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		Anacardiaceae
		*Pistacia vera* From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin.

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Anacardiaceae - Anacardium occidentale - Cassuvium pomiferum From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 261. Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). ~ € 80 "Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical genius of all the French botanical painters of his day … In particular, his drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ..." (Blunt & Stearn). With Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most important botanical publications of the early years of the nineteenth century. In the finely illustrated botanical part of the Dictionnaire … the plates by several engravers were issued uncoloured or coloured. * Pritzel 10.722; Blunt & Stearn p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 + 15.384.
Anacardiaceae - Mangifera indica From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 262. Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). ~ € 95 "Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical genius of all the French botanical painters of his day … In particular, his drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ..." (Blunt & Stearn). With Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most important botanical publications of the early years of the nineteenth century. In the finely illustrated botanical part of the Dictionnaire … the plates by several engravers were issued uncoloured or coloured. * Pritzel 10.722; Blunt & Stearn p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 + 15.384.
Anacardiaceae - Pistacia lentiscus From: Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in der Pharmacopoea Borusica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse by Otto Carl Berg & Carl Friedrich Schmidt. Leipzig, Arthur Felix, [1858-1863], 1. edition, volume 4, plate 27f. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 215 x 278 mm). Text enclosed. ~ € 95 Berg was professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. Schmidt both drew and lithographed the plates. He was a prolific artist who illustrated many of the German botanical works of the 19th century. Jackson describes this work, a survey of plants used in the Prussian pharmacopoeia, as "A thoroughly good book, probably the very best of its class; both in text and illustrations". * Pritzel 646; Jackson p. 203*; Nissen BBI 139; Stafleu & Cowan 10.873.
Anacardiaceae - Pistacia lentiscus From: Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte. Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, neerlandica, british pharmacopoeia, zum Codex medicamentarius, sowie zur Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America by Hermann Adolph Koehler. Gera-Utermhaus, Fr.Eugen Köhler, 1887, 1. edition, volume 2, plate 130. Chromolithographed plate (sheet 219 x 299 mm). Foxed. Text enclosed. € 30 Köhler’s magnum opus was published in parts from 1883-1898. The first volume was finished in 1887, eight years after his death. The set of three volumes with 283 colour-plates was a noteworthy achievement and included European plants of medicinal interest. "From the botanical standpoint the finest and most useful series of illustrations of medicinal plants" (Great flower books). The beautiful colour-plates after illustrations by Walther Müller and C.F. Schmidt, which were skillfully rendered in lithography by E. Günther. * Nissen BBI 1085; Great flower books p. 62; Stafleu & Cowan 3806.
Anacardiaceae - Pistacia lentiscus From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 152. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Text enclosed. ~ € 65 "William Woodville is noted for his early advocacy of the theory of vaccination and for these excellent volumes on Medical Botany" (Hunt). "This work contains systematic and general descriptions of all the plants in the catalogues of the materia medica published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and is illustrated with excellent plates drawn and engraved by James Sowerby" (Henrey). * Pritzel 10.398; Dunthorne 334; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Nissen BBI 2183; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30; Stafleu & Cowan 18.272; Johnston 603.
Anacardiaceae - Pistacia vera From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 260. Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). ~ € 80 "Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical genius of all the French botanical painters of his day … In particular, his drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ..." (Blunt). With Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most important botanical publications of the early years of the nineteenth century. In the finely illustrated botanical part of the Dictionnaire … the plates by several engravers were issued uncoloured or coloured. * Pritzel 10.722; Blunt & Stearn p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 + 15.384.
Anacardiaceae - Rhus coriaria From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1794 [-1795], 1. edition, supplement, plate 261. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Text enclosed (partly in photocopy). ~ € 65 "William Woodville is noted for his early advocacy of the theory of vaccination and for these excellent volumes on Medical Botany" (Hunt). "This work contains systematic and general descriptions of all the plants in the catalogues of the materia medica published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and is illustrated with excellent plates drawn and engraved by James Sowerby" (Henrey). * Pritzel 10.398; Dunthorne 334; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Nissen BBI 2183; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30; Stafleu & Cowan 18.272; Johnston 603.
Anacardiaceae - Rhus glabra x laciniata From: Nederlandsche flora en pomona beschreven en uitgegeven door het bestuur der Pomologische Vereeniging te Boskoop, by K.J.W. Ottolander, A. Koster & C. de Vos (editors). Groningen, J.B. Wolters, [1875-] 1876-1879, plate 52. Chromolithograph by A.J. Wendel (sheet 248 x 320 mm). Text enclosed. ~ € 90 The beautiful colour-plates were lithographed in Belgium by G. Severyns. They depict flowers and fruit then growing in The Netherlands. Publication started in 1875 on the initiative of the Pomological Society at Boskoop. * Nissen BBI 1474.
