NATURAL HISTORY 2018 Shapero Rare Books 1 4 Shapero Rare Books NATUR AL HISTORY including works on paper, and sporting books 2018

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Natural History 06

Sporting Books 68

Works on Paper 88 (including Watercolours and Modern & Contemporary Prints)

Shapero Rare Books NATUR AL HISTORY

Shapero Rare Books 5 the sc arce first edition 1. ALBIN, Eleazar.

A natural history of birds. Illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life. Published by the author Eleazar Albin, and carefully colour’d by his daughter and self, from the originals, drawn from the live birds. Printed for the author: and sold by William Innys in St. Paul’s Church Yard; John Clarke under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill; and John Brindley at the King’s Arms in New Bond-Street, London 1731-1734.

The first British bird book to use coloured plates. ‘For the most part Albin delineated one bird per plate. The birds are placed on a branch or on the ground, each part coloured. The proportions of the birds are a distinct improvement on those in Willoughby and Ray... Albin produced his paints in a rather strange manner according to Petiver’s account. For his reds he washed and dried vermilion pigment in four waters and then proceeded to ‘grind it in boys urine three times, yn [then] gum arabic it and grind it in Brandy wine.’ Whatever his methods and however singular the contribution by his sons, this very first effort at colouring plates depicting birds is highly commendable and the results were gratifying, for the book was popular.’ (Jackson, Bird Etchings). First edition, first issue. 3 volumes, 4to., [8],96,[4]; [8],92,[2]; [8],95,[1] pp., 306 etched plates with original hand colour, captioned in Latin and English within the plate mark, a few plates cropped, occasional light soiling, generally a clean well margined copy, contemporary mottled calf, covers with broad gilt borders, sometime expertly rebacked preserving richly gilt spines, red and green morocco labels, neat restoration to some corners, edges rubbed, an excellent set. Anker, 4 & 5; Jackson, Bird Etchings pp 65-75; Mullens & Swann p8; Nissen IVB, 14. Price: £35,000 [ref: 97615]

6 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 7 with monkey tools by Bozerian 2. AUDEBERT, Jean Baptiste. Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis.

Chez Desray, Paris, An Huitieme [1800].

A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph on monkeys and Audebert’s first original work. Published in 10 parts, the first two in February and July 1798, the remainder between January and October 1799. Audebert (1759-1800), was born at Rochefort. He studied painting and drawing at Paris. The present monograph, which divided the monkeys into six families, was the more impressive for employing a colour-printing process in which all the colours were printed from one plate and oil paint was substituted for gouache. In developing this new technique, his experience as a distinguished miniature painter was probably important. His interest turned to natural history after a meeting in 1789 with Gigot-d’Orex, a rich amateur collector of specimens. When Audebert died at the young age of 41, his reputation as an artist-naturalist was assured both by the present work and the later Oiseaux dorés (Paris, 1800-1802). First edition. 2 volumes in 1, folio (52 x 34.5 cm). 63 copper engraved plates, including 61 printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary veau blond gilt by Bozerian (signed at foot of spine), flat spine with monkey tools in compartments, all edges gilt, a fine copy. Brunet I, 550; Nissen ZVB, 156; Wood, p. 206. Price: £16,500 [ref: 90035]

8 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 9 3. BOOTH, Edward Thomas.

Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years’ shooting and collecting in the British Islands.

R.H. Porter and Messrs. Dulau & Co., London, 1881-1887.

Uncommon. Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases, aiming always to present the birds in as natural an attitude and setting as possible. It was these specimens, chiefly from the Scottish Highlands and Norfolk Broads and now in the Brighton Museum, which Neale used for his drawings. ‘These are very handsome folio plates whose composition is similar to those in Dresser’s book’ (Jackson). Provenance: ‘Wootton Fitzpaine, Charmouth’ (blind stamp to flyleaves). First edition. 3 volumes, folio, [i]-vii, [1 (blank)], [4 (list of plates, blank, errata, blank)] pp., 116 leaves text (in which are printed 2 lithographic vignettes); [i]-v, [1 (blank)], [2 (list of plates, blank)] pp., 132 leaves text; [i]-v, [1 (blank)], [2 (list of plates, blank)] pp., 112 leaves text (with one lithographic illustration in text), 114 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Edward Neale and 2 hand-coloured lithographic maps; occasional spotting, rarely heavy, 2 marginal tears to plate of the Grey Phalarope (vol. II), otherwise clean and bright; contemporary half hard-grained morocco with grained cloth sides, borders filleted in gilt, spines tooled in gilt and blind, lettered and dated in gilt directly, top-edges gilt; spines sunned, boards a little rubbed, a little worn at extremities, otherwise a very handsome set. Anker/Copenhagen 51 (‘beautiful plates’); Ayer/Zimmer pp.79-81; Fine Bird Books (1990 ed.) p.79; Nissen IVB 121. Price: £6,500 [ref: 97458]

10 Shapero Rare Books important work on the Camellia Japonic a 4. CHANDLER, Alfred; William Beattie Booth. Illustrations and descriptions of the plants which compose the natural order camellieae, and of the varieties of Camellia Japonica, cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain.

John and Arthur Arch, London, 1831.

One of finest works on camellias, here in its most desirable state. Described by Wilfred Blunt as ‘handsome and rare’, with magnificent plates after the drawings of Alfred Chandler ‘beautifully coloured with opaque pigments’ (Dunthorne), the work was available in three issues: uncoloured, coloured, or -as in this example- coloured and highly finished with gum arabic. Chandler’s drawings were mostly based on examples of camellia grown by at the nursery at Vauxhall run by his father. Intended to be a two-volume work, the second volume was never published. The Camellia was first introduced into Europe by Lord Petre in 1739, and the work includes Japanese, Chinese and English-bred varieties. Beautiful evergreen shrubs, sometimes growing into small trees, they are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. The best known species, albeit not necessarily known consciously, is the Camellia sinensis, the tea plant, of major commercial importance because tea is made from its leaves. While the finest teas are produced by C. sinensis thanks to millennia of selective breeding of this species, many other camellias can be used to produce a similar beverage. For example, in some parts of Japan, tea made from C. sasanqua leaves is popular. Volume 1 (all published) folio (38 x 28 cm.). With 40 hand-coloured plates (36 engraved, 4 lithographed) by S. Watts and Weddell after Chandler, heightened in gum arabic; fine contemporary green half morocco gilt, covers with L-shaped corners with multiple gilt fillets, flat spine with gilt geometric designs and floral tooling, marbled sides and edges, plates clean and fresh, a most attractive example. Nissen BBI 209; Dunthorne 77; Great Flower Books, page 51; Stafleu TL2 651 Price: £15,000 [ref: 90337]

Shapero Rare Books 11 5. [CHINA]. An album depicting silkworms.

N.d. [circa 1820].

The production of silk by the Chinese was a closely guarded secret for some 2500 years, before being smuggled out to Japan, India, and Korea, coming to the West comparatively recently. Feeding on white mulberry leaves, domestic silk moths are closely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding. The present album provides a fine record of the life cycle of the silkworm. Such large format albums are scarce. Large album (42 by 33 cm) containing 14 watercolours on Chinese paper, each mounted on heavier paper, the album bound in contemporary Chinese patterned cloth; light wear and a little restoration to binding.

Price: £8,500 [ref: 95288]

6. [CHINESE SCHOOL]. An album of Chinese bird-and-flower paintings.

[Circa 1900].

A most attractive album reflecting what Laurence Binyon called the Chinese ‘exquisite courtesy to nature’ inspired by Daoist philosophy. 45 of the watercolours are of natural history subjects, principally birds, set amongst foliage. The remaining studies depict Chinese types and costumes. Lively, and showing great care and skill, they show the fluency and feeling of movement that came from the Chinese tradition of painting with the calligrapher’s brush rather than pen or pencil. Most of the drawings are in colour, a few in ink monochrome. 4to. (30 x 26.4 cm.), 59 drawings in ink and watercolour of birds and other animals, flowers and figure studies, twentieth century cloth.

Price: £9,000 [ref: 89587]

12 Shapero Rare Books 7. COUCH, Jonathan. A History of the Fishes of the British Islands.

Groombridge and Sons, London, 1868-69.

‘Couch was born in 1789 in Polperro in Cornwall and died there in 1870, having spent his life being interested in more or less everything, from potatoes to pilchards, although he was by profession a doctor... A History of the Fishes of the British Islands made a valuable contribution not only to science, but to the art of angling and it was relied on as a reference work for many decades after his death. The value of Couch’s contribution lay not so much in his classification and descriptions of the species, but in his paintings, which were so accurate that they were relied for reference by later biologists, even when Couch’s written identification was wrong.’ (Fishing Museum On-Line). First edition. 4 volumes. 8vo., 252 colour printed plates, the same 1872 pen inscription to upper endpaper of two volumes, the odd spot, otherwise bright and clean, publisher’s blue blind-embossed cloth gilt, gilt pictoral vignette to upper covers, minor rubbing to extremities, a bright set.

Price: £1,500 [ref: 94860]

Shapero Rare Books 13 8. DARWIN, Erasmus. The botanic garden; a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London, 1791.

First edition of part 1, third edition part 2. This book is best known as a precursor to the work of his famous grandson in propounding a sort-of evolutionary theory. It was issued in two parts ‘The Economy of Vegetation’ and ‘The Loves of the Plants’. While it was Erasmus’ grandson Charles who shook the world with evolutionary theory, his grandfather Erasmus had actually been an earlier explorer in the subject - ‘to elaborate upon the implications of the ‘promiscuous’ animals of New South Wales [and to use] the idea of this promiscuity as the basis for his theory that all life derived from primeval filaments, such promiscuous intercourse between different filaments giving rise to the extant species of animals?’ (Finney, To Sail Beyond the Sunset). Darwin’s scientific speculations, including his ideas on the generation of life, influenced Mary Shelley, and through her, science fiction writing. William Blake seems to have engraved at least five of the plates (see Bentley, p. 547), although onlyone of them-the striking ‘Fertilisation of Egypt’ after Fuseli -is signed. Blake was probably also responsible for the four engravings of the Portland Vase. 4to., 2 parts in 1, xii,212,[1],212-214,126,[2]pp, 20 engraved plates including 5 by William Blake, occasional offsetting and light spotting, contemporary tree calf gilt, neat repairs to extremities, green morocco label renewed, a very handsome example.

Price: £1,750 [ref: 93380]

14 Shapero Rare Books 9. DONOVAN, Edward. An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China: comprising figures and descriptions of Upwards of One Hundred New, Singular, and Beautiful Species; Together with Some that are of Importance in Medicine, Domestic Economy, &c. the Figures are Accurately Drawn, Engraved, and Coloured, from Specimens of the Insects; the Descriptions are Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus; with References to the Writings of Fabricius, and Other Systematic Authors. By E. Donovan, Author of the Natural History of British Insects, &c. Printed for the author, by T. Bensley; and sold by White, Fleet-Street; Faulder, Bond-Street; Bell, Oxford-Street, &c., London, 1798. Little is known of the early life of Edward Donovan (1768–1837). His interest in natural history started with the collecting of shells and preservation of insects, probably before 1788. He was a prolific author and skilled artist who etched and engraved the plates for all his works. He became a fellow of the Linnean Society. Donovan’s main interest was entomology and his published works included ixteen volumes of British Insects (1792–1813) and the three ’magnificently illustrated’ (Dunbar) volumes on The Insects of China, India and New Holland, the last being dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks, and acknowledging use of his collections and library. Donovan’s approach was to show species that had not been illustrated before, and many previously undescribed. The illustrations of tropical butterflies, moths, and other insects set against backgrounds of plants and flowers represent a significant advance in compositional style which seem likely to have influ- enced others in the ensuing Victorian era, in particular H. Noel Humphreys. Indeed later editions of these books were reissued in the 1840’s. First edition. 4to., [98 pp.], 50 hand-coloured engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary red morocco gilt, neatly rebacked preserving spine, occasional light foxing, a fine example. Dunbar, British Butterflies, page 48; Nissen ZBI 1143. Price: £9,500 [ref: 95140]

Shapero Rare Books 15 10. EDWARDS, George. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects [...] Exhibited in Two Hundred and Ten Copper-Plates. [With] Gleanings of Natural History, Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants [...]. Printed for the Author, at the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1743; 1747; 1750; 1751; 1758; 1760; 1764.

A fine set in dark blue morocco of ‘one of the most important of all bird books, both as a fine bird book and a work of ornithology’ (Fine Bird Books). ‘Though issued separately, they [Natural History and Gleanings] are considered as one and either must rank as imperfect without the other … At its date of issue the Natural History and Gleanings was one of the most important of all bird Books, both as a Fine Bird Book and a work of Ornithology. It is still high on each list …’ (Sitwell). George Edwards (1694-1773), a talented natural history artist, became librarian at the College of Physicians through the good offices of Sir Hans Sloane, who also employed him to draw the curiosities in his private museum. This provided him with both a steady income and plenty of time (his tasks not being very onerous), to pursue his own interests a Dutchman who settled in England for a while, where whilst surrounded by volumes on natural history. Edwards had his collection was studied by Edwards. The North American a large circle of friends with an interest in science and he birds came from two main areas, Hudson Bay territory drew and painted the natural history objects owned by them. and Pennsylvania. In addition there were a few birds He kept copies of these drawings, and it was as a result from Carolina provided by Catesby. of his wishing to see these drawings preserved in some way that he resolved to publish A Natural History of Uncommon First edition. Seven volumes, 4to. 362 hand-colored engravings, Birds. This proved a success, and thus encouraged, Edwards sequentially numbered across both works, each engraving brought out the Gleanings, although this took many years with facing letterpress description, text in English and French; to complete. occasional light offsetting of plates to text, plates generally quite clean, some scattered light foxing to text. Full late 18th-century Amongst the species described, many are from India blue crushed morocco gilt. and North America. The Indian specimens were largely based on the watercolours made by Pieter Cornelis de Bevere, Nissen 286-88; Wood, page 329; Sitwell, page 93. a member of the household of Governor Gideon Loten, Price: £25,000 [ref: 91233]

16 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 17 11. EDWARDS, Sydenham. Flora Britannica. Illustrated with one hundred and thirty- three plants, engraved by Sansom, from the original pictures, and coloured with the greatest exactness from drawings by Sydenham Edwards, in two volumes. J. Stockdale, London, 1812.

A re-issue, with superior colour and on better paper, of illustrations which were first published by R. W. Dickson under the pseudonym Alexander McDonald in A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening (1807). Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819),was not just a talented and enthusiastic artist. He obviously possessed knowledge of plant anatomy and much of his work is amongst the best scientific illustrations of the day. His memorial within Chelsea Old Church reads, ‘As a faithful delineator of nature, few equaled, none excelled’. Thick 4to., two volumes in one with continuous pagination, 503 pages, includes title-page of volume 2 (often lacking), 61 hand-coloured plates (including two numbered 19), the occasional spot and finger-mark to margins, otherwise very good, contemporary full maroon straight-grained morocco, with blind-stamped and gilt decorated panels to boards, gilt titles and gilt decorated spine panels, all edges gilt, replaced endpapers, else near fine and most attractive. Nissen BBI, 479. Price: £3,000 [ref: 95381]

18 Shapero Rare Books 12. FRASER, Louis. Zoologia Typica, or Figures of New and Rare Mammals and Birds described in the Proceedings or exhibited in the Collections of the Zoological Society of London. For the Author and sold by Hyde & Co., London, 1849.

