Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Rumex Maritimus - Sea Dock - F1 "Das Appenzeller Wildkirchlein (Schweiz)"

"Das Appenzeller Wildkirchlein (Schweiz)"

"Lycopus Europaeus"

nearly all of which he both designed and engraved

Magnus von Wright (1805 - 68) was the first taxidermist working with the vertebrate collections of Helsinki University

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Rumex Maritimus - Sea Dock - F1 "Das Appenzeller Wildkirchlein (Schweiz)""Rumex Maritimus" 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