‎Collectibles‎

‎Merian, Maria Sibylla‎

‎Plate No. 68 Blue Butterflys‎

‎Amsterdam: J. F. Bernard 1704-30. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 322 by 257mm 12¾ by 10 inches. Copper engraving finely hand colored published in the famous series ‘Over de Voortteeling en Wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche Insecten’ by Maria Sibylla Merian. A fine engraving from Maria Sibylla Merian’s classic work. Maria Sibylla Merian daughter of the German engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian devoted herself to the study of European insects and their metamorphoses. As a result of the wealth of tropical varieties being brought back by the Dutch West Indies Company she decided to visit the Dutch colony of Surinam herself to study and paint the insect life there. She sailed with her daughter Dorothea in June 1699 from Amsterdam and remained in Surinam until 1701. Also Maria Sibylla Merian’s elder daughter Johanna went to Surinam to complete her mothers work. Most of the plates were engraved by P. Sluyter and J. Mulder some by P. Stoopendal. Plate 68 J. F. Bernard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 22799

‎Merian, Matthaeus & de Bry, Johannes‎

‎Plate 227 Tab. CCXXVII‎

‎Frankfurt A. Heinscheidt 1719. No binding. In excellent condition. 270 by 170mm 10¾ by 6¾ inches. 270 by 170mm 10¾ by 6¾ inches. Copper engraving hand colored. Handcolored copper engraving by M. Merian / de Bry published 1719 in Michael B. Valentini's 'Viridarium reformatum'. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 24980

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 77 Gedult Kräutlein Alsine nedosa media. Alsine temifolia muscosa. Alsone tomentosa. Herbe patience. Alsine hirsuta flore folioso seu abortiva viridi. Alsine Spergula dicta media - Gedilt Kräutlein‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 77 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16035

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 367 Fieber-Rinde. Borkenwurtz.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 367 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 15770

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 343 Castanie - gemeine Castanien.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 343 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16078

‎Besler, Basilius‎

‎Gelsiminum Catalonicum.‎

‎Eichstätt & Nürnberg: published in Hortus Eystettensis 1713. No binding. In excellent condition. 480 by 400mm 19 by 15¾ inches. Original engraving in fine hand coloring. 147 not on stock! published in Hortus Eystettensis unknown‎

Referencia librero : 15349

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 384 Wasserschierlinge Wasserschierlinge - minor petroselino fimilis. Cicuta palustris crispa. Cicuta bulbosa odorata.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 384 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16113

‎Merian, M & Valentini‎

‎Leberkraut Handcolored copper engraving by the Merian published by Bernhard Valentini.‎

‎Frankfurt: A. Heinscheidt 1719. No binding. In excellent condition. 126 by 113mm 5 by 4½ inches. Original copper engraving finely hand colored printed on the full text sheet as published. This finely hand colored emblemata engraving was published 1719 in Bernhard Valentini’s herbalDes vollständigen und Reformirten Kräuter=Buchs’ at Anton Heinscheidt in Frankfurt am Main. It depicts a combination of a plant with a typical German landscape between 1650 to 1719. These allegorical emblemata engravings were composed and engraved in a very similar style as the famous allegorical illustrations which were published by Matthaeus Merian for Ludwig Prince of Anhalt’s Der Fruchtbringende Gesellschafft’ Nahmen Vorhaben Gemälde und Wörter’ in 1646. In this series for every of the 400 members of theFruchtbringende Gesellschaft’ a unique allegoric engraving was created. It seems that Bernhard Valentini either aquired from the Merian heirs inventory or from an unknown source copper plates with these allegories and used those then in his own herbal or he arranged on his own them to be created. He did this already prior with the copper plates of the flower book by de Bry which he used in his flowerbook and which he extended then in the same style. All of these allegories are showing a combination of baroque garden scenes landscapes city views or castles. Each of these decorative allegories is depicting a plant specimen in front of a topographical background. This engraving is printed into a page with descriptive German text for this plant specimen. A. Heinscheidt unknown‎

Referencia librero : 29946

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 676 Waude - Gilbkraut.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 676 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 24519

‎Rabel, Daniel‎

‎Ranunculus globosus.‎

‎Paris 1620-32. No binding. A small mending in the paper some stains or spots within the blank area of the image. In good to very good condition. 330 by 216mm 13 by 8½ inches. Copper engraving later hand colored. Hand colored copper engraving published in Paris ca. 1623-27 in the famous flower book 'Theatrum Florae'. Daniel Rabel's flower book is one of the most beautiful sets of engravings of flowers ever published. Some of these fine engraved flower prints are additional ornated with various butterflies and insects. The style of the engraving is very similar to the 'de Bry' flower plates although Rabel's works is occasionally found to be bound to the works by Maria Sybilla Merian. The flower prints by Daniel Rabel can be regarded as one of the most beautiful and decorative sets of large engravings of flowers ever produced in that period. Plate 53 unknown‎

Referencia librero : 25015

‎Besler, Basilius‎

‎Hyacinthus Serotinus maximus‎

‎Eichstätt & Nürnberg: Published in Hortus Eystettensis 1713. No binding. 500 by 400mm 19¾ by 15¾ inches. Original copper engraving hand colored. A fine copper engraving published in the famous large flower bookHortus Eystettensis' in Altdorf and Nürnberg first around 1613. TheHortus Eystettensis' was the largest flowerbook ever published in that period. It contained 367 different engraved plates each of them depicting often with several flowers or herbs. Platenumber: 122 This fine engraving is published in the so-calledjubilee edition' 1713 in Eichstätt and Nürnberg. Dekorative Original Grafik Kupferstich handkoloriert Besler Eichstätt Garten 48 not on stock! Published in Hortus Eystettensis unknown‎

Referencia librero : 30645

‎Merian, Maria Sibylla‎

‎Plate No. 61 Guajava alba dulcis‎

‎Amsterdam: J. F. Bernard 1704-30. No binding. Small carefully restaurations in the paper overall still in good condition. 375 by 287mm 14¾ by 11¼ inches. Copper engraving finely hand colored published in the famous series ‘Over de Voortteeling en Wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche Insecten’ by Maria Sibylla Merian. A fine engraving from Maria Sibylla Merian’s classic work. Maria Sibylla Merian daughter of the German engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian devoted herself to the study of European insects and their metamorphoses. As a result of the wealth of tropical varieties being brought back by the Dutch West Indies Company she decided to visit the Dutch colony of Surinam herself to study and paint the insect life there. She sailed with her daughter Dorothea in June 1699 from Amsterdam and remained in Surinam until 1701. Also Maria Sibylla Merian’s elder daughter Johanna went to Surinam to complete her mothers work. Most of the plates were engraved by P. Sluyter and J. Mulder some by P. Stoopendal. Plate 61 J. F. Bernard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 22796

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 425‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 425 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16128

‎Merian, Matthaeus & de Bry, Johannes‎

‎Plate 100 Tab. C‎

‎Frankfurt A. Heinscheidt 1719. No binding. In excellent condition. 270 by 170mm 10¾ by 6¾ inches. 270 by 170mm 10¾ by 6¾ inches. Copper engraving hand colored. Handcolored copper engraving by M. Merian / de Bry published 1719 in Michael B. Valentini's 'Viridarium reformatum'. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 24981

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 345 Klettenkerbel Klettenkerbel - Caucalis arvensis semine aspero Persil bastard. Caucalis Lustitanica. Caucalis tenuifolia montana. Caucalis Sylvestris daufcifolia.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 345 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16131

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 250 Stolzer Henrich Guter Henrich Stolzer Henrich Guter Henrich - Blitum polysperman dictum. Blitum bonus Henricus. Blitum bonus Henricus foliis pictis.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 250 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16154

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 417 Winde Winde - Convolvulus creticus argenteus. Convolvulus coeruleus Hispanicus. Convolvulus minor pentaphylleus.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 417 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16109

‎Merian, Maria Sibylla‎

‎Plate No: 10 Cotonier‎

‎Amsterdam: J. F. Bernard 1704-30. No binding. In excellent condition. 370 by 275mm 14½ by 10¾ inches. Copper engraving finely hand colored published in the famous series ‘Over de Voortteeling en Wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche Insecten’ by Maria Sibylla Merian. A fine engraving from Maria Sibylla Merian’s classic work. Maria Sibylla Merian daughter of the German engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian devoted herself to the study of European insects and their metamorphoses. As a result of the wealth of tropical varieties being brought back by the Dutch West Indies Company she decided to visit the Dutch colony of Surinam herself to study and paint the insect life there. She sailed with her daughter Dorothea in June 1699 from Amsterdam and remained in Surinam until 1701. Also Maria Sibylla Merian’s elder daughter Johanna went to Surinam to complete her mothers work. Most of the plates were engraved by P. Sluyter and J. Mulder some by P. Stoopendal. Maria Sibylla Merian 2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717 was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family founders of one of Europe's largest publishing houses in the 17th century.Merian received her artistic training from her stepfather Jacob Marrel a student of the still life painter Georg Flegel. She remained in Frankfurt until 1670 relocating subsequently to Nuremberg Wieuwerd 1685 where she stayed in a Labadist community till 1691 and Amsterdam.Merian published her first book of natural illustrations titled Neues Blumenbuch in 1675 at age 28. In 1699 following eight years of painting and studying and on the encouragement of Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck the then-governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam the city of Amsterdam awarded Merian a grant to travel to South America with her daughter Dorothea. Her trip designed as a scientific expedition makes Merian perhaps the first person to "plan a journey rooted solely in science." After two years there malaria forced her to return to Europe. She then proceeded to publish her major work Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium de in 1705 for which she became famous. Because of her careful observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly she is considered by David Attenborough to be among the most significant contributors to the field of entomology. She was a leading entomologist of her time and she discovered many new facts about insect life through her studies. Wikipedia Plate 10 J. F. Bernard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 26153

‎Merian, Matthaeus & de Bry, Johannes‎

‎Plate 257 Tab. CCLVII‎

‎Frankfurt A. Heinscheidt 1719. No binding. In excellent condition. 270 by 170mm 10¾ by 6¾ inches. 270 by 170mm 10¾ by 6¾ inches. Copper engraving hand colored. Handcolored copper engraving by M. Merian / de Bry published 1719 in Michael B. Valentini's 'Viridarium reformatum'. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 24984

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 616 Staudichtes Salz-Kraut.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 616 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 24523

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 340 Fistul Cassin Fistul Cassin - Cassia fistula ex insulis Casse en batons. Cassia Aegyptiaca purgartix‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 340 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16089

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 294 Glockenblume Glockenblume - Campanula unica flore albo. Campanula unica flore coeruleo. Campanula cervicaria dicta flore albo pleno. Campanula cercicaria dicra flore caeruleo.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 294 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16197

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 367‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 367 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 15805

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 187 Aster angustifolius.‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 187 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16133

‎Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm‎

‎Plate: 407‎

‎Regensburg: Lenz 1734-45. No binding. In very good to excellent condition. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. 320 by 210mm 12½ by 8¼ inches. Original copper engraving printed in colours and finished by hand. Published 1734-45 in Regensburg in the great botanical work “Phytanthoza Iconographia”. This was for the first time that this technique of colour-printing was used highly sucessful used on the continent in a botanical series. Originally this technique was founded by Taylor in Great Britain. Among the artists in this enormous botanical series were Ehret Haid and Seutter from Augsburg working. On all plates we find their individual initials in the lower right corner. Platenumber: 407 Lenz unknown‎

Referencia librero : 16167