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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
17 October - 12 November 2019 • London
1 Banks and Solander | Illustrations of the botany of Captain Cook's voyage. 1900-1905, 3 volumes
2 Blaauw | A monograph of the cranes, 1897
3 Bry and Merian | [Florilegium renovatum et auctum], 1641[–1647]
4 Böckler | Theatrum machinarum novum, 1686
5 Curtis | The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1790–1788–1805, 20 volumes
6 Curtis | The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1815-1848, 42 volumes
7 Donovan | The Natural History of British Birds. London, 1799-1819, 10 volumes
8 Dodoens | A New Herball, 1595
9 Dreves and Hayne | Choix de plantes d'Europe, 1802, 5 volumes
10 Edwards | A Collection of Flowers drawn from Nature, [1783-1798]
11 Fuchs | L'Histoire Des Plantes mis en commentaires, 1550
12 Gerard | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1597
13 Greene | Parrots in Captivity, 1884-1887, [but 1892], 3 volumes
14 [Herbal] | Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum, (1509)
15 Hill | The Vegetable System, 1759-1764, 6 volumes bound in 7
16 Holmskjold | Beata ruris fungis Danicis, [1790]-1799
17 Hoola van Nooten | Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies... de l'Ile de Java, [c.1866]
18 Horticultural Society of London | Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, 1820-1848, 10 volumes
19 Hughes | Black-fronted Piping-guan, 1998, oil on canvas
20 Hughes | Lord Derby's mountain pheasant, 1996, oil on canvas
21 Jacquin | Plantarum rariorum Horti Caesarei Schönbrunnensis descriptiones et icones. 1797–1804, 4 volumes
22 Jaume Saint-Hilaire | Plantes de la France, [1805]-1809, 4 volumes
23 Keulemans | A Natural History of Cage Birds, 1871
24 Knoop | Pomologia, Fructologia, Dendrologia, 1758-1763, 3 volumes
25 Knorr | Thesaurus rei herbariae hortensique universalis, 1788-1789, 2 volumes
26 Levaillant | Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, 1801-[1805], 2 volumes
27 Lewin | The Birds of Great-Britain. 1789-1794, 7 volumes
28 Linden, Pescatorea | Iconographie des Orchidées, 1854-1860
29 (Macer Floridus) | Herbarum varias qui vis cognoscere vires, [c.1510-1520]
30 Martyn | The English Entomologist, 1792
31 Mattioli | Commentarii in VI libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia, 1583, 2 volumes
32 Mattioli, Liberale, and Meyerpeck | original woodblock of ‘viola marina’, c.1561
33 Merian and Rabel | Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe, 1771, 3 volumes
34 Michaux | Histoire chênes de l’Amérique, 1801
35 Miller | Figures of Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners' Dictionary, 1809
36 Moore | The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, 1850
37 Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps | Herbier général de l'amateur, [1810]-1827, 8 volumes
38 Redouté | Album de Redouté, [1824]
39 Redouté | Les Liliacées, 1805
40 Sitwell and Madol | Album de Redouté, 1954
41 Roques | Phytographie médicale, 1821[-1825], 2 volumes
42 Schaeffer | Elementa ornithologica iconibus, 1779
43 Seebohm | A Monograph of the Turdidae, [1898]-1902, 2 volumes
44 Smith and Sowerby | Icones pictae plantarum rariorum, 1790
45 Schlegel | Traite de fauconnerie, 1844-1853
46 Sweert | Florilegium amplissimum et selectissimum, 1641–1631
47 Sweet | Robert. The Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory. 1827–1832
48 Séguy | Papillons, [c.1925]