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	ANFÃ„LT, TOMAS & NILSSON, Ã–RJAN (COMPILERS); RUBECK, OLOV (ORIGINAL AUTHOR) Little book of flowers: a bouquet from Rudbeck's botanical project Uppsala University Library, 2000, Scripta minora bibliothecae regiae universitatis Upsaliensis vol.9.Paper covers.91 85092 57 6.New /No Jacket.Contains facsimiles of thirteen sheets from Olof Rudbeck the Elder's Book of Flowers (Hortus botanicus), one of the treasures of Uppsala University library.The accompanying text, which reproduces the latin phrase-names which accompanied the original drawings, highlights features of the drawings as well as of the plants they depict.In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 \| JP¥ 1482] Book number: 2056 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ARCHER, MILDRED Natural history drawings in the India Office library H.M.S.O. London, 1962, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Slight weakness to foot of front hinge, otherwise little used.ix, 116 pp. In English. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 5605 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	BLUNT, WILFRID The art of botanical illustration Collins New Naturalist series no.14, 1950, New Naturalist.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Written with the assistance of W.T.Stearn, whose second edition of this work was published in 1994 by the Antique Collectors' Club, this is the most authoritative account of botanical illustration though it focuses almost exclusively on western art.Copiously illustrated with 47 colour plates, 32 monochrome plates and 75 text figures.Wrapper with plastic coated covering. In English. GBP 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.25 US$ 166.6 \| JP¥ 14820] Book number: 3467 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	BROOKSHAW, GEORGE Pomona Britannica: the complete plates Taschen, 2002, First edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.3 8228 1463 6.Good /Good.Jacket and corner of front cover abraded at front edge and bottom corner, otherwise near fine.A lavishly reproduced volume.200 pp. In English, German and French. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3110 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	COATS, ALICE M. The treasury of flowers Phaidon / R.H.S. 1975, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 7148 1674 4.V.g./ No Jacket .V.g.; a selection of botanical art through the ages. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 1237 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	DAVIDSEN, METTE-MARIE; L¿TH, JONNA Flora Danica: the Flora Danica story Nyk Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, 2004, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.87 17 03797 2.New /New.Describes the Royal Copenhagen dinner service decorated with images from Oeder & Rossler's monumental ""Flora Danica"".Beautifully photographed.95 pp. In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 6179 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	DESMOND, RAY Great natural history books and their creators The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2003, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7123 4774 7.Fine/Fine.Ambitiously conceived and grandly executed natural history books, with their sumptuous large-format illustrations, are now some of the most expensive antiquarian collectors' items.This book attempts to put them in context; though the last chapter (on 'clerics as authors') does sit rather uncomfortably alongide treatments of Temple of Flora, Birds of America and Flora Graeca.Printed on high quality heavyweight paper, this book's 176 pages are crammed with interesting insights.In the words of one of the chapter headings, 'a curious tale'.In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 2942 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	DESMOND, RAY Wonders of creation: natural history drawings in the British Library The British Library, 1986.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7123 0071 6.Fine /v.g. Fine/v.g.(top of spine with small tear).The first half of this erudite book is an introduction to natural history illustration, and is partly chronological and partly thematic.Following a select bibliography, 49 full-page colour illustrations are provided of some of the British Library's 'treasures', with an index of manuscripts and a general index.Almost half are from the India Office Library, where the author then worked.248 pp. In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 579 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ELLIOTT, BRENT Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society: 350 years of botanical illustration Herbert Press, 1994, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 871569 68 0.As new/As new.Nearly new.Illustrations of 70 botanical drawings by mostly well-known artists in the collections of the Royal Horticultural Society, with an informative introduction and commentaries by the Society's librarian.160 pp.In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 580 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	GROOM, LINDA First Fleet artist: George Raper's birds and plants of Australia National Library of Australia, 2009, 1st edition.Pictorial hard covers.978 0 642 27681 0.New /No