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
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Delamarche – 1790 – CGW134472/1
Delamarche
Hand coloured engraving
1790
41 cm x 28 cm
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
Duhamel Du Monceau – Fruit – 1760 – CGW134485-2-23
Duhamel DuMonceau Fruit
A collection of 23 mid 18th Century French hand coloured copper engravings, including, peach, apple, pear, apricot and cherry.
Slight foxing to some.
C.1760
Unframed
33 cm x 24 cm
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
A rare 19th Century hand coloured woodblock engraving of a birds eye view of Melbourne and Suburbs – CGW134492-2
Having fantastic original colours, slightly foxing and housed in a birds eye maple frame.
A supplement to ‘The Illustrated Australian News’ July 1873.
Engraved by C.E. Winston and E. Lee.
65 cm x 100 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’.
Weinman Collection (unframed) – Phytanthoza Icongraphia – 1736 – CGW134467-1
Johann Wilhelm Weinman, ‘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
39 cm x 25 cm
Weinman – A room recently decorated with Weinman (August 2010) – CGW381530-a
‘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
54 cm x 42 cm
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
Stock UK1142
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
Rutlandshire – John Speed – 1646
Rutlandshire with Oakham and Stanford her bordering neighbour Newely described.
Performed By Johan Speede, Solde by M.John Sudbury and George Humbell, in Popes head alley against the Exchange. Cum Privelegio.
John Speed 1552 – 1629
This map was first published in Speed’s Theatre of Empire Great Britain in 1611 – 1612.
English text on verso.
Good condition. Age toned. Early hand colour.
This edition 1646.
38.3 cm x 50.5 cm
Dimitri Shostakovich by Martin Tighe – 2012
‘Dimitri Shostakovich’
20th Century Russian Composer
Martin Tighe
Acrylic on board
2012
30 cm x 25 cm
Trew – ‘Narcissus’ – 1750
‘Narcissus’
Plantae Selectae published by Cristoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg in 1750.
Copper engraving with original hand colour.
1750
Trew – ‘Cereus’ – 1750
Cereus Plantae Selectae published by Cristoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg in 1750. Copper engraving with original hand colour.
1750