Mandrake, de Mandragora with its Flowers and Fruit. Dutch Edition, Copper plate engraving,from Calmet,1732. Size 21 x 33 cm, condition good, has full margins. Price £70.00 / $140.00 (plus packing and postage). Click for info

Antique prints of plants and flowers are just the thing to brighten up any room.

The earliest evidence that we possess of botanical knowledge is in the writings of Aristotle and his school.

Flowers have captured the imagination of poets through the ages. Even such a hardened militarist as Rudyard Kipling.

Buy my English posies!
Kent and Surrey may-
Violets of the Undercliff
Wet with Channel spray;
Cowslips from a Devon combe-
Midland furze afire-
Buy my English posies
And I'll sell your heart's desire!
              Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

I always have a good selection of antique flower prints in stock. This is just a selection, if you don't find the plant or flower you are looking for, just shoot off an email to me.

Selected Plant and Flower prints currenlty in stock

Linneus System, Pentandria -Monogynia. Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Pflanzenreich, prepared by Prof. Hochstetter, published by Schreiber and Schill 1853. 38 x 26 cm (double page) Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Linneus System, Tetrandria -Monogynia. Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, Pflanzenreich, prepared by Prof. Hochstetter, published by Schreiber and Schill 1853. 38 x 26 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Calceolaria Majoriania, Genera Cooperi, Collinsia bioclor. Engraved by J.Parkin, contemporary hand coloured. From the Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine, conducted by Joseph Harrison Gardener to Lord Wharncliffe dated circa 1835. 13 x 22 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Quercus, Chinese Oak with its fructification. Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis, by J.Pass, 1826. 20 x 26 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Passion Flower. Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis,by J.Pass, 1811. 26 x 20 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Ormosia. The Scarlet Necklace-tree. Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, engraved by T.Dale. Engraved for the Encyclopedia Loninensis, 1820. 19 x 25.5 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Broad leaved or Marsh Orchis, Copperplate engraving, hand coloured, Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1820. 20 x 25.5 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Meadow Orchis and Butterfly Orchis. Copperplate engraving, hand coloured, engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis 1820. 20 x 25.5 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Great Water Dock, Rumexhydrolapathum, Chromolithograph, circa 1860. 12.5 x 20 cm Condition good £28.00 / $56.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Medicinal Plants plate 11. Rhubarb, Aloe, Gentian and Cajeput. W.Fitch, coloured illustration from A History of the Vegetable Kingdom by W.Rhind, engraved by J. Bishop circa 1840. 15 x 24 cm Condition good £40.00 / $80.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Snowdrop. Galanthus nivalis, Class VI Hexandria, Order Monogynia. Milton, Copper engraving, hand coloured, published by Longman 1817. 10 x 17.5 cm Condition fair £30.00 / $60.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Marsh Paragon Dahlia, Floricultural Cabinet, J. Parkin contemporary colour, circa 1838. 12 x 21 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Cneorum tricoccon, Widow- wail. R.L.Lancake, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured from The Gardener's Dictionary by Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden circa 1760. 22 x 32 cm (big) Condition good £120.00 / $240.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Cotton Thistle, Onopordium Acanthium. Thornton, painted by Edwards,engraved by Warner,dated 2nd October, 1809. 28 x 41 cm (big) Condition very good £95.00 / $190.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Rosa Doniana, hand coloured, with diagrams, dated September 1st,1829. 13 x 20 cm Condition good. £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Columbine, F.Edward Hulme, Familiar Wild Flowers, coloured print,published by Cassell, Petter, Gilpin, circa 1880. 12 x 18 cm Condition good £30.00 / $60.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Schizanthus pinnatus humilis, F.W.Smith, hand coloured from Sir Joseph Paxton's Magazine, 1838. 16 x 22 cm Condition good £60.00 / $120.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Pears, Napoleons Butterbirne. Muller Diemitz, Chromolithograph from Deutsche Obstsorten, circa 1900. 19 x 27 cm Condition good £40.00 / $80.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

An Irregular Garden Plot. Very early copperplate engraving with explanation of plan underneath, engraved by J.Mynde, circa 1760. 17.5 x 18 cm Condition as seen £42.00 / $84.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Horticulture.Plate CCCXI, Copperplate engraving showing Greenhouse. Drawn by John Hay for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, engraved by J.Moffat, circa 1800. 26.5 x 21 cm Condition good £38.00 / $76.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Horticulture. Copperplate engraving showing grafting, drawn by P.Syme for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, engraved by J.Moffat, circa 1800. 19 x 24 cm Condition good £40.00 / 80.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Cacti, W.Fitch,from A History of the Vegetable Kingdom by W.Rhind, steel engraving, hand coloured, circa 1840. 18.5 x 12 cm Condition good £30.00 / $60.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Dried Victorian Flowers, Viola, Corn Cockle, Shepher's Purse, and others circa 1880. 22x 29 cm Condition fair £45.00 / $90.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Tea Roses. Showing 1.Comtesse de Nadaillac, 2.The Bride, and 3.Madame Cusin. Delicate Chromolithograph date circa 1900. 18 x 26 cm Condition very good £40.00 / $78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top