & probably a manuscript title).   An appealing collection of competently executed original botanical watercolours including depictions of begonias, irises, salvia, passion flowers, amaryllis, lobelia, paeony, hibiscus, azalea, trillium, browallia, and American flowers such as ‘Eschsholtzia californica’ (California poppy), and flowers of which specimens were gathered on the Lewis and Clark expedition: ‘Clarkia pulchella’ and ‘Cypripedium montanum’ (Lady’s Slipper’), &c. The volume is apparently part of a larger work as the watercolours are numbered from 6201 to 6450. Regrettably we are unable to uncover any information regarding the author or the work, including whether or not it was ever published. -$7500 enquire about this item
2	BRENDER A BRANDIS, G. (Illus.) & Richard TELEKY (Editor).   Flora With wood engravings by G. Brender a Brandis (A Collection of quotations & wood engravings).   Carlisle, Ontario: Brandstead Press, 1980.   4to. [pp. 48]. 34 b/w wood-engraved illus. of flowers by Brender a Brandis(incl. 10 full-page). prospectus loosely inserted. printed on an Albion handpress. 100% cotton paper from Papeterie St. Gilles. uncut in linen. linen box (some light soiling to linen).   First Edition, limited to 75 numbered copies, signed by the artist. -$1100 enquire about this item
3	EVERARD, Anne.   Flowers From Nature, With The Botanical Name, Class, And Order; And Instructions for Copying…   London: Joseph Dickinson, 1835.   folio. ff. [4], 13. 13 hand-coloured lithographed plates. with tissue guards & list of subscribers (several entered in ms.). original patterned cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover, rebacked preserving endleaves (some staining to covers, tissue guards foxed & several browned, plates with some light foxing mainly affecting margins, but the last 3 with some moderate brown stains entering the image). First Edition. Sitwell, Blunt & Synge, Great Flower Books, p. 56.   $2250 enquire about this item
4	FERRARI, Gio[vanni] Battista [1583-1654].   De Florum Cultura Libri IV.   Rome: Stephanus Paulinus, 1633.   4to. pp. 5 p.l., 522, [15]index. engraved title & 46 engraved plates, all included in pagination. 2 woodcut initials. contemporary vellum (some light to moderate foxing, some plates & leaves lightly embrowned, small wormholes in spine – spine expertly relined, new endpapers). label on verso of engraved title of the Society of Jesus, Grenoble.   First Edition of this beautifully illustrated work on flowers and horticulture, dedicated by the author to Francesco Barberini, Italian cardinal, founder of the celebrated Barberini Library, and librarian of the Vatican. Among the plates are seven fine allegorical engravings by J.F.Greuter, and Claude Mellan, after drawings by Pietro Berettini da Cortona, Guido Reni, and Andrea Sacchi, several showing garden designs (parterres), gardening equipment and vases, and the majority, depicting various species of flowers and floral arrangements, attributed to Anna M.Vaiani. Ferrari was in charge of the luxurious Barberini gardens on the Quirinale in Rome, and his work contains listings, descriptions, and illustrations of the many species of flowers cultivated there including rare exotics: Egyptian papyrus, tulips, irises, peonies, tamarind, passion flowers, jasmines, large ‘Canadian’ strawberries, tuberose, amaryllis, belladona, lilies, roses, &c. The work is also of interest for the information it provides on Italian seventeenth-century taste and method in flower arrangements, on the origin of the Roman custom, which still exists, of making mosaics of flowers for Church festivals, on the fashion for crystallizing flowers in sugar, on the method of distilling essences, which were used as scents and as flavourings for refreshments, and on garden design of the period. Ferrari discusses Francesco Caetani’s method of arranging flowers to create the effect of a coloured carpet at different seasons of the year (the plan on p. 217 shows Caetani’s famous garden near Cisterna), provides illustrations of specimen designs for parterres, and advises following Caetani’s method of keeping carefully drawn-up lists of all bulbs and other plants growing in them. (See Masson, Italian Gardens, London: 1966, pp. 182-84). Hunt I 222. Nissen BBI 620. Pritzel 2877. -$6600 enquire about this item
5	HASEGAWA, Keika.   [One Hundred Chrysanthemums].   Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei & Yamada Naosaburo, July & December 1893.   2 Volumes. small folio. [ff. 27; ff. 27]. text in Japanese. calligraphy by Yusaku. 46 colour woodblock prints of chrysanthemums by Hasegawa (4 double-page, some with added hand-colour). original wrs. (wrs. with some light soiling & slight chipping at inner edges).   The colour woodblocks present a beautiful display of forty-six different varieties of chrysanthemums, Japan’s national flower. Originating in China, the chrysanthemum was introduced into Japan around the 8th century A.D., and the sixteen-petaled chrysanthemum was adopted for the crest and official seal of the Emperor. The Imperial throne of Japan is referred to as the ‘Chrysanthemum Throne’. Regarded as a symbol of the sun, perfection, and long life, the chrysanthemum is celebrated by the Japanese during the annual Festival of Happiness held in November. We have been unable to determine with certainty whether any further volumes were published. -$6600 enquire about this item
6	LOUDON, [Jane Webb] [1807-1858].   The Ladies’ Flower-Garden Of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants…Third Edition.   London: James Nelson & Co., 1860.   4to. pp. xii, 215. with half-title. 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates. with tissue guards. modern half morocco (light stain to lower gutter margin of first few leaves).   Including depictions of various types of clematis, anemone, hibiscus, camellia, geranium, acacia, fuschsia, marigold, heath, &c. cfNissen 1236. cfSitwell, Blunt & Synge, Great Flower Books, p. 66. -$4000 enquire about this item