This work, originally issued in parts, was intended to describe every new and rare mammal and bird discussed in the Proceedings, or exhibited in the collections of the Zoological Society. Although publication ceased before this was achieved the plates issued illustrate forty-six species of birds and twenty-eight mammals with representations of their habitat, including 23 of the plants identified. All executed by Charles Couzens and H.N.Turner. The author was Curator to the Zoological Society, conservator to the Earl of Derby at Knowsley on his Zoological collections, and naturalist on two expeditions to North Africa. The superb colouring of the plates was by the artist Triptree of 6 Guildford Street,Walworth, acknowledged by the author in the preface. Provenance: H.H. Sharland bequest to the North Devon Athenæum (ink stamp to title verso and 3 leaves of text). Subscriber’s copy, limited edition of 250 copies only. Folio, [6 (title, preface, list of subscribers)], [v]-viii pp., hand-coloured lithographic title, 70 hand-coloured lithographic plates each with a leaf of descriptive text, all but 9 with tissue guard, with an original blue printed paper wrapper bound in at rear; some spotting, a few tissue guards a little creased, short tear to one; modern red half-morocco to period style with contemporary marbled sides, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, others with gilt centre-pieces, top-edge gilt; minimally rubbed, marble a little scuffed, nonetheless a very good copy. Anker 150; Wood 348; Nissen 329; Fine Bird Books, p.96. Price: £7,500 [ref: 97558]

Shapero Rare Books 19 spectacular floral c alendar 13. FURBER, Robert. Twelve months of flowers.

[London, 1730-32].

The most magnificent of nurserymen’s catalogues. In the early Sets of the plates were made available to non-subscribers eighteenth century, the most important trade association at one pound five shillings plain, or two pounds twelve shillings for the purchase, sale, and exchange of plants and seeds and six pence coloured. A number against every flower, was the Society of Gardeners. Its members would bring identified in a key at the bottom of the plate, was used specimens to monthly meetings at a coffee-house in Chelsea by customers when ordering. for discussion and to standardise plant names. For reference purposes a selection of the plants might be drawn. Furber’s catalogue was produced to appeal to florists, This, combined with the wishes of clients to have notes and, reflecting the taste of the day, there are 26 varieties on cultivation, led to the evolution of illustrated catalogues, of auricula, and nineteen of the anenome. Hyacinth, tulip, often handsomely produced. and ranunculas are also well represented. Of all the publications produced by members of the Society The catalogue was a huge success, and the images were of Gardeners, that of Robert Furber (circa 1674-1756) used as the basis for later engravings by print makers displayed the most originality. His nursery, in Kensington Road such as Robert Sayer and John Overton, as well being used near Hyde Park, was extremely successful, and having already in embroidery and other decorative arts. published a couple of modest lists, he produced the present, Large folio (58.7 x 46 cm), hand-coloured engraved list extravagant catalogue illustrated in the grand manner. of subscribers within a floral border serving as title-page, Rather than producing a conventional brochure, Furber 12 hand-coloured plates designed by Pieter Casteels engaged the Flemish artist, Pieter Casteels (1684-1749), and engraved by H. Fletcher showing flower arrangements, resident in London and well-known for his still-life compositions, interleaved with blanks; subscribers’ list slightly dust-soiled to execute 12 portrayals of flowers bunched in ornamental and strengthened at margin on verso, ‘January’ plate slightly vases and urns, one for each month of the year. Each presented stained, a few small unobtrusive marginal repairs to interleaved a baroque bouquet of more than thirty different flowers, blank leaves, some light spotting predominantly marginal, all obtainable from the Furber nursery. Casteels completed occasional marginal pencil marks and the small letters ‘S-M’ his commission by September 1731, upon which subscribers written in ink in one margin, around 2 cm square area of final were reminded to send the balance of their subscription. plate rubbed away. 19th century half calf with marbled sides, A thirteenth plate with the subscribers’ names within a floral covers slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked and corners neatly border was produced in March 1732 dedicated to Frederick, repaired. Dunthorne 113; Henrey 733; Hermitage Library, Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the 435 subscribers. A Treasury of Books, 163; Nissen 674. Price: £45,000 [ref: 89261]

20 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 21 14. GERARD, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, London, 1633.

Second edition of Johnson’s enlarged version. The herbalist John Gerard (c.1545-1612), born in Cheshire, was employed as gardener to William Cecil, Lord Burghley. A senior member of the Barber-surgeons’ company, Gerard spent his adult life in Holborn, where he cultivated a garden. A catalogue of this garden was published as Catalogus arborum fructium ac plantarum tam indigenarum, quam exoticarum, in horto Johannis Gerardi nascentium (London, 1596). A great rarity, this work is considered the first printed complete catalogue of any one garden, in any language. However Gerard’s fame rests on this great ‘Herball’ published in London in 1597. Thomas Johnson’s 1633 edition of Gerard’s Herball is ‘sometimes referred to as ‘Gerard emaculatus’ or ‘Johnson’s Gerard’... There had been an interval of thirty-six years since the original edition was issued and during this time no other herbal had appeared in England. It was time, therefore, for a more up-to-date work to be published... Thomas Johnson, a London apothecary, was asked to undertake the task... Notwithstanding the short time at his disposal Johnson produced an edition that was noteworthy for its many corrections, improvements and additions... As in the case of the Herball of 1597 most of the wood-blocks Gerard’s ‘Herball’, describing and illustrating several hundred for the illustrations were obtained ‘from beyond the seas’. flowering plants, including 182 species which had not been They had been used previously at Antwerp by Plantin descibed in earlier works, can be considered one of for the works of de l’Obel, Dodoens, and de l’Ecluse’ (Henrey). most significant early-modern English botanical publications and endured as a primary source of reference The principle reason for the speed with which Johnson into the eighteenth century. prepared his updated edition of Gerard’s ‘Herball’ was that Folio. [38], 1630, [48]pp., engraved title-page by John Payne, he was keen for it to be issued before John Parkinson’s numerous woodcuts of plants in the text, bound without first ‘Theatrum Botanicum’. Johnson was successful in his upstaging and last blanks as usual, title-page with small repair, text clean of Parkinson for, though entered in the Stationer’s and perfect; eighteenth century russia rebacked preserving register in 1634, Parkinson’s work was held off till 1640 spine, corners repaired, a most attractive example. in the knowledge that Johnson’s production would sate STC 11751; the market for some time. Henrey 155. Price: £6,500 [ref: 97013]

22 Shapero Rare Books 15. GOULD John. A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.

For the Author, London, [1844]-50.

A fine copy of the first edition. Gould was inspired to undertake this study ‘by the sight of several living examples of the beautiful Callipepla Californica, brought home and presented to the Zoological Society of London by Captain Beechey in 1830’. Gould’s research took him to collections in Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Berlin, Hanover, Amsterdam, and Leiden, and he was subsequently able to more than triple the number of recorded species of this genus. Originally issued in three parts, the ‘Partridges of America’ was dedicated to Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte, whose own most widely known ornithological work concerned the birds of America. Provenance: William Nelson (armorial bookplate). Folio. 32 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after Gould and H.C. Richter, list of subscribers, list of plates. Contemporary dark green half morocco gilt, covers with broad gilt borders, spine in seven compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, occasional light spotting, a most handsome copy. Anker 176; Ayer/Zimmer 257; Fine Bird Books 78; Nissen, IVB 376; Sauer 13; Wood 365. Price: £19,500 [ref: 95264]

Shapero Rare Books 23 16. HAYES, William. Portraits of rare and curious birds, with their descriptions, from the menagery of Osterley Park. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. published for the author by R. Faulder, London, 1794-[1799]

A copy of ‘one of the most famous, early coloured illustrations of ornithology’ (Wood). The plates are after drawings by William Hayes commissioned by Robert Child of Osterley Park and together ‘form a record of a unique collection … Hayes was the first author systematically to record a single private collection of live birds; such a project was not attempted again until 1846’ (Jackson Bird Etchings, p.135). In his ‘Advertisement’, William Hayes notes that the ‘First number … is the joint exertion’ of seven of his 21 children, which was also intended to demonstrate their ‘early genius’ to the public. As Jackson notes, this was a book that was assembled on demand and that this meant that each copy was ‘a unique collection of plates and text’ (op. cit. p.128), using stock plates at hand, re-etching and producing new images if needed, with the plates coloured by different members of the family. In the mid-1780’s Hayes went to live at Southall, a short walk from Osterley Park. Osterley, remodeled by Robert Adam in the 1760’s, was owned by the Childs. Like the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Child was an enthusiastic collector of exotic birds. When Horace Walpole visited Osterley Park in 1773, he admired ‘the menagerie full of birds that came from a 1000 islands, which Mr. Banks has not yet discovered’. The birds Hayes chose to depict, demonstrate the taste for the exotic prevailing at the end of the eighteenth century, a taste fueled by news of recent discoveries. an excellent excellent example. BM(NH) II, p.805; Brunet III, 64; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.105; Mullens & Swann First edition. 2 volumes bound in one, 4to (28.3 x 22.5 cm.), pp.287-288; Nissen IVB 422; Wood dedication, advertisement, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates p.381 (lacking volume II title and perhaps of birds after Hayes, his wife and children, contemporary the dedication); Zimmer p.294 (lacking volume II title green straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges, without and dedication). the view of the menagerie (as often), bound without title for volume 2, one or two captions shaved, spine lightly rubbed, Price: £8,500 [ref: 97134]

24 Shapero Rare Books the Earl of Derby’s copy - from the library at Knowsley 17. HOOKER, Sir William Jackson, & John Charles Lyons.

A Century of Orchidaceous Plants selected from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. Consisting of those most worthy of cultivation, systematically arranged, and illustrated with coloured figures and dissections chiefly executed by Mr. Fitch. Accompanied by an introduction on the culture and general management of orchidaceous plants, and with copious remarks on the treatment of each species. Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, London, 1849.

First edition, from the Knowsley library of the Earl of Derby, with his armorial bookplate and inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper: ‘Back Library, Knowsley, West Bookcase B / Shelf 2 No. 450’; also inscribed at the head of the half-title ‘from Boone April 15th 1849’ (just shaved by the binder) - which is almost certainly a reference to the London bookseller/publisher T. & W. Boone. Edward Smith Stanley, thirteenth earl of Derby (1775–1851), politician and naturalist, became ‘one of the figureheads of the science of zoological classification, particularly the taxonomy of birds. He was president of the Linnean Society of London from 1828 to 1834, and president ‘Fitch remains the most outstanding botanical artist of his of the Zoological Society of London for twenty years day in Europe. He was the first draughtsman to produce from 1831 until his death. He not only encouraged really satisfactory drawings from dried herbarium specimens, the reading of accounts of new species by chairing meetings and for this alone botanists in England would remain forever of the two societies, but contributed many scientific in his debt. He was always his own lithographer, and became papers himself to the proceedings of the Zoological Society a skilled exponent of the art’ (ibid.). The plates are bright and donated many specimens to its collections... The Knowsley and fresh in this copy, which has a very appealing provenance. Museum is estimated to have included 20,000 mammals, birds, and lower vertebrates; some invertebrates, such as specimens 4to (30 x 23.3 cm). Contemporary russet-coloured pebble-grain of molluscs, are known to have been donated to the British morocco sometime neatly rebacked with the original richly Museum before Derby’s death’ (ODNB). gilt spine laid down, two-line gilt border on sides, all edges gilt, gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers. 100 fine hand-coloured The illustrations here are by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), lithograph plates (with tissue guards) by Walter Hood described by Hooker’s son, Sir Joseph Hooker, Fitch. Light abrasions to front cover. An excellent copy. as an ‘incomparable botanical artist’ (cited in Wilfrid Blunt, Nissen 918 (erroneously dating the first edition to 1846); The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950, p. 224). not in Plesch or Pritzel. Price: £6,500 [ref: 95934]

Shapero Rare Books 25 finely coloured copy of a beautiful work on shells 18. KNORR, Georg Wolfgang. Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest.

Heirs of F. Houttuyn, Amsterdam, 1770-75.

Though it does not adopt a scientific approach to its subject, this work by the Nuremberg painter Georg Knorr (1859 – 1911) remains one of the most beautiful artistic works on shells that exists to this day. This is its first edition in Dutch. The plates were drawn from collections in Holland and Germany including that of Martin Houttuyn, a doctor based in Amsterdam whose collection contained many rare species. At this time Nuremberg was at the centre of Europe for finely illustrated natural history books. This was largely thanks to J. Trew, a wealthy physician who organised and encouraged a salon of artists and scientists; in fact, Knorr himself became a regular contributor, earning his first major success with illustrations of the solar system in Johannes Jacob Scheuzer’s Physica Sacra (1731-5). Many of the shells that Knorr depicted in Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest (sometimes translated as Pleasure for the eyes and mind in a general collection of shells and other creatures which are found in the sea) also came from Trew’s personal collection. Provenance: G.J. Scheurleer (Twentieth century bookplate). Six parts in 2 vol. 4to (26.1 x 20.5 cm). Six letterpress titles, with 190 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.A. Joninger, J.A. Eisenmann, A. Hoffer and others after Knorr, C. Dietsch, J. Wartenaarand others; occasional very light spotting, minor marginal staining to first part, light offsetting from last ten plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, marbled edges; neatly rebacked preserving spines. Cf. Dance Shell Collecting ‘Bibliography’ 156-157; Landwehr 96; Nissen ZBI 2236. Price: £10,000 [ref: 85129]

26 Shapero Rare Books crisp example with twelve bright hand-coloured plates 19. LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius. Versuch bey angehender Frühlingszeit die Vergrösserungs Werckzeuge zum nützlich und angenehmen Zeitvertreib anzuwenden. Essai d’employer les instruments microscopiques avec utilité et plaisir dans la saison du Printemps. A.L. Wirsing, Nürnberg, 1764.

Ledermüller himself produced the drawings for this study, his second book, after the botanical artist Fossier. The plates depict microscopal views of plants, including the iris, rose, and ranunculus, alongside images of their component parts. Their rendering in bright colour and vivid detail has led Rautenberg to describe the book as the most beautifully decorated work in Ledermüller’s oeuvre (‘Beitr. alter Naturwiss. Werke’, V). Ledermüller (1719-69) was a German physician, lawyer, self-taught naturalist and keeper of the natural history collection of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Colmbach. He began his microscopical studies under the direction of Dr Christoph Jacob Trew, a wealthy physician and keen botanist. In 1763 he published his first book Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung, a manual for the amateur microscopist with engravings of plant, animal, and inorganic objects seen through a microscope. First edition. Folio (40 x 29.5cm). Hand-coloured title with rococo border engraved by Wirsing after Ledermüller, pp. 48, text in two columns in German and French, with 12 hand-coloured plates engraved by Wirsing after Ledermüller; light and small waterstain to lower margin of a few leaves. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and red title-label, speckled edges; joints and edges rubbed, top of spine chipped. Nissen BBI, 1160; Hunt 581. Price: £4,500 [ref: 90122]

Shapero Rare Books 27 first edition of the first book devoted to roses 20. LAWRANCE, Mary. A collection of roses from nature.

