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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

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Anemone double. Anemone coronaria. 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 Poppy anemone or Spanish marigold showing six branches with one flower each: three pink-red, two lilac, and one light-green, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. 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. Souci des jardins. Calendula 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 Calendula officinalis showing two branches with seven flowers and buds in various stages, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica. 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 (56.5 x 42 cm), printed in colour à la poupée and finished by hand, of a Mespilus germanica, showing a branch with five medlars in various sizes, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

SPAENDONCK, Gerard van. Chène commun. Quercus robur 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 Quercus robur including two acorns, an empty shell and two buds, signed "P.F. Le Grand sculp." In passepartout. Full description

THUNBERG, Carl Peter and Jonas Niclas AHL. Specimen ichthyologicum de Muraena et Ophichtho, ... in audit. Horti Botanici, d. 27 Jun. 1789. ...
Uppsala, Johan Edman, [1789]. 4to. With 2 engraved plates by Ahl, showing 4 different species of Muraena. Disbound. 14 pp. Full description

TURTON, William and John Edward GRAY (editor). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 324 pp. Full description

WAHLENBERG, Georg. Flora Upsaliensis enumerans plantas circa Upsaliam sponte crescentes. Enchiridion excursionibus studiosorum Upsaliensium accommodatum.
Uppsala, Academy Typographorum, 1820. 8vo. With a folding engraved map (29 x 39 cm) and its accompanying letterpress leaf (with the book's corrigenda on the reverse). 19th-century half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [4], VII, [1], 495, [1 blank] pp. Full description

WALKER, George and William BOYS. Testacea minuta rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris Sandvicensis; ... | A collection of the minute and rare shells lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich.
London, J. March, [1784]. 4to. With 3 engraved plates depicting 90 species of shells. Later purple, gold-tooled half morocco. [1], [1 blank], [1], V, 25, [3 blank] pp. Full description