A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Frontispiece vignette to Leonard Plukenet, 'Almagesti botanici mantissa']](jpegs/42079.jpg)
[Frontispiece vignette to Leonard Plukenet, 'Almagesti botanici mantissa'] Anagr: Ut pene Nullus sic ardeo Aliis inserviendo consumor.
J. Collins fec:
[published by T. Davies et al, 1700.]
Rare engraving, sheet 65 x 90mm (2½ x 3½"). False margins added.
Leonard Plukenet (bap. 1642-d. 1706), botanist, sitting at his desk. Vignette from Plukenet's 'Almagesti botanici mantissa' (1700), one of a series of magesterial volumes which presented Plukenet's collection, and in which several British plants made their first appearance. By this time Plukenet had been appointed superintendent of the royal gardens at Hampton Court, by William III, a king himself interested in horticulture.
[Ref: 42079] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
J. Collins fec:
[published by T. Davies et al, 1700.]
Rare engraving, sheet 65 x 90mm (2½ x 3½"). False margins added.
Leonard Plukenet (bap. 1642-d. 1706), botanist, sitting at his desk. Vignette from Plukenet's 'Almagesti botanici mantissa' (1700), one of a series of magesterial volumes which presented Plukenet's collection, and in which several British plants made their first appearance. By this time Plukenet had been appointed superintendent of the royal gardens at Hampton Court, by William III, a king himself interested in horticulture.
[Ref: 42079] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)