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Tiliaceae - Brownlowia elata
From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others.
London, James Ridgeway, 1832, volume 17, plate 1472. Hand-coloured engraving by S. Watts after Miss Drake
(sheet 250 x 292 mm with folds). Marginal handwriting of names. Text missing.€ 60
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.
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Tiliaceae -
Elaeocarpus grandiflorus - Monocera grandiflora
From: Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe by Charles Lemaire and others.
Gand [Gent], Louis van Houtte, 1853, volume 8, plate 817. Chromolithograph
finished by hand (sheet 158 x 238 mm). Text enclosed.€ 50
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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Tiliaceae - Grewia occidentalis
From: The botanical magazine; or flower-garden displayed by
William Curtis.
London, 1798, volume 12, plate 422. 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.
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Tiliaceae - Tilia cordata - Tilia ulmifolia
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 18b. Hand-coloured lithograph (sheet 215 x 280 mm).
Text enclosed.€ 85
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.
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Tiliaceae - Tilia cordata - Tilia ulmifolia
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 15. Chromolithographed plate (sheet 220 x 298 mm). Text
enclosed.€ 60
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.
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