Reports generated by the William J. Burns International Detective Agency in the course of investigating the finances and health of Arthur de Carle Sowerby in his final years.
Weaving; Weaving -- France -- History -- 19th century; Silk weaving -- France -- Lyon; Textile fabrics -- France -- Lyon; Textile machinery -- France -- History; Weaving -- Study and teaching -- France
Caption title, page [3]; Handwritten, and handdrawn diagrams; Includes mounted fabric samples; Autograph inscription inside front cover: Théodore Bon, Tourcoing, 1897. Ce livre, provenant de la bibliothèque de Mr. Ronze, ancien dessinateur et...
Thin-paper tracings. Page mounted on both sides of leaves. Some tracings. Pages are numbered 224-358, but numbers do not appear sequentially on every page. Page laid in;Pencil note on inside of front cover: tracings of over 400 designs. Circa 1880....
Botany -- Pictorial works; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works
Added half title, and added engraved title page; A new edition of his Waare oeffening der planten ... Amsterdam, 1672; Bound in vellum; Exhibited: "Plants and Gardens in Art", organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library,...
