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Box of Vintage Indian Continent Photographs; this lot comprises several photographs including a View of an Indian Temple approx 24 x 20 cms; Avenue of Palms Botanical Gardens approx 28 x 20 cms; 'The Residency Lucknow' 1892 approx 29 x 25 cms; Interior View of a Temple' approx 28 x 20 cms; Mountain Fort approx 29 x 23 cms; Temple Ruins; Rampart Ruins of a Mountain Fort approx 28 x 22 cms; amongst many others.Condition for this Lot - Sale 27/11/19Some photographs are old and either faded, torn or both.

A good Georgian sewing companion in the form of a book in card and paper, the spine titled 'Remember me', the covers with botanical studies in foiled borders, interior with mirror and needle flannel, 7 x 5cm

An unusual Georgian travelling mirror of box form, the whitewood case with a sliding lid painted with a botanical study within a gilt on black border, the interior fitted with a mirror, brass suspension ring, 12 x 10.2cm

Two good needle books comprising a Bristol card example one side worked with a beadwork vase of flowers, the other two cornucopia, 7.5 x 5cm, the other in cut stamped card one side with a botanical watercolour, the other a pencil study of a boat and house by the bank, blue ribbon ties, 9 x 6cm (2)

Three Bristol card type needle books comprising a circular example, needlework border and inscribed 'May you be happy, Hope is the (anchor symbol) of the soul', ribbon ties 6.5cm, another each side with cross stitch botanical panel, 9cm, and another with stacked card border and inscribed 'Mama, Needles', green ribbon ties, 8.5cm (3)

A box of specialist flora and fauna books, to include The Botanical Garden, 2 volumes in slip case, by Roger Philip & Martyn Rix, published by Firefly, Ornamental Shrubs, Climbers & Bamboos, Ornamental Grasses, Campunulas, 6 volume set of Familiar Wild Flowers by Edward Hulme, The Gardeners Assistant by Robert Thompson (1884), Domestic Floriculture by F.W. Burbidge (1875), The English Flower Garden by W. Robinson (1889), etc.

LEE. JAMES, An Introduction to Botany, containing an explanation of the theory of that science from The Works of Linnaeus (1799), The Silent Traveller A Chinese Artist in Lakeland by Chiang Yee, Ward Lock's The English Lake District, Murray's Handbook of The Lakes, Westmorland & Cumberland (1889), The English Lakes in the Neighbourhood of Ambleside, Workington Yearbook (1908), and Middleton's Commercial Directory for Maryport 1894. CONDITION REPORT: There are 12 botanical prints at the back of the book.

A pair of Spode limited edition 200th anniversary botanical vases with gilded handles, height 20cm, and a Royal Worcester limited edition floral pattern bowl, width 37cm (3), perfect condition

A 9CT GOLD BROOCH, the brooch was designed to commemorate the Dorothy Clive Botanical Gardens centenary, with 9ct hallmark for Birmingham 1998, length 35mm, approximate weight 6.7 grams

London, number 56037, Circa 1930. The van Heurck stand was the most complete model, named after Dr. Henri van Heurck, fabricant and famous microscopist, Dr, Henri van heurck was also the director of the Botanical Gardens of Antwerp from 1877. In original presentation cabinet.

A Rockingham part dessert service with C-scroll moulding and having gilt and grey borders. Each piece painted to the centre in coloured enamels with a single large botanical specimen over a grey ground. Comprising a pair of serving dishes and seven plates. Pattern 750, printed puce griffin marks c.1830-42. Serving dishes 23.25cm wide. Provenance; Eaglestone Collection.Condition report intended as a guide only.One plate with some old restoration to the rim. Two plates with a hair crack. Crazed and with some wear. 

A selection of table wares by Portmeirion botanical garden and PomonaGood condition overall, no chips or cracks

Samuel Hilton Botanical Brewer Sheffield 1908 stoneware flagon, Garnett's Rotheram, Temple Hotel Templeboro, Adcocks Peterborough and five other stoneware flagons, (H40cm max) (9) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Marion Arnold SOUTH AFRICAN BOTANICAL ART: PEELING BACK THE PETALS Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press, 2001 LIMITED SPONSORS' EDITION OF 26 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS LETTER 'T' SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 4to, 216pp. Full leather binding in slipcase. Illustration to front of slipcase. With gilt illustration to front board and gilt lettering to spine. 5 raised bands. With additional print signed by the artist.

Patricia Dyson (20th century) Botanical study, signed and dated (19)81, watercolour and pencil; together with a mixed media study of Lapwings; an print of three children; and a pastel landscape (4)

CIRCLE OF JOHN RUSKIN A botanical study. Signed initials. Watercolour 8' x 6'

A GOOD PAIR OF RIDGWAY SHAPED BOTANICAL PLATES with gilt decoration. 10ins long.