Published by Miss Lawrance, teacher of botanical drawing, &c., London, 1796-99. a fine copy with noble provenance. Mary Lawrance (fl. 1794-1830), was a noted flower-painter and teacher of painting, who exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1795, and this work represents a breakthrough in the depiction of the rose in all its complexity. Preceding Redouté’s more famous work by some twenty years, Mary Lawrance’s Collection of Roses from Nature drew on the new found popularity of roses as an element in English gardens. Less delicate in drawing and coloring than Redouté’s Les Roses, Mrs. Lawrance’s roses have about them a certain charm and prettiness that one associates with the efforts of a particularly English type, the extremely skilled ‘amateur.’ The pioneering nature of the work means that there are inevitable infelicities in some of the plates, but as Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi writes: ‘it cannot have been a simple task to present this flower for the first time in these ninety folio plates’. She also notes that the frontispiece, a garland of roses, ‘can certainly be counted among the most charming in botanical illustration’ (An Oak Spring Flora, p.300). The work was published in thirty parts, beginning in 1796. Provenance: Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh (bookplate). Folio (39 x 30 cm), hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece, calligraphic title-page and dedication leaf, 90 etched and stipple-engraved plates, all hand-coloured, 4 partly or entirely captioned in the author’s hand, 2 leaves of letterpress at end. Burgundy morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, triple gilt fillet borders on covers, spine gilt with rose motifs in compartments, gilt lettered in two, gilt edges. Dunthorne 176; Great Flower Books, page 64; Henrey 3:948; Nissen BBI 1151; An Oak Spring Flora 78; not in Hunt. Price: £50,000 [ref: 84800]

28 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 29 21. [LILIES]. illustration coloured by hand; a second dedication leaf (i), editor’s A Collection of Works on Lilies. adver tisement (iii-iv), uncoloured engraved calendar plates, one for each month of the year and a calendar for the year 1818 P. Didot L’Ainé, Paris, [c.1815- 1907]. (139-159); 12 hand-coloured engraved plates; moiré light blue silk slipcase and cover, richly gilt. slightly worn in parts. Important and unusual gathering of richly illustrated works on lilies covering nearly a century of lily production. 2. One folio album (39 x 27.5 cm), 35 colour printed woodblock The collection comprises: 1. Les Lys; 2. Lilies of Japan; 3. & 4. prints on handmade paper, each numbered and captioned at top [Nursery catalogues]; 5. A Collection of 74 Life-sized Japanese and outlined in ink. Woodblock Prints of Lilies; 6. Flower Plates – Japanese Nursery Catalogue for the season 1896-97; 7. Lilies of Japan; 8. Japan Lily 3. One oblong folio (27 x 39 cm), with a letterpress title-page Flowers; 9. Catalogue bulbs, plants and seeds, 1907. and table of contents, and 12 large colour plates. Printed on western-style wove paper. Stab sewn with green threads Of particular note is a rare catalogue of 74 Japanese in the original publisher’s colour-printed gray paper wrappers woodblock prints assembled by the Parisian seed & bulb (with the flower petals printed in silver). With it is the accompanying merchants and plant breeders Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie ‘Special Offer [.] Japanese Liliums’ price list, from the Nursery’s for internal use in c.1890 to show examples of bulbs imported London office, typed in blue and red on Japanese paper with from Japan (no 4). The prints themselves are beautifully colour-printed lilies at the foot hand-coloured, partly by hand and partly by stencils. Nearly all are true lilies (genus Lilium) but a few are other 4. Folio (40 x 30 cm), 14 collotype plates from photographs, flowers in the lily family (genus Cardiocrinmum and Fritillaria). captioned, tissues, bound in printed pictorial wrappers with silk They may have been produced at various dates, ties, printed label. but are likely to have been assembled around 1890 5. Folio (46.5 x 33 cm); with 74 coloured woodblocks prints by the head of the firm, Henry de Vilmorin (1843-1899), mounted in late nineteenth-century album and one hand-lettered his brother Maurice (1849-1918) or his son Philippe Japanese cover loosely inserted, suggesting that some of the prints de Vilmorin (1872-1917), whose bookplate appears on were made by Seizan Toko and distributed under the title ‘Yuri the front pastedown. The firm was originally established in 1775 Mosha’ (Copies of Lilies) by the flower society ‘Kyusai Yogetsu and concentrated on agricultural plants in the mid-nineteenth Kai’ (Yogetsu Relief Society?). With the bookplate of Philippe century but by 1890 they were introducing Japanese de Vilmorin (1872 – 1917). Rebacked preserving some plants to Europe and concentrating more on flowers. of the contemporary half calf. Also included in the collection is a rare English Language 6. 4to (27 x 19 cm), [i] (3) - 25, 32 plates; with one original Japanese nursery catalogue offered by Richachiro Tanoi, hand-coloured gouache of day-lily, (slightly browned) 32 numbered active in Yokohama from 1898, who appears to have taken lily species (I-XXXII) on 30 chromolithographed plates. over L. Boehmer and Co. another well known Yokohama Original publisher’s chromolithographed wrappers (with Lilies, breeder. Irises and Japanese maple leaves), repaired with tape, A collection of nine works; eight are housed in black buckram with the publisher’s letterpress advertisements pasted down solander box. to the inside front and back wrapper, (back wrapper torn at edge) 1. 12mo, (12.7 x 8.2 cm),pp [i]-[iii], iv-viii, 1-138, [139-159]. 7. 4to (27 x 19 cm); 42 plates, 42 numbered lily species Dedication leaf with engraved calligraphic title and engraved (I - XXXXII) on 42 chromolithographed plates, original

30 Shapero Rare Books chromolithographed wrappers. 8. 4to (27 x 19 cm); contents page and 37 plates, 42 numbered lily species (I - XXXVII) on 37 chromolithographed plates, chromololithographed front wrapper. 9. 4to (27 x 19 cm); (1) - 46, original chromolithographed front wrappers, sewn with white silk, with six lilies on the front and 3 chromolithographed plates of peonies, irises and Japanese maple leaves, 12 monochrome line illustrations in the text, spine slightly tattered.

Price: £15,000 [ref: 90149]

Shapero Rare Books 31 22. LOUDON, Jane.

The Ladies’ Flower-Garden [comprising] ornamental annuals; ornamental perennials (2 volumes); ornamental bulbous plants; ornamental greenhouse plants; British wild flowers. William Smith, London, 1834-1849.

An attractive set including two first editions of Loudon’s popular botanical works, containing a wealth of handsome hand-coloured lithographs. Loudon began her literary career with a strange futuristic novel entitled The Mummy (1827), and only began to write botanical works after her marriage to and work alongside John Loudon, the horticultural publisher and writer. Aware that the abundance of technical terms in horticultural books were off-putting to new gardeners, particularly women, she went about making gardening an accessible recreational activity. A self-taught artist, Loudon ranks as one of the most successful female botanical illustrators. Her artistic style, which involved grouping flowers to form delicate bouquets, though unusual for the time was immediately accepted among gardeners. Her attractive illustrations, known for their bright colour, became extremely sought after and were often imitated in designs for decorative products. Five works bound in 6 volumes, 4to (27 x 22cm.), first editions of Ornamental Perrenials & Ornamental Greenhouse plants, 303 (of 304) hand-coloured lithograph plates (47+95+58+60+42), occasional light spotting, original green cloth gilt, pictorial vignettes to spine and upper covers, spines faded to tan, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set. Nissen BBI 1253, 1237, 1235, 1233, 1236. Price: £10,000 [ref: 86137]

32 Shapero Rare Books 23. LOW, David. The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands.

Longman, Orme, London, [1840]-1842.

First edition of The Breeds including sections on the horse (8 plates), the ox (22), the sheep (21), and the pig (5). Within each section ‘The descriptions are preceded by a full history of the wild and domesticated races so far as known. The two most remarkable circumstances in the history of the Horse are the character of the British racehorse and the escape of the horse from human control in Spanish America’. David Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, commissioned the artist William Shiel to paint portraits of the animal subjects from which the magnificent lithographed plates were made. 2 volumes bound in 1, folio, half-titles, 56 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Fairland after W. Nicholson, from paintings by William Shiels, tissue guards, contemporary green half morocco gilt for Sotheran, all edges gilt, a very handsome copy. Nissen ZBI 2564, erroneously calling for 57 plates; Podeschi/Mellon 168; Wood, p.442. Price: £9,500 [ref: 97112]

Shapero Rare Books 33 the great shell book b ased upon Captain Cook’s specimens 24. MARTYN, Thomas. The Universal Conchologist. Exhibiting the figure of every known shell accurately drawn and painted after nature with a new systematic arrangement. Figures of non descript shells, collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since the year 1794. London, 1789.

One of the most beautiful of all shell books containing exquisite renderings of shells collected on Cook’s three voyages, and other voyages, with specimens identified as having been obtained from New Holland, New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, and the Hawaiian Islands. Martyn ‘produced a work which, for beauty, has seldom been surpassed in the history of conchological iconography.’ (Peter Dance, Shell Collecting). An excellent example in contemporary red morocco elegantly decorated and train boys to paint in a uniform style. His first boy in gilt. joined him about 1779; others followed, and eventually he had ten young men at work in his ‘academy’ at 10 Great The first edition was produced over many years, the slowness Marlborough Street, Westminster. In the first three and a half of production being caused by the painstaking method years over 6000 paintings were produced; at the end of that time of printing the plates to appear as original watercolours. Martyn saw that the standard had greatly improved, Only about 70 complete copies were actually produced. and decided to scrap the earlier plates and copies The second edition was intended to comprise eight volumes and begin again. This cost him dear, in time and money, eventually but only the first two were ever published. but the splendour of the Conchologist brought him rewards ‘Thomas Martyn (fl. 1779–1811), natural history illustrator in the form of gold medals from Pope Pius VI, the German and pamphleteer, was said to be a native of Coventry, Emperor Ferdinand, and the king of Naples, and flattering Warwickshire. Martyn developed a talent for coloured letters from lesser dignitaries.’ (ODNB). depictions of insects and shells. He purchased shells brought Second edition. 2 volumes bound in 1, 4to., 2 engraved back from Cook’s third voyage, although, as he wrote calligraphic titles, engraved calligraphic dedication leaf, 39 pp., to Henry Seymer on 9 December 1780, ‘I have purchased, 2 engraved explanatory tables, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece amounting to 400 guineas, more than 2 thirds of the whole of a turbo archimedes captioned in greek within a gold painted brought home, Nevertheless I do not abound either greek key border, 80 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, in the variety of the new or many duplicates of the known numbered in top right-hand corner, contemporary straight-grained ones that are valuable’ (Dance, 100). red morocco gilt, covers with geometric gilt borders, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, double raised Since Martyn’s illustrations were hand-coloured he needed bands ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy. the assistance of professional artists, but, finding that Forbes, Hawaiian, miniaturists were unwilling to interrupt their normal work 176; Nissen ZBI 2728. to paint shells, he decided to recruit his own workforce Price: £17,500 [ref: 91339]

34 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 35 bound for the Holy Roman Emperor 25. MICHELI, Petri Antonii. Catalogus Plantarum Horti Caesarei Florentini Opus Postumum.

Bernard Paperini, Florentiae, 1748.

Beautiful example in a red morocco binding for Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany. The first botanical garden in Florence was established by Luca Ghine in 1545, and seems to have been no more than a herb garden. In 1718 the garden was revived and Pier’ Antonio Micheli (1679 – 1737) became its first director. He died from pleurisy contracted on one of his plant-collecting expeditions, and this catalogue was published posthumously by his successor Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti, who contributed a prefatory history of the garden to the work. Provenance: Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708-1765), arms on binding, (Grand Duke of Tuscany). First edition. 4to (34.2 x 23.7 cm) Half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved armorial vignette, folding engraved garden plan, 7 engraved plates, engraved vignettes and initials. Contemporary red morocco gilt, central arms gilt of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, within wide foliate borders gilt with foliate cornerpieces, spine gilt in 7 compartments; 1st compartment of spine neatly restored. Pritzel 6203; not in Nissen or Hunt. Price: £7,500 [ref: 94661]

36 Shapero Rare Books parrots by Keulemans, provenance including his biographer 26. MIVART, ST. George Jackson. A monograph of the lories, or brush-tongued parrots, composing the family loriidae.

R.H. Porter, London, 1896.

Mivart (1827-1900), is probably best known for his vehement opposition to the ideas of Darwin, having originally been one of his most ardent supporters. He was attracted to these parrots by their suitability for domestication as well as by their colouring; his monograph depicted and described 16 species for the first time. The work is distinguished by the fine illustrations of George Keulemans, the leading bird illustrator of his day. The provenance of the present copy includes Jan Coldewey, auythor (with Keulemans’ son, Tony), of Feathers to Brush, the only significant biography of the artist. Provenance: 1. William Edward Oates (armorial bookplate); 2. F. Ransom (bookplate); 3. Jan Coldewey (bookplate); 4. Kemerton Court (armorial bookplate). First edition, 4to., liv, 193 pp., 61 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates after and by Keulemans, 4 lithographed maps partially printed in colour, 19 text figures, original brown gilt, a clean fresh copy. Ayer/Zimmer 439; FBB 94; Keulemans 64; Nissen, IVB 640; Wood 468. Price: £11,000 [ref: 96626]

Shapero Rare Books 37 27. PENNANT, Thomas.

Zoologia Britannica... Classis I quadupedia II aves. Johann Jacob Haid und Sohn, Augsburg, 1771-[1778].

Fine, fresh example of the German edition of Pennant’s British Zoology, with the plates re-engraved by Haid, with vibrant original colour. From the library of the Sigmaringen castle, belonging to one of the most importantEuropean Princely family, the Hohenzollern. The House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen is the senior Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern and counts among its members a King of Romania and a Minister President of Prussia (Karl Anton, 1811-85). Bird books enjoyed great popular in the eighteenth century, both as works of scholarship and as splendid collectables for the libraries of wealthy connoisseurs. Amongst the finest was Pennant’s British Zoology, his first and most spectacular work. The title is something of a misnomer for of the 132 plates, 121 are of birds. It was organized according to the classificatory systems of John Ray, whom Pennant much admired. Pennant believed in meticulous research and preparation and in the importance of high quality illustrations as an adjunct to his work. ‘The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, Provenance: Fürstliche Hohenzollernsche Hofbibliothek many of them life-size... Peter Paillou contributed most of Sigmaringen (ink stamps to title of vol.1 and first plate of vol.2, the designs and coloured the prints, the colour being extended 1841 handwritten inscription on upper pastedown of vol.2). to the trees, branches and foregrounds. These really splendid Two volumes, folio (49.2 x 35.1 cm). Text in German and Latin, folio plates cost Pennant so much that the British charity title printed in red and black, dedication leaf, 132 hand-coloured school at Clerkenwell Green, for which the profits of the book engraved plates by Haid after Paillou; some plate numbers, were intended, came off rather badly, as did Pennant himself. captions and imprints cropped, in one or two cases just touching Nevertheless they showed what could be done in the image, plates 106-108 with isolated stain, plate 114 the production of good, large pictures of British birds.’ (Jackson). bound out of order. Near contemporary half calf; slightly rubbed,

an attractive example. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was a prolific author of natural Cf. Anker 392; Fine BirdBooks, history and topographical works. In his famous autobiography page 99; Jackson, Etchings, page 106; Mullens & Swann, The Literary Life (1793) he states that he sometimes marvelled 465; Nissen IVB 710; Wood, p.515; Zimmer, p.487. at his own industry. Price: £25,000 [ref: 90378]

38 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 39 the Bradley Martin copy 28. PERRY, George.

Conchology or the Natural History of Shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries. William Miller, London, 1811.

A lovely, fresh copy with good provenance: Bradley Martin was perhaps the greatest collector of natural history books of the post-war era. His collection was sold at auction by Sotheby’s in a series of sales some twenty years ago. This is an important work on bivalves and univalves including many Pacific specimens. Twenty-three specimens are from New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land; 10 from New Zealand; 15 from the South Seas; 2 from the Pacific Islands; and one from Otaheite. Specimens are also identified as coming from the collections of Mrs. Bligh, Mr. Latham, and the museums of Mr. Bullock and Sir Ashton Lever. The artist, John Clarke, is possibly the same Clarke who worked on John Eyre’s famous four-part panorama of Sydney, published in London in 1810. The book was issued (possibly in parts) over a number of years with variations as to make-up of text, date of plates, and identity of printers. Provenance: Pine Coffin (armorial bookplate); Bradley Martin (bookplate). Folio (46 x 28.5 cm), text watermarked ‘T H’ and dated 1818, 61 hand-coloured aquatint plates after drawings by John Clarke, on Whatman paper dated 1820-1824; without half-title. Uncut in original pink boards; rubbed with wear to edges, joints sometime repaired. Forbes, 425; Nissen ZBI 3134. Price: £5,000 [ref: 93879]

40 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 41 29. POITEAU, Pierre-Antoine. Pomologie francaise. Recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France.

Langlois et Leclercq, Paris, 1846.

One of the most magnificent of fruit books. Sandra Raphael notes that ‘from 1807 to 1835 a new edition of Duhamel’s Trait des Arbres frutiers, expanded by Poiteau and Turpin, was published in 72 parts with over 400 new plates. Ten years later, after Turpin’s death, it was reprinted with a new title under the name of Poiteau alone.’ The latter had been responsible for the text, although Turpin was also a botanist, and both belonged to the group of flower and fruit artists associated with Redoute. The truly ‘magnifiques gravures’ are devoted to peaches and plums (vol. I), cherries and strawberries (vol. II), gooseberries and pears (vol. III), and a luxurious array of apples (vol. IV). 4 volumes, folio (44 x 33.5 cm), 420 engraved plates by Poiteau and Turpin, printed in colours and finished by hand by Bouquet, Leuleu, Gabriel, Massard, Bocourt, Legrand, Allais, Rodrigue and others, 3 plain plates. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, some light spotting to text, a few plates with light toning and spotting, generally clean and fresh, a very handsome set. W. Blunt and W. Stearn, The Art of Botanical Illustration, p.208; Bradley III, p.84 (calling erroneously for 431 plates); H.F. Janson, Pomona’s Harvest, pages 297 & 401; Oak Spring Pomona 31; Nissen BBI 1554; Sitwell page 93 (note); cf. Stafleu & Cowan 1548. Price: £75,000 [ref: 95781]

42 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 43 contemporary red morocco 30. REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (illustrator) and Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU. La Botanique.

