G. B. Ferrari 'b1584', Floral Bouquet, Quarto Engraving Hand Colour

IDE VAS ORDINATIS FLORIBUS CONSPICVVM Giovanni Baptista Ferrari (1584 - 1655) - Fine Quarto engraving with land colour 1638 Issued in the 1638 edition of Ferrari's spectacular Flora ouero cultura di fiori. Measures: 16 x 23.3 cm Later hand colour. Engraved by Anna Maria Vaiani (or Anna Maria Vaiana), an Italian engraver. Anna Maria Vaiani was born in Florence in 1604. Her father Alessandro Vaiani was an artist and was brought up and worked in Rome. In 1647 she married Jacques Courtois, another artist, but it was not a success. Vaiani specialized in botanical engravings, although her first recorded work was the completion of her father's paintings in the Pope's Capella Segreta in Rome. Vaiani exchanged letters with Galileo Galilei...

Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Issued for the famed First Edition in quarto of the “Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.”, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, ed. published in Paris ca 1775. Made by ‘Mansard’ after ‘Jacques de Seve...

This extremely rare stone lithograph with hand colour was issued in the Dutch series: Bloem en Fruit Studien published in 1836. 35 x 27.3 cm Fine...

Floral Bouquet engraved after Louis Tessier for "Livre de Corbeilles et Vases de Fleurs" Engraved by Jean-Jacques Avril Spring Bouquet with Ranunculus and Tulip. Measures: 36.4 x 27.7 cm "Avril l'aine, Sculp", in text, lower right; "L. Tessier, del" lower right. The six plates for "Livre de Corbeilles et Vases de Fleurs" (A Book of Baskets and Vases of Flowers) were engraved by J.J. Avril after paintings by Louis Tessier. The plates were hand colored and the coloring varies from impression to impression. This impression is a beautiful example of Tessier's eye for design, with his elegant use of space and the vivid color combinations by Avril. Despite the formality of the still life, the fun, haphazard arrangement of these fantastic flowers makes for a charming yet highly stylized image. Jean Jaacques Avril (the elder) was born in Paris in 1744 and studied architecture but became a student of engraver Jan Georges...

From the rare deluxe series. Designed by Frick and lithographed in stone by Holbein. Beautiful original hand colour. Measures: 50.5 x 39 cm Issued in: Anatomisch-chirurgische Abbildungen nebst Darstellung und Beschreibung der chirurgischen Operationen nach den Methoden von v. Graefe, Kluge und Rust Bierkowski gained his medical doctorate in Leipzig in 1829, after the publication of this major work. In 1831 he became professor of surgery at the medical faculty of Krakow. Bierkowski took on the leadership of the military field hospital...

Folio Leaf: 37 x 23 cms. Hand colored copper engraving. Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 - 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engr...

The engravings presented here are exquisite botanical illustrations from the 'Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles', an authoritative work published in Brussels in 1845 und...

Hand-colored lemon botanical engravings attributed to Giovanni Battista Ferrari's "Hesperides, sive, De Malorum Aureorum culture etude Libri Quatuor." This was Giovanni's masterpiece publication of citrus published in Rome in 1646. It is considered to be one of most precise and decorative botanical works of 17th century Europe. Each copper plate print is protected by a hand-drawn and marbleized mat...

Original antique print of opossums. Originates from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch für Kinder'. In 1790 Friedrich Justin Bertuch started his biggest book-project ever. Issued in 12 volumes it...

Antique Bird Prints Natural History Studies of Parrots and Tropical Birds Hand-colored engravings 23.5 x 30.5 inches each including frame Imagine all 18 on one wall in your study.

Three 18th century hand colored engravings of parrot specimens as depicted by Peter Brown, an artist and naturalist, working in London England. Originally published in 1776 in a foli...

Charming engraving representing a floral composition signed by Nicolas Robert. This floral composition is made from poppies, St John's wort and hedge bindweed. This set of flowers of the fields...