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William Curtis (1746-1799), a set of four hand-coloured botanical engravings, framed and glazed, 21 x 12cm (4)

Three framed and glazed coloured botanical prints

Four card cases/aide memoire and a Jerusalem botanical album and various fans.

Collection of vintage Portmeirion ceramics in "Botanical Garden" pattern to include; Cannisters with wooden lids, Cruet set etc

19TH CENTURY BOTANICAL STUDIES A set of ten "Flowers of Shakespeare" botanical watercolour paintings, inscribed beneath with a relevant quote from The Bard, includes; Holly, Violets etc., 32cm x 25cm, each gilt framed and glazed

HMSO Publications on Africa. Includes Correspondence respecting the Rising of the Mullah Muhammed Abdullah in Somaliland and consequent Military Operations 1901-1902, published 1902, 60pp., Uganda Protectorate Report on a Botanical Mission through..Buddu and the Western and Nile Provinces of Uganda..M.T.Dawes 1906 63pp.,map (torn) and 5 plates & two other reports (4 items)

A Bretby botanical leaf centre comport, the dish modelled as a wavy leaf, boldly glazed in tones of alternating green, terminating in sinuous twin-handles and a cylindrical base, glazed in tones of garnet red, 23cm high, 26.5cm wide, impressed marks, model no. 1465C, c. 1900; another similar, 12cm high, 28cm wide, impressed marks, model no. 1488A, c. 1900 (2)

A selection of botanical and similar mushroom watercolour

A group lot of ceramics to include Art Deco standard china teawares spring time design, botanical George Jones display plates, Royal Doulton blossom time plate.

Property of a gentleman - after Franz Bauer - a set of four Natural History Museum limited edition botanical prints, in matching glazed frames (4) (see illustration).

NICHOL WHEATLEY Botanical studies, signed, prints and six others (8) Condition Report: Available upon request

COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND LATER BOOKS, including History of Art, architectural, childrens, botanical and topographical volumes including Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, The Great Painters of Christendom by John Forbes Robertson, Masterpieces in Colour for Raphael, Raeburn and Botticeli, New and Beautiful-Leaved Plants by Shirley Hibberd and Flora's Feast by Walter Crane

NO RESERVE Africa.- Slavery.- Abstract (An) of the Evidence delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790, and 1791; on the part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, xxvi & 155pp., first edition, with folding engraved map of west coast of Africa but lacking folding plan of slave ship, very occasional spotting or soiling, disbound, [Sabin 81745], James Phillips, 1791 § [Harrison (George)] Some Remarks on a Communication from Wm. Roscoe to the Duke of Gloucester...as stated in...the Third Report of the African Institution, 11pp., first edition, title browned, some spotting, final leaf laid down, disbound, George Ellerton, 1810 § Park (Mungo) Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, second edition, half-title, stipple-engraved portrait, 3 folding engraved maps (one with routes supplied in red and blue) and 5 plates (2 botanical and folding), with the 2 engraved leaves of musical notation (not always found) bound with Postscript leaf following title, list of subscribers, light foxing and soiling, one plate a little damp-stained in corner, one map with tear repaired, contemporary half sheep, roan label, rubbed, split to lower joint, corners repaired, Printed by Bulmer and Co. for the Author, 1799; and a fifth edition of the last, 8vo & 4to (4)⁂ The African Institution was established in 1807 following the abolition of the slave trade in Britain, with the aim of creating a haven for freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Duke of Gloucester, nephew of George III, was the first President, and William Wilberforce one of its leaders. The abolitionist William Roscoe of Liverpool had proposed that trade with Africa would be the greatest benefit to promoting civilisation in Freetown but George Harrison advises caution. COPAC lists 3 copies of his pamphlet (BL, Newcastle University, and the Society of Friends).

NO RESERVE Miscellany.- A mixed group of prints, maps and plans, over 200 items, including botanical studies, landscapes, architectural views, various prints of travel interest, maps and a miscellaneous quantity of other material, engravings, lithographs, some hand-colouring, various sizes, each approx. 210 x 120 mm. (8 1/4 x 4 3/4 in) and larger, all unframed, [mainly 18th and 19th century] (qty.)

