The above group of four prints is from “Hortus Indicus Malabaricus”, the 12 volume work published in Amsterdam in the 17th century portraying the medicinal and traditional uses of the flora of India.  Dutch-born Henrick Adriaan van Rheede, head of the Dutch East Indies Company, researched and detailed 740 plants and published Hortus Indicus Malabaricus in 1686.  Each plate is inscribed in Latin, Malayalam, Arabic, and Sanskrit.  The famous publication which features unique horizontal plates with exquisite detail has captured the attention of scientists, artists and collectors for centuries.  This collection is composed of the most sought after engravings of van Rheede. 

Eight original hand-coloured engravings of pine cones by Picart et al, after C.E. Faxon from “Silva of North America”, published by Charles Sprague Sargent, Boston and New York, 1891.

Six original very rare, antique copperplate engravings of plants from “Histoire Universelle de Regne Vegetale”, published by Pierre-Joseph Buchoz, Paris, c. 1775-78.

Eight antique chromo-lithographs of leaf fossils published by Thomas Sinclair & Son, “U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories”, Philadelphia, 1868.

The four original hand-coloured, botanical engravings by Constatin (web spelling is wrong) von Ettinghausen and Alois Pokomy are from “Physiotypia Plantarum Austriacarum der Naturselbstdruck”,  published in Vienna c. 1856

(Very rare prints.)