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Dec. 08, 2018
John Parkinson (1567-1650)
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
John Parkinson (1567-1650) Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris London: Richard Thrale, 1656, second edition, folio, with woodcut title and 109 woodcuts (3 non-botanical), in full brown leather with decorative fillet, the flat spine with raised bands and red panel with gilt rule and lettering, the edges cut, the inside front board with bookplates of Peter DuCane Esq. Jr. (armorial) and Knut Olav Thulesius (monogram). [Cleveland 221; Nissen BBI 1489; STC II P495; Pritzel 6934] leaf 32.8 x 20.9 cm; overall 33.5 x 22.2 cm Provenance: Estate of Richard Anthony Goula, proceeds to benefit the Thistlewood Foundation, Lafayette, Louisiana.
New Orleans Auction Galleries
Sep. 04, 2018
John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisius Terrestris, or A Garden of All
Est: £300 - £500
John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisius Terrestris, or A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers ...., collected by John Parkinson, Apothecary of London, Thomas Cotes, London 1638, with numerous full page woodcut illustrations of flowers, vegetables and fruit, bookplate of George Arnold Esq., later calf much restored, 4to.
Gildings Auctioneers
Jun. 15, 2017
PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a G
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant fowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. The frst edition of the frst important English treatise on horticulture, from the library of 17th-century horticulturalist John Rea. Parkinson was apothecary and botanist to Charles I. Of the nearly 1000 plants described in the Paradisus, which treats in detail the fower garden, kitchen garden and orchard, a large number grew in Parkinson’s own garden at Long Acre. The book is flled with references to contemporary botanists and gardeners, and it provides one of the best single sources of information on gardening practices and styles in early 17th-century England, in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day (Hunt). ESTC S115360; Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489; Pritzel 6933; STC 19300. Folio (321 x 204mm). Woodcut title with elaborate scene of the Garden of Eden, signed A Switzer, 108 full-page woodcuts each with numerous fgures of plants, the plates of tulips faintly hand-colored, one full-page woodcut of garden designs, 3 small text woodcuts, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (Marginal restoration to title, frst text leaf, and three leaves at end occasionally just touching text or image, several corners renewed and a few other marginal repairs.) Full green crushed levant morocco gilt, original calf covers stamped IOHN REA mounted as front and back doublures, edges gilt, by Rivieré (spine lightly sunned). Provenance: John Rea (d.1681, English horticulturalist, author of Flora or, A Complete Florilege, 1665; binding, name in gold ink on **6v; Sawyer catalogue 214, 1953); Thomas Wall (early ownership signature on **6v); John Charrington, The Grange (bookplate).
Christie's
Jan. 13, 2016
Parkinson, John
Est: £1,200 - £1,800
Parkinson, John Theatrum botanicum. The theater of plantes or an universall and compleate herball. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. First edition, folio, fine additional engraved allegorical title by Marshall incorporating portrait of the author, over 2700 woodcut illustrations in text, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spine blindstamped in compartments, new red morocco lettering piece, corners neatly repaired, slight loss to upper corner of engraved title, small repairs to extreme upper corner of following six leaves affecting a few letters, Z1 holed with slight loss, some light dampstaining
Lyon & Turnbull
Apr. 10, 2014
Parkinson, John: Theatrum botanicum
Est: €1,800 - €2,500
Parkinson, John. Theatrum botanicum: The theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent. 9 Bl., 1755 S., 1 Bl. Mit ankoloriertem Kupfertitel und über 2700 Textholzschnitten. 34 x 23 cm. Moderner HLederband (unter Verwendung alten Bezugsmaterials) mit goldgeprägtem RTitel. London, Cotes, 1640. Nissen, BBI 1490. Pritzel 6934. Hunt 235. - Einzige Ausgabe. "'The Herbal by John Gerard' ... galt in England fast ein Jahrhundert als Standardwerk, bis dann 1629 der Apotheker Th. Johnson und der große englische Botaniker John Parkinson wirklich originale und wertvolle Arbeiten veröffentlichen konnten" (Heilmann S. 289). Enthält neben Auszügen aus zahlreichen botanischen Schriften auch Teile des von Parkinson erworbenen, noch unveröffentlichten Nachlasses von Lobelius. U. a. werden 28 bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt in England noch nicht registrierte Pflanzenarten beschrieben, darunter Frauenschuh, Erdbeerbaum, eine Mohnart etc. - Kupfertitel, typographischer Titel, Bordüren der Vorstücke und der Kapitelüberschriften sowie zahlreiche Initialen (an)-koloriert. Der Kupfertitel komplett aufgezogen, im Bug mit Papierläsuren sowie mit Eckabschnitt (Bildverlust). Im Rand etwas gebräunt, stellenweise mit Braunflecken, sonst wohlerhalten und ohne Papierläsuren. Exemplar aus der wegen ihres Bestands an botanischen Werken bekannten Warren C. Corning Libray in Kirtland, USA, mit entsprechendem Exlibris auf dem Innenspiegel.