Badouin Frères, Paris, 1821.

Lovely example, in a signed binding, of Redouté’s beautifully illustrated publication of letters on botany by the great philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), written in the years 1771 to 1773 and apparently first published in 1782. They first appeared with Redouté’s illustrations in 1805, in both a folio and a quarto issue, the latter reissued in 1821 from the original plates. This scarce second edition was printed by Alexandre Baudouin and his brother on heavy wove paper. The book serves largely as a vehicle to display the botanical art of Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) who executed all the paintings or watercolour drawings. They were stipple-engraved and (except for that used as a title-vignette), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand. The plates show flowers, fruits, bulbs, leaves, etc. of flowering plants and trees, some showing whole plants and others showing details, sometimes cut away to reveal anatomical details. Folio (37.5 x 28 cm.), xi, 159, [1]pp., 65 stipple-engraved plates by Bouquet, Chailly, and other after P. J. Redouté printed in colours and finished by hand, original tissue guards, a little light foxing but plates generally clean, contemporary red half morocco gilt by Duplanil signed at foot of spine, lightly rubbed, a very good copy. Cf Dunthorne 252; Great Flower Books, page 74; Hunt Redoutéana, 15; Nissen 1688. Price: £5,000 [ref: 90197]

44 Shapero Rare Books 31. REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph, illustrator; Augustin Pyramus Candolle. Astragalogia nepe astragali, biserrulae et oxytropidis, nec non phacae, colutae et lessertiae, historia iconibus illustrata.

Garnery, Paris, An XI [1802].

Beautifully bound copy with illustrious provenance, illustrated by Redouté at the same time as he was illustrating Les Liliacées. Astragalus is a large genus of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae and the subfamily Faboideae. Common names include milkvetch, locoweed (North America), and goat’s-thorn. It is food for some butterfly larvae and is also used in traditional Chinese and Persian medicine. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a botanist and pioneering agronomist, was born in Geneva in 1778. In 1796, the geologist Déodat de Dolomieu invited him to come to Paris to study both medicine and natural history. He attended the lectures of many of the famous scientists of the day, and was closely acquainted with Cuvier, Lamarck, Desfontaines, and Delessert. Candolle returned to Geneva in 1797, but was back in Paris a year later and remained there until 1808. The years he spent in Paris were in fact remarkably productive, and by the time he was in his early twenties, he was recognised as an important member of the botanical circle. His first major publication was Plantarum historia succulentarum (1799 – 1802), Provenance: 1. Earls of Derby at Knowsley Hall (engraved issued in twenty sections with eight more added in 1803. armorial bookplate of the on the front paste-down), and inscribed This was followed by Astragalogia. with a note about acquisition dated 1816 on the front free endpaper; 2. Robert De Belder, Sotheby’s, 27 April 1997, lot 59. ‘The first monographic study of the genus was done by the naturalist Simon P. Pallas, in the Species Astragalorum (1800), First edition. Large paper copy. Folio (52.5 x 35 cm). Half-title, who traveled extensively across the Russian empire in central 50 engraved plates by Plee, Tardieu, and others after Redoute; Asia. Almost simultaneously, De Candolle published this some variable spotting throughout. Contemporary French half red work in which he divided the Linnaean Astragalus into three morocco, scarlet paper boards, gilt. genera: Astragalus, with obtuse keel (petal) and pod fully Redoutéana, 9; Nissen 319; Dunthorne 242. Summarized, or semi-bilocular by inflexion of dorsal suture; Phaca, in part, from Barneby’s (1964; pp. 1-8) ‘A Short History with obtuse keel and unilocular pod; and Oxytropis, of the Genus.’ with appendaged keel and semi- to fully bilocular pod by inversion of the ventral suture.’ (Barneby) Price: £7,500 [ref: 90237]

Shapero Rare Books 45 32. REEVE, Lovell [Augustus]. Conchologia Systematica, or Complete System of Conchology, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1841-42. ‘Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865), conchologist and publisher, was born at Ludgate Hill, London, on 19 April 1814, the son of Thomas Reeve, draper and mercer, and his wife, Fanny Lovell. After attending school at Stockwell he was apprenticed at the age of thirteen to a Mr Graham, a grocer of Ludgate Hill. The chance visit of a sailor to the family shop with a calico handkerchief full of cowry shells, which he purchased for a few pence, led to Reeve’s becoming a lifelong student of conchology. In 1833 he attended the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge where he acted as conchologist to the natural history section on its excursion into the fens between Cambridge and Ely. His apprenticeship over, Reeve visited Paris where he read a paper on the classification of the Mollusca before the French Academy of Sciences. He returned to London and began work on his first book, Conchologia systematica (2 vols., 1841–2). The publication costs, however, used up all the moneys left to him by his father and compelled him to make a fresh start in life. An opportunity to make some money came from his purchase, at Rotterdam, of a large collection of shells amassed by the Dutch governor-general of the Moluccas, General Ryder. Its profitable sale enabled Reeve to open a shop in King William Street, Strand, where he established himself as a dealer in natural objects and as a publisher specializing in natural history books’ (ODNB). 2 volumes, 4to (28 x 22 cm): (I) vi, 195 pp, (II) ii, 337 pp; 301 hand-coloured lithograph plates, light to occasionally moderate foxing to the plates, plates slightly toned, a few plates a little creased, folding table (torn at fold). Contemporary half morocco with grained cloth sides, spines gilt titled and tooled with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled end-papers, joints and a cornersrubbed, ink splashes to fore-edge. Nissen ZBI 3332. Price: £3,750 [ref: 96276]

46 Shapero Rare Books 33. ROEMER, Johan Jakob. Genera insectorum Linnæi et Fabricii iconibus illustrata.

Henric. Steiner et Socios, Winterthur, 1789.

A beautiful example of Swiss entomology. The exquisite engravings were done by J.R. Schellenberg, who was both artist and entomologist himself. Johan Christian Fabricius, a student of Linnaeus, was considered the most influential entomologist of the eighteenth century; where Linnaeus favoured botany, Fabricius redressed the balance in favour of insects and corrected Linnaeus’s genera. Provenance: 1. Beaufort (early ink ownership inscription to title); 2. C.StL.P. de Beaufort (late 19th-century armorial bookplate to upper pastedown). First edition, 4to., viii, 86, [4 (index, blank)] pp., with 37 copper-engraved plates (of which 36 hand-coloured), two copper-engraved vignettes within text on p.37, and a hand-coloured copper-engraved vignette to title; some spotting, a few corners dog-eared, 3 inch closed tear to plate V affecting one small illustration, small marginal loss to lower corner of plate XXVI, contemporary marbled calf, edges marbled (faded); joints repaired, a very good copy with beautifully coloured plates. Hagen, Roemer 4; Nissen ZBI 3642. Price: £1,950 [ref: 96901]

Shapero Rare Books 47 more than 50 hand-coloured flowers 34. ROSCOE, Margaret. Floral Illustrations of the seasons.

Thomas Richardson, London, 1829.

Fine, fresh copy of the first edition. ‘A representation drawn from Nature of some of the most beautiful, hardy and rare Hebraceous Plants cultivated in the Flower Garden’ (Dunthorne). Margaret Lace (Mrs. Edward) Roscoe was an English botanical illustrator. She contributed illustrations to one of the early lithographed botanical books, Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamae (1824-29) written by her father-in-law William Roscoe, a botanist and patron of the arts and sciences in Liverpool. Her major work was the present work, engraved by Robert Havell, one of the leading engravers of the day. She explained her objective for the collection as follows: ‘There is no pursuit which fills the mind with more noble and exalted sentiments than the study of these works of Nature...To her own sex, to whose particular notice she offers it, she trusts it may prove a useful and correct guide to their tastes, both in their selection for a flower garden, and as objects for their pencil.’ First edition. 4to., Engraved title, 55 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates by Robert Havell jun. after Roscoe, some partially printed in colour. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt. BM(NH) IV, p. 1729; Brunet IV, 1392-3; Dunthorne 266; Great Flower Books page 133; Nissen BBI 1676; Stafleu and Cowan 9504. Price: £4,000 [ref: 85275]

48 Shapero Rare Books spectacular South Afric an flora 35. ROUPELL, Arabella E. Specimens of the flora of South Africa by a lady.

W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, London, 1849.

Roupell (1817-1914) was married to an East India Company official In 1843, her husband was posted to the Cape for a period of service leave and she accompanied him. During her two-year stay in South Africa Roupell whiled away her leisure hours by painting the local flowers that happened to catch her eye. A visitor to the Cape, Nathaniel Wallich, who was at that time in charge of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, and happened to be a guest at the same Cape Town hotel as the Roupells, was struck by the quality of her work. The Roupells returned to Madras in 1845 where Arabella continued her botanical painting. When Wallich retired to London from Calcutta in 1846, he persuaded her to allow him to take along some of her paintings to show to Sir William Jackson Hooker. Hooker was delighted with her work and with Arabella’s botanist brother-in-law, George Roupell, chose ten of the plates for publication. Having received the blessing of both Hooker and Wallich, the plates were handed to the eminent Victorian lithographer, Paul Gauci, who prepared the illustrations for the printer W. Nicol of the Shakespeare Press on Pall Mall. The descriptive text accompanying the plates was provided by William Henry Harvey, the Irish botanist. One hundred subscribers were listed, a large portion being from the Peerage, and not counting Victoria, Prince Albert and the Directors of the East India Company. The book was well received not only in England, but also on the Continent, where the author was elected a member of the Regensburg Society of Arts. The work is dedicated to Wallich in recognition of his First edition. Large folio (59 x 46 cm), subscription list, pictorial ‘flattering encouragement and scientific guidance’ with lithographed title, 8 lithographed plates and large floral tailpiece, ‘every feeling of grateful and affectionate esteem’. all hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, modern green half morocco gilt preserving original green morocco label, It is thought that only 110 copies of the atlas folio were printed, a fine copy. making the work rare, expensive and highly desirable Nissen BBI 1687; Great Flower Books p. 74; to collectors. Stafleu TL 29684. Price: £8,000 [ref: 94783]

Shapero Rare Books 49 imperial edition 36. SANDER, Henry Frederick Conrad. Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described. Henry Sotheran & Co and F. Sander & Co., London & St. Albans, 1888-1894, [1895].

Published during the heyday of the late Victorian orchid mania, Sander was the foremost authority on the Orchidaceae, as well as the largest grower, maintaining nurseries in England, Belgium, and the United States. He had agents gathering plants worldwide, often dangerous work, and he reports in the description of one orchid: ‘Orchidists are familiar with the names of Wallis, Endrès, Klaboch, Falkenberg, Schröder, Arnold, Douglas, and others, who have died in the cause of botanical science.’ He named the work in honor of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, a natural historian whose province was orchids (Reichenbach’s library, drawing and specimens are in the Naturhistorisches Museum of Vienna). The illustrations are largely after the work of Henry George Moon, and these are of great elegance. The colour plates in this Imperial edition are of the same size as those of the regular unlimited edition, but were issued mounted to large sheets of card, and these sets were apparently intended for presentation by Sander. The distinction between these two editions is sometimes overlooked: it is an especially commanding work in this form, and also quite rare thus. Provenance: From the Collection of Judith Taubman. Imperial edition. Large folio (65 x 48 cm), limited to 100 all edges gilt, generally a very clean set internally, numbered copies, signed by Sander, four volumes bound as eight though with some minor discolouration from the mounting (First Series, volumes 1 and 2; Second series, volumes 1 and 2), adhesive noticeable in the second volumes of the first series, 192 fine chromolithograph plates, most finished by hand occasional trivial adhesion marks of the tissues to the plates, with gum arabic or added colour, lithographed by Joseph Mansell, though in general this set has far less adhesion than frequently G. Leutzsch and J. L. Macfarlane after Henry Moon, W. H. Fitch, found, the first part of the first volume of the second series A. H. Loch and C. Storer, occasional wood-engraved illustrations a little bumped with resultant creasing of corners throughout the text, plates mounted to card as issued and bound of the mounts. on tabs, each plate protected with a tissue-guard, uniform Great Flower Books (1990) p. 135; nineteenth century green half morocco gilt over green cloth, Nissen BBI 1722; Stafleu and Cowan 10.219.

Price: £37,500 [ref: 97056]

50 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 51 first edition of the most sumptuous monograph on turacos 37. SCHLEGEL, Hermann; Gerardus Frederick Westermann.

De Toerako’s afgebeeld en beschreven.

Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam, 1860.

Turacos, also called plantain-eaters and go-away-birds, are found only in sub-Sahara Africa. These exotic birds belong, like the cuckoos, to the order Cuculiformes, but they are assigned to a unique order (Musophagiformes). The plates are excellent and suggest the work of Wolf’ (Zimmer). Schlegel’s drawings were made largely from live specimens at the Amsterdam Zoo, of which Westerman was the director. The plates are life-size, accounting for the large format of the book. The books were never for sale but were intended as presentation tributes to members of the Royal Zoological Society in particular and zoological science in general, who deserved recognition. Schlegel (1804-1884), was director of the Natural History Museum at Leiden. First Edition. Large Folio (70.5 x 54 cm). 24, [1(Tabula synoptica)] pp, Dutch text, table in Latin, 17 lithographed plates, after Schlegel by P. Trap, present in two states, plain and with original hand colour heightened with gum arabic, very occasional light spotting (typical with this title), modern half black calf over cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine and to upper cover in imitation of the title-page, original upper printed wrapper bound in, an excellent example. Ayer/Zimmer 555; Copenhagen/Anker 444; Fine Bird Books 105; Landwehr 175; Nissen, IVB 833. Price: £9,500 [ref: 95260]

52 Shapero Rare Books 38. SCLATER, Philip.

Exotic ornithology containing figures and descriptions of new or rare species of American birds. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1866-1869.

Published in 13 parts between October 1866 and November 1869, the preface states it was originally intended to cover ‘the many new and rare ornithological forms that have been recently discovered in nearly every part of the world’s surface. As it progressed, however, the authors found that it would be more convenient to restrict it to the birds of the Neotropical Region -- that is America south of the United States. No other part of the world can vie with Tropical America in the richness of its avifauna; and nowhere else have so many brilliant discoveries been recently made.’ ‘The authors’ original plan was that their work should form a continuation of well-known atlases, such as Buffon and Daubenton. According to the plan, the work was to give figures and descriptions of new and rare birds from all parts of the world; however, the authors soon limited the task to the birds of the Neotropical region’ (Anker). ‘The plates are all by Mr. Smit; they are very beautiful. The whole number of species figured is 104, referring to 51 genera. In most cases, a systematic list of the other American species of the same genus is appended to the final illustration of each, thereby enlarging the scope and greatly increasing the value of the work. Each of the species is systematically treated with synonymy, diagnosis and critical and biographical matter. The authors are the highest authorities in neotropical ornithology and this work is a monument of erudition, industry and artistic excellence’ (Coues). ‘Smit has done an excellent job with these plates, for the lovingly detailed birds stand out sharply against First edition. Imperial 4to., 204 pp., 100 hand-coloured their backgrounds of trees, branches and leaves. It is obvious lithographs by Joseph Smit, small stamp to verso of title, page 161, that Smit enjoyed painting the leaves as well as the birds, and last leaf, red half morocco, gilt, raised bands, top edge for they are beautifully executed.’ gilt, lightly rubbed, a very handsome example. Jackson, Bird Illustrators: Some Artists in Early Lithography, p.76; Fine Provenance: Hugh Levick (armorial bookplate); Madelaine Jay Bird Books (1990), page 139; Nissen IVB 844; Anker p.450; (bookplate); North Devon Atheneum (bequest stamp to title verso). Wood p.558; Zimmer p.260; Sabin 78138 Price: £10,000 [ref: 96627]

Shapero Rare Books 53 Art Nouveau 39. SEDER, Anton. Die Pflanzen in Kunst und Gewerbe

Gerlach & Schenk, Vienna, [1890].