Jacket.""This enchanting telling of Raper's brief life presents a new dimension to our understanding of the First Fleet experience and the life of a junior officer in the British Navy.The book also tells the story of how Raper's watercolours were only discovered in 2004 during a routine estate valuation in England, how they were attributed to Raper, and how being in storage for years had left their colours so vibrant."" - publisher.viii, 146 pp. In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 6051 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HAYDEN, RUTH Mrs Delany: her life and her flowers British Museum Press, 2005, Reprint of paperback issue of 2nd edition (with minor amendments).Paper covers.0 7141 2627 6.New /No Jacket.New.An informative biography of a remarkable embroiderer and flower artist who, in her 70s, embarked on a project to produce flower collages using cut paper.A friend of the Duchess of Portland and an irrepressible letter-writer, her acute observations of the social scene and of her friends (who included Handel and Swift) painted an accurate picture of polite society in the 18th century.192 pp. copiously illustrated with full-page colour photographs and monochrome text figures.In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 4182 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HAYDEN, RUTH Mrs Delany: her life and her flowers British Museum Press, 2005, Reprint of paperback issue of 2nd edition (with minor amendments).Paper covers.0 7141 2627 6.As new /No Jacket.An informative biography of a remarkable embroiderer and flower artist who, in her 70s, embarked on a project to produce flower collages using cut paper.A friend of the Duchess of Portland and an irrepressible letter-writer, her acute observations of the social scene and of her friends (who included Handel and Swift) painted an accurate picture of polite society in the 18th century.192 pp. copiously illustrated with full-page colour photographs and monochrome text figures.In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 5667 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HERBERT, ROBIN, RAPHAEL, SANDRA, WIJNANDS, ONNO, ELLIOTT, BRENT & BURBIDGE, BRINSLEY Proceedings of the first symposium on botanical art Royal Horticultural Society, 1993.Comb-bound card covers.V.g./No Jacket.Abstracts of talks delivered at a symposium in Greycourt Street, Westminster on 15 May 1993.Contains articles on the origins and scope of botanical art, portraying new plants in the Renaissance, botanical art and the demands of taxonomy, and botanical art today.Printed by xerography with a few full-page illustrations.38 pp. In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 2812 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HULTON, PAUL, SMITH, LAWRENCE Flowers in art from east and west British Museum Publications, 1979, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7141 0098 6.Fine/Fine.Inscribed by the author on ffep by Paul (Hulton) ""to Alison and David, May 1985"".Also includes loosely inserted offprint of article from a conference on ""The natural sciences and the arts"" published in Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, n.s.22, by Paul Hutton, with the title ""Realism and tradition in ethnological and natural history imagery of the 16th century"" (fine condition).The book is well illustrated with both colour and monochrome photographs, and covers all forms of art except oil paintings.The authors examine the three main motives for painting flowers: scientific curiosity, delight in decoration, and a desire to express artistic ideals.The chapter on 'Art and Botany' is particularly informative.Paul Hutton was Deputy Keeper of the dept.of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum; Lawrence Smith was Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the same institution.x, 150 pp. In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 2250 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ISPHORDING, EDUARD Kraeuter und Blumen: Botanische Buecher bis 1850 im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg, 2008, 1st edition.Pictorial hard covers.978 3 936688 31 3.New /No Jacket.A major new bibliographic treatment of botanical books that were published in the golden age of handsome illustrated works.Nuremberg has an exceptionally fine collection, and examples of many are illustrated in colour.The introductory chapter presents a history of botanical illustrated books, with due emphasis given to Trew who hailed from that area.The text of the catalogue is arranged chronogically, starting with a hand-written illustrated Latin-German dictionary of plants prepared around 1355-57 in Schwaben (Swabia, roughly equivalent to present-day Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg) and concluding with a fairly undistinguished bunch of chromolithographically illustrated books.The frontispiece shows a full-length portrait of Leonhart Fuchs.One of the oddest books is 'Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt', by Mukhtar ibn Al-Hasan (d.1063) bound with a copy of Pliny's Natural History printed in 1543.The author, an Iraqi physician, was also known as Ibn-Butlan.328 pp. In German. