Lamiaceae

		Lamiaceae M-R · The herbs are useful for flavour, fragrance, or medicinal properties. Some are grown for decorative foliage.
		*Prostanthera lasianthos* From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others.

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Lamiaceae - Majorana syriaca - Maiorana syriaca siue Marum Syriacum From: Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des plantes by Denis Dodart & Nicolas Robert. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1676. Engraving by Abraham Bosse after Denis Robert (sheet 345 x 490 mm; impression 300 x 405 mm; under passe-partout). Text missing. € 500 First edition of one of the great books in the history of botanical illustration, where all the technical resources of engraving were utilized in presenting the plants as accurately as possible (Hunt). This volume, a large folio, was planned as the prelude to a vast work whose publication was delayed for many years. Its thirty-nine plates were engraved from drawings by Robert, made for the most part from life; … In this more exacting task he was now assisted, or perhaps directed, by the engraver Abraham Bosse … (Blunt). * Pritzel 2341; Blunt pp. 110-111; Nissen BBI 502; Great flower books p. 55; Hunt 343.
Lamiaceae - Marrubium vulgare 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 3, plate 24b. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 215 x 280 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.
Lamiaceae - Marrubium vulgare 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 128. Chromolithographed plate (sheet 219 x 299 mm). Text enclosed. € 50 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.
Lamiaceae - Melissa From: Herbarium blackwellianum emendarum et auctum by Elizabeth Blackwell. Nürnberg, 1757-1773, plate 27. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 260 x 400 mm; impression 195 x 297 mm). Text missing. € 95 Elizabeth Blackwell undertook the publication of her herbal at the suggestion of Sir Hans Sloane in order to ransom her husband out of debtors’ prison. She took lodgings near the Chelsea Physic Garden where she drew and engraved the plants growing there. Although she succeeded in freeing her husband by the commercial success of her book, he was later beheaded for his part in a political assassination plot. The herbal was re-issued, in an enlarged form with re-engraved and artistically better plates, by Dr. Trew of Nuremberg from 1757-1773. * Pritzel 812; Dunthorne 43; Blunt pp. 136-137; Nissen BBI 169; Great flower books p. 50; Stafleu & Cowan 546.
Lamiaceae - Melissa officinalis 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 27c. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 215 x 278 mm). Text enclosed. € 90 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.
Lamiaceae - Melissa officinalis 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 1, plate 65. Chromolithographed plate (sheet 220 x 298 mm). Slightly foxed. Text enclosed. € 65 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.
Lamiaceae - Melissa officinalis From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 147. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Partly lightly stained. Text enclosed (partly in photocopy). € 30 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.
Lamiaceae - Melittis melissophyllum From: The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches by William Robinson (editor). London, 1893, July - December, volume 44, plate 942. Chromolithograph by Guillaume Severeyns after painting by C. Jones (sheet 220 x 280 mm). Illustrated text enclosed. € 80 All gardeners owe an infinite debt of gratitude to William Robinson - founder of The Garden (1871-1927) and Flora and Sylva (1903-05), and author of The English Flower Garden (1883, etc.) and other works - who helped to break the tyranny of formal bedding and, like Ruskin, drew attention to the beauties of the wild garden. … (Blunt & Stearn). The beautiful colour-plates of The Garden, a popular horticultural publication, were lithographed and printed by the Belgian firm G. Severeyns and its successor J.L. Goffart, notable for their craftmanship. * Blunt & Stearn pp. 239-240; Nissen BBI 2264; B-P-H 391-10.
Lamiaceae - Mentha agrestis From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1810, volume 30, plate 2120. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 136 x 237 mm; impression 87 x 168 mm). Text enclosed. Slight offset. € 50 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). James Sowerby, who was the first of several members of this family who became noted as authors and illustrators of books on natural history, lived from 1757-1822. He studied painting at the Royal Academy, and soon turned to botanical illustration. His first work was for William Curtis’s Flora Londinensis and his Botanical magazine. * Pritzel 8789; Dunthorne 291; Blunt pp. 190-192; Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Hunt 717; Henrey 1366; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
Lamiaceae - Mentha aquatica 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 3, plate 23d. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 215 x 280 mm). Text enclosed. € 100 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.
