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Crown Derby imari pattern platter pattern no. 1128. 28cm diameter, together with Crown Derby imari pattern dish, Royal Worcester blush ivory jug, similar pot and cover and three Regency Derby botanical dishes

A Victorian Rockingham part tea/coffee service, painted with a grey and gilt stripe and botanical specimen centres, puce printed Griffin mark to base of saucers including inscription 'Manufacturers to the Queen, c. 1840, comprising: A bowl, two cake plates, eight teacups (3 with hairlines), seven coffee cups (2 with hairlines) and nine saucers to/w a near matched Staffordshire teapot and cover (spout repaired, hairline and internally crazed, finial re-glued), sucrier and cover (handle repaired and damaged, finial repaired), milk jug and plateThe number 1461 appears on base of bowl

A SANDS & HUNTER MICROSCOPE SLIDE CABINET with turned handles and contents and slides therein to include mostly botanical examples, the case exterior measures 26cm wide x 28cm deep overall x 35cm approximately

A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND LATER DECORATIVE PICTURES and prints to include botanical prints

A selection of botanical and flower related prints

A vast selection of kitchen and table wares by Portmeirion Botanical series some as new still bearing price tags

A large Portmeirion Botanical Gardens jardiniere, and pot and Evesham style souffle dish etc.

A set of eight reproduction botanical prints after Casteels; three further assorted botanical prints and a quantity of assorted framed book plates; Architectural prints etc (qty)

CAROL HOPKIN watercolour and crayon - botanical study, signed, 48 x 58cms (framed & glazed) Condition reports provided on request by email for this auction otherwise items purchased `as seen`

NO RESERVE Sweet (Robert) The Hot-House and Greenhouse Manual, or Botanical Cultivator, second edition, previous owner's ink signature to title, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end, cracked hinges, later half calf, lightly browned spine, rubbed, small loss to lower board, 1825 § Skuse's Complete Confectioner, a Practical Guide to the Art of Sugar Boiling in all its Branches, advertisements, cracked upper hinge, original cloth, rubbed and worn, W.J. Bush & Co., n.d. § Riviére (M.) Guide Pratique du Vétérniaire et du Parfait Bouvier, engraved illustrations, spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, Paris, Laplace, n.d.; and 14 others, mainly incomplete sets, 8vo & 12mo (17)

MARJORIE BISHOP. BRITISH 20TH CENTURY A botanical study. Signed and dated '85. Watercolour. 19' x 12½'. Together with an aquatint after Karl S. Freiburg

A large quantity of assorted prints, including engravings after Robert Morison, late 17th century, together with other works, mainly botanical and architectural, and loose pages from 'Anno Regni Georgii Regis', 18th century (qty)

A collection of coloured prints depicting birds, including the Hooded Chat, the Gilded Cuckoo, the Pied Fly Catcher and the Stormy Petrel, together with further works, mainly botanical and architectural (qty)

A 19th Century framed stocking top with Queen Victoria's monogram; a mid 19th Century cross stitch panel of Neptune in a Chariot, a 19th Century cream and black lace cap, a beaded collar, two 1920s chocolate boxes, a pair of pleated paper surrounds composed of botanical bookplates and a quantity of small prints within modern frames

APPROXIMATELY 47 HAND COLOURED BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CURTIS' BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, EARLY 19TH C

Curtis (William). Botanical Magazine, or the Flower Garden Displayed, 3 volumes, circa 1800-1820's, 374 hand-coloured engraved plates, several folding, one volume with each plate with Latin name in manuscript and renumbered at top margin, lacking all text, one without title, a little minor offsetting, one volume all edges gilt in contemporary green morocco (spine faded), two volumes in half calf with two covers detached, one spine defective, together with The Botanic Garden, by Benjamin Maund, volume IV only, 1831-2, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary half calf gilt, small 4to, with three others including Samuel Curtis's General Indexes of the Plants contained in the first fifty-three volumes of the Botanical Magazine, 1828 and two others by Maund (Qty: 7)

