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Lyell (Charles, botanist, 1767-1849) and Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, F.R.S., geologist, 1797-1875]. A group of photographs and prints from the Lyell family collection, including an oval portrait of Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian and royal librarian (1795-1876, married Leonora Horner, their eldest daughter Mary married Sir Charles Lyell), hand-coloured salt print, verso dated 1856; Leonard Horner (1785-1864), Scottish geologist and friend of Lyell and Darwin, two albumen prints on card mounts by Maull & Fox; Lady Lyell, from a drawing by George Richmond, and others including cabinet cards of Ruskin, Lord Kelvin and Sir Moses Montifiore; proof impressions of Lyellia crispa and other botanical engravings; a group of portraits of Dante and related prints, probably collected by Dante scholar and translator Charles Lyell (1767-1849) and a varied group of mostly large prints by Bartolozzi, Morghen, Piroli and others, with a few drawings, 18th and 19th centuries, preserved in a half calf portfolio, boards detached, very worn, with a manuscript note on the family provenance (c. 85 items)Provenance: by descent in the Lyell family
Mikan (Johann Christian) Delectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis, Parts I-III only (of 4), 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates only (7 botanical, 7 zoological), one with aperture mount, most with tissue guard, occasional light spotting or marginal browning, loose as issued in original printed board folders, uncut, a little rubbed and scuffed, lacking ties, [Nissen BBI 1367 & ZBI 2815], folio, Vienna, 1820.
A small Indian hardwood Dowry Chest on shaped supports, carved with rows of stylised botanical or floral designs, on the hinged top and sides, 70 x 35 x 67 cm, 19th or 20th Century. Please note that some areas of deterioration and fatigue extant.. Please note that some areas of deterioration and fatigue extant.
A fine pair of Copeland Spode porcelain comports painted by Harry Hammersley: of pierced oval form, the centres painted with extensive Continental lake scenes, one named 'Ruins of Brunnenburgh', the rims with exotic birds amongst named botanical bouquets, signed H.Hammersley within gilded powder blue borders, green printed factory mark 'Spode Copeland's China England' with retailer's mark for 'Davis Collamore & Co.Ltd., 7&9 East 52nd St., New York', circa 1910, 31 cm wide.
SIX STONEWARE FLAGONS AND JARS to include 'This bottle is the property of Markham's Botanical Brewers, Queen Street, Gainsboro'. Anyone illegally using or detaining will be prosecuted, 1945', 'This is the property of Charles Wells Ltd., Horne Lane Brewery, Bedford', 'Blundell & Son, Crossens, Please return when empty, 1909' etc.
ALFRED SALE WATSON (Fl.c.1898-1928) THE ROSE WALK, ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, KEW, SURREY Signed and dated 1926, watercolour 18 x 26.5cm.; with a watercolour, formerly ascribed to Robert Dixon, 29 x 20.5cm. (2) Provenance: (Watson) Limpsfield Watercolours, May 1997 (Dixon) Birmingham, Pauline Norton Ltd, July 1974 ++ Each with slight fading
Four Derby plates , mid 19th century, painted with flowers within moulded and gilt borders, painted mark, 26cm, a pair of shallow bowls, mid 19th century, with named botanical centres and gilt borders, 21cm and five further decorative pates and bowls (Qty.) The Betty and Barry Power Collection
Paterson (William). A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria, in the Years 1777, 1778, 1779, 2nd edition ('corrected'), printed for J. Johnson, 1790, 19 copper-engraved plates (Bushmen's Habitations, Hottentots, Horned Snake, Camelopardalis, and 15 botanical subjects), folding engraved map at rear with some light spotting and minor waterstain to lower right edge, early ink ownership signature to title of Marcus Gage, contemporary half calf gilt in very good condition, 4to (Qty: 1)Cox I p. 390; ESTC T89158; Mendelssohn II p. 143. An account of four expeditions into the Hottentot Country and Caffraria, containing descriptions of the geography, botany and zoology of the region, as well as the dress and conduct of the natives, in particular the author's encounter with the Caffres and their chief, Khouta, in a region east of the Great Fish River which the explorer Sparrman did not reach (Paterson's and Sparrman's routes are marked on the folding map contained in this work). 'Although the principal feature of the work is a description of the botanical specimens ... there are many interesting notes respecting the natives, with a few remarks on the Dutch colonists' (Mendelssohn). Paterson was later appointed governor of New South Wales but 'historians have rightly judged him more important as a natural scientist than as an administrator' (ODNB).
Curtis (William). The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house and the stove will be accurately represented in their natural colours, volumes 1-8 (bound in 2), 1787-94, engraved portrait frontispiece of William Curtis, preface and dedication, retaining all 8 title pages and indexes, 288 engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, very occasional spotting, some slight offsetting, late 19th century ownership signature to title pages of volume 1 and 5, 19th-century diced calf, gilt spines, very slight wear to extremities, minor staining to boards, 8vo (Qty: 2)
Grahame (James). British Georgics, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for John Ballantyne [and others], 1809, illustrated with 13 original botanical watercolours with traces of ink to the section-titles for each month (including 2 for February, recto and verso), variable browning, occasional spotting and damp-staining, watercolours offset, section-titles for March and April with tape-repair to lower edges (not affecting the watercolours), repaired closed tear in text-leaf 2R4, ownership inscription 'Edward Abney, May, 1835' to initial blank, all edges gilt, mid-19th-century maroon morocco (endpapers watermarked 1834), spine richly gilt, covers decoratively tooled in blind, a few scuffs, extremities rubbed, 4to (27 x 21 cm) (Qty: 1)
Ferguson (John). Bibliotheca Chemica, 2 volumes, Derek Verschoyle, 1954, original red cloth gilt, spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with: Henrey (Blanche), British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1975, colour and monochrome plates, original dark blue cloth gilt, large 8vo, Beddie (M.K.), Bibliography of Captain James Cook, 2nd edition, Sydney, 1970, original light blue cloth gilt, 8vo, Cagle (William R.), The Matter of Taste, a bibliographical catalogue of international books on food and drink in the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Oak Knoll Press, 1999, monochrome plates, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrapper, thick 8vo, plus other bibliographical reference on travel, early science and medicine, gastronomy and natural history, including J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 2 volumes, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland 1770-1860 & Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 4 volumes, 1972, Joseph Sabin, A Dictionary of Books relating to America, Mini-Print edition, 2 volumes, circa 1975, Nellie B. Eales, The Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology, 1969, etc., mostly original cloth, a few in dust wrappers, 8vo/4to (Qty: 65)
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