Important art nouveau work incorporating plants into decorative motifs. Munich painter Anton Seder (1850-1916), was the first director of the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, founded in 1890, where he served for many years. Strasbourg had been ceded by France to Germany in 1871 and was returned to France in 1918; therefore, the cultur- al environment was a mixture of French and German in- fluences. Seder co-edited the magazine Das Kunstgewerbe in Elsass-Lothringen (The Arts and Crafts in Alsace-Lorraine). His designs were also included in many periodicals of decorative arts designs, issued as chromolithographs. 2 volumes folio (55 x 39 cm), 3 colour titles, register of plates and 196 lithograph plates of which 113 are in colour (some heightened with gold and silver) by Johann Haupt, Anton Hartinger, J. Lowy, Friedrich Jasper, Eduard Sieger, E. Beck, after designs by Anton Seder, original cloth-backed printed boards portfolios, original ties, a very good, clean set.

Price: £7,500 [ref: 91588]

54 Shapero Rare Books with the prospectus 40. SHELLEY, George Ernest. A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sunbirds.

The Author, London, [1876-80].

‘An excellent monograph of an interesting family of birds’ (Zimmer). First edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the Nectariniidae illustrates 138 species, including two new genera and ten new species. The work appeared in twelve parts from July 1876 to February 1880, the original title of the work being A Monograph of the Cinnyridae.

Shelley acknowledges the importance of Keuleman’s specialist knowledge in his preface: ‘The illustrations which form such an important portion of my Monograph, have all been executed by Mr. Keulemans, whose name is sufficient guarantee for the accuracy of the details and for high artistic skill. The latter is rendered perhaps more striking from his being acquainted with this family of birds in their native haunts; and his notes upon the sun-birds inhabiting Prince’s Island have been incorporated in my work.’ Provenance: Zoological Society of London (stamps to front free endpaper, title page, and dedication leaf; Kemerton Court (armorial bookplate). First edition. 4to., cviiii, 393 pp., 121 hand-coloured lithographs by Keulemans; plates clean and fresh, original upper wrappers bound-in, original prospectus with specimen plate tipped-in, later half tan morocco gilt, tiny repair to blank outer corner of title, a very good copy. Nissen, IVB, 873; Wood page 566. Price: £11,500 [ref: 96628]

Shapero Rare Books 55 41. SWEET, Robert. The florist’s guide, and cultivator’s directory; containing coloured figures of the choicest flowers, cultivated by florists. James Ridgway, London, 1827-1832.

‘Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner in a series of nurseries. He was associated with nurseries at Stockwell, Fulham and Chelsea. In 1812 he joined Colvills, the famous Chel- sea nursery, and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society. By 1818 he was publishing horticultural and botanical works. He published a number of beautifully illustrated works on plants cultivated in British gardens and hothouses. The fine plates were mainly drawn by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800–1883), a botanical artist, who was attached to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His works include Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis (1818), Geraniaceae (five volumes) (1820–30), Cistineae, Sweet’s Hortus Britannicus (1826–27), Flora Australasica (1827–28) and British Botany (with H. Weddell) (1831). He died at Chelsea, London in January 1835. He was charged with receiving a batch of plants allegedly stolen from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. It was suggested that this was an attempt to frame him by an official at Kew whom Sweet had criticised. He was acquitted after a well-publicised trial. Robert Sweet received high praise from his contemporaries at his trial and was described as possibly the first practical botanist.’ First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., 200 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Watts after E.D. Smith plate 46 strengthened on verso of fore-margin, uncut, modern green half morocco gilt, red morocco labels, marbled sides, light offsetting from plates to text, a very attractive set. Nissen BBI 1925; Great Flower Books, Great Flower Books, page 77; Pritzel 9080.

Price: £9,000 [ref: 91266]

56 Shapero Rare Books item 42, the temple of flora

Shapero Rare Books 57 a superb example 42. THORNTON, Robert John. New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus Comprehending... the Temple of Flora, Compositionally, they are striking and botanically, they or Garden of Nature. are accurate. They were rendered by artists including Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, For The Publisher, London, [1799]-1807. Abraham Pether, Peter Henderson, Philip Reinagle and in one case (Roses) Thornton himself. The engraving The first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting and colouring is masterly: Bartolozzi, Earlom, and John Landseer the natural habitat of the plant. The life-size flowers stand used a broad range of printing techniques to virtuoso effect. out dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. Thornton’s announced intention was to make this work First edition, Large folio (59 x 47.5 cm). Part I: engraved half-title the most magnificent tribute ever paid to the famous Swedish ‘A British Trophy...’; engraved portrait of Thornton by F. Bartolozzi botanist by illustrating his Sexual System with the finest after Russell; engraved additional title; mezzotint portrait of possible prints. It was a work on which no expense was spared. Linnaeus in Lapland dress by Dunkarton after Kingsbury (coloured state); engraved portrait of Linnaeus by H. Meyer after Hollman Robert Thornton, who studied medicine at Cambridge and Bartolozzi (in both coloured and uncoloured states); engraved and lectured on medical botany at Guy’s Hospital in London, portrait of Queen Charlotte by Bartolozzi after W. Beechey; possessed a considerable fortune through the deaths of his engraved dedication; 3 engraved tables; engraved part-title father, mother and elder brother. It was his ambition, in which ‘The Prize Dissertation’; engraved plates of ‘The Universal Power he was supremely successful, to produce a British florilegium of Love,’ portrait of Sir Thomas Millington, and ‘Farina of Flowers,’ whose qualities would outstrip any previous work, although with letterpress title and 28 ff. text (including dedication the effort proved disastrous to his finances, as he spared and part-title) with 1806 watermarks. Part 2: engraved part-title; no expense in the production. He had originally planned mezzotint portrait of Linnaeus in Lapland dress by Dunkarton that the work should contain seventy colour plates, but he after Kingsbury (uncolored state); 2 engraved tables, with 8 ff. curtailed the production after some thirty plates had been (including half-title) with 1806 watermarks. Part III: engraved produced, a circumstance that he describes in his Apology title on 2 sheets; engraved table of contents; engraved dedication to My Subscribers at the end of the work, in which he on 2 sheets; engraved part-title; 3 plates: ‘Flora Dispensing her indicates that the Napoleonic Wars had harmed the endeavour. Favours on Earth’ (aquatint and stipple engraved, hand-coloured), In 1812, he attempted to recoup some of his expenses and ‘Aesculapius, Flora, Ceres and Cupid...’ and ‘Cupid Inspiring by conducting a lottery, offering as first prize the original the Plants with Love’ (color printed stipple-engravings finished paintings for the plates, but this was a financial failure, by hand); 30 mixed-method engraved plates (mezzotint, aquatint, and he died in diminished circumstances in 1837, leaving with some stipple) printed in colours and finished by hand (N.B. his family near destitution. the plate list calls for 28 plates; this copy has two additional plates, Despite Thornton’s misadventures, the work ranks high the group of four auriculas and the pitcher plant), with 78 ff. including in the pantheon of colour plate books, and is especially part-title and title, the text bearing 1804 watermarks. pleasing when the plates are in early states, as many Most of the plates appear in first or early states by Dunthorne’s in this copy are. With their complex backgrounds criteria. Early twentieth century half red morocco, top edge gilt, featuring landscapes and architecture, the illustrations a fine, large copy. Dunthorne 301; Great Flower Books, p. 143; are quite unlike anything that came before, and are imbued Nissen BBI 1955; Stafleu & Cowan 14283. with a thoroughly Romantic aesthetic. Price: £125,000 [ref: 97050]

58 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 59 Americ an exotics 43. TREW, Christoph Jacob. Uitgezochte Planten,... Uit het Latyn vertaald en met aantekeningen verrykt door Cornelius Pereboom.

Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, [1769]-1771- [1774].

The first Dutch edition of Trew’s Plantae selectae, full of exotic American specimens. ‘George Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770), botanical artist, originally trained as a gardener, initially working on estates of German nobility, and painted flowers as a hobby, taught by his father, a good draughtsman. His first major sale of flower paintings came through Dr Christoph Joseph Trew, eminent physician and botanist of Nuremberg, who recognized his exceptional talent and became both patron and lifelong friend. Ehret sent him large batches of watercolours on the fine-quality paper Trew provided. In 1733 Trew taught Ehret the botanical importance of floral sexual organs and advised that he should show them in detail in his paintings. Many Ehret watercolours were engraved in Trew’s works, such as Hortus Nitidissimus) and Plantae selectae in part two of which Trew named the genus Ehretia after him’ (ODNB). Hunt notes: ‘... Ehret achieves realism, majesty, ineffable colour, all in one breathtaking look.’ Trew (1695-1769), was a physician and botanist in Nuremburg. The present work is notable for the exceptional number (66) of illustrations of exotic American plants, such as the pineapple, banana, yucca, red maple, sugar maple, rainbow iris, and magnolia. According to the subscribers list, just 62 copies were subscribed. Folio (53.5 x 38 cm). [iv], vi, 72 pp., 100 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.J. Haid and J.E. Haid after G.D. Ehret, well-margined example. One of the greatest eighteenth-century captions in gold, plates XIV - XIX with small light stain to upper botanical colourplate books. It has magnificent illustrations blank margin, plate XCIV bound after plate XCV, bound by Ehret, whose career was established by his involvement without the 3 mezzotint portraits and divisional titles, with Trew, and parts of this work were expected with keen contemporary Dutch calf gilt, spine in nine compartments, anticipation. Nissen, BBI 1998; Landwehr 199; red morocco lettering piece to second, others richly gilt, Stafleu TL2 15.131; cf. Hunt 539; cf. Pritzel 9499. joints rubbed, extremities and edges worn, internally a clean Price: £45,000 [ref: 95120]

60 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 61 ‘Orchidelirium’ 44. WARNER, Robert, Benjamin Samuel Williams, & Thomas Moore.

The Orchid Album, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants. The coloured figures by John Nugent Fitch. B. S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, London, 1882–97.

First edition of this magnificent work, one of the great orchid books of the nineteenth century; bibliographies call for 528 plates but overlook the fact that the only folding plate (which appears in volume I) is double-numbered as 9-10 - this is a complete set and includes the four-page obituary for Benjamin Samuel Williams in volume IX. A particularly attractive set, in the bright original cloth bindings. The Orchid Album was published at the height of The stunning plates are the work of John Nugent Fitch the ‘Orchidelirium’ which had been building in Britain (1840–1927), nephew of Walter Hood Fitch: ‘Fitch’s work for some decades, but which seized the imaginations was more flamboyant than that of such predecessors as Ehret, of late Victorian horticulturists in the same way that Redouté, or the Bauer brothers, combining botanical accuracy the tulip craze inflamed the minds of collectors in Golden Age with a flair for page design. In Britain and Europe he had Holland. Anna Pavord writes ‘Some of the grander Victorian little competition, being rivalled only by the Frenchman Alfred growers, such as the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth Riocreux’ (ODNB). in Derbyshire and the Duke of Northumberland at Syon House in Middlesex, employed their own collectors, 11 volumes 4to., 527 fine hand-coloured lithograph but orchid fanciers like John Day acquired their best or chromolithograph plates (with tissue guards) by John treasures at auction. Nurserymen such as James Veitch, Nugent Fitch (one double-numbered folding plate in volume I), Conrad Loddiges and Benjamin Samuel Williams some with tinted backgrounds; chromolithograph plate of the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries in Upper Holloway, (Cypripedium Charlesworthii) from another work inserted regularly sent consignments of orchids to be auctioned in volume X. Original brown fine diagonal-rib cloth, gilt lettered by Messrs Stevens of King St, Covent Garden. It was in their spines and front covers, spines and front covers with floriate sale room that, after an epic battle with a fellow enthusiast, panelling in blind & black (back covers stamped in blind), Sir Trevor Lawrence, a contemporary of Day’s, acquired untrimmed, endpapers yellow coated or with a pale grey the one single plant of Aerides lawrenciae imported or brown floriate pattern. Bookseller’s ticket of David Bryce & Son, by Frederick Sander from the Philippines’ (in a review of A Very Glasgow. Rear joint of volume I split at foot but sound, scattered Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day, Independent, foxing to letterpress, plates clean and fresh. A very good set. 29 May 2004). Nissen 2107; not in Plesch or Pritzel.

Price: £16,000 [ref: 95949]

62 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 63 45. WESTWOOD, John Ob adiah. The buttertflies of Great Britain with their transformations, delineated and described.

Orr, London, 1855.

An abridged reduced format version of the 1841 British butterflies and their transformations,with new plates and revised text. Dunbar notes that some copies are poorly coloured, however the present example has fine bright colouring. Westwood, a distinguished entomologist and member of the Linnean Society, collaborated in writing the text to accompany these charming paintings by Humphreys. Each print depicts several species artistically composed among the flowering caterpillar food plants, and in many instances the caterpillar and chrysalis are shown. Some of the grander European species also appear. Quarto, xl, 140 pp., additional hand-coloured lithograph pictorial title, 19 hand-coloured lithographs, 2 monochrome plates; small ink splash to foot of additional title. Contemporary brown morocco gilt extra, covers with fancy gilt borders, all edges gilt; 1917-dated gift inscription to front paste-down. Dunbar, British butterflies, p. 53. Price: £500 [ref: 93775]

64 Shapero Rare Books 46. WESTWOOD, John Ob adiah. The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology; being a selection of some of the rare and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time described and figured. W. Smith, London, 1848.

Westwood (1805-1893), was a distinguished entomologist and a member of the Linnaean Society. He began collecting insects from all orders at an early age, acquiring both native and foreign specimens. ‘Although Westwood received no formal training as an artist, he produced illustrations for J. F. Stephen’s Illustrations of British Entomology (1828–46), F. W. Hope’s Coleopterist’s Manual (1837–40), and T. V. Wollaston’s Insecta Maderensia (1854). He produced new editions, and contributed notes to a number of works, including D. Drury’s Illustrations of Exotic Entomology (3 vols., 1837) and M. Harris’ The Aurelian: a Natural History of English Moths (1840)’ (ODNB). The present work is one of his most attractive productions. First edition. 4to., 88pp., 42 hand-coloured lithograph plates, modern black half morocco gilt, tan morocco lettering piece, a very good example. Nissen ZBI, 4378. Price: £3,750 [ref: 92975]

Shapero Rare Books 65 rare depiction of butterflies and moths 47. WILKES, Benjamin. Bowles’s new collection of English moths and butterflies in twelve prints, all drawn from life representing near 300 different species of those beautiful insects. Carington Bowles, London, [after 1764].

Complete suite of these hand-coloured plates, ‘rare’ (Lisney). Approximately 300 species are depicted in a variety of kaleidoscopic arrangements. The prints illustrate the ‘somewhat geometric, but nonetheless pleasing, artistic style in which butterfly collections were often displayed, and these would no doubt have enhanced Wilkes’ standing with his fellow members of the Aurelain Society. The intricate detail of the engraving provides clear enough images for visual identification with English names at the foot of each page. The twenty-one species of butterfly are outnumbered by many more moths. Wing undersides are often shown.’ (Dunbar). Sets of the engravings, either plain or coloured, were sold outside the Horn Tavern in fleet Street where the Aurelian collections [of butterflies and moths] were housed. The prints were undoubtedly popular with collectors but as they were issued unbound and sold separately, complete sets are extremely rare. his laborious and elegant work’, and paid tribute to Wilkes as ‘indefatigable in his observations and faithful in minuting Wilkes was an 18th-century artist and naturalist in London. down every particular but for want of learning quite incapable Wilkes’ profession was ‘painting of History Pieces and Portraits of writing a book.’ in Oyl’. When a friend invited him to a meeting of the Aurelian Society, where he first saw specimens of butterflies and moths, The first edition appeared in 1742. Lisney notes that he became convinced that nature would be his ‘best instructor’ ‘This edition is as rare as the first’. as to colour and form in art. He began to study entomology spending his leisure time collecting, studying and drawing Second edition, 13 hand-coloured engraved plates mounted the imagos larvae, pupae and parasitic flies (Tachinidae on guards (including decorative title, plates numbered 1-12 and Ichneumonidae) of Lepidoptera, assisted by the collector and watermarked ‘I. Villedary); title soiled, with short repair Mr Joseph Dandridge. Wilkes’ own collection was kept and small piece of one margin torn away causing minor loss ‘against the Horn Tavern in Fleet Street’ London ‘Where of image, most plates trimmed within platemark not touching any gentleman or lady’ could see his collection of insects. image or text, light toning, modern green straight-grained half Henry Baker, writing in August 1749, stated that Wilkes morocco gilt. Dunbar p43; Lisney 183; Nissen ZBI 4411. had ‘died of a fever in about a week after he had finished Price: £5,000 [ref: 89573]

66 Shapero Rare Books Sporting Books

Shapero Rare Books 67 48. ADAM, [Jean]-Victor. Les Chevaux des écuries du Roi.

