Search Results: Authors starting with P from Florilegius

Profusely illustrated review of the French Navy in the 19th century with engraved title page, 8 finely handcolored plates of men in uniform and 1 of flags of the Nautical Powers, 22 full-page steel engravings of ships and maritime scenes, and over 100 engravings and vignettes in the text by Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio. 240 pp, 31 plates, text in French.The costume plates are handcolored lithographs by the famous Pauquet Brothers after illustrations by Andre Castan, A. Gusman, P. Goyer, Louis, etc., and show ranks from Admiral to Matelot. The steel plates by de Tournemine, E. Isabey, Morel-Fatio, etc., show famous French ships of the line, nautical scenes, historical events.The vignettes by Morel-Fatio show many different types of vessels as well as life on board sailing ships, in the rigging, on deck and below decks. Condition: Covers a little frayed, binding tight, ex-library stamp Marinens Bibliotek on frontis and barcode on front endpaper, some slight browning and foxing throughout. Antoine Leon… Read More

Odd volume of one of the most beautiful miniature entomological books every published, Georg Panzer's Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia oder Deutschlands Insecten, circa 1800.Volume VIII, with 157 handcoloured copperplates, Pl.1130-1286, Scarabaeus cylindricus to Rhinomacer lepturides.Handwritten title page and index to parts 190 to 206b, 157 plates with printed explanatory text pages.
Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (1755-1829) was a German entomologist, physician in Hersbruck and lecturer at the Collegium Medicum in Nuremberg. "There does not exist a more accurate or useful work. The figures are drawn and etched by the famous Jacob Sturm, the best entomological artist on the continent" (Swainson).
Bookplate of Donald MacGillavry, a famous Dutch collector.
Small loss to top of spine and part of leather title on spine, binding solid, text and plates mostly clean and bright, stain to plate 1165, and 8cm loss to top of text to plate 1276, Curculio gracilipes.

Incomplete set of five volumes with 932 plates (out of 2640) of one of the most beautiful miniature entomological books ever published, Georg Panzer's Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia.
Vol. II: 236 plates, unnumbered, no text, Callidium alni to Cimes tristis
Vol III: 190 plates, unnumbered, no text, Cistela antennata to Cynips aurata
Vol. IV: 181 plates, unnumbered, no text, Dermestes afer to Ips rufipes
Vol. VI: 210 plates, unnumbered, no text, Necydalis adusta to Rhagio trinarius
Vol. VIII: 115 plates, unnumbered, no text, Tabanus bovinus to Ypsilophus cylindricus
Bookplate of C.A. Briggs, Lynmouth, Victorian entomologist
Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (1755-1829) was a German entomologist, physician in Hersbruck and lecturer at the Collegium Medicum in Nuremberg. "There does not exist a more accurate or useful work. The figures are drawn and etched by the famous Jacob Sturm, the best entomological artist on the continent." (Swainson)Green leather spines faded and worn, half spine missing on volume… Read More

Good copy of the rather scarce revised edition of Thomas Pennant's eccentric history of London with 54 pages of revisions and corrections.Complete with 15 copperplates by Pennant's protege Moses Griffiths, engraved by James Basire and Peter Mazell. The plates include a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I's champion Sir Henry Lee and his dog (frontispiece), vignette of crown, sceptre and sword (title page), Robert Earl of Leicester in suit of armour (98), the Palace of Whitehall (100), Old Horse Guards (103), Savoy Hospital (136), remains of Clerkenwell Church (191), St John's Gate (193), King Charles !'s porter and dwarf (218), sculpture in Pannier Alley (219), fold-out view of a crenellated wall and gate (Aldergate?) (221), Queen Elizabeth I's spy Sir Richard Clough (389), fold--out View of Part of London as it appeared in the Great Fire of 1666 (479), portrait of King Charles I (second frontis), and fold-out Map of London and Westminster in the reign of Queen Elizabeth AD 1563 (479).Pagination: frontis,… Read More

Good copy of the 1931 re-issue of this rare suite of engravings
Complete with all 115 plates newly engraved by E. Doisteau, printed by R. Tanburro and hand-coloured in pochoir (stencil) by J. Saude
After the original hand-coloured plates by Georges-Jacques Gatine, Nicolas Schencker and others after designs by artists Horace Vernet, Louis-Marie Lanté, Dominique Bosio, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Dutailly, etc.
Example No. 490 of a print run of 750 numbered copies and ten copies hors commerce numbered I to X.
The plates were sold individually from 1811, then the first 104 plates were collected and published in a suite with explanatory text in 1817. A second edition was published in 1827 with an additional 11 plates (for a total of 115 plates) with 24 pages of Observations by Pierre de la Mésangère.
The magnificent caricatures depict not only the belles and dandies of the Empire and Restoration eras, but also Parisian public entertainment, street performers, masquerade balls, the latest dance crazes (the… Read More