Bassenge Auctions
Dec. 10, 2013
JOHN PARKINSON (BRITISH, 1567-1650) THREE BOTANICAL PRINTS FROM THE GARDEN OF PLEASANT FLOWERS Hand colored woodcut: 11 1/2 x 7 in....
Est: $200 - $300
JOHN PARKINSON (BRITISH, 1567-1650)THREE BOTANICAL PRINTS FROM THE GARDEN OF PLEASANT FLOWERS Hand colored woodcut: 11 1/2 x 7 in. (sight)Framed; pages 155, 191, 423 of John Parkinson's The Garden of Pleasant FlowersProvenance: Private Richmond, Virginia collection
Potomack Company
Nov. 16, 2013
PAIR STERLING SILVER-MOUNTED FRAMES. 19th-20th century; JR, 925 marks. - 19 1/4 in. x 15 in., overall.
Est: $600 - $900
PAIR STERLING SILVER-MOUNTED FRAMES. 19th-20th century; JR, 925 marks. Repoussé decoration depicting birds and various flowers. One encloses hand-colored engraving of tulips entitled "The Garden of Pleasant Flowers" by John Parkinson (English,1567-1650), from his Paradisi in Sole Paradisius Terrestris, published London, 1629 - 19 1/4 in. x 15 in., overall.
Sloans & Kenyon
May. 14, 2013
Parkinson, John
Est: £150 - £200
Parkinson, John Paradisi in sole, paradisus terrestris. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Folio, facsimile of the 1629 edition, 20th century blind-tooled calf in diamond patterns with initials E.K.S. to upper cover, spine gilt, blind-tooled doublures, bookplate of Tysoe Manor, a few annotations in pencil, some very occasional light foxing, lower cover very slightly tarnished; Redouté, Pierre-Joseph Roses. London: The Ariel Press, 1954. Second edition, folio, 48 coloured plates and two facsimile title pages, bookplate of Tysoe Manor, red half morocco, spine gilt, spine a little faded, some slight bleaching to cloth and fading to lower cover (2)
Lyon & Turnbull
Mar. 20, 2012
PARKINSON, John (1567-1660). Paradisi in Sole.
Est: £100 - £150
PARKINSON, John (1567-1660). Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus Terrestris ... Faithfully Reprinted from the Edition of 1629. London: Methuen, 1904. Folio (374 x 240mm). Half title, additional engraved title, full-page illustrations (some mainly marginal spotting). Original hessian-backed blue paper boards, printed label on spine, uncut (a few light stains, corners lightly rubbed, inner hinges a little weak). Provenance: Robert Gordon Gordon-Gilmour (armorial bookplate). Facsimile edition.