Tesseri, Paris, n.d. [circa 1840].

Very rare. A good association copy: the Marquis de Strada, to whom 3 of the parts are inscribed, was ecuyer commandant les ecuries de sa majesté, and is mentioned as such on all but one of the divisional wrappers. Parts: 1. Chevaux Andaloux; 2. Chevaux Nedjdi (numbered 1 Livraison); 3. Chevaux Maroc (proofs before letters, limited to 100 examples); 4. Chevaux Nedjdi (proofs before letters, numbered 3 Livraison); 5. Chevaux Nedjdi); 6. Chevaux Mascate (proofs before letters). Adam (born 1801), became a lithographer specialising in the depiction of horses. Although prolific, many of his works are extremely scarce. Provenance: Unidentified monogramme (possibly Le Marquis de Strada) and coronet to upper cover; 3 of the wrapppers inscribed (2 ‘A mon cher Ami [from] L David’, 1 from the publisher to the Marquis de Strada). Folio (58.5 x 42.25 cm), 6 divisional upper wrappers on buff paper, 4 pages letterpress for third part, 36 hand-coloured lithographs within gilt oval borders by Godard after Adam (18 proofs before letters), (no general title-page, not issued? title from wrappers), first plate lightly foxed, original black morocco-backed hard-grained cloth boards, spine decorated in gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, gilt coat of arms with monogram to upper cover, a fine example. Not in Menessier or Dejager. Price: £POR [ref: 97734]

68 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 69 49. ANDRADE, MANOEL CARLOS DE. Luz da liberal, e Nobre Arte da Cavallaria.

Regia Officina Typographica, Lisbon, 1790.

Finely illustrated work on horsemanship, the plates depicting all aspects of dressage, from the training of the horse to the equipment. ‘First and only edition of one of the most beautiful books on dressage and horsemanship of the 18th century and undoubtedly the most important Portuguese work on the subject ever published.’ (Brunet) ‘Manoel Carlos de Andrade held, for many years, the post of riding master of the Princes Joseph and John (the later King John VI) at the Royal Riding School in Lisbon. ‘This work became the ‘Bible’ of classical Portuguese horse riding and the canon of today’s Escola Portuguesa de Arte Equestre. It is often regarded as being equal to the work of La Gueriniere, but De Andrade offers an incomparably more detailed, indeed most complete, description of the practise of Baroque riding. It is not only an excellent overview of 18th-century horsemanship, but also offers very interesting descriptions and details of contemporary horse breeding, biology, horse medicine, harness and the organisation of jousts and tournaments. De Andrade’s exposé is complemented with the finest and most minute etchings of any equestrian work from the 18th century.’ (Dejager) Provenance: Francisco de Saldanha da Gama Ferrão de Castello Branco, bookplate; Lady Sylvia Loch, founder of The Classical Riding Club, and author of several works on dressage including Dressage. The Art of Classical Riding, 1990.

First edition. Two parts in 1 vol. Folio (31.5 x 21 cm). pp. xxvi, Contemporary calf gilt, morocco label to spine; light spotting 454, [2]. Engraved vignette on title, engraved portrait of John VI to portrait. Brunet I 1264; Dejager, Great Books of Portugal, 93 engraved plates including 22 folding by Frois, on Horsemanship 330; Huth page 56. Martini, M. Alegre, Martini, L. F. Piedra and Silva, after Silva, 2 engraved head-piece vignettes, errata leaf at end. Price: £7,500 [ref: 93176]

70 Shapero Rare Books rare first editions of two important equestrian books. 50. [ASTLEY, John]. The Art of Riding set foorth in a breefe treatise. [With] CORTE, Claudio. The Art of Riding, translated by Thomas Bedingfield. Henry Denham, London, 1584.

The exceedingly rare first edition of one of the earliest English treatises on horsemanship, derived in part from Xenophon, Federico Grisone’s Ordini di cavalcare, and other authors, and in part from Astley’s own experience. This is, in fact, the first translation into English of Xenophon’s treatise Peri hippikes (On horsemanship). The publication of Astley’s Art of Riding, perhaps his single most lasting achievement, came late in his life as an Elizabethan courtier. Here, he relays the doctrine of the Italian riding schools as he and other Gentleman Pensioners understood it, particularly on training the horse to respond to the hand. Astley was on friendly terms with Thomas Blundeville, whose Grisone translation two decades earlier counts as the first treatise on horsemanship to be published in English. Although distinct in collation, the two works were originally issued together, as here. Provenance: early manuscript annotations – John Shaw Darlington (inscription to fly leaf). 2 works in one volume, quarto (177 x 129mm). (Closely trimmed at top margin touching a few titles, occasional light spotting and staining.) Contemporary calf, gilt title to spine (19th-century repair preserving the original spine). Modern cloth box. Dejager 38 & 82; STC 884 & 5797. Price: £19,500 [ref: 96484]

Shapero Rare Books 71 the Duke of Westminster’s copy, rubric ated and in full red morocco 51. CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newc astle. A General System of Horsemanship in all its Branches.

For J. Brindley, London, 1743.

One of the most attractive books on horsemanship with splendid engraved plates: a rare large-paper example of the first English edition, in contemporary red morocco with superb provenance. William Cavendish (1592-1676), a staunch Royalist, was raised to the Dukedom of Newcastle (hence the omission of that title on the title of the work) at the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. The archetypal Stuart courtier and aristocrat, the very wealthy and landed Cavendish was a poet, scholar, diplomat, soldier, architect and a famous and accomplished horseman, responsible for example for the King’s training. Living in exile It contains the first printing of Newcastle’s in Europe and with his English estates confiscated as a result original English text, perfected by the author. Volume II of the English Civil War, he first published the present work is mainly occupied by The Perfect Knowledge of Horses, in Antwerp, where his riding school attracted students from all being the English edition of Gaspard de Saumier’s work over the continent. His equestrian skill was famous throughout Le Parfaite Connaissance des Chevaux, pulished originally Europe, and Ben Jonson celebrated it in The Underwood in 1734. The engraved chapter-heads are copied from (epigram LIII. Parrocel’s engravings in La Guérinière’s Êcole de Cavalerie. The anatomical plates in volume II are copied from Snape’s The illustrations by Abraham van Diepenbeke - Rubens’ The Anatomy of the Horse. pupil - are remarkable not only for their excellence, but for the number of portraits they contain. Numerous diagrams Provenance: Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (bookplate). represent Cavendish himself and his assistant Captain First English edition. Large paper copy. 2 volumes bound as Mazin training horses in his riding school. In the large plates one, folio, (54 x 38 cm), half-title, double-page engraved title he is performing various feats of horsemanship before in French [with the imprint of Jacques van Meurs, Antwerp: 1658], Welbeck, Bolsover and some other of his houses. 42 double-page engraved plates and 20 mainly anatomical There are also two striking allegorical designs, in which plates [12 printed in sepia], engraved vignettes and initials, he is adored by a circle of reverential horses. woodcut illustrations; occasional spotting, mostly marginal, Cavendish’s lavishly illustrated book cost in excess sometimes a bit stronger, scattered ink spots in the top margins of £1300, a fabulous sum at the time. The publisher of index leaves in volume 1. Contemporary red morocco, J. Brindley, acquired the original copperplates for spine richly gilt in compartments, black morocco label lettered the engravings in the original French edition printed in gilt, sides with a scrolling foliate border; neat repairs in 1658 at Antwerp. After bringing out an edition to joints. Dejager 166; Mennessier de la Lance II, page 248; in French in 1737 he published the English language Mellon/Podeschi 49; Nissen ZBI 849. edition for the first time in 1743. Price: £18,000 [ref: 92474]

72 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 73 a monument of 19th-century Russian printing - the deluxe edition in original condition 52. COUTÉPOFF, Nicolas [KUTEPOV, Nikolay Ivanovich]. La Chasse grand-ducale et tsarienne en Russie. Période du Xe au XVIe siècle; La Chasse tsarienne en Russie. XVIIe siècle.

Expédition pour la confection des papiers d’état, Saint-Pétersbourg, 1896-1900.

First edition in French of ‘the first description of hunting published in Russia’ (Fekula). Fresh copy in a spectacular French binding incorporating Samokish’s designs. Reproducing historical documents, earlier engravings, maps and plans, the Kutepov’s work describes not only imperial hunts but also the whole courtly life in Russia. Only first two volumes out of four were published in French translation, covering history of hunting from the X until XVII century. The fine illustrations are varied, showing frescoes, medals, costumes, animals, views of monuments and cities. They are mainly the work of the Ukrainian artist Nikolay Semenovich Samokish (1860-1944), while most of the plates show scenes painted by Benois, Lebedev, Repin, Rubo and Vasnetsov among others. It was dedicated to Alexander III. Two volumes, folio (38 x 29 cm). Half-title, XVII pp., including dedication and title, 233, [2] pp., with a frontispiece and 7 colour plates; XXVII pp., including half-title and title, 297, [2] pp., with 38 plates, including 2 double-page, multiple vignettes in text, many full-page, pictorial wrappers bound in; occasional light spotting. Later French binding, full brown calf with a relief on upper cover after the Samokish’s design on the frontispiece, coat of arms of the Russian Empire in upper margin in black and yellow, signed ‘Gand / cuirs d’art Biben frères’in lower margin. Fekula 2575; Schwerdt I, 291-2; Thiébaud, column 217. Price: £15,000 [ref: 95092]

74 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 75 fine red morocco 53. DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector (Comte de). Traite sur la Cavalerie. De l’Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, Paris, 1776.

Scarce and impressive work on cavalry: beautiful red morocco copy of the Prince de Condé, a great grandson of King Louis XIV and a great military general. Dedicated to Louis XVI, the 32 superb and very large plates represent different aspects of the instruction of an individual horseman and of dressage, as well as cavalry formations and tactical manoeuvres. Each horseman and each horse is drawn individually and shown against a countryside backdrop. Most of the plates have a descriptive cartouche in addition to the explanations in the text volume. The author, of Scottish origin, was a Lieutenant-General of Cavalry who saw active service in Germany, Italy and Flanders between 1735 and 1762. Provenance: Louis-Joseph de Bourbon-Condé (arms to atlas; 1736-1818); Confiscated at the Revolution, then in Bibliothèque du roi, Compiègne, then to; Bibliothèque nationale in 1873 until 1976 (exchanged; stamps). 2 vol. Text folio (44 x 29 cm), atlas broadsheet (65 x 50 cm). Text: engraved frontispiece by Ingouf l’aîné, title page with engraved vignette by Macret, dedication with engraved head-piece by Bruneau, each part with 3 engraved vignettes (including 2 by Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe), 2 engraved tail-pieces, one engraving by Van Blarenberghe at end, and 11 plates; frontispiece and title with foxing. Atlas with 32 double-page plates, including 3 folding, most after Van Blarenberghe (1 and 24 not signed, 21 by Dupuis); a few marginal closed tears. Contemporary full red morocco gilt, spines with raised bands, atlas with gilt arms to covers, gilt edges. Mennessier I-408; Brunet II-842; Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, L.-N. van Blarenberghe et le Traité sur la cavalerie de Drummond de Melfort, Histoire de l’art, 1999, page 57-69; not in Mellon. Cf. OHR 2365-7 for the arms. Price: £45,000 [ref: 94757]

76 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 77 presentation copy to Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany 54. LEIBINGER, Philip. Jagd-Ausflug durch die Rocky Mountains. [Hunting Trip through the Rocky Mountains]. New York, 1893.

Extremely rare private only one other copy recorded (Beinecke Library, Yale). A presentation copy with author’s autograph inscription to Count Otto von Bismarck, addressed to ‘Dem Gründer des deutschen Reiches’ (The founder of the German Reich) in honour of the Iron Chancellor’s 80th birthday (1895). A rare glimpse of a nineteenth-century hunting party in the Rocky Mountains, illustrated with 60 photographs taken by the author. The images give a fascinating insight into the area in and around West Yellowstone on the border of what is now the Yellowstone National Park. Leibinger, a brewer from Brooklyn, was based at a log cabin at Henrys Lake, Idaho. His photographs in and around the lake show a landscape much changed since a damn was built in 1923, flooding the area and drowning several islands in the lake itself. Interspersed with the images relating to the hunting party Elsewhere, the photographs show a magnificent landscape itself are scenes of contemporary life, including a family familiar to anyone who has visited Yellowstone Park, in person camping in covered wagons in Yellowstone Park. Leibinger or as an armchair traveller. Whilst the hunting party was based also recorded the visit to his log cabin of George at Henrys Lake they traveled both East, to Norris Geyser, S. Anderson, Superintendent of Yellowstone Park from 1891 and West to Red Rock, but also went as far South as Alaska to 1897, and George L. Scott, Captain of Cavalry at Fort Basin. The hunting that took place is well documented Yellowstone. There is a wealth of wildlife on display in many with images of the hounds, horses and weapons, as well as of the images, with deer, bears, birds, and a tame antelope, the hunt itself: a black(?) bear is stalked in thick snow, but it is the beauty of the landscape that is most arresting. is shot, and its meat subsequently smoked. These are photographs of great documentary value. Landscape folio (35 x 47 cm). 60 albumen prints (23 x 34 cm) mounted on board with gilt printed border and captions, 4pp. printed preface (in triple columns), printed index of images. Cloth guards, original grained leather case-binding, gilt decorative title to front board, gilt edges. Mounts undulated, occasional light soiling. Binding very slightly rubbed.

Price: £37,500 [ref: 95719]

78 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 79 55. PLUVINEL, Antoine de.

L’instruction du roy en l’exercice de monter a cheval. [...] Le tout enrichy de grandes figures en taille douce, representant les vrayes & naïfves actions des hommes & des chevaux en tous les airs, & maneiges, courses de bague... ensemble les figures des brides, les plus necessaires à cet usage, desseignees & gravees par Crispian de Pas le jeune. Pierre Rocolet, Paris, 1627.

This copy with the title-pages for the second edition but the text to the first; with 58 engraved plates (compared with first edition 60 plates, second edition 51 plates). First published in Utrecht in 1625, this work contains Pluvinel’s definitive text, when compared to the incomplete version which originally appeared in 1623 under the title Le Maneige Royal. Antoine de Pluvinel, 1555-1620, was one of the most famous stable masters in France and was regarded as the finest riding master of his day. In his youth he gained experience in the most famous Academies in Italy, before being brought back to France by the Master of Horse to Charles IX. Having served under the last of the Valois Kings of France he was given control of Grandes Ecuries under Henri IV and was made a gentleman of the Chamber and Deputy Governor to the Dauphin. In 1594 Pluvinel founded his own Academie in Paris where horsemanship and mathematics were taught. Provenance: Bibliothek von Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1934), Bibliophile in Grenoble (bookplate). Folio (38.5 x 26 cm), engraved frontispiece Louis XIII, double-page by de Passe, nineteenth century mottled calf gilt, covers ruled engraved title dated 1629 (as in the second edition), printed in gilt, spine in six compartments, morocco lettering-piece title dated 1627 (second edition), divsion de tout l’oeuvre leaf, to second, others gilt, lightly rubbed, raised bands, all edges gilt, au Roy leaf, engraved portrait of Pluvinel engraved portrait short splits to a few folds (plates 12, 14, 22, 35, 40), plate 36 of Menou with verse beneath and privilege du Roy to verso, with longer split into image, crease to plate 3, occasional 207 pp divided into three parts (1-70; 71-115, 117-207) trivial spotting or staining, a very good example. Cf. Dejager as in the first edition, 58 double-page engraved plates mostly 166 & 167; Cf Menessier, II, 329-330; Cf. Mellon/Podeschi 21. Price: £8,500 [ref: 94816]

80 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 81 56. POTOCKI, Count Joseph.