Very good set of this important French work with over 400 elegant botanicals by Edouard Maubert.
A comprehensive overview of plants and trees used for food, medicine, industry and ornament in the 19th century
Complete in 17 volumes with nine volumes of text and 8 volumes of plates.
Fine engravings by Oudet, Debray, Corbie, Lebrun, Lagesse, Pierre, and L. Noel after botanical illustrations by Edouard Maubert. The plates either showing the entire plant or tree along with details of fruits and seeds, or an elegant arrangement of fruits, flowers, leaves, roots.
The 411 engraved plates mounted on hinges, finely engraved and hand-coloured, presenting over 3,000 useful plants, garden flowers, fruits, trees, shrubs, mushrooms, etc.
The set is divided into five classes:
Traité de botanique générale (2 text volumes, 2 atlases with 53 and 50 plates of parts of flowers, roots, leaves, seeds, cells, plant biology, etc.)
Flore médicale, usuelle et industrielle (3 text volumes, 3 atlases with 50, 50 and 50… Read More

Very good copy of Pinkerton's collection of rare portraits of Scottish royalty, clergy and celebrities.

Complete with 63 finely engraved copperplates.

With portrait of cross-dressing Frances Stuart as frontispiece, engraved title page dated 1797, list of subscribers, advertisement to Part I, advertisement to Part III dated 1796, and 56 other portraits (one folding) and six engraved plates of royal seals.

With three portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, and King James IV, two portraits of King James V, and individual portraits of Alexander III, David I, Malcom I, Robert II, Robert III, James I, James II, James III, James VI (later James I of England) and Scottish queens Mary of Guise, Margaret of Denmark, Anne of Denmark.

Among the other interesting characters are the Scottish polymath James Crichton, aka the Admirable Crichton, and Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, a famous beauty at the court of King Charles II of England, cross-dressing as a man, as well as statesmen, clergy, martyrs, etc.… Read More

Complete set of this portable edition of Abbe Pluche's popular work on natural history for children, first published in 1732 and reprinted many times. First edition in 12mo, published in An 11 of the French Revolution (1803).With 61 fine copperplates by Jacques de Seve, including 2 frontispieces, 4 folding celestial maps (illustrator). Plates engraved by Duhamel, Letellier, Racine and Bigani. Vol. 1: 359pp, frontispiece, 5 plates of insects and shells; Vol. 2: 300pp, 5 plates of birds, animals, fish and plants; Vol. 3: 353pp, 7 plates of botany; Vol. 4: 336pp, 10 plates of botany and equipment; Vol 5, 347pp, 21 plates of fish, ships and shells; Vol. 6, 344pp, 3 plates of gems and astrology; Vol.7, 364pp, 8 plates (4 folding) of astrology; Vol. 8, 231pp, frontispiece.With half titles, tables of contents and list of illustrations in each volume. Elaborate gilt decorated spines with red title labels and volume numbers. Some scuffing to boards, but interior fresh and all plates present and free of… Read More

Two volumes of Presuhn's souvenir books with 75 vibrant chromolithographs of wall paintings discovered in PompeiiLes Decorations Murales de Pompeii, 1878.With 24 chromolithographs after original drawings by Geremia Discanno, lithographed by Victor Steeger, and 51 pages of text in French translated from the German by A. Giraud-Teulon. Bound with Choix des Plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei, avec Plan de la Ville, 1882With 50 chromolithographs after original drawings by Emile Presuhn and Geremia DiscannoAlong with wall paintings from all four eras of design, the plates depict floor mosaics, portraits, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, and plans of houses and the excavations. Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Red cloth binding… Read More

Very good copy of the "second and very popular edition" of Presuhn's souvenir of excavations in Pompeii from 1874-1881In 10 sections with 80 chromolithographs by Victor Seeger and J.G. Bach after designs by Geremia Discanno and Miss Amy Butts.Pompeii, the latest excavations from 1874 to 1881 for lovers of art and antiquities. Along with murals from all four eras of interior design, the plates depict interior views, mythological wall paintings, floor mosaics, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, wall graffiti, plans of houses and the town. Text in German.Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Half brown leather binding with scuffed edges, spine with black and gold leather title labels, gilt title on green cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Slight… Read More

Collection of 46 (of 48) beautifully detailed copperplate engravings of Roman costume.Examples of costumes, tools, musical instruments, furniture, room interiors, pots, vases, etc. A good many plates of Roman military costume, armour, breastplates, boots, sandals, helmets, boxing gloves, weapons, shields, chariots, legion standards, etc.Engraved title page and 46 engraved plates (numbered I to XLVIII, lacking XXXIV/XXXV) each with an engraved descriptive caption in Italian within the plate. Based on Lorenzo Roccheggiani's Collection of 100 Figures Representing Civil and Military Religious Costumes of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans (published in 1804).This suite drawn, engraved and published by Domenico Pronti (1750-1815), Italian painter, sculptor and engraver active in Rome. He specialized in publishing books of Roman scenery and ancient costume for the tourist market.Oblong quarto in flimsy boards, amateurishly covered in marble paper, new endpapers. Good strong impressions of… Read More