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Celastraceae -
Cassine capensis - Phillyrea capensis, folio celastri
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, the author, 1732. Engraving by the author (uncut, unpressed sheet 300 x 485 mm; impression 155 x 218 mm). Text enclosed.€ 80
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: Nissen BBI 492; Great flower books p. 55; Hunt 637; Henrey 643; Stafleu & Cowan 1471.
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Celastraceae - Cassine maurocenia - Frangula sempervirens, folio rigido subrotundo
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, the author, 1732. Engraving by the author (uncut, unpressed sheet 300 x 485 mm; impression 198 x 265 mm). Text enclosed.€ 90
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; Nissen BBI 492; Great flower books p. 55; Hunt 637; Henrey
643; Stafleu & Cowan 1471.
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Celastraceae - Euyonymus atropurpureus
From: Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters by Johan Carl Krauss.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802 [-1808]. Hand-coloured engraving
(sheet 230 x 284 mm). Text enclosed.€ 110
Rare Dutch work on shrubs and trees, with splendid, highly finished plates, showing details as
fruits, flowers, branches, seeds, etc. The work was orginally published in
21 parts, each containing 6 plates, but publication was discontinued
because of insufficient sales. The author (1759-1826) was a German-born
professor of medicine at Leiden.
* Pritzel 4872; Nissen BBI 1102; Great flower books p. 63; Landwehr 98; Stafleu & Cowan 3927.
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Celastraceae - Euonymus atropurpureus
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 272.
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). 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; Nissen BBI 2239; Blunt p. 180 ff.;
Stafleu & Cowan 1293 & 15.384.
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Celastraceae - Euonymus europaeus
From: Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters by Johan Carl Krauss.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802 [-1808]. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 230
x 284 mm). Text enclosed.€ 110
Rare Dutch work on shrubs
and trees, with splendid, highly finished plates, showing details as
fruits, flowers, branches, seeds, etc. The work was orginally published in
21 parts, each containing 6 plates, but publication was discontinued
because of insufficient sales. The author (1759-1826) was a German-born
professor of medicine at Leiden.
* Pritzel 4872; Nissen BBI 1102; Great flower books p.
63; Landwehr 98; Stafleu & Cowan 3927.
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Celastraceae - Euonymus latifolius
From: Flora.
Afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz.,
voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen by Heinrich Witte.
Groningen, J.B.
Wolters, (1868), plate 7. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after Abraham Jacobus
Wendel (sheet 224 x 302 mm). Slight stain in corner. Text enclosed.€ 120
Heinrich Witte, a Dutch gardener, was assistant curator and head-curator at the
Leiden botanical garden from 1855-1898. The decorative colour-plates depict the
most attractive Dutch garden plants, shrubs and trees of its time, finely
lithographed by G. Severeyns of Brussels after paintings by Abraham Jacobus
Wendel.
* Pritzel 10.366; Nissen BBI 2174; Stafleu & Cowan 18.090; Landwehr 213.
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Celastraceae - Euonymus verrucosus
From: Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters by Johan Carl Krauss.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802 [-1808]. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 230
x 284 mm). Text enclosed.€ 110
Rare Dutch work on shrubs
and trees, with splendid, highly finished plates, showing details as
fruits, flowers, branches, seeds, etc. The work was orginally published in
21 parts, each containing 6 plates, but publication was discontinued
because of insufficient sales. The author (1759-1826) was a German-born
professor of medicine at Leiden.
* Pritzel 4872; Nissen BBI 1102; Great flower books p. 63; Landwehr 98; Stafleu & Cowan 3927.
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Celastraceae - Pachystima canbyi
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 44. Chromolithograph by Louis Prang after Alois Lunzer (sheet 173 x 253 mm).
Slight 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.
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Celastraceae - Salacia kalahiensis
From: Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche
bezittingen. Botanie by Pieter Willem Korthals.
Leiden, S. en J. Luchtmans & C.G. van der Hoek, 1841, plate 38. Hand-coloured lithograph by A.S. Mulder
after J. Gaijkema and P.W. Korthals (uncut sheet 307 x 450 mm with marginal
repaired tear). Text missing.€ 135
Three volumes were published of the scientific results of the
explorations of the Natural History Commission for the Dutch East Indies,
under the general editorship of Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Korthals was the
official botanist and author of the botanical part with 70 plates,
published from 1839-1842 [-1844]. Landwehr indicates that only 250 copies
were printed.
* Nissen BBI 1092; Great flower books p. 63;
Stafleu & Cowan 3880; Landwehr 197 (and pp. 39-41, 49).
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