Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Phascum Crispum - Curled Phascum - F1

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Phascum Crispum - Curled Phascum - F1"Phascum Crispum" This original hand coloured engraving is from James Sowerby's English Botany or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms and Places of Growth, published by J. Davis in London in 1790 1814. First edition of the extensively illustrated botanical series. James Sowerby was an English naturalist and illustrator born in 1757 and died in 1822. He is best known for his extensive work in botanical

as well as the contemporary life and attractions of Rome

He was the son of the renowned Italian architectural engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi

This antique map shows the Port of Ancona in Italy

including "Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament

They contain information in Latin

Beautiful old hand colored map of Breslau (Wroclaw) in Lower Silesia Province

"Painted Finch (Emblema Nicta)"

"Opegrapha Denigrata"

"Lichen Alcicornis"

"Antiquités Cyyptionnes"

”Näsbyholm från söder”

"Circaea Alpina"