Capparaceae - Steriphoma cleomoides Capparaceae
Steriphoma cleomoides - Steriphoma paradoxum
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
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Capparaceae - Capparis spinosa
 From: Medical botany by William Woodville.
London, James Phillips, 1794 [-1795], 1. edition, supplement, plate 228. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Slight browning. Text enclosed (partly in photocopy).
€ 70
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 1522 & I p. 30.
Capparaceae - Cleome spinosa - Cleome pungens
From: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural, and popular aspects by Thomas Meehan.
Boston, L. Prang, 1879, volume 1, plate 38. Chromolithograph by Louis Prang after Alois Lunzer (sheet 173 x 253 mm). Foxing. Text enclosed.
€ 25
Thomas Meehan (1826-1901), a British-born nurseryman, was Kew gardener in 1846-1848; from 1853 at Germantown (Philadelphia). He was the editor of the Gardener’s monthly and the founder of Meehan’s monthly, a magazine of horticulture, botany, etc. The nice chromolithographed plates after paintings by Alois Lunzer and lithographed by Louis Prang, who published many books on natural history.
* Nissen BBI 1331; Stafleu & Cowan 5783.
Capparaceae - Cleome viridiflora - Cleome gigantea
From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed.
London, 1832, volume 59, plate 3137. Hand-coloured engraving by William Jackson Hooker (sheet 230 x 297 mm with folds). Text enclosed.
€ 75
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.
Capparaceae - Steriphoma cleomoides - Steriphoma paradoxum
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1850, volume 6, plate 564-565. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 309 x 240 mm with neatly repaired fold). Text enclosed.
€ 80
The founder, publisher and part-editor of this lavish Belgian periodical was Louis van Houtte, the propietor of the largest nursery of its time on the continent. It appeared monthly for almost 40 years and was published by his own printing office in the middle of the gardens, the Horto van Houtteano. All the plants shown were for sale in his nursery and include many exotics. The work is notable for the craftmanship of the Belgian lithographers Severeyns, Stroobant and De Pannemaker, who had mastered the art of colour-printing from stone.
* Great flower books p. 84; Nissen BBI 2254; Stafleu & Cowan 15.921.
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