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Blackwell (unframed) – 1730 – CGW381543

Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie) was among the first women to achieve fame as a botanical illustrator.

She was born in Aberdeen in about 1700, but moved to London after she married.

She undertook an ambitious project to raise money to pay her husband’s debts and release him from debtors’ prison.

Her project was a book called ‘A Curious Herbal’.

Barrelier – 1714 – CGW381542-3

Hand coloured botanical engravings by Jacques Barrelier.

A French botanist, Barrelier was born in Paris in 1606 and died 17th September 1673. He renounced the medical profession to enter the Dominican order. In 1646 he was selected as assistant of the general of the order on one of his tours of inspection, travelled through France, Spain and Italy, collected numerous specimens of plants and also founded and superintended a splendid garden in a convent of his order at Rome, where he remained for many years. He afterward returned to Paris and entered the convent in the rue St Honore. He left unfinished a general history of plants, to be entitled Hortus Mundi. The copperplates of his intended work and such of his papers as could be found, were collected and made the basis of a book by Antonine de Jus-sieu, Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et Ital-iiam obwervatae, etc. (folio, Paris, 1714)

60 cm x 95 cm

Late 17th Century English oak high coffer – UK1142

Stock UK1142

Late 17th Century English oak coffer of unusually high proportions.

The hinged plank top above a carved top rail then two celtic style leaf carved panels, flanked by deep groove moulded boards, terminating in rectangular section legs. Good overall colour and patination (original hinges recently repaired).

C. 1690

H. 2’ 6” – 75 cm

W. 2’ 9” – 85 cm

D. 1’ 8” – 52 cm

Rutlandshire – John Speed – 1646

Rutlandshire with Oakham and Stanford her bordering neighbour Newely described.

Performed By Johan Speede, Solde by M.John Sudbury and George Humbell, in Popes head alley against the Exchange. Cum Privelegio.

John Speed 1552 – 1629

This map was first published in Speed’s Theatre of Empire Great Britain in 1611 – 1612.

English text on verso.

Good condition. Age toned. Early hand colour.

This edition 1646.

38.3 cm x 50.5 cm

Trew – ‘Narcissus’ – 1750

‘Narcissus’

Plantae Selectae published by Cristoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg in 1750.

Copper engraving with original hand colour.

1750

Trew – ‘Cereus’ – 1750

Cereus Plantae Selectae published by Cristoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg in 1750. Copper engraving with original hand colour.

1750

Wolters – 1880 – CGW134464-7

Wolters. A rare print published 1880. Three framed 19th Century fruits of a central pear flanked by apples. Sitting well inside a worn white contemporary frame.

65 cm x 110 cm