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 4367 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ANON.; ILLUSTRATED BY FRITZ KREDEL Glass flowers from the Ware collection in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University Harcourt, Brace & Co. New York, 1940, 1st edition; insect pollination series.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Jacket protected by plastic cover.Lower corners of boards bumped.A well illustrated account of the Harvard University's Blaschka models collection.58 pp. 16 full-page colour plates.In English. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 2602 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	MEIJER, FRED G. Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2005, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.90 400 8802 0.New/New.Catalogue of the important bequest to the Ashmolean Museum in 1939 by Theodore and Daisy Linda Ward of a collection of 94 Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings which include works by most of the best-known artists of the period.More than just a revision of van Gelder's catalogue of 1950, this work encompasses many newly researched aspects of the genre.In English. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 \| JP¥ 5928] Book number: 2921 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	NOLTIE, HENRY J. The Dapuri drawings: Alexander Gibson of the Bombay Botanic Garden Antique Collectors' Club, 2002, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85149 422 7.V.g./Fine.Sl.curl to top edge of jacket, one corner sl.bumped, otherwise nearly new.Though the bulk of the book includes colour reproductions of botanical drawings of both indigenous and introduced Indian plants by an unknown Portuguese-Indian artist, the introductory material tells a meticulously researched story of discovery of the almost secret life of a Scottish surgeon turned colonial forest administrator and (in effect) director of one of the British East India Company's least known and shortest-lived botanic gardens at Dapuri near Mumbai (Bombay).Henry Noltie's languid yet engaging style belies an acuteness of observation; combining identifications of the illustrations with biographical research into Gibson's family, this book is perhaps the most authoritative monograph of botanical art history to have appeared so far this century.In English. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 2267 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	NOLTIE, HENRY J. Raffles' Ark Redrawn: natural history drawings from the collection of Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles The British Library & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2009, 1st edition.Paper covers.978 0 7123 5084 6.New /No Jacket.Catalogues the 123 natural history drawings recently acquired by the British Library, with a scholarly introduction which clears up some of the mistakes and misunderstandings surrounding the history of this remarkable collection.180 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5635 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	PONSONBY, LAURA Marianne North at Kew Gardens Webb & Bower, 1991, 2nd impression, first published 1990.0 86350 309 8.V.g./ V.g.Boards sl.bumped at bottom corner.""A new biography of this remarkable Victorian artist and traveller, with over 130 of her extraordinary oil paintings of tropical flora"" - blurb.Even more remarkable is that she was allowed to erect an art gallery at her own expense in Kew Gardens and fill it with her own work.Her paintings look better in the book than in the flesh, in my opinion.128 pp. In English. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 2598 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	RIX, MARTYN The art of botanical illustration Bracken Books, 1989, New edition, first published in 1981 by Lutterworth Press.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85170 284 9.Fine /v.g. Fine/v.g.(small tears by top edge).An introduction to botanical art.224 pp. copiously illustrated, mostly with images from the library of the Linnean Society of London.Sm.folio, the format showing the larger illustrations off well.In English. GBP 36.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.5 US$ 59.98 \| JP¥ 5335] Book number: 577 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ROSS-CRAIG, STELLA Drawings of British plants, part X only G.Bell & Sons, 1957, 1st edition .Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Ex-library copy with bookplate and classmark on cover.Wrappers sl.soiled.33 plates.Includes the Saxifragaceae and Crassulaceae.In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5683 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ROSS-CRAIG, STELLA Drawings of British plants, part XI only G.Bell & Sons, 1958, 1st edition .Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Ex-library copy with bookplate and classmark on cover.Wrappers sl.soiled.39 plates.Includes the Droseraceae, Onagraceae and a number of other small families.In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5684 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SMITH, MARK; ILLUSTRATED BY JUAN LUIS G. VELA A book of lilies Gallery Books, 1988, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 8317 5557 1.Fine /Fine.Fine/fine.A collection of lavish full-page lily paintings with short captions. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 1284 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.

