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![[John Abercrombie]](jpegs/57200.jpg)
[John Abercrombie]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed to engraved border, laid on album paper.
Full-length portrait of John Abercrombie (1726–1806), Scottish horticulturist, the new frontispiece for the 1800 edition of his 'Every Man His Own Gardener'.
[Ref: 57200] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed to engraved border, laid on album paper.
Full-length portrait of John Abercrombie (1726–1806), Scottish horticulturist, the new frontispiece for the 1800 edition of his 'Every Man His Own Gardener'.
[Ref: 57200] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Geo. J. Allman
T. H. Maguire.
1851.
Lithograph. Sheet 615 x 445mm (24¼ x 17½"), very large margins.
A portrait of George James Allman (1812-1898), seated, with facsimile signature beneath. Allman was an Irish ecologist, botonist and zoologist. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
Wellcome: 56
[Ref: 57052] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
T. H. Maguire.
1851.
Lithograph. Sheet 615 x 445mm (24¼ x 17½"), very large margins.
A portrait of George James Allman (1812-1898), seated, with facsimile signature beneath. Allman was an Irish ecologist, botonist and zoologist. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846.
Wellcome: 56
[Ref: 57052] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Henry Baker, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and of the Society for the Ecouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Author of "The Microscope made easy" "Employment for the Microscope," and other Works. Bonr May 8. 1698; died Nov.r 25. 1774.
Thomson pinx. Nutter Sculpt.
Publish'd by Jany. 1st. 1812.
Stipple, sheet 220 x 125mm (8¾ x 5"). Some foxing around the edges. Trimmed within plate on left and small margin on right.
Half-length portrait of Henry Baker in an oval to right, head turned to look to front, in his study with bookcase behind at left and microscope on table behind at right; illustration to Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes of the eighteenth century' (London, 1812-1815). Henry Baker (1698 –1774) was a British naturalist.
Wellcome: 151
[Ref: 57151] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Thomson pinx. Nutter Sculpt.
Publish'd by Jany. 1st. 1812.
Stipple, sheet 220 x 125mm (8¾ x 5"). Some foxing around the edges. Trimmed within plate on left and small margin on right.
Half-length portrait of Henry Baker in an oval to right, head turned to look to front, in his study with bookcase behind at left and microscope on table behind at right; illustration to Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes of the eighteenth century' (London, 1812-1815). Henry Baker (1698 –1774) was a British naturalist.
Wellcome: 151
[Ref: 57151] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Nicholas Culpeper.
[n.d., c.1800]
Stipple, plate 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"), with small margins. Slight foxing.
Head and shoulders portrait of Nicholas Culpeper in an oval with symbols of the zodiac surrounding. Coat of arms below. Nicholas Culpeper (1616 –1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His 'The English Physician' (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and 'Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick' (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe.
Not in Wellcome. W. 727
[Ref: 57164] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800]
Stipple, plate 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"), with small margins. Slight foxing.
Head and shoulders portrait of Nicholas Culpeper in an oval with symbols of the zodiac surrounding. Coat of arms below. Nicholas Culpeper (1616 –1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His 'The English Physician' (1652, later Complete Herbal, 1653 ff.) is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and 'Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick' (1655) one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe.
Not in Wellcome. W. 727
[Ref: 57164] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis. / The shaddow of that Body heer you find / Which serves but as a case to hold his mind, / His Intellectuall part be pleas'd to looke / In lively lines described in the Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. Probably a frontispiece to one of his works.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 57196] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Image 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. Probably a frontispiece to one of his works.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 57196] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Nicholas Culpeper. View in this face, whom Heaven snatcht from hence, / Our Phisicall and Starrie Influence; / Had not Great Culpeper such order tooke, / In spight of Fate to Live still in this Booke.
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1655]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 9½". Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), hand on a skull. A botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer, he is best known for his 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. This portrait was used as a frontispiece to posthumous editions of his 'Semeiotics Uranica, or, An Astrological Judgement of Diseases' and 'Culpeper’s Last Legacy',1676.
W: 727-6.
[Ref: 57197] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Cross Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1655]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 9½". Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), hand on a skull. A botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer, he is best known for his 'The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'. This portrait was used as a frontispiece to posthumous editions of his 'Semeiotics Uranica, or, An Astrological Judgement of Diseases' and 'Culpeper’s Last Legacy',1676.
W: 727-6.
[Ref: 57197] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Ionnes De La Quintinye Regiorum Hortorum Culturae Praefectus. Hanc deorate Deoe, quot quot floretis in hortis, Floribus e vestris supraque infraque tabellam: Hic dedit arboribus florere, e edilibus herbis, Este mirata est tanto Pomona colono.
F. de la Mare Richart pinx acad. C. Vermeulen Sculp.
[Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.]
Rare engraving, sheet 225 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
Oval portrait of Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626 –1688) French lawyer, gardener and agronomist who served under Louis XIV. Named director of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens by the king in 1670, he created between 1678 and 1683 the Potager du roi ("King's vegetable garden") near the Palace of Versailles. Frontispiece to 'The Compleat Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating And Right Ordering Of Fruit-Gardens, And Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry,' Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.
[Ref: 57074] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
F. de la Mare Richart pinx acad. C. Vermeulen Sculp.
[Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.]
