EditorialSand worm with crimson feelers, Amphitrite rosea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialRhodophiala rosea (pink-coloured habranth, Habranthus roseus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialLa Passerose a fleurs incarnates. Hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans c...
EditorialPhilippine ground orchid, Spathoglottis plicata (Rose-coloured paxtonia, Paxtonia rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by MIss Jane Taylor from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London...
EditorialRoseling, Callisia rosea (Rose-coloured tradescantia, Tradescantia rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialMallow variety, Malva minor and common hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations o...
EditorialBalsam apple, Clusia rosea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.
EditorialPenstemon roseus (Rose-coloured chelone, Chelone rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweet's The British Flower Garden, Ridgeway, London, 1827.
EditorialEdible russulae mushrooms: greasy green brittlegill, Russula heterophylla, Russula alutacea, and rosy russula, Russula rosea (Russula lepida). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our Edible Toadstool...
EditorialMadagascar periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus (Vinca rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards rom William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1793.
EditorialRosy echeveria, Echeveria rosea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1842.
EditorialHollyhock, Alcea rosea (Althaea rosea). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialChilean bellflower or copihue, Lapageria rosea, pink and white varieties. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1874.
EditorialChinese peony, Paeonia lactiflora (Double white Chinese peony with rose coloured flowers, Paeonia albiflora var. rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan of an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," Samuel ...
EditorialCommon hollyhock, Alcea rosea (Althaea rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis' "Botanical Magazine," London, 1832.
EditorialAoi or hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialCommon hollyhock, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of ...
EditorialGolden root, Rhodiola rosea. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 pla...
EditorialHollyhock or rose tremiere, Alcea rosea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by Mlle. Prudhomme from "Hommage rendu a la Rose," Paris, circa 1815. A gift book with the history of the rose and a dozen botanical miniatures.