Sowerby James Illustrator (43 results)

Hard back binding in nineteenth century half tan leather, five raised bands to the spine with gilt title label, marble paper covered boards and page edges. 8vo. 7'' x 4¼''. Contains [xvi] 284 printed pages of text with 21 hand-coloured plates (including one double page) by Sowerby as called for. Ink name to the second front free end paper, without any age toning or foxing to the text block or plates, being in particularly clean and bright condition. From the private library of Charles Benson (remote family connection to William Gilpin) with his bookplate to the front free end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOTANY (Phytology).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, unpaginated; VG-; vol. 31 ONLY; full mid-19th century rebinding in green paper; spine paneled, with black label and gilt lettering; date 1810 stamped at tail of spine; mild shelf wear and scuffing; all edges with decorative red speckling; mild age-toning to textblock; light foxing throughout textblock; profusely illustrated in full color; plates slightly offset; binder's sticker at back pastedown; pages clean; shelved above US Regional--DC. 1354566. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, unpaginated; VG-; vol. 30 ONLY; full mid-19th century rebinding in green paper; spine paneled, with black label and gilt lettering; date 1810 stamped at tail of spine; mild shelf wear and scuffing; all edges with decorative red speckling; mild age-toning to textblock; light foxing throughout textblock; profusely illustrated in full color; plates slightly offset; binder's sticker at back pastedown; pages clean; shelved above US Regional--DC. 1354564. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, unpaginated; VG-; vol. 21 ONLY; full mid-19th century rebinding in green paper; spine paneled, with black label and gilt lettering; date 1805 stamped at tail of spine; mild shelf wear and scuffing; all edges with decorative red speckling; mild age-toning to textblock; light foxing throughout textblock; profusely illustrated in full color; plates slightly offset; binder's sticker at back pastedown; pages clean; shelved above US Regional--DC. 1354563. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, unpaginated; VG-; vol. 17 ONLY; full mid-19th century rebinding in green paper; spine paneled, with black label and gilt lettering; date 1803 stamped at tail of spine; mild shelf wear and scuffing; all edges with decorative red speckling; mild age-toning to textblock; light foxing throughout textblock; profusely illustrated in full color; plates slightly offset; binder's sticker at back pastedown; pages clean; shelved above US Regional--DC. 1354562. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, unpaginated; VG-; vol. 16 ONLY; full mid-19th century rebinding in green paper; spine paneled, with black label and gilt lettering; date 1803 stamped at tail of spine; mild shelf wear and scuffing; all edges with decorative red speckling; mild age-toning to textblock; light foxing throughout textblock; profusely illustrated in full color; plates slightly offset; pages clean; shelved above US Regional--DC. 1354560. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, unpaginated; VG-; vol. 15 ONLY; full mid-19th century rebinding in green paper; spine paneled, with black label and gilt lettering; date 1802 stamped at tail of spine; mild shelf wear and scuffing; all edges with decorative red speckling; mild age-toning to textblock; light foxing throughout textblock; profusely illustrated in full color; pages clean; shelved above US Regional--DC. 1354558. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers. 1f, of text cut out and loose, vol. X last f. of text torn in margin, some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. Scaped and rubbed along binding edge of front cover. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers. Some foxing and browning. Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers. 1f, of text cut out and loose, vol. X last f. of text torn in margin, some foxing and browning.Top of spine cracked but intact.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed with small piece missing from front cover. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Some fold-out plates with original specimen.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

First editions; folio (30.5 x 24 cm); 54 hand-coloured plates of which 4 are folding, original blue wrappers of each part bound in at the rear, a little light toning and spotting to the contents; late 19th century brown, morocco-patterned roan, spine gilt in compartments with circular tools, marbled sides and endpapers, binding rubbed with wear at the extremities, very good condition. The complete set of 'one of the most beautiful publications devoted to Crustacea' (Biodiversity Heritage Library), with the original wrappers for each part bound in. Though trained in medicine, William Elford Leach (1791-1836) never worked as a physician, but instead joined the British Museum as a naturalist. 'Although Leach's interests ranged over many groups of animals, he soon developed a passion for entomology and malacology. He was an enthusiastic collector of British insects who greatly enriched the entomological collections at the British Museum, and whose knowledge of the Crustacea was regarded as superior to that of any other naturalist of his time' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). The artist James Sowerby (1787-1871) was both a naturalist and the leading natural history artist of the period and, 'although responsible for the description of many taxa, his main contribution to natural history had been "the portraits of natural objects he has left behind him. delineated faithfully from. acquaintance with their form and structure" (W. Sowerby, cited in Simpkins, 393), "which no pencil or burin, but those of a scientific artist could possibly accomplish"' (Buckland, cited in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers. 1f, of text cut out and loose, vol. X last f. of text torn in margin, some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed. Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. Complete run of the first 22 volumes.English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Rubbed with stain on front cover. Some foxing and browning. One text page torn, without loss. Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers.Some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 14 x 23 cm. 5-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spines, spines a little dulled, marbled endpapers. 1f, of text cut out and loose, vol. X last f. of text torn in margin, some foxing and browning.Binding by Cupper & Ives, Bank Place, Norwich. English Botany was a major publication of British plants comprising a 36 volume set, issued in 267 monthly parts over 23 years from 1791 to 1814. The work was conceived, illustrated, edited and published by the botanical illustrator and natural historian, James Sowerby.Provenance: The Rothamsted Collection, from the Lawes Agricultural Library, with one small stamp on inside free endpaper. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.

FIRST EDITIONS. 245 x 153 mm. (9 3/4 x 6"). 15 volumes bound in 5; four additional volumes loose without boards. . Early 19th century red half calf over marbled paper boards, raised bands, spines with gilt-stamped fleurons, tan and black morocco labels, top edge gilt. WITH A TOTAL OF 1,363 COLOR PLATES by James Sowerby, most hand-colored. Volumes I-XV with an ink ownership inscription to the title of Harriett Ellison, dated 97 (presumably 1897); the first volume additionally with the armorial bookplate of H. Richardson on the front pastedown and an ink inscription on the flyleaf describing the 1890 purchase of the book by Thomas Richardson, Chemist. Volumes XX, XXVIII, XXXI, and XXXII with "Inner Temple" ink stamps throughout. Nissen, BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717. Four volumes loose, one volume with rear board detached, bindings scuffed, dried and abraded, but generally in decent condition. The four loose volumes with (mostly light) dampstains throughout; the other five quite fresh and clean internally, with ample margins and only trivial defects. This work contains numerous attractive plates that testify to the quality and charm of English botanical illustrations at the turn of the 19th century. James Sowerby (1757-1822) studied painting at the Royal Academy and earned his living painting portraits until disenchantment with the need to please the vanity of his subjects led him to turn instead to plants. (They never complained.) He worked with William Curtis on his "Flora Londinensis" and "Botanical Magazine" before striking out on his own. He met botanist Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) through his brother-in-law, and proposed the project that became "English Botany," with Smith providing the letterpress and Sowerby nearly all of the engravings, which are the chief attraction here. "English Botany" was a success from the appearance of the first issue, with the plates receiving the lion's share of the praise. This collection includes volumes I-XV, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, and XXXII. At less than $3 per plate, it is meant to be attractively priced.