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Botanical prints include: medicinal plants and poisonous vegetables as well as flowering plants.
60 Sowerby prints found below originally came from the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington, who supervised the text and plates of later volumes of the English Botany. Professor Babington was one of the founders of the Entomological Society in 1833, earned the sobriquet of Beetles Babington, and from the Transactions of the Society for 1841–3, can be seen to have taken part in the description of the Beagle collections and been in contact with Charles Darwin, from whom he was known to have received a box of South American beetles. From this it is inferred that his copies of the earlier plates will date from no later than about 1850. Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions were published up until 1865 when the demand failed to cover their costs, partly because of the new Third edition.
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 Agrimonia odorata - Scented Agrimony. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1864 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40552 : £9 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Alchemilla conjuncta - Silvery Lady's Mantle. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1864 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40553 : £9 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Allium triquetrum - Three-sided Garlic. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1864 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40533 : £9 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Anacharis Alsinastrum Water Thyme From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1865 - 24 x 30.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. This larger sheet has two folds as issued. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 37995 : £14 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Anemone Ranunculoides. Yellow Wood Anemone. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants edited by James Edward Smith; the figures by James Sowerby, F.L.S. This work originally dates from 1790 to 1813 but was expanded throughout the nineteenth century and continually re-issued. c1850 - 16.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 37918 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Arenaria leptoclados - Slender Sandwort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1863 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40542 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Berberis dulcis, Sweet-fruited Berberry from Maund & Henslow's The Botanist - Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants 1837 - 18 x 23 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings supplied with leaf of descriptive text. Larger image Ref 37504 : £10 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Caltha Radicans. Creeping Marsh-Marygold. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants edited by James Edward Smith; the figures by James Sowerby, F.L.S. This work originally dates from 1790 to 1813 but was expanded throughout the nineteenth century and continually re-issued. c1850 - 16.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 37925 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Carduus Acanthoides; the Welted Thistle James Sowerby, plate 973. 1801 - mount window 10 x 17 cm Botanical: flora. Antique hand coloured engraving. In cloth surfaced mount. Larger image Ref 30403 : £12 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Carex Ericatorum - Heath Carex. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1863 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40541 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Carolinea alba, White Carolinea from Maund & Henslow's The Botanist - Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants 1839 - 18 x 23 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings supplied with leaf of descriptive text. Larger image Ref 37563 : £10 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cicendia pusilla Dwarf Cicendia From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1865 - 15.5 x 23 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 37996 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cirsium Helenoides (Downy Gentle Thistle) & C Montanum (Mountain Gentle Thistle). Watermark 1805 - mount window 11 x 18 cm Botanical: flora. Antique hand coloured engraving. In ruled bevel mount (v sl. scuffed - no charge). Larger image Ref 30401 : £11 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Climbing Corydalis and Fumitory from Anne Pratt's The Flowering Plants & Ferns of Great Britain c1860 - 14 x 22 cm Botanical: flora. Original antique chromolithograph. Larger image Ref 21012 : £5 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cluster-flowered Myrsine. Wm Curtis Botanical Magazine 1833 - mount window 12 x 20 cm Botanical: flora. Fine antique hand coloured engraving and with related text leaf. In hand ruled bevel mount. Larger image Ref 30396 : £18 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Botrychium Lunaria. Moon-wort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40615 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Isoetes Echinospora. Prickly-spored Lake Quillwort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40605 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Isoetes Eu-Lacustris. Var Morei. Lake Quillwort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40604 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Isoetes Eu-Lacustris. Lake Quillwort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40603 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Isoetes Hystrix. Spiny Quillwort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40606 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Lycopodium Alpinum. Savin-leaved Club-moss. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40612 : £5 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Lycopodium Annotinum. Interrupted Club-moss. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40610 : £4 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Lycopodium Clavatum. Common Club-moss. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40611 : £5 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Lycopodium Inundatum. Marsh Club-moss. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40609 : £4 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Lycopodium Selago. Fir Club-moss. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40608 : £4 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Ophioglossum Vulgatum. Common Adder s Tongue. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40613 : £5 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Pilularia Globulifera. Pillwort, or Pepper-Grass From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40602 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cryptogamia. Selaginella Selaginoides. Lesser Alpine Club-moss, From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates are from an undated supplement to the third edition totally revising the Cryptogamia and include plates 1825 to 1837, by the Sowerbys, Salter & Fitch. c1870 - 17.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 40607 : £4 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Cucumber C19th - 19 x 14 cm Antique original hand coloured engraving Larger image Ref 40658 : £2 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Dianthus plumarius - Common Pink. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1864 - 25 x 32 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Two original folds. Larger image Ref 40549 : £15 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Echeveria Racemosa, Racemose-flowered Echeveria from Maund & Henslow's The Botanist - Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants 1837 - 18 x 23 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings supplied with leaf of descriptive text. Larger image Ref 37518 : £10 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Epimedium Alpimum. Alpine Barren Wort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants edited by James Edward Smith; the figures by James Sowerby, F.L.S. This work originally dates from 1790 to 1813 but was expanded throughout the nineteenth century and continually re-issued. c1850 - 16.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 37934 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Euphorbia stricta - Upright Warted Spurge. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1863 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40544 : £9 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Festuca ambigua - Dubious Fescue-grass. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1863 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40540 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Fumaria confusa - Jordan's Fumitory. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1863 - 25 x 33 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Two original folds. Larger image Ref 40546 : £14 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Glyceria fluitans - Common Flote-grass. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1864 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Larger image Ref 40545 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Grasses: Blue Moor G, Loose Panick G, Rough Bristle G, Green B G from Anne Pratt's The Flowering Plants & Ferns of Great Britain c1860 - 14 x 22 cm Botanical: flora. Original antique chromolithograph. Sheet gently creased. Larger image Ref 40665 : £4 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Hare's Ear Treacle Mustard and two other Mustards from Anne Pratt's The Flowering Plants & Ferns of Great Britain c1860 - 14 x 22 cm Botanical: flora. Original antique chromolithograph. Larger image Ref 35956 : £4 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Laurus Cinnamomum. Medical Botany, Stephenson & Churchill 1834-1836 - mount window 14 x 22 cm Botanical: Medical Plants & Poisonous Vegetables. Antique hand coloured engraving. Free ivory bevel cut mount. Larger image Ref 30383 : £10 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Leontice chrysogonum, Golden-kneed Lion's Leaf from Maund & Henslow's The Botanist - Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants 1837 - 18 x 23 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings supplied with leaf of descriptive text. Larger image Ref 37530 : £10 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Lepigonum rupicola - Rock Sandwort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1864 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Slight fold caused by pressure from adjoining folded larger sheet. Larger image Ref 40547 : £8 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Lepigonum salinum - Kindberg's Sandwort. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1863 - 25.5 x 16 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Slight fold caused by pressure from adjoining folded larger sheet. Larger image Ref 40548 : £8 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Lesser Celandine, Buttercups and Crowfoots from Anne Pratt's The Flowering Plants & Ferns of Great Britain c1860 - 14 x 22 cm Botanical: flora. Original antique chromolithograph. Larger image Ref 21021 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Lysimachia Menorum; the Yellow Pimpernel Hand coloured engraving. James Sowerby 1798 - 13 x 21 cm Botanical: flora. Antique hand coloured engraving. Larger image Ref 30407 : £9 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Marsh Marigold, Mountain Globe flower and Hellebores from Anne Pratt's The Flowering Plants & Ferns of Great Britain c1860 - 14 x 22 cm Botanical: flora. Original antique chromolithograph. Larger image Ref 21004 : £7 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Matthiola Incana. Hoary Shrubby Stock. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants edited by James Edward Smith; the figures by James Sowerby, F.L.S. This work originally dates from 1790 to 1813 but was expanded throughout the nineteenth century and continually re-issued. c1850 - 16.5 x 25 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Larger image Ref 37949 : £6 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Medicago sylvestris - Wild Lucerne. From English Botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants. These later plates, many by J W Salter, were published in Supplements to the 1st and 2nd editions and most have engraved dates. 1863 - 16 x 25.5 cm Beautifully hand coloured original antique engravings. From the library of Cambridge Professor of Botany from 1861, Charles Cardale Babington. Please see notes on the Botanical Section header page for details. Supplied with the original double-sided sheet of text. Slight fold caused by pressure from adjoining folded larger sheet. Larger image Ref 40550 : £9 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
 Mulberry C19th - 14 x 19 cm Antique original hand coloured engraving Larger image Ref 40657 : £2 Return to Antique Prints & Engravings Index |
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