Chiswick Auctions
Sep. 07, 2011
Parkinson, John
Est: £200 - £300
Parkinson, John [Theatrum botanicum. London, 1640]. Folio, numerous woodcuts, errata leaf at end, lacking first 8 leaves including printed and engraved title, some marginal ink scoring, occasional repairs, B1 detached and soiled, several library stamps, some light spotting, small dampstain to extreme edge of some lower margins, disbound, lacking boards
Lyon & Turnbull
Jun. 22, 2011
PARKINSON, JOHN. 1567-1640. Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. [5] ll. (a)υ4, B-4Lυ6, 4Mυ4, 4N-7Iυ6 (lacking 7I6). Additional engraved title; illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Folio (337 x 223 mm). Period half calf, rebacked, with early gilt spine label. Engraved title backed and detached, preliminary leaves with fore-edge partially reinforced, 4O5-6 with 15 mm hole, tear from 5T2, corrigenda pasted to verso of 7I5, which is detached, some interesting early marginalia throughout, dampstain in outer margins of final several signatures, but else generally internally clean, binding worn, covers detached. First edition. Parkinson was Botanicus Regius Primarius to Charles I and Apothecary to James I. Theatrum Botanicum is the largest of the English herbals (nearly double that of the first edition of Gerard's) and is considered the greater of Parkinson's two works. Nissen BBI 1490; Garrison & Morton 1823. Provenance: John Glover (period ownership signature to title-page). See illustration.
Bonhams
May. 19, 2010
Parkinson, John (Br., 1567-1650). 4 woodcuts. From "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris," [C. 1629 or later]. STC 19302, Nissen 1489.
Est: $200 - $300
Parkinson, John (Br. 1567-1650). 4 woodcuts. Page numbers 201-202, 221-222, 395-396, 279-280, prtd headline "The Garden of pleasant Flowers," English text on each verso. Each on a leaf from an edition of "Paradisi In Sole Paradisus Terrestris: Or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English ayre will permit to be noursed up...," [c. 1629 or later]. STC 19302, Nissen 1489.
Quinn's Auction Galleries
Feb. 14, 2010
PARKINSON, JOHN. 1567-1640.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. [5], (a)4, B-Llll6, Mmmm4, Nnnn-Hhhhhhh6, Iiiiiii5. Additional engraved title and illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Folio (337 x 223 mm). Period half calf, rebacked, with early gilt spine label laid down. Title-page backed and detached, Oooo5 and 6 with 15 mm hole, tear from Ttttt2, corrigenda pasted to verso of Iiiiiii5, which is detached, some interesting early marginalia throughout, dampstain in outer margins of final several signatures, but else generally internally clean, covers worn and detached. First edition. Parkinson was Botanicus Regius Primarius to Charles I and Apothecary to James I. Theatrum Botanicum is the largest of the English herbals (nearly double that of the first edition of Gerard's) and is considered the greater of Parkinson's two works. Nissen BBI, 1490; Garrison & Morton 1823. Provenance: John Glover (period ownership signature to title-page). See illustration.
Bonhams
Dec. 11, 2009
PARKINSON, JOHN
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. London: [Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young], 1629 Folio (12 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.; 324 x 214 mm). Full-page title woodcut with Adam and Eve in the Garden, 109 full-page woodcut text illustrations (all but one botanical), 3 smaller woodcut text illustrations; three margins of title renewed affecting a small section in lower outer corner and small holes in other two corners, marginal mends in next ten leaves and in last six leaves, a few other minor mends within the volume all without loss. Nineteenth century panelled calf, gilt-ruled with floral gold-stamps at four corners, spine gilt, red sprinkled edges, dentelles; joints cracking, thin scrape on upper cover.
