Product Description: The Choix des plus belles fleurs (Selection of the most beautiful flowers) is the masterpiece of Redouté’s later years. This most celebrated of botanical artists (1759–1840) served as drawing master to the queens and princesses of France for half a century...read more

Product Description: The "Tractatus de herbis", reproduced here, is one of the many rare and precious manuscripts in the collections of the British Library. It is an illustrated herbal which comes from a collection of pharmacological texts written in southern Italy around AD 1300AD, which is now known as British Library Egerton MS 747...read more

Studies the development of manuscript and printed herbals, their making and decoration, and their medicinal significance and reproduces over sixty illustrations from forty-three different herbals

Product Description: This work is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs Paul Mellon. The "Pomona" describes 100 books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings...read more

Product Description: An Oak Spring Sylva is the first of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books, manuscripts, works of art, and related artifacts in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon...read more