Antique Print - James Sowerby - Erigeron Alpinum - Alpine Fleabane - F1

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Erigeron Alpinum - Alpine Fleabane - F1"Erigeron Alpinum" This original hand coloured engraving is from James Sowerby's English Botany or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms and Places of Growth, published by J. Davis in London in 1790 1814. First edition of the extensively illustrated botanical series. The reverse side of this engraving is blank. The text page on the third picture, below, is an original page from this work with original

"Architecture

"Traite concernant la Decoration des Lambris propre à l'usage der Appartements bourgeois et particuber Développement pour un Vestibule"

”Muscigapa Parva”

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"Bjersgard"

This hand-colored map of the Pacific Ocean was produced by Henry Teesdale in London in 1834

”Finnmyrten

Kensett was particularly renowned for his coastal scenes

His father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder)

releasing works by literary figures such as Ludwig Beerhof and Theodor Fontane

"Euphorbia Paralia"

making his name well-known among British engravers