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Boutelou, Claudio (1774-1842). See Ibn-el-Awam, Abou
Zaccaria Yahia ben Mohammed ben Ahmed. Libro de
agricultura, Sevilla, 1878.

Boutelou, Esteban. See Ibn-el-Awam, Abou Zaccaria Yahia
ben Mohammed ben Ahmed. Libro de agricultura. 1878.

Bowles, Carington

Bowles’s Florist: containing sixty plates of beautiful 
flowers, regularly disposed in their succession of
blowing ... 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 and sold
by the proprietor, Carington Bowles. St. Paul&apos;s Church-
Yard ... June 25,1777. 60 col. pl., 4°.

"One of the rare series of l8th century
English books ... such as the Catalogus Plantarum 
and Furber's Flowers and fruits ...
probably as scarce as either". Cf. Wheldon
& Wesley, Illus. Cat., n.s., 6 (1923), no.14.
The work has been described in other book-sellers' 
catalogs: a copy offered by Quaritch,
Cat. 400, no.1427, is apparently identical
with the above, as it includes the date 1777,
but another in Wheldon & Wesley, Cat. 2 , no.
419 (1921), merely indicates it as 18th century, 
and still another in Thomas Thorp's Cat.
432 (1932), no.187 gives name of printer
without date: "London, for Robert Sayer, n.d.
[c.1770]". This suggests the possibility of
other issues beside that of 1777, altho they
might have been later rather than earlier.
Brit. Mus. Cat. gives Carington Bowles as compiler 
of various handbooks, art works, etc.
but does not include "Bowles's Florist" among
them. (MFW)
        