Anacardiaceae - Rhus glabra - Rhus Virginicum panicula sparsa ramis patulis glabris From: Hortus Elthamensis seu plantarum rariorum quas in horto suo Elthami in Cantio coluit vir ornatissimus et praestantissimus Jacobus Sherard ... by Johann Jacob Dillenius. London, author, 1732. Engraving by the author (uncut, unpressed sheet 300 x 485 mm; impression 225 x 360 mm). Text enclosed. ~ € 125 "James Sherard (1666-1738), botanist and apothecary, had gardens famous for rare plants at Eltham, south of Greenwich. Dillenius made the gardens memorable through excellent illustrations, drawn and engraved by himself. They were sufficiently accurate to be of considerable service to Linnaeus" (Hunt). * Pritzel 2285; Dunthorne 94; Great flower books p. 55; Hunt 637; Nissen BBI 492; Henrey 643; Stafleu & Cowan 1471.
Anacardiaceae - Rhus vernicifera - Toxicodendron foliis alatis, fructu rhomboide From: Hortus Elthamensis seu plantarum rariorum quas in horto suo Elthami in Cantio coluit vir ornatissimus et praestantissimus Jacobus Sherard ... by Johann Jacob Dillenius. London, author, 1732. Engraving by the author (uncut, unpressed sheet 300 x 485 mm; impression 135 x 244 mm). Text enclosed. ~ € 85 "James Sherard (1666-1738), botanist and apothecary, had gardens famous for rare plants at Eltham, south of Greenwich. Dillenius made the gardens memorable through excellent illustrations, drawn and engraved by himself. They were sufficiently accurate to be of considerable service to Linnaeus" (Hunt). * Pritzel 2285; Dunthorne 94; Great flower books p. 55; Hunt 637; Nissen BBI 492; Henrey 643; Stafleu & Cowan 1471.
Anacardiaceae - Schinus latifolius - Duvaua latifolia From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others. London, J. Ridgeway, 1833, volume 19, plate 1580. Hand-coloured engraving by S. Watts after Miss Drake (sheet 148 x 223 mm; under passe-partout). Text missing and marginal stain. ~ € 30 "Of Miss Drake "of Turnham Green" (fl. 1818-47) almost nothing seems to be known beyond her work, which also includes illustrations for the Botanical Register and some plates for Lindley’s noble Sertum Orchidaceum …" (Blunt). The botanical register was published from 1815-1847. * Pritzel 2621; Dunthorne 108; Blunt pp. 214-216 (Drake); Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2379; Stafleu & Cowan 1625; Johnston 784.
Anacardiaceae - Toxicodendron quercifolium - Rhus toxicodendron From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. London, 1816, volume 43, plate 1806. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 143 x 237 mm). Text enclosed. ~ € 40 "The first and most important botanical magazine made up of 'figures' of plants and short descriptions. Provides a storehouse of exotics, paralleling the indigenous plants …" (Hunt). "A delightful work pictorially, never excelled as a periodical, most carefully coloured and a source of lasting interest and information" (Dunthorne). Started by William Curtis in 1787 publication still continues. * Pritzel 2007; Dunthorne 88; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Nissen BBI 2350; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Anacardiaceae - Rhus toxicodendron - Toxicodendron rectum, foliis minoribus glabris From: Hortus Elthamensis seu plantarum rariorum quas in horto suo Elthami in Cantio coluit vir ornatissimus et praestantissimus Jacobus Sherard ... by Johann Jacob Dillenius. London, author, 1732. Engraving by the author (uncut, unpressed sheet 300 x 485 mm; impression 202 x 252 mm). Text enclosed. ~ € 100 "James Sherard (1666-1738), botanist and apothecary, had gardens famous for rare plants at Eltham, south of Greenwich. Dillenius made the gardens memorable through excellent illustrations, drawn and engraved by himself. They were sufficiently accurate to be of considerable service to Linnaeus" (Hunt). * Pritzel 2285; Dunthorne 94; Great flower books p. 55; Hunt 637; Nissen BBI 492; Henrey 643; Stafleu & Cowan 1471.
Anacardiaceae - Schinus dependens - Amyris polygama From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 266. Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). ~ € 65 "Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical genius of all the French botanical painters of his day … In particular, his drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ..." (Blunt & Stearn). With Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most important botanical publications of the early years of the nineteenth century. In the finely illustrated botanical part of the Dictionnaire … the plates by several engravers were issued uncoloured or coloured. * Pritzel 10.722; Blunt & Stearn p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 + 15.384.
Anacardiaceae - Spondias purpurea - Spondias mombin From: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Planches … Botanique classée d’après la méthode naturelle de M. Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by Pierre Jean François Turpin. Paris & Strasbourg, F.G. Levrault, 1816-1829, volume 5, plate 263. Hand-coloured engraving after Turpin (sheet 120 x 213 mm). ~ € 75 "Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest botanical genius of all the French botanical painters of his day … In particular, his drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. ..." (Blunt & Stearn). With Pierre-Antoine Poiteau he collaborated in some of the most important botanical publications of the early years of the nineteenth century. In the finely illustrated botanical part of the Dictionnaire … the plates by several engravers were issued uncoloured or coloured. * Pritzel 10.722; Blunt & Stearn p. 180 ff.; Nissen BBI 2239; Stafleu & Cowan 1293 + 15.384.
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