Labram (Johan David). Sammlung von Zierpflanzen nach der Natur gezeichnet und colorirt von J.D. Labram, Basel, lithographie von Eml. Hindermann, circa 1835, 100 hand-coloured lithographed botanical plates, erratically numbered to top right corner (but complete), contemporary quarter calf, a little rubbed and outer corners showing, old paper label to spine rubbed away, small 4to, together with Roth (Albrecht Wilhelm). Botanische Abhandlungen und Beobachtungen, mit XII. illuminirten kupfertafeln, Nuremberg, Johann Jacob Winterschmidt, 1787, 68 pages of text, including title, 12 fine hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, tipped-onto blank leaves, in order to fold outwards, final two plates with some waterstaining, 19th century bookplate of Robert James Shuttleworth to front pastedown, near-contemporary plain boards, rubbed and some soiling, 4to (Qty: 2)Nissen BBI 1118 for the first work. The author of the second work, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757-1834), was a doctor of herbal medicine and member of the Halle Natural History Society who also published Botanische Bemerkungen und Berichtigungen in 1807.

Sweet (Robert), Geraniaceae. The Natural of Gerania, illustrated by coloured figures and descriptions; comprising the numerous and beautiful mule-varieties cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, with directions for their treatment, volumes 1 & 2 only, printed for James Ridgway, 1820-22 & 1822-24, 200 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates by J. Watts after E.D. Smith, together with part of volume 3 bound in at the end of the second volume, without title page, but containing 36 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, the engravings numbered 1-236, light oval inkstamp of the Botanic Garden Cambridge dated 15 March 1945 to upper outer corner of several plates and to endpapers of both volumes, bookplate removed from front pastedown, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 2)Nissen BBI 1926. Sweet published five volumes in total of his Geraniaceae between 1820 and 1830, containing a total of 501 coloured plates.

Buchanan (Francis). A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar, performed under the Orders of the Marquis of Wellesley, 3 volumes, 1st edition, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807, half-title, 38 engraved plates including frontispiece, folding hand-coloured engraved map, 5 folding tables, spotting, browning and offsetting, folding map partially split along one fold and and worn away at central intersection, corner of volume 2 signature 2T2 excised, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, vellum tips, 4to (26.4 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 3)Cox I p. 310. 'In 1800 Lord Wellesley appointed [Buchanan] to survey the newly conquered kingdom of Mysore, a posting which enabled him to collect a vast number of new botanical specimens. At the same time his survey, in both its portrayal of Tipu Sultan as a rapacious tyrant and its inventory of Mysore's natural wealth, vindicated Wellesley's controversial conquest, thereby earning Buchanan the governor-general's continued affection' (ODNB). Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.

* Curtis (William & others). A collection of approximately 300 prints and engravings, all originally published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, mostly early to mid 19th century, engravings and lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, all with pages of descriptive text, several folding, each approximately 220 x 130 mm, (Qty: approx. 300)

* Curtis (William). A collection of approximately 200 botanical engravings, 1789 - 1824, engravings with contemporary hand colouring, nearly all with a page of descriptive text, occasional duplicates, occasional folding plates, each approximately 200 x 120 mm (Qty: approx. 200)Originally published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed

* Edwards (Sydenham). A collection of approximately 230 engravings originally published in 'The Botanical Register', circa 1816-1830, botanical engravings with contemporary hand colouring, some plates with some offsetting, several folding, each approximately 220 x 130 mm (Qty: approx. 230)

Paterson (William). A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria, 1st edition, for J. Johnson, 1789, 17 engraved plates, folding map, toning, plates offset and marginally damp-stained, a few spotted in image, folding map spotted, ink-stamps of Inner Temple Library to title-page, text, and versos of map and a few plates, bookplate, 19th-century red half morocco, rubbed and marked, 4to (29.2 x 22.8 cm) (Qty: 1)Cox I p. 390; ESTC T89158; Mendelssohn II p. 143. '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). A second edition of his work appeared the following year. Provenance: Inner Temple Library (deaccession stamp to title-page verso); Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.

Five English porcelain coffee cans early 19th century, comprising a Spode botanical coffee can painted with floral sprigs, reserved within pale-blue borders moulded in relief with white floral sprays and enamel specimen sprigs, within gilt borders, painted pattern no. 2004; an imari can attributed to New Hall decorated with figures and buildings within landscape; an early Minton porcelain decorated with gilded birds, two further coffee cans a late 18th century Worcester blue and white coffee cup, unmarked (6)

Phillips, Roger & Rix Martyn. The Botanical Gardens, two volumes, published by McMillan and The Complete Thomas Keller French Laundry cookbook, two volumes in original packaging.