BOTANY Etc. PHILLIPS, R. & RIX, M. The Botanical Garden 2 vols. 1st.ed. 2002, Lonson, 4to orig. cl. d/ws in s/case, plus SARLE, C.H. A Shaker Sister’s Drawings… 1st.ed. 1997, Monacelli Pr. New York, 4 to orig. cl. d/w, plus 17 others on Botany, Natural History etc. (21)

A Coalport porcelain pale-yellow ground botanical part dessert service of 'Union' type, circa 1825, comprising: twenty-four plates, 24cm diameter; four shell-shaped dishes with Union emblem handles, 1124cm in length; four lozenge-shaped serving dishes, 29cm in length; a pair of shaped square dishes, 23.5cm wide and a comport with Union emblem handles, 38cm in length, impressed '6' marks See Geoffrey A. Godden, Coalport & Coalbrookdale Porcelains (1981), p. 246 for examples of the Union shape.

Botanical and Ornithological studies, published 1792, F P Noddert; others, various Provenance: From the Estate of Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish CVO (24 April 1926 -15 September 2018), daughter of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

A Pearson Harry Holgate 1912 botanical brewery stoneware jar; White Brothers Derby, Havelock Road stoneware jar; others; Prinknash Abbey mugs and jugs; other stoneware; ceramics; etc

A rare Bow botanical plate, circa 1756-58Of octagonal shape, painted with a large botanical specimen of a Jacobean lily, the rim with two winged insects, a caterpillar and floral sprigs, brown line rim, 22cm wideThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: *

A Bow saucer and a pickle dish, circa 1755The saucer painted in botanical style with a toadstool and fuchsia berries, scattered insects inside the rim, 12cm diam, the pickle dish of leaf shape painted with a spray of flowers, 11.2cm wide, with brown line rims (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: *

A pair of engraved opaque twist wine glasses, circa 1765The bell bowls engraved with botanical specimens, including a lily and a chrysanthemum, set on triple-knopped double-series stems containing a central gauze encircled by two pairs of three-ply spiral threads, on conical feet, 17.1cm and 17.4cm high (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: *

A rare Swansea botanical dish, circa 1815-17Of oval form and with crisp C-scroll moulded, painted in London, probably in the workshop of John Bradley in Pall Mall, with a specimen of 'Princes Feather' surrounded by floral and fruit sprigs, gilt dentil rim, 26.3cm wide, titled in red script

A fine Nantgarw botanical dish by Thomas Pardoe, circa 1818-20Of lobed form with a shell-moulded handle picked out in gold, finely and fully painted with a specimen of 'Chinese Apple Blossom' surrounded by a gilded insect and two sprigs, 21.8cm, impressed NANT-GARW CW, titled in Pardoe's distinctive hand

Carin Von Drehle, signed and dated: 1987, iridescent and trailed botanical design vase of squat form.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

A large collection of Worcester Masons Coalport wall plates including Botanical design aircraft etc and six Worcester and Spode wall plaque tiles decorated with studies of flora. (a lot) - NO RESERVE

Eight botanical studies, watercolours and prints

A collection of 19th century dessert wares with painted botanical sprays within a pale grey and gilt border comprising a pair of shaped serving dishes and twelve plates

A 19th century Worcester cabinet plate with relief moulded and painted botanical decoration in the Blind Earl pattern with impressed mark to reverse, 20cm approx diameter, together with a 19th century continental dessert plate with pierced border and relief moulded and painted fruit detail, with blue T and crossed mark to base, 23cm approx diameter, also together with an early 19th century Spode dish of oval form with blue and white printed decoration in the Tiber pattern, within an arcaded border, 23cm long

Box of watercolours paintings and pencil sketches including Victor Noble Rainbird together with bird and botanical/flower prints, an album of various pencil drawn subjects by Yorik circa 1900's, View in Pandon Dene 1843 by E. Brown, George Grainger Smith mounted pencil sketches.

Two botanical prints

two botanical prints

Original vintage illustrated map poster depicting the City of Birmingham located in the West Midlands area of England, featuring detailed images of notable landmarks, historical figures, stations, events, local tourist attractions and coats of arms including the Town Hall, Library, Victoria Law Court, the Cathedral of St Philip, the Bluecoat School, Municipal Bank, Masonic Temple, the University, Botanical Gardens, the Fruit Market and Meat Market, a game of county cricket and association football, golf, tennis, portraits of Pioneers of Engineering and Industrialists, air raids, the Bull Ring, Theatre Royal and General Post Office with the stylised text in banners. A publication of the City of Birmingham Information Department, The Council House, Birmingham. Horizontal. Very good condition, restored pinholes, restored paper losses in margin, light staining in margin, backed on linen.Year of printing: 1949, country of printing: UK, designer: W H Price, dimensions (cm): 99x75.