Sport in Somaliland, being an account of a hunting trip to that region... Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Rowland Ward, London, 1900.

One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and breeder of Arabian horses. He created his own game park at Pilawin which was written about by Richard Lydekker. This provided a wild habitat for the breeding of elk and his success encouraged him to import American and Siberian wapiti, the red deer of the Caucasus, and other animals. He was given a breeding pair of European bison from the royal preserve of Bielowicz, and added a herd of American bison as well. The Pilawin preserve, near the Potocki palace (in present day Ukraine), comprised more than 7,000 acres of forests and meadows enclosed by an eight-foot high wooden paling and was part of a larger forest of some 50,000 acres. The volume commemorates his 1895 safari to the Haud region of Somaliland and then into the Ogaden where the party bagged the ‘big five’ and numerous antelopes, gazelles, etc. ‘Excellent artwork’ (Czech). First English edition, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Rowland Ward, Imperial 4to. (40 x 32 cm. approx.), vii, 140 pp., coloured portrait frontispiece, 18 photogravure plates (5 double-page), 58 coloured, and 7 monochrome illustrations in text after Piotr Stachiewicz, coloured folding map, fine modern full red morocco gilt with pictorial gilt block to upper cover to the same design as the original, original Rowland Ward ‘snakeskin’ end-papers, top edge gilt others uncut, a fine example. Czech, Africa, page 133. Price: £8,000 [ref: 94732]

82 Shapero Rare Books item 57, RIDINGER

Shapero Rare Books 83 57. RIDINGER, Johann Elias.

Türkischer Pferdsaufbuz [sic] [With] [Pferderassen] [And] [Die Fangarten der wilden Thiere]… Augsburg, 1752; Np, nd; Augsburg, 1750.

The first work is a fine series of four richly caparisoned Turkish horses, based on drawings by Baron Gudenus prepared in Constantinople. As stated in the letter from Constantinople, dated 7 March 1741 and printed on the verso of the title page, the Ottoman dignitaries could be distinguished by the various kinds of luxurious cloths, jewels, and finery they applied to their stables. The officials would compete with each other for the finest equestrian adornments, often embellishing their animals with gold and silver and suchlike. Such a horse laden with ornament, led into the seraglio by a Janissary, is pictured in plate I: four ostrich feathers adorn the head (a distinction afforded only to the Sultan’s personal stable), while the chest bears a splendid rosette belt. Plate II shows a rising ‘Divani’, such as is ridden by the Grand Vizier when dressed in state, with silver chains jingling from its halter and an embroidered blanket under the saddle. Plate III shows another Divani with different bridle and blanket;a richly tooled gilt thong is strapped across cheval de main the chest. The final plate shows the ii. [Pferderassen]. no place or date, 32 engraved plates, d’un Pacha besides a large kiosk, with a blanket, silver [Nissen ZBI 3411; Thienemann 562-593], about 5 plates and gemstone decoration and two leopard skins. from a smaller copy. The second work also shows richly caparisoned horses, iii. [Die Fangarten der wilden Thiere]. Nach der Natur this time from various countries, and includes Arab, entworffene Vorstellungen wie alle Hoch u[nd] Niedere Wild. Persian, Turkish, and European examples. Augsburg: J.E. Ridinger, 1750, 30 engraved plates, including The third work is the complete set of Ridinger’s very rare title, [Nissen ZBI 3397; Schwerdt III:135; Thienemann 69-98], work on how to trap wild animals. about 10 plates from a smaller copy i. Türkischer Pferdsaufbuz (sic). Augsburg, 1752, printed title, 3 works in one volume (Fangarten bound first), oblong 4 engraved plates, [Nissen ZBI 3412 (?incorrectly giving date folio (340 x 474mm.), contemporary calf with bookplate as c.1741, but seemingly without title page, which is present here); of William Constable (a remboitage ?), occasional slight Thienemann 594-597], title lightly spotted. soiling, binding rubbed, rebacked and repaired Price: £19,500 [ref: 97135]

84 Shapero Rare Books with the rare jousting plan 58. RIDINGER, Johann Elias. Vorstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul und Campagne Pferden nach ihren Lectionen In was vor gelegenheiten solche können gebraucht werden; Representation et Description de toutes les leçons des Chevaux de Manege et de la Campagne, dans quelles occasions on s’en puisse servir. [With] Anmerkungen von dem Carousel (Remarques du carousel).

J.E. Ridinger, Augsburg, 1760 & 1761. Ridinger was a German painter and engraver who studied at Ulm before establishing himself in Augsburg where he soon made a great reputation for animal paintings. He became the official painter for several great nobles addicted to the hunt. As here he represented animals accurately and naturally in the midst of beautiful landscapes, his execution was remarkable. But it for his depiction of horses that he is rightly most renowned. The first suite of plates depict the exercises for riders in the riding school (plates 1-43) as well as on the battlefield (44-46). The riding school plates show the horse being introduced, then trotting, volting, galloping, the courbette, croupade, etc., through to the capriole. The battlefield plates show the horse being accustomed to the waving of flags, drumming, and shooting. The second suite depicts the exercises for participating in tournaments and jousts. This copy includes the unnumbered plate with the plan of the riding school which Dejager calls ‘very rare’ noting that Thienermann found it very difficult to find a plate to list in his bibliography of Ridinger plates. Provenance: Ignaz Dominik Graf von Chorinsky (1729–1792), armorial bookplate. First (and only) edition of both works. 4to (29 x 22.5 cm). Texts in German and French. First work: engraved title, 36 pp., 46 engraved plates; Second work: 16 engraved Dejager 247 & 248; Nissen 3415; Thienemann plates numbered 1-15 with unnumbered plan of a joust, 646–692 and 693–707. contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, red sprinkled edges, an excellent example. Price: £7,000 [ref: 94817]

Shapero Rare Books 85 59. SPENCER, Thomas. [Portraits of Race Horses with their pedigrees, achievements, etc.]

T. Butler, London, 1747–1753.

A fine and very rare set of racing prints. Sparrow notes its rarity in 1922, ‘rare no doubt, because so many of the copies have been broken up in order that the prints might be sold one by one’ (W.S. Sparrow, British Sporting Artists). Thomas Spencer may be regarded as a close follower of his contemporary, James Seymour; in fact, his manner of painting is in some ways more engaging than Seymour’s since, despite the sometimes stiff portrayal of grooms and attendants, his horses themselves appear more fluid. Each engraving comprises of an image of a horse at centre with its jockey surrounded by panels containing details of the pedigree and performance of each race-horse. The horses are as follows: Fox, Squirril, Sebbury, Brokelsby Betty, Volunteer, Othello, Starling, Crab. Bay Bolten, Lath, Basto, Carlisle, Second, Young Cartouche, Spanking Roger, Bonny Black, Bal’d Charlotte, Creeping Molly, Lamprie, Childers, Fearnought, Conqueror, Old Scar, and Old Cartouche. Landscape folio ( 33.7 x 4.55 cm). 24 (of 34) engraved after Thomas Spencer and James Seymour, by Pierre Charles Canot, Remi Parr, and Henry Roberts; some foxing and browning, several plates with neatly repaired tears and some marginal reinforcement. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; rebacked, extremities worn; otherwise a very good example. Siltzer 389; Lane 168; Sparrow 77. Price: £10,000 [ref: 97447]

86 Shapero Rare Books works on paper

Shapero Rare Books 87 60. [ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOL]. Rare Apple and Guava. Calcutta(?), [19th century].

A highly accomplished pair of Company School botanical watercolours. Company School painting is a broad term for a variety of hybrid styles that developed as a result of European (especially British) influence on Indian artists in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It evolved as a way of providing paintings that would appeal to European patrons who found the purely indigenous styles not to their taste. As many of these patrons worked for the various East India companies, the painting style came to be associated with the name, although it was in fact also used for paintings produced for local rulers and other Indian patrons. The subject matter of Company paintings made for western patrons was often documentary rather than imaginative, and as a consequence, the Indian artists were required to adopt a more naturalistic approach to painting than their more traditional style. Calcutta was among the most important early production centres, as the site of one of the oldest British trading houses.The city’s most enthusiastic patrons were Lord Impey, chief justice of the High Court from 1777 to 1783, and the Marquess Wellesley, Wellington’s elder brother, who served as governor-general from 1798 to 1805. Both had collected large menageries and hired artists to paint each of the birds and animals therein. A Company-established botanical garden in Calcutta then undertook a similar project for the samples of plant life it had collected. The present watercolours come from this interest. A pair of watercolours on wove paper watermarked 1810, each image showing fruit on a branch and cross-section of fruit, framed and glazed, each c.53 x 60 cm. (c.23 x 23.5inches) overall.

Price: £9,500 [ref: 94999]

88 Shapero Rare Books a pair of birds of paradise 61. BARRABAND, Jacques. Le petit Oiseau du paradis Emeraude, no. 4; Le Paradis rouge, no. 7. Paris, 1806.

Two plates from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis, the masterwork by Barraband, the finest French bird illustrator of his time, who had both scientific accuracy and superb skill as a watercolourist. The combination of some of the world’s most colourful and glamorous birds alongside Barraband’s skills whilst at the height of his powers makes for outstandingly beautiful studies of these exotic species. Pair of stipple engravings, printed in colours and finished by hand, with fine, strong colour, framed and glazed, 58 x 39 cm. (c.22¾ x 15¼ in).

£3,750 [ref: 85835]

Shapero Rare Books 89 62. [BESLER, Basilius]. Martagon Imperiale Moschatum, Caryophyllus minor sylvestris flore simplici & pleno (Türkenbund-Lilie, Gartennelke). [Nuremberg, 1713]. Magnificent plate from Hortus Eystettensis, one of the earliest and most famous works in the field - this one being the only double-page of the whole work. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing ‘flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.’ The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden. Besler was asked to complete the work by Gemmingen in 1606; the huge nature of the task was clear to Besler and he enlisted the help of his younger brother Hieronymus and Ludwig Jungermann, a nephew of Camerarius. Printing the Hortus may have begun as early as 1607. Drawings were made in situ and from specimens sent by the Bishop to Nuremberg; the Bishop reported to Hainhofer that he had boxes of fresh flowers sent every week to Besler at Nuremberg for sketching. A team of at least 10 engravers were employed to translate the drawings to copperplates. The gardens, along with most of the town of Eichstatt, were destroyed by the invading Swedish troops under Herzog Bernhard von Weimar in 1633-4, although they were partially restored by later bishops. Many of the original drawings survive in the University Library, Erlangen. Copper engraving with fine hand-colouring, on 2 sheets, joined, framed and glazed, together c.120 x 50 cm. (47 x 20 in) inclusive. £9,000 [ref: 89500]

90 Shapero Rare Books album of botanic al watercolours 63. COWIE, Harley (19th century Scottish School). An Album of 26 Botanical Studies in Watercolour

1880.

Amongst these charming and competently executed botanical studies are several varieties of lily, including tiger lily and crown imperial lily, iris, clematis, narcissus, pansies, dog rose, nasturtiums, and cherry blossom. 26 botanical watercolours on Whatman wove paper, watermarked 1871, front free endpaper inscribed Rough Sketches from Nature, April 1880, Harley Cowie, some studies also inscribed and dated 1880, one dated 1882, each c.37 x 25 cm (c.14½ x 10 in), two or three additional preliminary sketches on sheet versos and on rear end paper, roan-backed green cloth boards, oblong 4to, spine splitting, leaves working loose Paper size: 37 x 25 cm.

£3,000 [ref: 94181]

Shapero Rare Books 91 64. [Dutch School]. Study of a Variegated Tulip. [Holland, 18th century]. This study of a delicate purple variegated tulip is in the manner of Anthony Claesz who produced his ‘Tulip Book’ around 1641. It was a prime example of the florilegia commissioned to illustrate the different varieties of tulip bulb, which at the time commanded extraordinarily high prices during the economic bubble of the early 17th century that became known as Tulipomania. The naturally beautiful nature of these works ensured their images would be copied for decades to come by painters and gardeners alike. Claesz was a Dutch master in his own right, with several highly accomplished works to his name. However, as with most of the great Dutch masters of this period, they happily supplemented their income by illustrating such books. It also allowed them to study in detail subjects that would later be incorporated into their great flower pieces. Tulipomania, or Tulip Mania, was an early 17th century by-product of the economic boom experienced by Holland, newly independent from Spain, as it consolidated it trade links, particularly through the Dutch East Indies Company. Of the many exotic products and specimens to be introduced to Europe, the tulip particularly captured the desire for such new luxuries. The price for the more highly sought-after bulbs could be ten times the annual salary of the average skilled worker. It is little wonder it culminated in t he market crash of the 1630s. Tulips stood out in comparison with European botany in the intensity of their colouring, with the variegated varieties being particularly prized. This example is of the violetten, or purple and white striped strain. The variegation was originally the result of the mosaic virus, also known as the breaking virus, transmitted by aphids, that transformed the pigmentation in this manner, though at the expense of weakening the plant. The same effect was later reacreated by deliberate cross-pollination. Watercolour on Dutch laid paper, excellent condition, faint browning, 18 x 13 cm. (7 x 5 in).

£1,500 [ref: 60740]

92 Shapero Rare Books 65. [GOULD, John]; RICHTER, Henry Constantine. Black-bellied plover. Squatarola helvetica; Pluvialis squatarola (Linnaeus). c.1860.

Superb original watercolour with fine contemporary provenance for John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain. Henry Constantine Richter (1821–1902) was a zoological illustrator who produced numerous lithographs of birds and mammals, mainly under the employment of John Gould, an English ornithologist. Gould employs two illustrations of plovers in his book Birds of Great Britain, from which this plate is taken, to show that ‘A greater transformation in the garb of birds does not exist than occurs in the spring and autumnal plumage of this bird... It is in the spring that the Grey (Black-bellied) Plover with its fine black breast flies over the eastern parts of England en route for countries further north.’ An adult bird is depicted in winter plumage with a young bird born earlier in the year. With provenance: Frederick DuCane Godman (1834 – 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists’ Union. Along with Osbert Salvin, he is remembered for studying the fauna and flora of Central America. Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (1834-1919) -- Mr and Mrs V.A. Gordon Tregear (sold Christie’s 4 October 1994, lot 126). Pencil and watercolour, heightened with body white and gum-arabic, numbered ‘4.37’, 36.5 x 54.5 cm. (14½ x 21½ in), framed and glazed 83.5 x 66.5 cm. (33 x 26¼ in). Gould. Birds of Great Britain. London: 1873. Vol. IV, pl.37. £7,500 [ref: 90298]

Shapero Rare Books 93 original watercolour on vellum

66. HEROLT, Johanna Helena.

[Surinamese Flora and Insects]. [Amsterdam, c.1720].

Characteristic original watercolour botanical drawing by Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-post 1721), the eldest daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff. She probably drew it in Amsterdam around 1700. Though she still remains in the shadow of her mother, she was a fine flower and insect artist in her own right and there is growing appreciation of her work. Her watercolours, more baroque than her mother’s and often with brighter colours, radiate vigour and vivacity: the flowers, painted with intensity in every detail, really come to life. A series of Herolt’s works from 1698 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig includes similar sheets. Reitsma, p. 135, notes that the prices for the flower watercolours increased with the number of insects. Most of Herolt’s work is numbered and we understand the highest number known is 164. No number is visible in the present watercolour. In the finest state of preservation, with certificate of authenticity from Dr. S. Segal. Original watercolour, unsigned. Watercolour, pencil and bodycolour on prepared vellum. Cf. Dunthorne: 205 Price: £27,500 [ref: 59963]

94 Shapero Rare Books 67. HÜET, Nicolas [the Younger]. Sinai Rosefinch. Natural history study of male and female specimens of the Sinai Rosefinch.