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 boxed set of magic lantern slides, botanical and zoological subjects; etc.

A FLUTED CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN BOTANICAL PAINTED SAUCER DISH, DECORATED PROBABLY IN ENGLAND WITH THE GOLDEN HENBANE IN GILT BORDER, TITLE IN RED SCRIPT, EARLY 19TH C

A Royal Copenhagen dessert plate, painted botanical subjects; a similar leaf dish; a pair Limoges kidney dishes, pink rose design; a pair Limoges plates; a continental figure of a cherub; etc

A 19th century Derby 2-handled vase, hand painted botanical decorated panel in blue and gilt ground, height 29cm

Victorian Botanical Dessert Wares

19th century botanical dessert wares

A selection of First Period Wedgwood bone china, circa 1820, including: a two-handled pot-pourri and pierced cover, painted in puce with landscape vignettes in the manner of John Cutts, iron-red printed mark, 10cm wide; a Botanical Flowers plate, iron-red mark, 21.5cm diameter; and an assortment of mostly Wedgwood bone china teawares Provenance: The Oxborrow Collection.Cf. Reilly & Savage, The Dictionary of Wedgwood (1989), p. 52 for an example of the Botanical Flowers plate and p. 110 for a sugar box painted by John Cutts and a tea service on p. 50.

A COLLECTION OF LATE 19TH CENTURY BOTANICAL AND ORNITHOLOGICAL PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS unsigned (10)

A COLLECTION OF ARIEL PRESS OF LONDON BOTANICAL PRINTS further botanical prints and pictures

A selection of botanical prints after Petunia Walberswick

* JEAN GARDNER, BOTANICAL REFLECTIONS oil on canvas, signed 60cm x 76cm Framed and under glass

19th century and later ceramics including a part dessert service, stoneware tobacco jar, lacking cover, Wedgwood botanical design plate, Wedgwood & other majolica moulded plates and dishes and other ceramics in three boxes Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

English porcelain Botanical patterned dessert service with gilt edged rim comprising six plates, two rectangular servers, two oval servers and another larger, all with pattern number 2681 verso, (11)

Job lot of ephemera to include; Wills old inns oversize cigarette cards, Players footballers 1928, W H Grant silk work for International Inventions Exhibition 1885, Ye views od olde London, woven in pure silk, several La Blonde prints, botanical print & interesting album from early 20th century with poems, drawings, paintings etc.

A set of four gilt framed reproduction botanical prints entitled Carnations, Roses, Tulips, and Rhododendron, each 45x36cm

Assorted pictures and prints to include botanical studies

A quantity of Portmeirion Botanical Garden china

Assorted volumes, to include George Moore and other botanical interest

Four Spode 'Italian' tableware pieces including pair vintage dishes, (1 with rim chip), (13cm square approx, each); posy vase, (height 20cm approx); and a serving bowl, (diameter 18cm approx); together with a Spode 'Botanical,' mini-plate.

SWIFT & SON SCIENTIFIC MICROSCOPEwith various interchangeable lenses and seven botanical and geological slides, contained in a fitted mahogany case for W. Watson & Son, 16 Forrest Road, Edinburgh