After Gem V. Ant Hartinger Botanical studies Chromolithograph published by Carl Gerolds Sohn Wien, mounted on board 64cm x 84cm

Dr Ahles Botanical Whiteboards Monocotyles Gefafsbundel and Dicotyles Gefafsbundel - cell structures Chromolithograph mounted on linen 56cm x 71cm

A LATE 19TH CENTURY DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE PENDANTThe four-clover leaf openwork plaque, set throughout with rose-cut diamonds and cushion-shaped sapphire accents, to an old cushion-cut diamond bale, mounted in silver and gold, length 3cm (suspending from a later 15CT gold chain, length 40cm).The clover leaf was a popular motif in Victorian jewellery. The collection of Princess Mathilde of France, niece of Napoleon I, contained an impressive array of botanical and floral jewels, including nasturtiums, pansies, violets and clover leaves. The collection was sold after her death in 1904.

Spode Archive Collection Georgian Series Botanical, to include six cups, sux saucers, five plates and a cake stand, also together with further pottery, (qty)

TEN SPIRIT BARRELS, to include glass two gallon whisky and brandy, height approximately 34cm, salt glazed barrels, largest height approximately 52cm, together with a Botanical Brewers flagon (11)

A set of six Chinese export blue and white botanical plates, Qianlong, each after European designs, probably by Merian, painted with two caterpillars crawling over an iris with a butterfly hovering above, inside a strapwork and floral border, (a.f), 23cm. diameter, (6).

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741), Botanical studies, plates 151, 207, 242, 250, 251, 255, from Phytanthoza iconographia, six engravings with hand colouring, each 32cm x 21cm.(6)

A Victorian Staffordshire botanical dessert service

Set of four 19th century Botanical patterned porcelain plates with pink borders and gilt edged rims, 23cm diameter, (4)

A late 18th century book of engraved plates to artist students, lacking title and page one, with plates running from No's 2-71, includes head studies, fashion plates, vignettes, oval and rectangular landscapes, ships, botanical and animal studies, printed by Robert Sayer London, one dated 1787, with a collection of ten 19th century chromolithographic design plates printed by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris c1884, 40.5cm x 28.5cm (Qty) (binding defective)

Hardback Book "Potters Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs & Preparations 1923

Assorted pictures and prints to include watercolours of North London pubs, wildflowers, watercolour with body colour, botanical print etc (7)

A pair of original boxed Portmeirion Botanical Garden pattern ceramic wall tiles complete in original boxes. Two sets of six tiles. Both appearing unused. Measures 15.5 cm high x 15.5 cm wide.

A Derby shell shaped botanical comport, painted with Christmas Rose, gilt line border, 24cm wide, titled in English and Latin, crown, crossed baton and D mark in blue, 1795 - 1805

A Portmerion soup tureen and cover decorated in the Botanical pattern

Tray of assorted china to include; Aynsley breakfast cup and saucer, botanical cabinet plate and another similar decorated with birds and insects, Royal Worcester Mansfield side plate etc. (B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

Oriental machine embroidery, and 2 signed botanical studies

MIXED LOT OF FIVE BOTANICAL PRINTS

A box of garden planters to include a terracotta example, Portmeirion botanical garden planters etc.

Set of three graduating botanical pattern jugs and a Denby part dinner service

A set of 14 gilt framed original Curtis hand coloured botanical prints. Circa 1787 1st Edition. Page plate to verso. 16" x 12"

NO RESERVE Darwin (Erasmus) The Botanic Garden. A Poem in Two Parts, 2 parts in 1, third edition of Part II, with general title to both parts, engraved frontispieces and 18 plates including 5 by William Blake (one after Fuseli and 4 of the Portland Vase) and several botanical, 2 hand-coloured, 3 folding, vol.2 with half-title, directions to binder/errata leaf at end of each part, contemporary ink signature to head of titles, frontispieces offset onto titles, occasional spotting but generally clean, contemporary calf, worn and defective, endpapers damp-stained, J.Johnson, 1791; and a damp-stained first edition of Darwin's Phytologia, 4to; sold not subject to return (2)

PHILLIPS R. & RIX M.  The Botanical Garden. 2 vols. Many col. illus. Quarto. Orig. green cloth in d.w's. 2002; also one other vol.  (3).

