Maria Sibylla Merian – Cotton Plant with Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Moth, and Butterfly, Plate 10
Beautiful botanical engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian from Insects of Surinam: cotton plant with caterpillar, chrysalis, moth, and butterfly
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Maria Sibylla Merian – Sweet Potato and Parakeet Flower with Insects, Plate 41
Merian Plate 41 from Insects of Surinam: hand-colored engraving of sweet potato and heliconia with moths, butterfly, and leaf-footed bug.
Mark Catesby – Plate LXXXIII
Antique engraving by Mark Catesby – Plate LXXXIII from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands Original
Maria Sibylla Merian – Opossum “Rat de Forest” plate 66 from “Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium”
Maria Sibylla Merian Plate 66 Insects of Surinam showing an opossum “Rat de Forest” with young and insects in a tropical setting.
Cereus Cactus Flower – Plantae Selectae
Tab XXXII – Cereus Original 18th Century engraving from Plantae Selectae. Condition: Very good. Some light spotting. The high light
Cereus – Night Blooming Cactus – Plantae Selectae Plate XIV
Plantae Selectae – Tab XIV – CEREUS – Night Blooming Cactus Condition: Very good. Some light spotting. The high light
Red Pineapple – Plate III – Ehret / Trew – Plantae Selectae
Plate III – Ananas folio fix ferato Original 18th Century engraving from one of the greatest botanical books ever published.
Pineapple – Ehret / Trew – Plantae Selectae
Plate II – Ananas (Hawaiian Pineapple) from Plantae Selectae Condition: Very good. Some light spotting and creasing. The high light
Camellia Countess of Derby – Van Houtte Flore des Serres et des Jardins
Camellia Countess of Derby from Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe Dimensions: 16.5 x 25 cm
Yellow Throated Warbler and Red Maple – J. M. Seligmann After Mark Catesby
Yellow Throated Warbler and Flowering Red Maple 1749 – J. M. SELIGMANN AFTER MARK CATESBY Finely handpainted copperplate print engraved
Seligmann after Catesby – Parus Uropygeo Luteo: The Yellow-Rump
Finely handpainted copperplate print engraved by Seligmann for his Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer und seltener Vogel based on the original plate
Mark Catesby – 18th Century Copperplate – The Hermit Crab
Cancellus Terrestris Bahamensis: The Hermit Crab; Manghala arbor Curassafica, foliis Salignis: Button-Wood; Frutex trifolius resinosus;…T.33. 18th Century Copperplate Engraving –
Mark Catesby – Lacertus Ominum Maximus – The Alligator and the Mangrove Tree
Lacertus omnium maximus, Crocodilus: The Alligator from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands “The Largeness, Strength,
Mark Catesby – Lacertus Cauda Caerulia – Plate LXVII – The Guana
Lacertus Indicus – The Guana – 18th Century Copperlate Engraving Original Hand-coloring Catesby described the Lizard thus: “This kind of
Mark Catesby – Species from the Bahamas – Acacia Tree and Butterfly
Acacia foliis amplioribus; siliquis cincinnatis.- “In the Bahama Islands these Trees grow to about fifteen Inches in Thickness, and thirty
Mark Catesby – Plate XCIII – Flowering Plants from the Bahamas
18th Century copperplate engraving with original gand-coloring from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands Plate XCIII
Mark Catesby – Plate XCVII – Anguis viridis (Green Snake) – Cassena Vera
Anguis Viridis: The Green Snake – From Mark Catesby – The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands
Mark Catesby – The Ribbon Snake and Winter’s Bark
Anguis Gracilis Fuscus: The Ribbon-Snake 18th Century Copperlate Engraving by Mark Catesby with original Hand-coloring “This is a slender Snake,
Daniel Rabel – 17th Century Botanical Engraving of Tulips
Daniel Rabel – Tulips Rare original hand-colored copper engraving from the botanical book “Theatrum Florae” published in Paris circa 1630.
Two Antique Botanical Engravings, Iris and other Flowers
Pair of hand-colored botanical engravings, french matted and beautifully framed in antique gilt frames. Early 19th Century. Pink Marguerite daisies
Daniel Rabel – Theatrum Florae – Three Tulips
Tulips pl. 11 Rare original hand-colored copper engraving from the botanical book “Theatrum Florae” published in Paris circa 1625. Daniel