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• Flowers -- Early works to 1800
• Art -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770), by Carington Bowles
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• Traité de la miniature (s.n.], 1725), by Catherine Perrot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato di miniatura, per imparare facilmente a dipingere senza maestro : e la dichiarazione di molti segreti per fare i più bei colori, colla maniera di far l'oro brunito, l'oro in conchiglie, e la vernice della China : quelli, che attendono allo studio delle fortificazioni, impareranno qui a miniare ogni sorta di pianta e di paese. (Nella stamperia di Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1758), by Claude Boutet and Giuseppe Galeazzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato di miniatura : per imparare facilmente a dipingere senza maestro : e la dichiarazione di molti segreti per fare i più bei colori ; colla maniera di far l'oro brunito, l'oro in conghiglie, e la vernice della China : quelli, che attendono allo studio delle fortificazioni, impareranno quì a miniare ogni sorta di pianta e di paese. (Per Giuseppe Galeazzi ..., 1783), by Claude Boutet and Giuseppe Galeazzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'ecole de la mignature : dans laquelle on peut aisément apprendre à peindre sans maitre, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or brunni et l'or en coquille ... (Chez J. Moris, imprimeur & libraire marché aux Trippes à la Bible, 1759), by Claude Boutet, Jean Moris, and Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato di miniatura : per imparare facilmente a dipingere senza maestro : e la dichiarazione di molti segreti per fare i piu bei colori : colla maniera di far l'oro brunito, l'oro in conchiglie, e i a vernice della China : quelli, che attendono, allo studio delle fortificazioni, impareranno qui a miniare ogni sorte di pianta e di paese. (Presso Gianfrancesco Garbo, 1771), by Claude Boutet and Gianfrancesco Garbo (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Groups of Flowers: Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• A New Treatise on Flower Painting, Or Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. Booth, J, 1818), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Etude de la plante : son application aux industries d'art : pochoir, papier peint, etoffes, céramique, marqueterie, tapis, ferronnerie, reliure, dentelles, broderies, vitrail, mosaïque, bijouterie, bronze, orfévrerie (Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1903), by M. P. Verneuil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ehon noyamagusa (Shōkōdo, 1755), by Yasukuni Tachibana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Li Futang xie sheng ce. (You zheng shu ju, 1920), by Shan Li (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinpaen gafu. (Hishiya Magobē, 1820), by Bunpō Kawamura and Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kachō gafu (880-05 : Suwaraya Shirōemon, 1765), by Shiseki Sō and Takeyoshi Fuku (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chigusa no hana. ([Tanaka Jihei], 1889), by Bairei Kōno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kusabana hyakushu (1901), by Bairei Kōno and Seikō Kōno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chinese bird and flower painting (Benridō, 1926), by Densaburō Tanaka and Onshi Kyōto Hakubutsukan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and heraldry; or, Floral emblems and heraldic figures, combined to express pure sentiments, kind feelings, and excellent principles ... (Houlston & Stoneman; [etc., etc.], 1851), by Robert Tyas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower painting in water colours (Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880), by F. Edward Hulme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qing zai tang ling mao hua guo pu (s.n., 1919), by Gai Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flowers of Milton (s.n.], 1846), by Jane Elizabeth Giraud and John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical essay on the art of flower painting, comprehending instructions in the drawing, chiaro-scuro, choice, composition, coloring, and execution or finishing of flowers, together with General observations and directions; and Accounts of the lives and works of eminent flower painters. (Printed for the author, by D. Jaques, 1811), by John Cart Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and how to paint them. (Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1906), by Maud Naftel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oxford drawing book : containing progressive information in sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure : with a new method of practical perspective (R. B. Collins, 1852), by N. Whittock and James Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fleurs animées (R. Martin, 1849), by J. J. Grandville, Raban, Alphonse de Candolle, J. N. Gimbrede, Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, and N. Cleaveland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yama sachi (Ōsakaya Heizaburō, 1765), by Ryūsui Katsuma and Shūkoku (page images at HathiTrust)
• The guide to flower painting in water colours : with illustrations (G. Rowney, 1867), by George F. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposition de la fleur rétrospective et moderne; peintures, dessins, gravures, manuscrits, sculptures ... ouverture du 13 octobre au 2 novembre. (Impr. G. Petit, 1894), by Galerie Georges Petit (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Hermes' systematic drawing school. (W. Hermes, 1880), by Wilhelm Hermes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower folk (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1890), by Anna M. Pratt and Laura C. Hills (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shotaika kacho gafu : bijutsu o yo (Aoki Ko zando , 1898), by Gessai Fukui (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers : wet the brush and bring out colors. (Saalfield Pub. Co., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pot with feeling; flower paintings (Eriksson-Taplinger Co., 1960), by Emanie N. Sachs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower painting in watercolor. (Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1962), by Mario Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Florae deae inter patrios & exoticos flores sedentis artificiosa delineatio (s.n. ;, 1630), by Jan Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and how to paint them (Cassell, 1891), by Maud Naftel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower & still life painting (The Studio limited, 1928), by C. Geoffrey Holme and Thomas Wade Earp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shotaika kachō gafu : bijutsu ōyō (Geisōdō, 1800), by Gessai Fukui (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers in nature and design. (Stephen Daye Press, 1947), by F. Brod (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual on flower painting in oil colours from nature : with instructions for preliminary practice, also a section on flower painting in water colours, etc., three illustrations (Winsor & Newton, in the 1880s), by William J. Muckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andrews's lessons in flower painting (London : Charles Tilt ; Edinburgh : John Menzies ; Philadelphia : Thomas Wardle, 1836., 1836), by James Andrews, Charles Tilt, and Graf & Soret (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of flower painting in water colours. (London : Published by T. Clay, no. 18, Ludgate-Hill, 1824., 1824), by François Louis Thomas Francia, Thomas Clay, and Whittingham and Rowland (page images at HathiTrust)
• El lenguaje de las flores y el de las frutas, con algunos emblemas de las piedras y los colores (M. Saurí, 1882), by Florencio Jazmín (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de peindre les fleurs a l'aquarelle : précédé d'un traité de botanique élémentaire, et orné d'un choix des plus belles fleurs (Paris : F. Lequien, libraire-éditeur, Quai des Augustins, no 47, 1837., 1837), by Augustine Dufour, Pierre Joseph Redouté, F. Lequien, and Imprimerie de Casimir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peintres et jardiniers (Imprimerie Tourangelle, 1909), by Gabriel Viaud-Bruant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kachō gafu (880-03 Kyōbashi-ku [Tokyo] : Inoue Katsugorō, Meiji 23-nen 9-gatsu 1-nichi [September 1, 1890], 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 15 bouquets de fleurs (Paris : Fleury Chavant, éditeur, No 19, rue de Cléry ; London : Lewis Solomon, No 70, Wynyatt Street, Clerkenwell, [1835?], 1835), by Pierre Joseph Redouté, Henri-Joseph Redouté, Fleury Chavant, Benoit Chirat, Adèle Janet, Olympe Arson, Camille de Chantereine, Rosine-Antoinette Delaporte, Jules Baget, Antoine Pascal, and Auguste Piquet de Brienne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlas des plantes de jardins et d'appartements exotiques et et Européennes : 320 planches coloriées inédites, dessinées d'après nature représentant 370 plantes, accompagnées d'un texte explicatif : donnant la description, l'origine, le mode de culture, de multiplication et les usages des fleurs les plus généralement cultivées (Librairie des Sciences Naturelles, Paul Klincksieck, éditeur, 1896), by D. Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parijs 1891; notities. (Van Doesburgh, 1892), by W. G. C. Byvanck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower painting in water-colour (I. Pitman & sons, 1932), by Cecilia Elwes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons in colour, flowers ([s.n.], 1915), by Herbert A. Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de nouvelles fleurs de goût : pour la manufacture des etoffes de perse (A. Guerinet, 1900), by Jean Pillement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advanced studies in flower painting ... : with full directions for copying the examples, general instructions on painting, and a description of each flower. (Blackie & Son, 1885), by Blanche Hanbury and Ada Hanbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les fleurs animées - Tome 2 (in French), by J. J. Grandville, contrib. by Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, and Raban, illust. by Maubert (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les fleurs animées - Tome 1 (in French), by J. J. Grandville, contrib. by Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, and Raban, illust. by Maubert (Gutenberg ebook)

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