A group of three including, a study of birds perched on bamboo, a pen and ink of a dead bird and a botanical study, watercolour, various sizes (3).

A pair of green Jersey pottery vases, Portmeirion Botanical garden vase and a Moorcroft style dump vase.

A cased bird feather and watercolour picture plus botanical and 19th Century topographical engravings, prints etc (two boxes)

A box of thirteen various botanical prints

An early Victorian porcelain botanical dessert service, with gilt decoration, comprising a pedestal comport, ten plates, and three pairs of dishes (17)Report by GHBoth of the rectangular two handled tray dishes have hairline cracks.A couple of the plates have ingrained brown staining to the glaze. Otherwise all just with light wear

A quantity of Portmeirion including large Birds of Britain bowl, Botanical Garden, etc.

Villeroy & Boch Botanical casserole dishes and tableware

A PAIR OF CHINESE GILT-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE 'BOTANICAL' PLATES C.1740 After a design by Maria Sybille Merian, each painted with caterpillars and butterflies crawling on and flying amidst flag irises, all surrounded by scrolling foliate borders, 23.2cm. (2) Cf. J Harrison-Hall and R Krahl, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics from the British Museum, London, Ming and Qing Porcelain for the West, pp.186-7 for comparable examples of similar design in the collection of the British Museum in London.

Botanical illustration with insects and butterfly, 20thC, watercolour with body colour, 43cm x 35cm.

A BOTANICAL CACTUS ENGRAVING; 'THE PRICKLY PEAR', PUB. J WILKES 1800, another ; 'The Great Echinated Melon Thistle', and an engraving of a nude girl after Jules LeFebure, 1872 (3)

A VICTORIAN PART DESSERT SERVICE decorated with botanical specimens within gilt borders

Group of five coloured Botanical prints in glazed frames, 23 x 34cm (5)

Three coloured Botanical prints in glazed giltwood frames, 18 x 26cm (3)

A village scene, pastel, a landscape, watercolour and seven botanical watercolours

A 19th century blue and white pearlware Staffordshire marriage plate, initialled PHL MLG, decorated with floral sprays and hearts, with two capodimonte relief moulded plates, three botanical pink bordered dessert plates, decoration, two further florally decorated plates, and a hand painted wall plaque indistinctly signed verso (9)

Microscopic interest - A Leitz Wetzlar brass microscope, number 59429, supplied by Ogilvy & Co., London, circa 1925, with a black finish to the base and stage, with a number of Leitz accessories including micro-adjustable stage mounts in a mahogany fitted box, various lenses and eyepieces, all contained within original mahogany carrying case. Together with a superb collection of 19th / 20th century microscope slides including microscopic botanical, human and animal specimens, some with paper labels for E. Wheeler, London (approx 80) contained in fifteen trays in wooden case. Please See Accompanying Image.

A pair of framed and glazed botanical prints of Orchid and Freesia together with one other print.

Pococke (Richard). Beschreibung des Morgenlandes und einiger anderer Länder, 3 volumes, 1st edition in German, Erlangen: Stifthaus, 1754-5, signatures )(3 [superscript 2])(3 2)(4 3)(2 A-3K4, a3 b-f4 A-3C4, pi3 )(2 2-3)(4 4)(2 A-3G4 2H2, 3 engraved frontispieces, 180 engraved plates and maps (numbered 1-32 34-76, 1-103, and including 2 unnumbered plates), many folding, mild damp-staining to foot of gutter towards rear of volume 1, all edges sprinkled red, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-titles, gilt supralibros of Magdeburg Cathedral library ('signetum biblioth. ecclesiae metropolit. Magdeburg') to front covers, rear board of volume 1 water-stained, 4to (24.2 x 19 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: 1) Library of Magdeburg Cathedral (armorial binding); 2) Königliche Dom-Gymnasium zu Magdeburg (ink-stamps to title-page and first page of text in each volume). Cobham-Jeffery p. 51; cf. Atabey 965 and Blackmer 1323 for the first edition ( A Description of the East , 1743-5). A very good copy. The plates include views, antiquities, costumes, architectural studies, botanical subjects and plans.

Aldrovandi (Ulisse). Serpentum et Draconum Historiae libri duo, 1st edition, Bologna: Clementem Ferronium, 1640, half title, engraved title by Baptista Coriolanus, full-page woodcut illustrations of snakes, dragons and other fantastical creatures, errata leaf at end with colophon and printer's device verso, lacking front endpaper, small ink stamps to half title recto and verso, title verso and at foot of first dedication leaf, some mainly light spotting and toning, a few small marginal water stains, small bookplate, contemporary vellum, spine repaired with vellum overlay with manuscript title, lower joint splitting, further repair at head, some soiling and edge wear, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESNissen ZBI 78; Wood pp. 184-85: "This celebrated naturalist was born at Bologna of a noble family and devoted his life to lecturing, collecting specimens and in writing and illustrating numerous treatises on biological subjects." He founded the botanical garden in Bologna, one of the first in Europe.