Sotheby's
Feb. 04, 2009
Parkinson, John
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Parkinson, John Theatrum botanicum. The theater of plantes or an universall and compleate herball. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. First edition, folio, fine additional engraved allegorical title by Marshall incorporating portrait of the author, over 2700 woodcut illustrations in text, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spine blindstamped in compartments, new red morocco lettering piece, corners neatly repaired, slight loss to upper corner of engraved title, small repairs to extreme upper corner of following six leaves affecting a few letters, Z1 holed with slight loss, some light dampstaining
Lyon & Turnbull
Nov. 23, 2008
John Parkinson (8pcs)
Est: $200 - $400
John Parkinson British (1567-1650) THE GARDEN OF PLEASANT FLOWERS handcolored woodblock prints, published 1629, unframed, pages 251, 259, 263, 267, 273 (2), 337, 601 H12 1/4" W8 1/4" (8pcs)
Charlton Hall
Sep. 24, 2008
PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a Large Extent. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. 2° (346 x 230mm). Additional engraved title page, woodcut head-pieces and initials, numerous woodcut
Est: £1,500 - £2,500
PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a Large Extent. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. 2° (346 x 230mm). Additional engraved title page, woodcut head-pieces and initials, numerous woodcut illustrations, appendix and index (additional title trimmed and laid down, printed title with marginal hole at gutter, some index leaves detaching or loose, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked preserving original gilt spine, corners repaired, scratched and scuffed). Provenance: Anthony ?salvin (old signature on title); E. H. Greenly (armorial bookplate and signature); Vittorio Arioli (ex-libris sticker). STC 19302; Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490.
Christie's
Oct. 20, 2007
John Parkinson (British, 1567-1650), Four
Est: $400 - $600
John Parkinson (British, 1567-1650), Four Botanical Plates from The Garden of Pleasant Flowers, woodblocks on paper with hand color, 12 3/4" x 8" (sheet size), circa 1656. Some foxing, soiling and minor tears to margins, otherwise good condition. Unfram
Kaminski Auctions
May. 09, 2006
PARKINSON, JOHN.
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
THEATRUM BOTANICUM: THE THEATRE OF PLANTS. OR, AN HERBALL OF A LARGE EXTENT. LONDON: THO[MAS] COTES, 1640 first edition, folio (338 x 217mm.), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, modern cloth binding, lacking [A]1 and 2 and all of 6G, 6H and 6I, pages 471 to 718 detached from binding, numerous small tears with some crude attempts at repair, staining, rust holes, slight worming, binding defective and broken PROVENANCE Seamor A. Gardiner; Robert Steevens, who notes on (a)6 that he purchased it from Gardiner in 1690 for two pounds and six shillings; Alexander Wilson, ownership inscription dated 1762 on p.423 LITERATURE Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Norman 1643; Pritzel 7749; STC 19302 NOTE annotated by robert steevens (1640 - post 1717) with details of the natural history of carolina. This massively used and copiously annotated volume is a remarkable record of the botany of early Carolina and the scientific methods of one of its inhabitants. The book adds immeasurably to our information about Robert Steevens of Goose Creek, Carolina, a botanist and member of the South Carolina Assembly about whom hitherto little was known save via some correspondence with fellow botanists James Petiver and Martin Lister part quoted by Raymond Phineas Stearns in Science in the British Colonies of America, 1970, p.294 and some comments on his countrymen's failure to convert the native Indians, cited by Edgar Legare Penning in "The Rev Francis Le Jau's Work Among Indians and Negro Slaves", in Journal of Southern History, Vol.1 No.14, November 1935. Steevens provides a fascinating insight into the peculiarites of the Carolingian varieties of various species. He garnered his knowledge from close personal observation, literary sources such as Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of Barbados which he quotes and word-of-mouth (including some English former prisoners of war whom the Spanish had forced to dig out certain roots). He provides alternative local names and such notes as "the leaves and body (of the yucca) is much more beautiful then in England". He has sometimes illustrated his comments with diagrams including the yucca fruit (p.153), Bindweede leaves (p.169) and a rattlesnake tail (p.420, "it is reported they are as many years old as they have rattles"). His notes, which appear on over fifty leaves, are full of interest and incident and include his personal sighting of a sperm whale in Bermuda, an incident on a Carolina plantation where both oats and barley grew from the same roots and the penchant of the local Indians for a particular type of mushroom which they "pund to pouder then it resembels pure white flower, which they mingel with other food and eat it".
Sotheby's
Oct. 30, 2005
Parkinson, John (1567-1650)
Est: $200 - $300
Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, London: Methuen & Co., 1904, reprinted from the 1629 edition, many plates hand colored, half cloth with boards, folio, (starting, endpapers toned, minor staining).
