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City of Adelaide – 1886

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‘City of Adelaide – The Capital of South Australia’

The Illustrated London News

29th May 1886

40 cm x 27 cm

Middlesex – John Cary – 1789

A map of Middlesex from The Best Authorities

John Cary 1754 – 1835

Engraved by E. Noble for Cary’s maps in Camden’s Britannia of 1789.

Original hand colour with water stain to top right. Otherwise fine condition. No repairs.

1789

40 cm x 52 cm

Draakestein – ‘Cara-nosi’ – 1686

‘Cara-nosi’

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hendrik Draakestein

The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

Draakestein – ‘Pee-amerdu’ – 1686

‘Pee-amerdu’

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Hendrik Draakestein

The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving.

Amsterdam

1686

Trew – “Bromelia” – 1750 – CGW134463/7a

“Bromelia” Plantae Selectae published by Cristoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg in 1750. Copper engraving with original hand colour. Trew was a physician and botanist and published his works based on the drawings of Ehret, highly acclaimed artist and ‘gardener’ of his time. Linnaeus, the author of the order of plants as we know it today was so impressed by this work he wrote “The miracles of our century in the natural sciences are your work”. To this day these engravings remain some of the most highly acclaimed and sort after botanical interpretations.

1750

34 cm x 51 cm unframed

Weinman – “Eringium” – 1736

“Eringium” A print by Johann Wilhelm Weinman from “Phytanthoza Icongraphia”. The first botanical work to use colour printed mezzotint successfully. This process was so expensive and labour intensive, the process was not repeated for several decades. One of the finest examples of printed botanical works available.

1736

67 cm x 55 cm

Weinman – “Epidendrum” (479) – 1736

“Epidendrum” A print by Johann Wilhelm Weinman from “Phytanthoza Icongraphia”. The first botanical work to use colour printed mezzotint successfully. This process was so expensive and labour intensive, the process was not repeated for several decades. One of the finest examples of printed botanical works available.

1736

67 cm x 55 cm

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

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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