HRH THE PRINCE OF WALESTHE HIGHGROVE FLORILEGIUM WATERCOLOURS DEPICTING PLANTS GROWN IN THE GARDEN AT HIGHGROVETHE Prince's Charities Foundation / Addison Publications Ltd, 2008-09. Two volumes, atlas folio (66.5 x 45.5 cms), limited edition number 93 of 175 copies SIGNED IN INK BY PRINCE CHARLES to his Preface in volume 1. In total there are 124 fine colour facsimile plates of botanical watercolours by Anne O'Connor, Beverly Allen, Josephine Elwes, Jenny Phillips, Sally Grosthwaite, Jill Coombs, and many others, each signed in pencil by the artist and with the plate and edition number in pencil over the embossed copyright blindstamp of A G Carrick Ltd to lower outer corner, the plates printed on American Cotton paper with the text on 'Somerset Bookwove', text decorations and endpaper pattern by Richard Shirley Smith. Finely bound in the original dark red quarter goatskin, gilt, by Stephen Conway after a design by James Brockman, with gilt hand-tooling by James and Stuart Brockman, dark green goatskin oval onlays to upper boards with gilt lettering and the Prince of Wales' feathers, dark red goatskin board fore-edges, hand-made marbled paper, block-edges speckled. A very fine and most handsome set of this magnificently-produced work (2)

A Collection of Over Two Hundred and Thirty Mainly Early XX Century Picture Postcards, the vast majority of Sheffield but Rotherham and Derbyshire and other surrounding areas also noted, including Norfolk Market Hall, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Sheffield Bell Hagg, Sheffield, etc.

* Anderson (Elizabeth Garrett, 1836-1917). Autograph letter signed, 'E. Garrett Anderson', 114a Harley Street, London, 26 November 1909, to a lady, Anderson informing her that there has been a suggestion that 'some members of the Ealing Branch might like to attend the meeting on Dec 4th... You will probably know who these ladies are & if it is not troubling you unduly we wd. ask you to send the enclosed notices [not present] to them' and further explaining, 'The spirit of the meeting is not one of hostility to the N.U. or the country but its object is simply to enable the members who disagree with the by election policy to decide whether they shd. resign or stay on & try & influence the opinion of the majority on this point', creasing to lower margin, written on first and fourth page of a bifolium, remains of former mounting to blank upper margin of fourth page, two pages, 8vo, together with Stopes (Marie, 1880-1958) , autograph postcard signed, 'M.C. Stopes', 14 Well Walk, Hampstead, no date, to an unidentified correspondent, 'I am v sorry I have no definite hour I can name. I shall probably be at the botanical dept. University College the greater part of Thursday, if you like to take the risk of finding me, but I cannot tie myself to an hour', a little creasing and with previous mounting remains to verso and resulting loss of name, address and postmarked stamp, plus a typed letter signed from 'Marie C. Stopes', Norbury Park, near Dorking, Surrey, 15 December 1934, to Mr Huntington expressing her shock at the news that Mr Grubb 'has passed away' and asking if Mrs Grubb is still alive, a little creasing, one page, 4to (Qty: 3)

including Grindleyware plates and other botanical plates, approx 30

including 'Wayside and Woodland Blooms' together with other botanical and similar interest books

botanical study, digital print, framed

* Commelin (Jan & Caspar). A collection of 12 botanical engravings, [1697 - 1701], hand coloured engravings, each approximately 365 x 235 mmOriginally published in 'Horti Medici Amstelodamensis'.(Qty: 12)

* Edwards (Sydenham). A collection of approximately 240 engravings, originally published in 'The Botanical Register', circa 1820-1840, botanical engravings with contemporary hand colouring, most with a page of explanatory text, several folding, each approximately 210 x 130 mm (Qty: approx. 240)

* Natural History. A mixed collection of approximately 600 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs of botanical subjects, birds, butterflies, mammals, fish and bird's nests, original colouring, occasional duplicates, including examples by Sowerby, Hayes, Smith, Pratt, Turpin, Curtis, Temminck, Esper, Morris and Kierdorff, together with fifteen plates from 'Pritchards 'Natural History of Man', mostly small format, various condition (Qty: approx. 615)

* Paxton (Joseph). Paxton's Magazine of Botany, volumes 1-5 (only), 1837-1838, volumes partially broken and lacking plates, retaining approximately 170 botanical engravings with contemporary hand colouring, including several folding, most with a page of explanatory text, each approximately 220 x 150, mixed bindings, 8voSold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.(Qty: 5)

