Natural History / Floras & Flowering Plants

SAINT-HILAIRE, Auguste de, Adrien de JUSSIEU and Jacques CAMBESSEDES. Plantes usuelles des Brasiliens.
Paris, Grimbert (printed by Casimir), 1824-1828. In 14 instalments. Large 4to (29.5 x 22.5 cm). With 70 lithographed botanical plates, all by Langlumé. Original publisher´s blue printed wrappers, the back wrapper with llists of Gimbert´s publications (4 versions, on parts 1, 2-7, 8-13 and 14) in the same border; the first instalment with a printed part number, but further numbered by hand. With the bolts opened at the head, but wholly untrimmed, preserving all deckles and point-holes. Preserved in a modern green morocco box, with transparent acrylic windows for sides. [298] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Catalogue Raisonné des Espèces et variétés d'Aloès décrites par Ms. Willdenow, Haworth, De Candolle et Jacquin, et de celles, non décrites, existantes dans les Jardins de l'Allemagne, de la France et du Royaume des Pays-Bas.
[Schloss Dyck, Düsseldorf, 1817]. 8vo. Paper wrappers. 7, (1), "72" [= 70], (2 blank) pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Verzeichniss der verschiedenen Arten und Abarten des Geschlechts Aloe, welche von den Herren von Willdenow, Haworth, de Candolle und Freiherrn von Jacquin beschrieben worden sind, oder noch unbeschrieben in den Gärten Deutschlands, Frankreichs und der Niederlanden sich befinden.
[Schloss Dyck, near Dusseldorf, 1817]. 8vo. Original blue coated paper wrappers. 8, 73, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Observationes botanicae in Horto Dyckensi notatae.
Cologne, Th. Fr. Thiriart, 1820-1822. 3 volumes. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary green paper wrappers. 35, [1 blank]; [2], 37-73, [1 blank]; 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Index plantarum succulentarum in horto Dyckensi cultae.
Aachen, Beaufort filii, 1822. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. [2], 60, [2 blank] pp. Full description

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. Index plantarum succulentarum in Horto Dyckensi cultarum.
Aachen, J.J. Beaufort, 1834. 8vo. Contemporary brown/yellow wrappers. 81, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[SCHOUMAN, Aert]. [Proboscidea louisianica].
[Netherlands, 2nd half of the 18th-century]. Watercolour on laid paper (40.5 x 27 cm) of a flowering Proboscidea louisianica, with fruit and a horned seedpod on the ground. In passepartout (55 x 40 cm). Full description

SCHREBER, Johann Christian Daniël von. Icones et descriptiones plantarum minus cognitarum. Decas I.
Halle (Saale), Germany, J.J. Curt, 1766. Folio (37.5 x 24.5 cm). With 10 full-page numbered engravings of plants, an engraved image on the title-page, and a woodcut initial on the first page of the preface. Never bound, housed in a modern folder with a printed design of 19th-century marbled paper. [8], 20 pp. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Pivoine double. Paeonia officinalis L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (56 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Paeonia officinalis showing two branches with one flower each, signed "Carrée sculp." Framed (67 x 50 cm). Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Mufle de veau. Antirrhinum majus. L. [From: Fleurs dessinées d'après nature,... Recueil utile aux amateurs, aux jeunes artistes, aux élèves des écoles centrales et aux dessinateurs des manufactures].
[Paris, 1799-1801]. Stipple engraving on unwatermarked wove paper (54.5 x 36.5 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Antirrhinum majus showing a branched stem with flowers in various stages, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description