7	PUYDT, [Paul] É[mile] [b. 1810].   Les Orchidées Histoire Iconographique Organographie Classification Géographie Collections Commerce Emploi Culture Avec Une Revue Descriptive Des Espèces Cultivées En Europe.   Paris: J.Rothschild, 1880.   8vo. pp. 1 p.l., viii, 340. with half-title. 50 hand-finished chromolithographed plates. with tissue guards. 244 wood-engravings in the text incl. title vignettte (some full-page, one double-page). contemporary quarter roan, all edges gilt (spine rubbed & sunned).   First Edition. Nissen BBI 1572. Sitwell, Blunt & Synge, Great Flower Books, p. 55. -$2000 enquire about this item
8	RENEAULME, Paul De [1560-1624].   Specimen Historiae Plantarum. Plantae typis aeneis expressae.   Paris: Hadrian Beys, 1611.   small 4to. pp. 4 p.l. (the last blank), 152, [2], [1 leaf]blank. 24 full-page etchings of flowers (the etching on p. 96 is a paste-over cancel). woodcut printer’s device on title. 2 woodcut headpieces & 2 woodcut initials. some text in Greek. contemporary limp vellum (covers spotted, lower front cover chipped, paper lightly embrowned, occasional stains & some marginal foxing). fine woodcut bookplate of André Alexandre Normandeau, Vicomte. [BOUND WITH, as issued]: [THOU, Jacques Auguste De] [1553-1617]. Crambe. Viola. Lilium. Phlogis. Terpsinoe. small 4to. pp. 47. woodcut headpieces & initials. (paper lightly embrowned, some marginal foxing). Paris: 1611.   First Edition. This work has been especially highly praised for the quality of its etchings, which Reneaulme executed after his own drawings. “The illustrations are extraordinary for the date: finely detailed naturalistic studies that recall Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Each plate shows the whole plant but with additional studies of variant forms. The book is an excellent demonstration of how apt etching, with its fine sensitive line, is to the demands of botanical illustration.” (Gill Saunders, Picturing Plants An Analytical History Of Botanical Illustration, p. 13) “[Reneaulme’s] etchings are of the highest quality – exquisitely sensitive and extremely personal in treatment. They are assuredly the work, not only of a great lover of nature, but of a great master of the etcher’s craft.” (Blunt) Saunders also notes that the book, although modest in scope, “was of sufficient botanical significance to be later cited by Linnaeus.” Reneaulme, who was a physician as well as a botanist, discusses the medicinal uses of various plants and he also describes some plants which are indigenous to America. Of particular interest is the section on the tobacco plant, which is illustrated on p. 37. De Thou’s five poems on flowers, which are here appended, apparently as issued, were edited by Reneaulme. Arents (Add.) 151. Blunt pp. 92-93. European Americana 611/96. Hunt 192. Nissen BBI 1621. Pritzel 7542. Rosenwald 1373-74. Wellcome 5425. & 6286. Plesch Sale 639. Saunders p. 13. -$3600 enquire about this item
9	SOCIÉTÉ NATIONAL D’HORTICULTURE DE FRANCE. SECTION DES ROSES.   Les Plus Belles Roses Au Début Du XXe Siècle. Ouvrage honoré du prix Joubert De L’Hiberderie.   Paris: Charles Amat, [c1912].   8vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 235, [1]. 1 plate of portraits of members of the Rose Section of the French National Society of Horticulture, with tissue guard printed with the names of the members, 9 other black & white plates, 2 plates in sepia, & 16 fine chromolithographs of different varieties of roses J.L.Goffart after drawings by P.Seguin-Bertault & others, all with tissue guards. numerous text illus. (some full-page incl. 2 plans, & 1 double-page plan). A very nice uncut copy in original colour illus. wrs. (light soiling & foxing to wrs., spine faded, some light offsetting from some plates, a few tissue guards torn).   First Edition. Werger & Burton 1123. -$1250 enquire about this item
10	THOUIN, Gabriel [1747-1829].   Plans Raisonnés De Toutes Les Espèces De Jardins…Troisième Édition.   Paris: Madame Huzard (Née Vallat La Chapelle), 1838   folio. pp.1 p.l., 58. 59 partly hand-coloured lithographed plates by C.Motte after drawings by Thouin. 19th century half calf, rebacked (corners worn, dealer’s small rubberstamp on title).   Third Edition, the first to be issued with hand-coloured plates. The French landscape designer, Gabriel Thouin, was a member of a distingished botanical family, his father and two brothers in turn holding the position of chief gardener at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Thouin’s purpose in the present work is not to discuss the theory of the art of garden composition but to provide working plans of all types of gardens, ranging from gardens suitable for simple labourers to those of more ample means. The fruit of multiple observations and fifty years of practical experience, they include designs for parks, symmetrical gardens, orchards, botanical, and pleasure gardens, many of which were actually executed by Thouin. There are plans for two pharmaceutical gardens, a scheme for the enlargement of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, the public garden in the Champs Élisées, a romantic Chinese garden, a fanciful English garden, the Jardin du Roi, a proposal for an experimental farm in a torrid zone, and numerous country and pleasure gardens. Various garden ornaments and structures are shown in the margins of many of the plans and also on four separate plates. The hand-colouring allows for easy discernment of pathways and areas occupied by water. Berlin Kat. 3483. Brunet V 842-43. -$6000 enquire about this item