Lamiaceae - Mentha aquatica x capitata From: Flora batava by Jan Kops, Herman Christiaan van Hall and others. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1844, volume 8, plate 609. Hand-coloured engraving (uncut, unpressed sheet 248 x 305 mm). Text enclosed. € 85 The Flora batava, a monumental work forming a beautifully illustrated survey of all indigenous plants in the Netherlands. It was started in 1800 by Jan Kops, a Dutch agronomist and professor of botany at Utrecht. The first 10 volumes constitute all that was prepared and issued under his supervision (later assisted by Herman Christiaan van Hall, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel and Johannes Everhardus van der Trappen). When finished at last in 1934, Willem Jan Lütjeharms was the editor for volume 28, in which he concludes that this work has ended now and that publication took longer than any comparable foreign flora: De Flora Batava heeft langer geleefd dan een der met dit werk vergelijkbare buitenlandsche plaatwerken. The long publication period reflects the change in the technique of its illustrations. Initially copper-engravings were used, followed by lithographs, all coloured by hand, but from volume 25 colour-printing was gradually introduced. Also several artists were involved, but the plates are not signed, nor much information is given about them. The first publisher, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, was renowned for its scientific colour-plate books. Each plate is accompanied by a text in Dutch and French. The work was issued in 8vo and 4to. This plate is in the most desirable large 4to format. * Pritzel 4822; Jackson p. 324; Nissen BBI 2247; Great flower books p. 63; Landwehr 60; Stafleu & Cowan 3874; Johnston 663; A hundred highlights from the koninklijke Bibliotheek 70.
Lamiaceae - Mentha arvensis From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1810, volume 30, plate 2119. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 145 x 237 mm; impression 97 x 162 mm). Text enclosed. Slight offset. € 50 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). James Sowerby, who was the first of several members of this family who became noted as authors and illustrators of books on natural history, lived from 1757-1822. He studied painting at the Royal Academy, and soon turned to botanical illustration. His first work was for William Curtis’s Flora londinensis and his Botanical magazine. * Pritzel 8789; Dunthorne 291; Blunt pp. 190-192; Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Hunt 717; Henrey 1366; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
Lamiaceae - Mentha piperita 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 3, plate 23c. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 215 x 280 mm). Text enclosed. € 100 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.
Lamiaceae - Mentha pulegium From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 171. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 227 mm). 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; Nissen BBI 2183; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30.
Lamiaceae - Mentha sativa - Maentha gentilis From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1810, volume 30, plate 2118. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 145 x 237 mm; impression 87 x 182 mm). Text enclosed. Slight offset. € 50 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). James Sowerby, who was the first of several members of this family who became noted as authors and illustrators of books on natural history, lived from 1757-1822. He studied painting at the Royal Academy, and soon turned to botanical illustration. His first work was for William Curtis’s Flora londinensis and his Botanical magazine. * Pritzel 8789; Dunthorne 291; Blunt pp. 190-192; Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Hunt 717; Henrey 1366; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
Lamiaceae - Mentha viridis From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 170. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 227 mm). 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; Nissen BBI 2183; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30.
Lamiaceae - Mentha viridis + Mentha piperita 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 1, plate 66 + 67. Two chromolithographed plates (sheet 220 x 298 mm). Slightly foxed. Text enclosed. € 115 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.
Lamiaceae - Monarda didyma 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 57. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns after Abraham Jacobus Wendel (sheet 224 x 302 mm). Text enclosed. € 150 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.
