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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.
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.
“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.
April Arrival of Twenty Elizabeth Blackwell Botanicals
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Additional listing of grouped suggestions in ‘Latest Editions’ and ‘Botanicals’ categories.
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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.
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).
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)
Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. First edition engravings with expert hand colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.
“Aethiopis” – No. 240 Prints by Basil Besler, from Hortus Eystettensis. Engravings with expert hand, colouring. Some with typical text showing through and minor spots. Very good condition.
“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.
