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A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’

A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’

Yet to be professionally photgraphed, these are iPhone photos.

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.

Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse *36

Pages of ‘Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse’.

No. 36 – Perdrix, male et female, de la Californie – California Male and Female Partridge Birds.

La Perouse set sail from France in 1785 to continue discoveries of Captain Cook.

He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narratives, maps and views survived and were published in 1797.

73 cm x 54 cm

Pennant – “The Seal” – 1766

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“The Seal”

Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was a Welsh naturalist and travel writer, achieving distinction in both fields.

He attended Oxford University.

His natural history book “The British Zoology” was published in 1766 and was very influential to the study of Zoology.

Drawing by Peter Paillou, engraved by Johan Jakob Haid

36.5 cm x 53 cm (unframed)

Mid 20th Century American Made Ebonised and Polished Brass Easel

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Mid 20th Century American Made Ebonised and Polished Brass Easel

Attractive lines with soft black tones and softened shine to the brass

The easel stands gracefully in the corner with your art placed, complimenting your painting, not competing.

Placed today is a rare foggy Buckmaster with hints of green on the grasses’ edge

H.170cm W.65cm D.56cm

The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn

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The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn

An important and early work on military arms commissioned by Maurice of Orange (unframed).

1607

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’

Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor’

Giovanni Baptista (also Battista) Ferrari

(1584 in Siena – 1 February 1655 in Siena), was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome, a botanist, and an author of illustrated

botanical books and a Latin-Syrian dictionary. He was born to an affluent Sienese family and entered the Jesuit Order in Rome in 1602. His career, besides the authoring of two important works, included being professor of Hebrew and Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome and horticultural advisor to the Pope.