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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.
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
A collection of 19th Century coloured engravings of whaling scenes
20 cm x 31.5 cm (unframed) x 2
32 cm x 41 cm (unframed) x 2
A Portsea home that Brownlow Interior Design dressed using some of our art and furniture
Bivalubus (shells) Chonchology Historiae Conchyliorum.
One of the earliest published books dedicated to the subject of chronchology (etching and engraving)
Unframed Collection
1668
Stock CGW134469-12.5
“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)
Capra’ Wild goat
19th Century coloured lithograph animal.
A. Gatt
78 cm x 95 cm (framed)
Choix des plus beaux Vases Antiques Modernes et de la Renaissance.
Hand coloured engravings.
1870
31 cm x 47 cm
Nine 17th and 16th Century Atlas Title Pages in black and white
Measurements vary.
Johnson Copper engravings.
1695
34.5 cm x 20 cm
Green – Fish of the Congo
Hand coloured engravings
1875
36 cm x 56 cm
Bartoli Mythical Scenes. Detailed copper engravings.
1750
22 cm x 53 cm
One of the earliest published books dedicated to the subject of chonchology (etching and engraving)
1668
Churchill’s Voyages
Mid 18th Century copper engravings of Fish.
1750
Stock CGW134470-27.1-12
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’
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.
Stock CGW134470-25.1-14
A collection of unframed cherub copper engravings.
“Divini Amoris Embelata”
Otto Van Veen also so known as Octavius Vaenius (1556-1629)
A Dutch painter and humanist who is well known for his Emblem books.
1615
23 cm x 17.5 cm (unframed)