Skinner
Oct. 19, 2004
PARKINSON (JOHN)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a Large Extent, additional engraved title, woodcut illustrations throughout, ownership inscriptions of Samuel Handley (1838/40 "...in Sheeps Lane near the market") and David Beardall (Ham Yard, Long Row, Nottingham, 1858), some spotting and browning, titles laid down, a few tears and repairs (without loss of text except for lower corner of Aa6), 7H3-4 of index partially supplied in manuscript, without errata leaf at end, modern brown calf, covers with central tan panels, spine gilt [Henrey 235; Hunt 286; STC 19302; Nissen BBI 1490], folio, T. Cotes, 1640
Bonhams
Nov. 20, 2003
PARKINSON, JOHN.
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
DETAILED DESCRIPTION Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sauce used with us, and An Orchard of all sorte of fruit-bearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right ordering planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues... London: H. Lownes and R. Young, 1629 folio (339 x 212mm.), fine pictorial woodcut title, woodcut portrait of Parkinson, 3 small and 110 full-page woodcuts, eighteenth-century green-brown morocco gilt with double gilt borders and internal design at centre, spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-pieces, leaves washed, binding faded at spine, upper joint splitting at foot, some waterdamage to end-papers, corner of lower cover worn
Sotheby's
May. 08, 2003
PARKINSON,
Est: $1,127 - $1,610
John (1567-1650). Theatrum botanicum: The Theater of Plants... shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry authors that have formerly written of them, London: printed by Thomas Cotes, 1640. 2o (341 x 226mm). Engraved title with portrait of the author by William Marshall, numerous woodcut illustrations. (Lacking first blank, 3 preliminary leaves and errata at end, lower corner of titles and first 5 leaves repaired, just touching border of engraved title, lower corner of 6E1 torn away without loss of text, 7F1 [index] with a few tears, one causing loss of a few letters, 7I5 [final leaf of index] with repaired tear causing loss of some text, occasional light soiling, or light browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, front joints cracked, extremities worn). FIRST EDITION of this "compilation from various botanical writings including the unpublished material left by de l'Obel at the time of his death. This had been purchased by Parkinson" (Henrey). However, Parkinson attempts the description of nearly 4000 plants, 1000 more than Johnson's edition of Gerrard's Herbal published in 1630, and includes the names of 28 species not previously recorded in Britain, e.g. the Strawberry Tree from the West part of Ireland and the Lady's Slipper orchid from Lancashire. Arber Herbals p.136; Freeman 2925; Henrey I, 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Pritzel 6934; STC 19302.
Christie's
May. 30, 2002
JOHN PARKINSON (1567-1650)
Est: $4,380 - $7,300
Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, an Herbal of a large extent, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. 2o (345 x 220mm). Additional engraved title by William Marshall, woodcut initials and head-and-tail pieces, 2,717 woodcut illustrations, errata leaf at end. (Engraved title a little frayed and browned, K 2 with small rusthole, 5N 4 torn along gutter, edges frayed of 5Z 1 & 5 and 6T 3 & 4, occasional mostly marginal short tears, some marginal dampstaining to lower fore-corners). Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : ?Thomas Brice (ink signature on title); Rev. W. T. Bree (bookplate); Mittie Arnold (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "One of the two pillars of botany in England till the time of Ray" (Henrey p.79), the Theatrum botanicum "could perhaps be called the last British herbal, as it still reprints much mediaeval lore" (Plesch). Eclipsed during the author's lifetime by Johnston's edition of Gerard's herbal and by Parkinson's own Paradisus Terrestris, the vast Theatrum was unjustly dismissed after his death as an imitation of Lobel. However, although traditional in its arrangement and haphazard classification scheme, the encylopaedic work was not simply derivative. Of the 4,000 native English plants described by Parkinson, only 1,000 had appeared in Gerard's herbal. 28 plants are recorded here for the first time, including the strawberry tree, the lady's slipper orchid, and the Welsh-poppy. Brunet IV, 378; Freeman 2925; Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Pritzel 6934.
Christie's