A Japanese short sword (wakizashi), blade 20 in., shobu-zukuri, midare hamon, nakago appears suriage with two mekugi-ana, indistinct signature mei (ari...ju mori...?); gilt habaki interrupted by a shallow groove and with parallel file marks, partial tsuka (lacks tsuba and tsukamaki largely removed) with matching fuchi and kashira of shakudo overlaid with gold dragons to a nanako ground, detached menuki of botanical form with gilt highlights; ribbed lacquered saya, kogatana with elaborate horimono and a shakudo kozuka embellished with gilt dogs and foliage.

A quantity of edged weapons, including: a Japanese spear head (yari), stout blade of flattened triangular section, the broad face with a shallow fuller and engraved with two characters, fitted to an iron mounted hilt with ribbed leather grip, the small tsuba with botanical decoration in relief, lacquered saya; a Sinhalese knife (piha-kaetta), of characteristic form, blade 8 in., silver koftgari decoration, flamboyant scrolling silver collar, silver mounted and fluted wooden scabbard with vacant pocket for a bodkin; a 19th Century horn and copper (once silvered) mounted hilt; various jambiya, and other items. [qty]

A Derby Botanical navette shaped dessert dish, painted by Quaker Pegg, Mexican Periwinkle, within a gilt and lilac banded border, 30cm wide, titled in Latin, crown, crossed baton and D mark in blue, pattern 212, 1795John Twitchett, during his curatorship of the Royal Crown Derby Museum, judged the painting to have been executed by the hand of Pegg himself. Condition Report: In fairly good condition - there is a chipped loss to the footrim to the dish but standing well, its lower point with a smaller chip but displaying well from above. Some light wear to gilding and very minor surface wear.

A Derby botanical shaped circular plate, painted with French Marigold, gilt line rim, 24.5cm wide, titled, crown, crossed batons and D mark in blue, pattern 197, 1795 - 1805

A Derby shaped circular botanical plate, painted by Quaker Pegg, with a Nasturtium, gilt pendulous lily of the valley and leaf border, 23cm diam, titled in Latin, crown, crossed baton and D mark in blue, pattern 115, 1795 - 1805Ref: Twitchett (John), William Pegg, The Quaker: His sketch-book discovered, Antique Collector, June 1983. Condition Report: In general good condition,bit of rubbing to the guilding and a couple of blemishes,see images attached thankyou

A Derby shaped circular botanical plate, painted with a Adonis Vernalis, gilt pendulous lily of the valley and leaf border, 23cm diam, titled in Latin, crown, crossed baton and D mark in blue, pattern 115, 1795 - 1805

A Derby shaped circular botanical plate, with Purple Rudbeckia, deep boarder of gilt foliage, 22cm diam, titled in English and Latin, crown, crossed baton and D mark in blue, 1795 - 1805

A COLLECTION OF UNFRAMED BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS AND PRINTS

A pair of Wedgwood plates, c.1810, painted in sepia with the Waterlily pattern, coloured in pink and green, an octagonal creamware Whieldon type plate sponged in manganese, and a creamware soup plate printed in black with 'Come Box the Compass', the rim with flower sprigs, some faults, 24.5cm max. (4) The Wedgwood Waterlily pattern derives from prints in the Botanist's Repository and the Botanical Magazine, from 1803-6. The design was probably inspired by the interests of Josiah Wedgwood's eldest son John, who was a founder member of the Royal Horticultural Society.

A botanical wine glass, c.1760, the rounded funnel bowl well engraved with a single floral specimen and a butterfly, raised on a plain stem with central knop over a conical foot, a small nick to the footrim, 15.5cm.

Four Chelsea oval dishes, c.1758-60, three painted with large fancy birds perched on rockwork and low branches, the last with a botanical flower specimen and smaller sprigs, all within feather moulded borders picked out in turquoise and brown, brown anchor marks, some wear, a restuck section to one, 26.5cm. (4)

Pair of mid-19th century Blore Derby botanical plates, the blue borders and gadroon rims with painting to the centre, one of convolvulus and the other Cape Mallow, 25cm diam (2)