EditorialNative orchid Orchis mascula A nail branch (title on object), The flower is cut off, flowers: hyacinth, Nicolaas Anslijn Nicolaasz, Netherlands, 1809 - 1838, paper, h 330 mm ? w 242 mm.
EditorialChamaepeuce, Mercury male wild, Illustration of a plant called Chamaepeuce and a plant called Mercurialis mascula sylvestris from the 16th century, Fig. 50, p. 111v, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In ho...
EditorialFilix mascula, Illustration of a worm fern from the 16th century, Fig. 153, p. 169v, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi Simesusii annotationes in Pedacii Dioscoridi...
EditorialEarly-purple orchid, Orchis mascula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Lati...
EditorialEarly-purple orchid, Orchis mascula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Lati...
EditorialFull page botanical painting of Paeonia mascula or 'Peonia Rossa' (Wild Peony) with open seed pods, a forest and village in the background. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Matt...
EditorialEarly-purple orchid, Orchis mascula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Lati...
EditorialEarly-purple orchid, Orchis mascula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Lati...
EditorialWild peony, Paeonia mascula (Paeony, Paeonia corallina). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialEarly-purple orchid, Orchis mascula. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendal's German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871.
EditorialEarly purple or male orchid, Orchis mascula, with flower, stalk, leaf and bulb. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris...