Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Viola Lactea - Pale Dog Violet - F1 A small engraved map showing

A small engraved map showing the bay and anchorages on the Barbary coast

"Zannichellia major Boenn

"Huskvarna"

The engraving was published in Great Britain in 1840

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Viola Lactea - Pale Dog Violet - F1 A small engraved map showing"Viola Lactea" 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