Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Adoxa Moschatellina - Moschatel - F1 Henry Teesdale

Henry Teesdale

"Malva Rotundifolia"

The company became renowned for producing educational books

Original engraving by Asa Coolidge Warren (1872) was issued after the Civil War had devastated the fabric of American life & people looked to simpler times & the beauty of the country for solace

"Sagittaria Sagittifolia L

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Adoxa Moschatellina - Moschatel - F1 Henry Teesdale"Adoxa Moschatellina" 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. The reverse side of this engraving is blank. The text page on the third picture, below, is an original page from this work with original