Egypt, 1800.

Nicolas Hüet (1770-1830) was one of a family of artists, though arguably the most famous because of his exquisitely detailed natural history studies. The most notable chapter in his career was the years spent as a member of Napoleonic survey of Egypt, between 1798 and 1801, where his work culminated in numerous plates for the Le Description de l’Egypte. Aside from his Egyptian sojourn, during which he doubtless first studied this particular bird, Hüet and his fellow Egyptian survey artist, Jean Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849), also contributed a lot of original artwork from which plates were engraved for Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, d’après les dessins de MM. Huet et Prêtre, Peintre attachés au Muséum d’histoire naturelle, by Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), published between 1820 and 1839. The anonymously engraved plate after this particular watercolour bears the French title Bouvreuil Social, or Pyrrhula synoica, the protonym of Carpodacus synoicus, the Sinai Rosefinch, found in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Finely detailed watercolour on wove paper, signed lower left, 34 x 23 cm. (13 3/8 x 9 in), the original artwork for plate 375 of Temminck’s Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux.

£2,500 [ref: 85954]

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68. NICOLAIJ, Jan Hendrik.

African Grey Parrot. c.1800s.

A superb watercolour study, the intensity of the bird’s character and expression heightened by the finely detailed head and feet, in contrast to the more loosely rendered body. The Grey Parrot, Psittacus erithacus, is native to Central and West Africa, but European exploration soon brought it to much wider public attention, where it proved to be particularly popular for its perceived vocal skills. Jan Hendrik Nicolaij (1766-1826) was born and spent his career in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. His taste for the exotic pervades not only the highly decorative and allegorical subjects of his wall paintings, such as in the Town Hall in Leeuwarden, but also the chosen subjects for his natural history studies that he regularly exhibited with the Felix Meritis Society from 1814 onwards. One year he even received an honourable mention. Nicolaij is thought to have contributed some of the anonymous plates for part V of Nozeman and Sepp’s Nederlandische Vogelen, in 1829. Gouache and watercolour on laid paper, heightened with gum-arabic, 31 x 23 cm. (12¼ x 9 in).

£6,750 [ref: 85301]

96 Shapero Rare Books signed original watercolour on vellum

69. PANCKOUCKE, Ernestine.

[Bouquet de fleurs]. [Paris], 1838.

Rare. A beautiful, rich bouquet, painted on vellum and signed by one of Redouté’s most talented pupils. Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke (1784-1860), née Désormeaux, described herself as ‘translator of Goethe’s poems, pupil of Redouté and designer of the Flore Médicale’ - one of the monumental books of the 19th century published by her husband Louis-Fleury Panckoucke, next to the Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales and the Description de l’Egypte. As the present work demonstrates, she was not only skilled at portraying flowers with remarkable botanical accuracy, but also for producing spectacular compositions that recall both the later work of her teacher and the earlier work of the Dutch old masters such as van Huysum. Watercolour on vellum, pencil, ink and body colour, signed and dated in lower right, 44.5 x 36.5 cm. (17½ x 14¼ in).

£8,500 [ref: 83757]

Shapero Rare Books 97 70. POISSANT, Adele.

A bouquet of roses.

[Active 1831-1847].

A lovely example of 19th century flower painting in fine condition. Adele Poissant was a female miniature artist, who worked in Paris and sent several miniatures and drawings to the Salon from 1831-47 (Schidlof). This painting is an unusual example of her working in full size and on the natural rather than human form. The composition is reminiscent of the naturalistic but highly decorative botanical watercolours of Redouté, also working in Paris slightly earlier, with the exception of Poissant’s addition of ornamental water droplets across several of the pale pink roses and parts of the bouquet’s foliage. The watercolour is signed ‘Adele Poissant’ on the lower right corner. Watercolour over chalk on vellum, 34 x 25.5 cm. (c.13½ x 10 in), framed size 54.5 x 45.5 cm. (21½ x 18 in), signed in the bottom right corner, framed and glazed. Leo R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries, Volume 2 (1964), page 646. £9,500 [ref: 90252]

98 Shapero Rare Books 71. PRÊTRE, Jean Gabriel.

Scrubfowl. Natural history study of the adult male Orange-footed Scrubfowl. Australia, 1825.

Jean Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) was a Swiss-born painter of natural history subjects. He first worked as an illustrator recording specimens in the Empress Josephine’s zoo. He went on to be a member of Napoleonic survey of Egypt, between 1798 and 1801, where his work culminated in numerous plates for the Le Description de l’Egypte. In collaboration with fellow artist, Nicolas Hüet (1770-1830), with whom he worked at the Natural History Museum in Paris, he also contributed a lot of original artwork from which plates were engraved for Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, d’après les dessins de MM. Huet et Prêtre, Peintre attachés au Muséum d’histoire naturelle, by Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), published between 1820 and 1839. The genus Megapodius, so named for their large feet, had only recently been discovered in Papua New Guinea by two French naturalists, Gaimard and Quoy, who accompanied Captain Freycinet on his voyage around the world in 1818. This specimen is a Megapodius reinwardt, or the Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Finely detailed watercolour on wove paper, signed and dated, 1825, lower centre within the image, 34 x 23 cm. (c.13¼ x 9 in), the original artwork for plate 411 of Temminck’s ‘Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux’.

£2,500 [ref: 85956]

Shapero Rare Books 99 72. PRÊTRE, Jean Gabriel.

South American Turtle Dove. Natural history study of the adult male and a young South American Turtle Dove. 1824.

Listed in Temminck’s published pllate as Colomba Venusta, it is here named Colombe Tourteline, described by Prideaux John Selby as the cousin of the Cape Turtle, Colomba capensis, and the Australian Colomba macquarrii. Finely detailed watercolour on wove paper, signed and dated, 1824, upper centre within the image, faintly inscribed below, Colombe Tourteline (male, adulte), ____ Tourtelette (jeune), 34 x 23 cm. (c.13¼ x 9 in), the original artwork for plate 341 of Temminck’s Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux.

£2,500 [ref: 85955]

100 Shapero Rare Books a gift from Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry 73. REDOUTE, Pierre Joseph. Rosa parvi-flora.

[c.1828].

A beautiful example of the work of ‘the Raphael of flowers’, the most celebrated botanical artist of his day. With a fine princely provenance. Redoute’s patrons included two Empresses and two Queens, and his prodigious talents placed him at the centre of French court life, both before and after the Revolution. He was appointed drawing master to Marie Antoinette, yet despite his connections to the Royal family he survived the Terror and went on to become the court and flower painter to Empress Joséphine. It was because of her patronage that Redouté undertook Les Liliacées, which together with Les Roses, constitute the artist’s greatest works. Although Joséphine had died three years before the publication of Les Roses, it was the unequalled collection of roses on her estate at Malmaison that provided the artist with his inspiration. Provenance: Princess Maria Carolina Luisa de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry, for whom purchased from the artist in 1828 by King Charles X of France and Navarre; Princess Teresa Cristina de Bourbon, Empress of Brazil, to whom sold by the Duchesse by 1854; probably by descent to her daughter, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil; probably by descent to her son, Prince Pierre d’Alcantara d’Orléans-Bragance; Mme Ulmann, her estate sale, Paris, Ader Picard and Tajan, 7 February 1990, lot 82. Exhibited: Paris, Musée de la Vie romantique, Jardins romantiques français, du jardins des Lumières au parc romantique 1770 - 1840, 2011, no. 78; Haarlem, Teylers Museum, Redoute’s Roses, 2013, pp. 135 and 161, under Les Roses. Watercolour over traces of black chalk on vellum, within gold framing lines; signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: P. J. Redouté.; 38.5 x 27 cm. (c.15¼ x 10½ in).

£50,000 [ref: 90777]

Shapero Rare Books 101 first state 74. THORNTON, Robert John. The Roses. London, 1799-[1807].

This rare and celebrated plate of the Roses is the only one by Thornton by himself. Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. However, he is best remembered for this great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work - New Illustration of the sexual system of... Linnaeus. In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle and others as painters: Francesco Bartolozzi, Richard Earlom and John Landseer. Most of the images were painted by Peter Charles Henderson and Philip Reinagle. These botanical illustrations are unique as they were the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life-size flowers stand out dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. Thornton’s announced intention was to make this work the most magnificent tribute ever paid to the famous Swedish botanist Linnaeus by illustrating his Sexual System with the finest possible prints. All these were engraved on a larger scale than anything which had hitherto appeared and then were printed in colour, an expensive and uncommon method in England at this time. A brilliant effect. Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 52 x 64 cm. (20½ x 25¼ in). Nissen Blunt, p236-242; Dunthorne, Alan Thomas, Great Books and Book Collectors, page 144. £7,500 [ref: 95114]

102 Shapero Rare Books fine early impression 75. THORNTON, Robert John (publisher). The Superb Lily. London, 1799-[1807].

First state: issue A. Thornton is best remembered for his great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work New Illustration of the sexual system of... Linnaeus. In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually became known as The Temple of Flora, comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Beechey, Opie, Raeburn, Russell, Reinagle and others as painters: Bartolozzi, Earlom and Landseer. Most of the images were painted by Peter Charles Henderson and Philip Reinagle. These botanical illustrations are unique as they were the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life-size flowers stand out dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. The prints were engraved on a larger scale than anything which had hitherto appeared and then were printed in colour, an expensive and uncommon method in England at this time. A brilliant effect. Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 52 x 64 cm. (20½ x 25¼ in). Nissen Blunt, p236-242; Dunthorne, Alan Thomas, Great Books and Book Collectors, page 144. £6,500 [ref: 95111]

Shapero Rare Books 103 76. THORNTON, Robert John (publisher). The Tulips.

London, 1799-[1807].

Second state. A Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University Thornton is best remembered for his great botanical publication The Temple of Flora which comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day, including Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle and others. These botanical illustrations are unique as they were the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The prints were engraved on a larger scale than anything which had hitherto appeared and then were printed in colour to brilliant effect. Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 52 x 64 cm. (20½ x 25¼ in). Nissen Blunt, p236-242; Dunthorne, Alan Thomas, Great Books and Book Collectors, page 144. £13,500 [ref: 94919]

104 Shapero Rare Books three original ornithologic al studies 77. ZÖTL, Aloys. [A Set of Three Watercolours of Birds]. 1860.

Although a master dyer by profession, Aloys Zötl (1803-1887) also indulged in more or less lavish depictions of flora and fauna, always vivid, sometimes more imaginative in composition. Years after his death, his work was rediscovered by André Breton, to whom its latent surrealism appealed, causing him to ponder: ‘Lacking any biographical details about the artist, one can only indulge one’s fantasies in imagining the reasons which might have induced this workman from Upper Austria, a dyer by profession, to undertake so zealously between 1832 and 1887 the elaboration of the most sumptuous bestiary ever seen.’ Although conforming more to the conventional, scientific, ornithological study, this group of three watercolours cannot be described as other than bold and colourful. The earliest, 31 December 1856, is initialed and captioned simply Vogel und Botank. Taf., the four woodland birds depicted, including a variety of pigeon and a spotted woodpecker, identified only by numbers to a key now lost. The next, although equally simply initialed and captioned, depicts a pair New Zealand South Island Kokako, now believed to be extinct. The bird features in Maori mythology, and is distinguished from its North Island cousin by its orange wattle, as opposed to the latter’s blue. Sadly, its limited flight ability left it exposed to predators. The last study, fully signed and dated 21 August 1877, is of a pair of Common Hill Myna birds, Gracula religiosa, and is extensively captioned below. Watercolours over pencil on wove paper, all signed or initialed, and dated 1856, 1870 and 1877, each c.43 x 53.5 cm (17 by 21 inches), uniformly framed in broad gold leaf frames.

£25,000 [ref: 95445]

Shapero Rare Books 105 original ornithologic al study of a bearded vulture 78. ZÖTL, Aloys. [Watercolour of a Bird of Prey].

1840.

Years after his death in 1887, Zötl’s work was rediscovered by André Breton, to whom its latent surrealism appealed, causing him to ponder: ‘one can only indulge one’s fantasies in imagining the reasons which might have induced this workman from Upper Austria, a dyer by profession, to undertake so zealously between 1832 and 1887 the elaboration of the most sumptuous bestiary ever seen.’ Although conforming to the conventional, scientific, ornithological study, this watercolour cannot be described as other than bold and colourful. Titled Der Bartgeier, Lammergeier, or Bearded Vulture, it is composed in a portrait format. It is dated 16 Janner 1840, is signed with initials and extensively inscribed with information below. It has recently been classified as ‘near endangered’ and is remarkable for its diet comprising almost entirely of bone. Watercolour over pencil on wove paper, 53.5 x 43 cm (21 x 17 in), signed with initials, titled Der Bartgeier, Lammergeier, and dated 1840, in a broad gold leaf frame.

£7,500 [ref: 97631]

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Shapero Rare Books 107 79. FORD, Walton. New Tricks for Ancient Wings. 2001. Lithograph in colours, 2001, printed by Derriere L’Etoile, signed and numbered 48/90, 91.44 x 69.85cm.

£4,500 [ref: 90609]

108 Shapero Rare Books 80. KUSAMA, Yayoi. Pumpkins. 2016. Two painted cast resin works with original boxes, 2016, each stamped on the base, published by Benesse Holdings, Japan, each 100 x 80 x 80mm.

£3,250 [ref: 96473]

Shapero Rare Books 109 81. LICHTENSTEIN, Roy. Rain Forest. Munich, 1992.

Published by Artists for Nature and Edition Domberger as part of the 27-print portfolio ‘Columbus: In Search of a New Tomorrow’. Screenprint, 1992, on wove paper, signed and numbered from the edition of 100, co-published by Edition Domberger (with their blindstamp) and Artists United for Nature, Munich, 75 x 56 cm.

£25,000 [ref: 96984]

110 Shapero Rare Books 82. LICHTENSTEIN, Roy. Water Lily. Los Angeles, 1993.

Water Lily was created to benefit the campaign of Los Angeles city councilman Joel Wachs. Screenprint in colours, 1993, on Lana Royale, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 130 (there were also 28 artist’s proofs), co-published by the artist and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps and inkstamp on the reverse, Sheet 47 x 58.4cm. Corlett 281. £30,000 [ref: 93270]

Shapero Rare Books 111 83. SHERMAN, Cindy. Untitled. 1986-87. Ektacolor photograph, 1986-87, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 90 in pencil verso, on photographic paper, the full sheet, sheet 813 x 595 mm.

£6,500 [ref: 90755]

112 Shapero Rare Books 84. WILSON, Hugo. Chromo Hunt. 2016. These etchings are closely related to a recent collection of paintings by Hugo Wilson that portray the most primal of all rituals, the hunt. Hunting scenes were popular with wealthy collectors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and represented a kind of ‘trophyism’ and a way of displaying mastery over nature. Images of writhing animal forms with snarling teeth, some recognisable but others indistinct, portray immense physical strength but the hunter remains unseen. Born in 1982, Hugo Wilson received classical training in fine art at the renowned Charles H. Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy from 2000 to 2004. He went on to study at City and Guilds in London, where he received his MA in 2008. He lives and works in London. Wilson’s work is included in Vitamin D2:New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon’s major survey of contemporary drawing, and in 2013 was featured by the Wall Street Journal as one of six ‘rising stars’ in European art. Exhibitions include: IFPDA Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, New York; The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Arts; Parafin, London; Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles; ProjectB, Milan; Bjorn Stern Gallery, London; John Martin Gallery, London; Artissima Art Fair, Turin; Modern Museum, Hungary; Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Mueum, South Korea; Assab One, Milan; East Wing Nine Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Flowers Gallery, London; The Embassy, 20 Hoxton Square Projects; The Age of the Marvellous at the former Holy Trinity Church, All Visual Arts, London; Terra Nihilus, Maddox Gallery, London; Arte Fiera, Bologna; MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary. Collections include The New York Public Library; Deutsche Bank Collection, London; The Library of Congress, Washington DC. Set of nine etchings extensively handcoloured, printed on Velin Arches Blanc 400gsm, 2015, edition of 4, aside from the standard edition of 25. Plate size: variable. Sheet size: 58 x 58 cm.

£24,000 [ref: 95105]

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