* Botanical Watercolours. Two botanical studies of peach and acorn, possibly German or French, late 18th century, pen, brown ink and watercolour on laid paper, showing the stages in the development of the peach or malus persica, and acorn (Quercus), some overall toning and colours partially faded, each 35 x 21 cm (13.75 x 8.125 ins) mount aperture, matching antique-style frames, glaze (Qty: 2)

Gerard (John). [The H erball or Generall H istorie of P lantes . Gathered by John Gerarde of London master in Chirurgerie, 1st edition, London: John Norton, 1597], general title lacking, engraved portrait (dated 1598) to verso of B6 with knife cuts to image, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations throughout, long closed tear to A2 & 4O3, holes to 2T4 & 2T5, leaves of initial half of volume with worm hole to lower blank margins, many leaves mostly at front and rear of volume frayed and some torn, index incomplete lacking 5D1, 5E2, 5G4, 5I3 & 5I4, with interleaved blanks bound-in at rear, occasional stains, dust-soiling and few marks, armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield (1801-1885) to upper pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, later title label to spine and date at foot of spine, joints split at head & foot, light wear, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESSTC 11750; ESTC S122353.

Purton (Thomas). A Botanical Description of British Plants, in the Midland Counties, Particularly of those in the Neighbourhood of Alcester..., 4 volumes in 3 [vol III in 2 parts] , Stratford-Upon-Avon: J. Ward, 1817-1821, half-titles present, 38 hand-coloured engraved plates including 2 folding (some plates by James Sowerby), contemporary calf, gilt and blind decorated spines and gilt decorated borders to boards, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESBissen 1571.

Sowerby (James). English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, to which will be added, Occasional Remarks [by James Edward Smith], 41 volumes bound in 25 (complete), 1790-1866, rebound from the parts in botanical order, according to 'Manual of British Botany' by Charles Cardale Babington, without original index volume, 2998 hand-coloured engraved plates including some folding, a few plates close-trimmed at fore-edge, affecting numbers (rarely clipping image), pale dampstaining to plate 1560, intermittent spotting or light browning, some text leaves (and few plates) with brown discolouration at head, each volume with ink manuscript title, volume two with original title and preface to volume one bound in (remaining printed titles discarded), volume one contains; a manuscript contents leaf; manuscript notes to the index; an index which combines the original printed plate numbers with the new manuscript enumeration according to Babington; a copy of Manual of British Botany; and the titles, prefaces, indices and errata to the first four Supplement volumes, the final volume (no. 25) contains the seven parts of the fifth Supplement and with the original blue (beige for no. 82) printed wrappers bound in, 20th century green cloth, spines gilt-lettered, lightly rubbed in places, light wear to a few board edges, volume 21 spine lightly creased, 8vo (Qty: 25)NOTESHenrey 1366-68; Nissen BBI 2225. A complete set of this important botanical periodical (excepting the index). Especially scarce with the complete copy of the final supplement, which according to Henrey: "Few copies of No.83 appear to exist. This number contains the description of plate 2995 (the plate having been published in No. 82) the descriptions and plates 2996-8, and the description only of plate 2999." Our copy has all the plates plus the wrappers for the final supplement parts. The original publication made no attempt to produce the plates in a systematic order, which clearly caused some frustration as Mr. Salter, the publisher for the final Supplement, offers on the rear wrappers of no.'s 81-83 to "rearrange sets... in the Natural Orders". In this set, volumes 2-15 contain the flowering plants, volumes 16-18 Musci, 19 Hepaticae, 20-22 Lichens, and 23-24 Algae.

Scrap albums. A collection of 16 scrap albums, early 19th to early 20th century, containing numerous engraved or chromolithographed portraits, British and foreign topographical views, caricatures, cuttings from greetings cards and similar, plus newspaper clippings (often humorous or satirical), cartoon strips, advertising ephemera, etc., some with contemporary hand-colouring, also numerous ink manuscript riddles, verses, and prose, a few small pencil sketches and watercolours, some dried seaweeds and other botanical specimens, one album (circa 1930's) with a few small photographic images (mainly of unknown people), six pith paintings, some items loose or damaged, mixed bindings, some with boards or pages detached, various sizes (8vo up to large folio) and condition (Qty: 16)

Henrey (Blanche) . British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800..., 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1975, Oxford, colour and black & white illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform original blue cloth in slipcase, large 8vo, together with Mottelay (Paul Fleury) , Bibliographical History of Electricity & Magnetism..., 1922, Charles Griffin & Company Limited, black & white frontispiece & plates, some toning & minor spotting, original cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other modern bibliography reference & related, including publications by Oxford, Batsford, Sotheby's, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves)