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Elatinaceae - Elatine alsinastrum + Elatine hydropiper
+ Elatine hexandra
From: La flore et la pomone françaises, ou histoire
et figures en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le
sol français by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire.
Paris, the author, 1832, volume 5, plate 436. Unsigned stipple-engraving in colour by Jean Henri Jaume
Saint-Hilaire finished by hand (uncut and unbound sheet 175 x 265). Text
enclosed.€ 60
Very rare work, which was published in parts from 1828-1833 in
6 volumes by the French botanist and artist Jaume Saint-Hilaire (1772-1845). It
was planned to issue 800 plates but the regular publication was terminated with
plate 544. Among those who worked under van Spaëndonck or Redouté, or who based
their style on the pure water-colour technique which Redouté learned from his
master, may be mentioned Turpin, Poiteau, Bessa, Mme Vincent (b. 1786),
Jaume-Saint-Hilaire, Chazal and Prêtre. Most of these artists were the equals of
Redouté in technical skill, and given his opportunities might have won the same
renown. … Jaume-Saint-Hilaire was no less distinguished as a botanist, and his
introduction into France of Polygonum tinctorum, which yields a valuable
blue dye, was of considerable importance (Blunt).
* Pritzel 4404; Dunthorne 160; Blunt pp. 180, 182; Nissen BBI 988; Great flower books p. 61;
Stafleu & Cowan 3311; Johnston 943.
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Elatinaceae - Elatine hexandra
- Elatine tripetala
From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith.
London, C.E. Sowerby, 1836, 2. edition, volume 3, plate 578.
Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 128 x 218 mm). Slight foxing.
Text enclosed in photocopy.€ 25 One of the most celebrated of all British
floras is Sowerby’s English botany. This periodical publication, issued
in 267 numbers, and published in thirty-six volumes between 1790 and 1814,
contains 2,592 beautifully coloured illustrations of plants most of which are
drawn and engraved by James Sowerby. The plates are accompanied by descriptive
letterpress written by the eminent botanist James Edward Smith, … (Henrey II p.
141). The plates of the second or small edition of 12 volumes are mostly
restrikes of the plates of the first edition, arranged in sytematic order and
including supplementary plates. Most of the plates thus bear a double
enumeration and are often not so fully coloured as those of the first edition.
James Sowerby was the first of several members of this family who became noted
as authors and illustrators of books on natural history.
* Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Henrey 1369; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
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Elatinaceae - Elatine hydropiper
From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith.
London, C.E. Sowerby, 1836, 2. edition, volume 3, plate 578*. Hand-coloured
engraving after J.E. Bowman (sheet 128 x 218 mm). Slight foxing. Text enclosed
in photocopy.€ 35
One of the most celebrated of all British floras is
Sowerby’s English botany. This periodical publication, issued in 267
numbers, and published in thirty-six volumes between 1790 and 1814, contains
2,592 beautifully coloured illustrations of plants most of which are drawn and
engraved by James Sowerby. The plates are accompanied by descriptive letterpress
written by the eminent botanist James Edward Smith, … (Henrey II p. 141). The
plates of the second or small edition of 12 volumes are mostly restrikes of the
plates of the first edition, arranged in sytematic order and including
supplementary plates. Most of the plates thus bear a double enumeration and are
often not so fully coloured as those of the first edition. James Sowerby was the
first of several members of this family who became noted as authors and
illustrators of books on natural history.
* Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Henrey 1369; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
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