Lamiaceae - Monarda clinopodioides - Monarda aristata From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. Conducted by Samual Curtis. The descriptions by William Jackson Hooker. London, Samual Curtis, 1836, volume 63, plate 3526. Hand-coloured engraving by Joseph Swan (sheet 160 x 253 mm). Text enclosed. € 55 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; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Lamiaceae - Monarda fistulosa - Monarda menthaefolia From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. London, 1830, volume 57, plate 2958. Hand-coloured engraving by W.J. Hooker (sheet 140 x 227 mm). Text enclosed. € 45 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; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Lamiaceae - Nepeta cataria From: Flora batava by Jan Kops and others. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1822, volume 4, plate 249. Hand-coloured engraving (uncut, unpressed sheet 243 x 300 mm). Text enclosed. € 75 The Flora batava, a monumental work forming a beautifully illustrated survey of all indigenous plants in the Netherlands. It was started in 1800 by Jan Kops, a Dutch agronomist and professor of botany at Utrecht. The first 10 volumes constitute all that was prepared and issued under his supervision. When finished at last in 1934, Willem Jan Lütjeharms was the editor for volume 28, in which he concludes that this work has ended now and that publication took longer than any comparable foreign flora: De Flora Batava heeft langer geleefd dan een der met dit werk vergelijkbare buitenlandsche plaatwerken. The long publication period reflects the change in the technique of its illustrations. Initially copper-engravings were used, followed by lithographs, all coloured by hand, but from volume 25 colour-printing was gradually introduced. Also several artists were involved, but the plates are not signed, nor much information is given about them. The first publisher, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, was renowned for its scientific colour-plate books. Each plate is accompanied by a text in Dutch and French. The work was issued in 8vo and 4to. This plate is in the most desirable large 4to format. * Pritzel 4822; Jackson p. 324; Nissen BBI 2247; Great flower books p. 63; Landwehr 60; Stafleu & Cowan 3874; Johnston 663; A hundred highlights from the koninklijke Bibliotheek 70.
Lamiaceae - Nepeta glechoma - Glechoma hederacea From: Flora batava by Jan Kops, Herman Christiaan van Hall and others. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp, 1828, volume 5, plate 375. Hand-coloured engraving (unpressed sheet 243 x 295 mm). Text enclosed. € 90 The Flora batava, a monumental work forming a beautifully illustrated survey of all indigenous plants in the Netherlands. It was started in 1800 by Jan Kops, a Dutch agronomist and professor of botany at Utrecht. The first 10 volumes constitute all that was prepared and issued under his supervision (later assisted by Herman Christiaan van Hall, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel and Johannes Everhardus van der Trappen). When finished at last in 1934, Willem Jan Lütjeharms was the editor for volume 28, in which he concludes that this work has ended now and that publication took longer than any comparable foreign flora: De Flora Batava heeft langer geleefd dan een der met dit werk vergelijkbare buitenlandsche plaatwerken. The long publication period reflects the change in the technique of its illustrations. Initially copper-engravings were used, followed by lithographs, all coloured by hand, but from volume 25 colour-printing was gradually introduced. Also several artists were involved, but the plates are not signed, nor much information is given about them. The first publisher, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, was renowned for its scientific colour-plate books. Each plate is accompanied by a text in Dutch and French. The work was issued in 8vo and 4to. This plate is in the most desirable large 4to format. * Pritzel 4822; Jackson p. 324; Nissen BBI 2247; Great flower books p. 63; Landwehr 60; Stafleu & Cowan 3874; Johnston 663; A hundred highlights from the koninklijke Bibliotheek 70.
Lamiaceae - Nepeta glechoma - Glechoma hederacea From: Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse, wie auch solcher, welche mit ihnen verwechselt werden können by Friedrich Gottlob Hayne. Berlin, the author, 1809, volume 2, plate 8. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 225 x 280 mm). Text enclosed. € 125 The beautifully hand-coloured and highly decorative plates of medical plants, each showing one species, are engraved by Peter Haas. The complete werk with 624 colour-plates was published from 1805-1846 and is extremely rare. The author, a German botanist and pharmacist at Berlin, lived from 1763-1832. * Pritzel 3864; Nissen BBI 815; Great flower books p. 58; Stafleu & Cowan 2508.
