EditorialFrench rose, Rosa gallica, and flesh-colored pink rose, Rosa truncata carnea major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a Ger...
EditorialScarlet Provence rose, rose de Provins, Rosa gallica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by Mlle. Prudhomme from "Hommage rendu a la Rose," Paris, circa 1815. A gift book with the history of the rose and a dozen botanical miniatures.
EditorialFrench rose, Rosa gallica, with flower, bud, leaf and stalk with thorns. Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the bota...
EditorialRosa mundi, Rosa gallica variety (Rosa gallica versicolor). Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Langlois after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from "Les Roses," Firmin Didot, Paris, 1817.
EditorialFrench rose, Rosa gallica. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's "Herbier General de l'Amateur," Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 an...
EditorialHemp-leaved rose, Rosa cannabina, and lustre d'eglise, Rosa gallica. Handcoloured illustration by Pancrace Bessa stipple engraved by Teillard from Charles Malo's "Histoire des Roses," Paris, 1818. A gift book for ladies with 12 miniature botanicals by ...
EditorialScarlet French rose, Rosa gallica officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate botanical drawn, engraved and coloured by Henry Charles Andrews for his own "Roses, a monograph of the genus Rosa," London, 1806. Andrews was an English botanist, artist and engrav...
EditorialVariarum Gentium Ornatus (Costumes of Different Nations) Couple dressed in French fashion around 1610 Gallica in Vestitv Varietas (title on object) Costumes from different countries (series title) Variarum Gentium Ornatus (series title), Landscape with...
EditorialFrench tamarisk, Tamarix gallica. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 50...
EditorialPink and white Gallic rose or French rose, Rosa gallica versicolor, Rosier de France a fleurs panachees. Stipple copperplate engraving by Pierre Gabriel Langlois handcoloured a la poupee after a botanical illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from the ...
EditorialCrimson French rose or rose of Provins, Rosa gallica officinalis, Rosier de Provins ordinaire. Stipple copperplate engraving by Pierre Gabriel Langlois handcoloured a la poupee after a botanical illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from the first foli...
EditorialScarlet damask rose, Rosa damascena coccinea, Rosier de Portland. Hybrid of Rosa gallica and Rosa moschata. Stipple copperplate engraving by Rosine-Antoinette Bessin handcoloured a la poupee after a botanical illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from ...
EditorialStick insects or phasmids, Carausius morosus and Clonopsis gallica, and wandering crab spider, Philodromus aureolus. Phasmies, Philodrome. Handcoloured steel engraving by August Dumenil after an illustration by Edouard Guerin from Felix-Edouard Guerin-...
EditorialMyrica sive Tamarix Gallica et Vulgaris, Tamarisk, Fol. 42r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialVariarum Gentium Ornatus (Costumes of Different Nations) Couple dressed in French fashion around 1610 Gallica in Vestitv Varietas (title on object) Costumes from different countries (series title) Variarum Gentium Ornatus (series title), Landscape with...
EditorialApothecary's rose or crimson damask rose, Rosa gallica var. officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.