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	ANFÃ„LT, TOMAS & NILSSON, Ã–RJAN (COMPILERS); RUBECK, OLOV (ORIGINAL AUTHOR) Little book of flowers: a bouquet from Rudbeck's botanical project Uppsala University Library, 2000, Scripta minora bibliothecae regiae universitatis Upsaliensis vol.9.Paper covers.91 85092 57 6.New /No Jacket.Contains facsimiles of thirteen sheets from Olof Rudbeck the Elder's Book of Flowers (Hortus botanicus), one of the treasures of Uppsala University library.The accompanying text, which reproduces the latin phrase-names which accompanied the original drawings, highlights features of the drawings as well as of the plants they depict.In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 \| JP¥ 1482] Book number: 2056 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ARCHER, MILDRED Natural history drawings in the India Office library H.M.S.O. London, 1962, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Slight weakness to foot of front hinge, otherwise little used.ix, 116 pp. In English. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 5605 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	BLUNT, WILFRID The art of botanical illustration Collins New Naturalist series no.14, 1950, New Naturalist.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Written with the assistance of W.T.Stearn, whose second edition of this work was published in 1994 by the Antique Collectors' Club, this is the most authoritative account of botanical illustration though it focuses almost exclusively on western art.Copiously illustrated with 47 colour plates, 32 monochrome plates and 75 text figures.Wrapper with plastic coated covering. In English. GBP 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.25 US$ 166.6 \| JP¥ 14820] Book number: 3467 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	BROOKSHAW, GEORGE Pomona Britannica: the complete plates Taschen, 2002, First edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.3 8228 1463 6.Good /Good.Jacket and corner of front cover abraded at front edge and bottom corner, otherwise near fine.A lavishly reproduced volume.200 pp. In English, German and French. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3110 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	COATS, ALICE M. The treasury of flowers Phaidon / R.H.S. 1975, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 7148 1674 4.V.g./ No Jacket .V.g.; a selection of botanical art through the ages. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 1237 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	DAVIDSEN, METTE-MARIE; L¿TH, JONNA Flora Danica: the Flora Danica story Nyk Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, 2004, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.87 17 03797 2.New /New.Describes the Royal Copenhagen dinner service decorated with images from Oeder & Rossler's monumental ""Flora Danica"".Beautifully photographed.95 pp. In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 6179 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	DESMOND, RAY Great natural history books and their creators The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2003, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7123 4774 7.Fine/Fine.Ambitiously conceived and grandly executed natural history books, with their sumptuous large-format illustrations, are now some of the most expensive antiquarian collectors' items.This book attempts to put them in context; though the last chapter (on 'clerics as authors') does sit rather uncomfortably alongide treatments of Temple of Flora, Birds of America and Flora Graeca.Printed on high quality heavyweight paper, this book's 176 pages are crammed with interesting insights.In the words of one of the chapter headings, 'a curious tale'.In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 2942 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	DESMOND, RAY Wonders of creation: natural history drawings in the British Library The British Library, 1986.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7123 0071 6.Fine /v.g. Fine/v.g.(top of spine with small tear).The first half of this erudite book is an introduction to natural history illustration, and is partly chronological and partly thematic.Following a select bibliography, 49 full-page colour illustrations are provided of some of the British Library's 'treasures', with an index of manuscripts and a general index.Almost half are from the India Office Library, where the author then worked.248 pp. In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 579 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ELLIOTT, BRENT Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society: 350 years of botanical illustration Herbert Press, 1994, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 871569 68 0.As new/As new.Nearly new.Illustrations of 70 botanical drawings by mostly well-known artists in the collections of the Royal Horticultural Society, with an informative introduction and commentaries by the Society's librarian.160 pp.In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 580 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	GROOM, LINDA First Fleet artist: George Raper's birds and plants of Australia National Library of Australia, 2009, 1st edition.Pictorial hard covers.978 0 642 27681 0.New /No Jacket.""This