Rare engraving, sheet 225 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
Oval portrait of Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626 –1688) French lawyer, gardener and agronomist who served under Louis XIV. Named director of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens by the king in 1670, he created between 1678 and 1683 the Potager du roi ("King's vegetable garden") near the Palace of Versailles. Frontispiece to 'The Compleat Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating And Right Ordering Of Fruit-Gardens, And Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry,' Published by Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, Spread Eagle Westminster hall, 1693.
[Ref: 57074] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![Edward Forster [facsimile signature].](jpegs/57188.jpg)
Edward Forster [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1849.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"), with large margins. A few small tear in the bottom edge.
Half-length portrait of Edward Forster the Younger (1765-1849), banker and botanist. An early fellow of the Linnean Society, he was elected treasurer in 1816 and vice-president in 1828. He also had a catalogue of British birds printed in 1817. He helped found a Refuge for the Destitute in Hackney Road: he contracted cholera during an inspection, dying two days later. His herbarium was bought and presented to the British Museum. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
[Ref: 57188] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
T.H. Maguire 1849.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"), with large margins. A few small tear in the bottom edge.
Half-length portrait of Edward Forster the Younger (1765-1849), banker and botanist. An early fellow of the Linnean Society, he was elected treasurer in 1816 and vice-president in 1828. He also had a catalogue of British birds printed in 1817. He helped found a Refuge for the Destitute in Hackney Road: he contracted cholera during an inspection, dying two days later. His herbarium was bought and presented to the British Museum. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
[Ref: 57188] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[William Henry Harvey] WH Harvey [facsimile signature].](jpegs/57192.jpg)
[William Henry Harvey] WH Harvey [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1850. M. & N. Hanhart Imp.t.
Published by George Ransome, Ipswich, 1851.
Lithograph. Printed area 340 x 245mm (14¼ x 9½"), with large margins. Foxing in margins.
Half-length portrait of William Henry Harvey (1811-6), Irish botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae and mosses. His 'Phycologia Australica' 1849 is one of the most important 19th century works on phycology. Australian interest. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
Wellcome: 1313. Kivell & Spence: Not in.
[Ref: 57192] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
T.H. Maguire 1850. M. & N. Hanhart Imp.t.
Published by George Ransome, Ipswich, 1851.
Lithograph. Printed area 340 x 245mm (14¼ x 9½"), with large margins. Foxing in margins.
Half-length portrait of William Henry Harvey (1811-6), Irish botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae and mosses. His 'Phycologia Australica' 1849 is one of the most important 19th century works on phycology. Australian interest. From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
Wellcome: 1313. Kivell & Spence: Not in.
[Ref: 57192] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![Ida Pfeiffer [facsimile signature].](jpegs/57088.jpg)
Ida Pfeiffer [facsimile signature].
A Dauthage 1855. Ged bei Jos. Stouss.
Very rare and scare lithograph, sheet 440 x 315mm (17½ x 12½"), very large margins. Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Portrait of world traveller Ida Pfeiffer with the Pyramids of Giza in the background. Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858), née Reyer, was an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer. She was one of the first female travelers, whose bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. During her travels she collected plants, insects, mollusks, marine life, and mineral specimens. Many were sold to Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the British Museum.
[Ref: 57088] £360.00
A Dauthage 1855. Ged bei Jos. Stouss.
Very rare and scare lithograph, sheet 440 x 315mm (17½ x 12½"), very large margins. Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Portrait of world traveller Ida Pfeiffer with the Pyramids of Giza in the background. Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858), née Reyer, was an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer. She was one of the first female travelers, whose bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. During her travels she collected plants, insects, mollusks, marine life, and mineral specimens. Many were sold to Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the British Museum.
[Ref: 57088] £360.00
![Edwin Sidney [facsimile signature].](jpegs/57193.jpg)
Edwin Sidney [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1849.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 330 x 245mm (13 x 9½"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of Reverend Edwin Sidney (1798?-1872), Rector of Little Cornard in Suffolkfrom 1847 until his death, biographer and naturalist, who lectured at the Royal Institution and elsewhere. He helped Michael Faraday with his Ozone measurements. Among his books are: 'Electricity, its phenomena, laws and results' in 1843, 'Blights of the wheat, and their remedies' (1846) and 'The philosophy of food and nutrition in plants and animals' (1849). From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
Wellcome: 1313.
[Ref: 57193] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
T.H. Maguire 1849.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 330 x 245mm (13 x 9½"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of Reverend Edwin Sidney (1798?-1872), Rector of Little Cornard in Suffolkfrom 1847 until his death, biographer and naturalist, who lectured at the Royal Institution and elsewhere. He helped Michael Faraday with his Ozone measurements. Among his books are: 'Electricity, its phenomena, laws and results' in 1843, 'Blights of the wheat, and their remedies' (1846) and 'The philosophy of food and nutrition in plants and animals' (1849). From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
Wellcome: 1313.
[Ref: 57193] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
James Thornton.
J. Zoffany pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
London, printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs, 1.t July 1770.
Rare mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"). Some creasing and small tear at top. Small margins.
Portrait of James Thornton, gardener at Kew; within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing flower-patterned waistcoat beneath open coat and short wig. After Johan Joseph Zoffany (1733-1810).
Chaloner Smith 116, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 57083] £320.00
J. Zoffany pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
London, printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs, 1.t July 1770.
Rare mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"). Some creasing and small tear at top. Small margins.
Portrait of James Thornton, gardener at Kew; within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing flower-patterned waistcoat beneath open coat and short wig. After Johan Joseph Zoffany (1733-1810).
Chaloner Smith 116, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 57083] £320.00