Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Aira Aquatica - Water Hair-grass - F1 "Sirie" Copper engraving by Joseph

"Sirie" Copper engraving by Joseph Roux from "Recueil des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mer Mediterranée" in 1779

”Kallgräs

Lappula deflexa (WG) Garcke”

"Asplenium Ruta-muraria"

"Brassica Oleracea"

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Aira Aquatica - Water Hair-grass - F1 "Sirie" Copper engraving by Joseph"Aira Aquatica" 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 description