enchanting telling of Raper's brief life presents a new dimension to our understanding of the First Fleet experience and the life of a junior officer in the British Navy.The book also tells the story of how Raper's watercolours were only discovered in 2004 during a routine estate valuation in England, how they were attributed to Raper, and how being in storage for years had left their colours so vibrant."" - publisher.viii, 146 pp. In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 6051 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HAYDEN, RUTH Mrs Delany: her life and her flowers British Museum Press, 2005, Reprint of paperback issue of 2nd edition (with minor amendments).Paper covers.0 7141 2627 6.New /No Jacket.New.An informative biography of a remarkable embroiderer and flower artist who, in her 70s, embarked on a project to produce flower collages using cut paper.A friend of the Duchess of Portland and an irrepressible letter-writer, her acute observations of the social scene and of her friends (who included Handel and Swift) painted an accurate picture of polite society in the 18th century.192 pp. copiously illustrated with full-page colour photographs and monochrome text figures.In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 4182 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HAYDEN, RUTH Mrs Delany: her life and her flowers British Museum Press, 2005, Reprint of paperback issue of 2nd edition (with minor amendments).Paper covers.0 7141 2627 6.As new /No Jacket.An informative biography of a remarkable embroiderer and flower artist who, in her 70s, embarked on a project to produce flower collages using cut paper.A friend of the Duchess of Portland and an irrepressible letter-writer, her acute observations of the social scene and of her friends (who included Handel and Swift) painted an accurate picture of polite society in the 18th century.192 pp. copiously illustrated with full-page colour photographs and monochrome text figures.In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 5667 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HERBERT, ROBIN, RAPHAEL, SANDRA, WIJNANDS, ONNO, ELLIOTT, BRENT & BURBIDGE, BRINSLEY Proceedings of the first symposium on botanical art Royal Horticultural Society, 1993.Comb-bound card covers.V.g./No Jacket.Abstracts of talks delivered at a symposium in Greycourt Street, Westminster on 15 May 1993.Contains articles on the origins and scope of botanical art, portraying new plants in the Renaissance, botanical art and the demands of taxonomy, and botanical art today.Printed by xerography with a few full-page illustrations.38 pp. In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 2812 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HULTON, PAUL, SMITH, LAWRENCE Flowers in art from east and west British Museum Publications, 1979, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7141 0098 6.Fine/Fine.Inscribed by the author on ffep by Paul (Hulton) ""to Alison and David, May 1985"".Also includes loosely inserted offprint of article from a conference on ""The natural sciences and the arts"" published in Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, n.s.22, by Paul Hutton, with the title ""Realism and tradition in ethnological and natural history imagery of the 16th century"" (fine condition).The book is well illustrated with both colour and monochrome photographs, and covers all forms of art except oil paintings.The authors examine the three main motives for painting flowers: scientific curiosity, delight in decoration, and a desire to express artistic ideals.The chapter on 'Art and Botany' is particularly informative.Paul Hutton was Deputy Keeper of the dept.of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum; Lawrence Smith was Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the same institution.x, 150 pp. In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 2250 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ISPHORDING, EDUARD Kraeuter und Blumen: Botanische Buecher bis 1850 im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg, 2008, 1st edition.Pictorial hard covers.978 3 936688 31 3.New /No Jacket.A major new bibliographic treatment of botanical books that were published in the golden age of handsome illustrated works.Nuremberg has an exceptionally fine collection, and examples of many are illustrated in colour.The introductory chapter presents a history of botanical illustrated books, with due emphasis given to Trew who hailed from that area.The text of the catalogue is arranged chronogically, starting with a hand-written illustrated Latin-German dictionary of plants prepared around 1355-57 in Schwaben (Swabia, roughly equivalent to present-day Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg) and concluding with a fairly undistinguished bunch of chromolithographically illustrated books.The frontispiece shows a full-length portrait of Leonhart Fuchs.One of the oddest books is 'Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt', by Mukhtar ibn Al-Hasan (d.1063) bound with a copy of Pliny's Natural History printed in 1543.The author, an Iraqi physician, was also known as Ibn-Butlan.328 pp. In German. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 4367 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ANON.; ILLUSTRATED BY FRITZ KREDEL Glass flowers from the Ware collection in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University Harcourt, Brace & Co. New York, 1940, 1st edition; insect pollination series.