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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.

A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’ (Pre Framing)

A Recent Sale of Eighteen ‘Elizabeth Blackwells’

Here, pictured unframed.

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.

Andrews (unframed collection) – “The Botanist’s Repository for Rare and New Plants” – 1804 – CGW134470-26.1-19

“The Botanist’s Repository for Rare and New Plants” by Henry Andrews. This showcase of exotic species made a contribution of lasting importance to the world of botany and horticulture. As information came in from British exploration from around the world including many unknown species from Australia, each volume was published as they amassed new discoveries from each voyage.

Hand coloured copper engravings.

1797 – 1815

28 cm x 21.5 cm (unframed)

April Arrival of Twenty Elizabeth Blackwell Botanicals 1730

April Arrival of Twenty Elizabeth Blackwell Botanicals

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Additional listing of grouped suggestions in ‘Latest Editions’ and ‘Botanicals’ categories.

Original 1730

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 (unframed collection) – 1714 – CGW381542

Hand coloured botanical engravings by Jacques Barrelier. A French botanist, Barrelier was born in Paris 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 Itali-iam obwervatae, etc. (folio, Paris, 1714).

33 cm x 21 cm (unframed)

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

Besler – ‘Geranium Sangui’

“Geranium Sangui” Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. First edition engraving with expert hand colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

1613

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Besler – “Sifyrinchium” First edition 1613 – CWD190

‘Sifyrinchium’ Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. First edition, Elcstatt’s folio 1613, and third edtion 1713. Engravings with expert hand colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.

C.1613

Besler – Geranium Moscatum Odoratum

Besler – Geranium Moscatum Odoratum

First Edition, Elcstatt’s Folio 1613.

Engravings with expert hand colouring.

Some with typical text showing through and minor spots.

Very good condition.

1613