* Sowerby (James). A collection of approximately 700 engravings, early 19th century, engravings with contemporary hand colouring of lichens, mosses, grasses and botanical specimens, some plates with toning and offsetting, each approximately 180 x 100 mm, retaining some original boards and text of broken volumes, 8vo (Qty: approx. 700)

* Van Houtte, Louis, edit. A mixed collection of approximately 600 lithographs, circa 1870, chromolithographs of botanical specimens, occasional duplicates, each approximately 240 x 170 mm (Qty: APPROX. 600)

Morris (F.O.) . A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, 1866, numerous hand coloured plates, some light toning & spotting, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, spines rubbed to head & foot with some minor loss, 8vo, together with Apperley (Charles) , The Life of a Sportsman, 1914, 35 colour illustrations by Henry Alken, minor marginal toning, contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco bound by Sotheran, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo and Sidney (S.) , The Book of The Horse, 3rd edition, circa 1892, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, later endpapers, some light toning, contemporary gilt decorated plum half calf, spine slightly faded and rubbed, large 4to, plus other 19th & early 20th century, natural history & botanical plate books and reference, including some German language, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 3 shelves & a carton)

Tunnicliffe (C.F.). Shorelands Summer Diary, reprinted 1984, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, original red cloth in dust wrapper, 4to, together with Hammond (Nicholas), Twentieth Century Wildlife Artists, 1st edition, Croom Helm, 1986, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust wrapper, both folio, plus Delacour (Jean), The Pheasants of the World, 2nd edition, 1977, numerous colour plates by J.C. Harrison, original red cloth in dust wrapper, 4to, and other 20th century natural history, ornithology, and wildlife illustrators interest, including Tunnicliffe, Sketches of Bird Life, 1981, Jeremy Cardew, Thorburn's Wildlife, 1979, Tunnicliffe, The Living Birds of Eric Ennion, 1982, Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1st edition, 1950, etc., mostly original cloth in dust wrappers, 4to/8vo, with some folio editions (approximately 170 volumes) (Qty: 6 shelves)

Staunton (George). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 2 volumes, 1st edition, W. Bulmer and Co., for G. Nicol, 1797, engraved frontispieces, one engraved botanical plate, 26 engraved vignette tailpieces after William Alexander, volume 2 quire 3P spotted, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages, contemporary bookplates of George Reade to front free endpapers, contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style, skilful restoration to board-edges, 4to (28.2 x 21.5 cm)Cordier Sinica 2381-3; Cox I p. 344. The leaves containing the vignette tailpieces after William Alexander are not usually considered as such but are technically plates, being unsigned and printed on thicker paper, though the pagination is continuous. The work was issued with an atlas volume of plates, not present.(Qty: 2)

18th century Chelsea silver shape dish with painted botanical decoration and brown line borders and brown anchor mark, circa 1758, 25cm x 19.5cm

Pair early 19th century Coalport 'new embossed' shape dessert plates with polychrome botanical studies and white moulded floral and painted flower borders on pale green and gilt ground, circa 1820

A wall mirror with bamboo style surround, together with four antique botanical prints - framed and glazed CONDITION REPORTmirror 53cmx70cm prints 44cm x 52cm  - no foxing seem ok

A quantity of various Botanical prints

A pair of framed botanical prints

A Czechoslovakian botanical educational wall chart, parts of the plant, 101 x 68cm.

Melliss, John Charles - St Helena, quarto, cloth, with 2 maps, 8 chromolitho views, 6 zoological and 32 botanical coloured plates and 8 uncoloured plates, London 1875.Formerly the property of Sir James Dundas Harford KBE, Governor of St. Helena 1954-1958

A quantity of Portmeirion ''Botanical Garden'' including six plates of various sizes, two dishes, jug, flower pot container and seven saucers (unmarked), etc.

Four pieces of Royal Worcester Evesham china to include a flan dish, a small vegetable dish and lid, a gratin dish together with a Portmeirion Botanical garden storage canister and lid etc.

19th century Four Botanical Watercolours of Flowering Blooms (unframed)