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Jacket protected by plastic cover.Lower corners of boards bumped.A well illustrated account of the Harvard University's Blaschka models collection.58 pp. 16 full-page colour plates.In English. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 2602 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	MEIJER, FRED G. Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2005, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.90 400 8802 0.New/New.Catalogue of the important bequest to the Ashmolean Museum in 1939 by Theodore and Daisy Linda Ward of a collection of 94 Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings which include works by most of the best-known artists of the period.More than just a revision of van Gelder's catalogue of 1950, this work encompasses many newly researched aspects of the genre.In English. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 \| JP¥ 5928] Book number: 2921 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	NOLTIE, HENRY J. The Dapuri drawings: Alexander Gibson of the Bombay Botanic Garden Antique Collectors' Club, 2002, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85149 422 7.V.g./Fine.Sl.curl to top edge of jacket, one corner sl.bumped, otherwise nearly new.Though the bulk of the book includes colour reproductions of botanical drawings of both indigenous and introduced Indian plants by an unknown Portuguese-Indian artist, the introductory material tells a meticulously researched story of discovery of the almost secret life of a Scottish surgeon turned colonial forest administrator and (in effect) director of one of the British East India Company's least known and shortest-lived botanic gardens at Dapuri near Mumbai (Bombay).Henry Noltie's languid yet engaging style belies an acuteness of observation; combining identifications of the illustrations with biographical research into Gibson's family, this book is perhaps the most authoritative monograph of botanical art history to have appeared so far this century.In English. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 \| JP¥ 3705] Book number: 2267 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	NOLTIE, HENRY J. Raffles' Ark Redrawn: natural history drawings from the collection of Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles The British Library & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2009, 1st edition.Paper covers.978 0 7123 5084 6.New /No Jacket.Catalogues the 123 natural history drawings recently acquired by the British Library, with a scholarly introduction which clears up some of the mistakes and misunderstandings surrounding the history of this remarkable collection.180 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5635 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	PONSONBY, LAURA Marianne North at Kew Gardens Webb & Bower, 1991, 2nd impression, first published 1990.0 86350 309 8.V.g./ V.g.Boards sl.bumped at bottom corner.""A new biography of this remarkable Victorian artist and traveller, with over 130 of her extraordinary oil paintings of tropical flora"" - blurb.Even more remarkable is that she was allowed to erect an art gallery at her own expense in Kew Gardens and fill it with her own work.Her paintings look better in the book than in the flesh, in my opinion.128 pp. In English. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 2598 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	RIX, MARTYN The art of botanical illustration Bracken Books, 1989, New edition, first published in 1981 by Lutterworth Press.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85170 284 9.Fine /v.g. Fine/v.g.(small tears by top edge).An introduction to botanical art.224 pp. copiously illustrated, mostly with images from the library of the Linnean Society of London.Sm.folio, the format showing the larger illustrations off well.In English. GBP 36.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.5 US$ 59.98 \| JP¥ 5335] Book number: 577 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ROSS-CRAIG, STELLA Drawings of British plants, part X only G.Bell & Sons, 1957, 1st edition .Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Ex-library copy with bookplate and classmark on cover.Wrappers sl.soiled.33 plates.Includes the Saxifragaceae and Crassulaceae.In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5683 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ROSS-CRAIG, STELLA Drawings of British plants, part XI only G.Bell & Sons, 1958, 1st edition .Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Ex-library copy with bookplate and classmark on cover.Wrappers sl.soiled.39 plates.Includes the Droseraceae, Onagraceae and a number of other small families.In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5684 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SMITH, MARK; ILLUSTRATED BY JUAN LUIS G. VELA A book of lilies Gallery Books, 1988, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 8317 5557 1.Fine /Fine.Fine/fine.A collection of lavish full-page lily paintings with short captions. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 1284 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.