Lamiaceae - Ocimum basilicum + Ocimum tenuiflorum [?] - Ocimum tenuifolium From: Histoire universelle du règne végétal, ou nouveau dictionnaire physique et économique de toutes les plantes qui croissent sur la surface du globe; … by Pierre Joseph Buchoz. Paris, Brunet, 1775-1780. Engraving with plant names (uncut sheet 260 x 420 mm). Text missing. € 90 This print is among 1200 plates from this most extensive work, published from 1775-1780 by the extremely prolific author Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807, also spelled as Buch’oz or Buc’hoz). He was a French physician and naturalist who served as physician to the king of Poland. He left his post to pursue his interest in natural history and published vast illustrated folios on botany, books on mineralogy, agriculture, ornithology and medicine. The attractive plates are mostly based on original drawings in the Collection des Vélins of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Artists’ names on the the copper-engravings seldom occur and as engraver Fessard is sometimes mentioned. * Pritzel 1325; Dunthorne 59; Blunt & Stearn pp. 158-160; Nissen BBI 287; Stafleu & Cowan 876; Johnston 524.
Lamiaceae - Ocimum micranthum - Ocymum montanum From: Curtis’s botanical magazine; or flower garden displayed. London, 1830, volume 57, plate 2996. Hand-coloured engraving by R.K. Greville (sheet 140 x 227 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; Nissen BBI 2350; Great flower books pp. 83-84; Hunt 689; Henrey 472; Stafleu & Cowan 1290.
Lamiaceae - Origanum dictamnus From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1794 [-1795], 1. edition, supplement, plate 242. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Slightly browed. Text enclosed (partly in photocopy). € 60 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; Nissen BBI 2183; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Henrey 1522 & I p. 30.
Lamiaceae - Penstemon azureus - Penstemon jeffreyanus. From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe by Louis van Houtte and others. Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1858 (1859), volume 13, plate 1290. Chromolithograph finished by hand (sheet 165 x 253 mm). Two margins slightly waterstained. Text enclosed. € 45 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.
Lamiaceae - Prostanthera lasianthos From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others. London, James Ridgeway, 1816, volume 2, plate 143. Hand-coloured engraving by Smith after Sydenham Edwards (sheet 307 x 247 mm with fold). Text enclosed. € 110 Sydenham Teast Edwards was a botanical artist who worked for 27 years for Curtis’s Botanical magazine. In 1815 he started the rival The botanical register; consisting of coloured figures of exotic plants, cultivated in British gardens; with their history and mode of treatment. The text for the first 14 years is by John Bellenden Ker and the volumes 15-33 by John Lindley as Edward’s botanical register. The principal illustrators were Edwards himself, M. Hart and Miss Drake and the engravers Sansom, Smith, S. Watts, White and G. Barclay. * Pritzel 2621; Dunthorne 108; Nissen BBI 2379; Great flower books p. 84; Stafleu & Cowan 1625; Johnston 784.
Lamiaceae - Prunella vulgaris From: Flora rustica: exhibiting accurate figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry by Thomas Martyn. London, F.P. Nodder, 1794, volume 4, plate 137. Hand-coloured engraving by Frederick Polydore Nodder (sheet 130 x 218 mm). Text enclosed. € 35 Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl. 1777-1800), Botanic Painter to Queen Charlotte, made illustrations for Erasmus Darwin’s Botanic Garden, and a number of delicate little plates for T. Martyn’s Flora Rustica … (Blunt). The plates were not only drawn and engraved by Nodder, but also coloured under his direction. Thomas Martyn was professor of botany at Cambridge. * Pritzel 5929; Dunthorne 196; Blunt p. 151; Nissen BBI 1291; Great flower books p. 67; Hunt 721; Henrey 1023; Stafleu & Cowan 5570.
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