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A group of Chinese paintings on silk comprising a pair of paintings of butterflies amongst peonies and chrysanthemums, and a set of four botanical studies with butterflies, largest 17.5 by 29.5, mounted, glazed and framed 27.5 by 40cm. (6)

M E RYDER "Floral botanical study" miniature water colour oval signed together with another still life study miniature and another study of two ladies in an interior with spaniel together with a bag containing various commemmorative crowns and other coinage

Quantity of Portmeirion Botanical Gardens Part Coffee Set and Placemats

Philippe Augé (French, b.1935), Erotic botanical study, gouache on tinted paper, signed 'PH. AUGÉ', in original rubbed gilt frame, 5 5/8 x 5in. (14.3 x 12.7cm.), * Provenance: Inscribed 'Ex Arthur Jeffrey Collection' verso, *Condtion: Some time staining and small fox marks visible in patches towards corners and there is also a faint, darker line horizontally above the top of the painted image. Not examined out of frame.

A Victorian botanical seaweed album 'Jersey Algae', the concertina folded album with embossed dark blue cloth boards with gilt title, 'JERSEY ALGAE' to front, handwritten poem inside front cover, opening and unfolding to reveal a chart of fifteen pressed seaweeds, each mounted on a separate octagonal card slip with the hand written latin name beneath in ink, the album 6 3/8 x 5¼in. (16.2 x 13.3cm.), the unfolded chart 24½ x 18in. (62.25 x 45.75cm.)., *Condition: Some losses from five of the pressed specimens and one is lifting slightly to one side. Linen backing with a few fox marks and dirt to edges. Spine almost completely disbound and split, secured only by fabric tape to top and bottom. Corners bumped and some rubbing to covers.

Botanical interest: Collection of eight 18th-century hand-coloured etchings of auricula flowers, c.1740, after Johann Weinmann for Phytanthoza Iconographia (8)

Botanical interest: Two 18th-century hand-coloured etchings of auricula flowers by Joseph Christoph Volckamer for Nurenberische Hesperides, c.1710, in birds-eye maple frames (2)

Collection of botanical plates, including several 18th-Century etchings on laid paper, all depicting auricula flowers, plus some later lithographs and other prints of auricula. 17 loose and two framed, plus a clipping from Gardening Illustrated

Botanical Interest. The Auricula, Its History and Character, by C. Oscar Moreton, colour plates after Rory McEwan, London: The Ariel Press, 1964. Limited Edition numbered 481 of 500, folio, cloth binding with gilt title

Botanical Interest. Collection of 24 mid-19th century hand-coloured lithographs depicting auricula flowers, by J. Andrews, published by Vincent Brooks, no dates but c.1860s, bound in green half crushed morocco and buckram with gilt title to spine, 'Auricula Plates'

Peter Arnold, large photographic canvas, botanical study,signed bottom left corner, limited edition no 7/25. 36" x 36"

Studio pottery stoneware lidded pot of ovoid form, brown ground with lighter swirl decoration, 26cm high and a stoneware flagon by H.Spooner, Botanical Brewer, Worcester, 26cm high (2)

THREE FRAMED BOTANICAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS. TOGETHER WITH TEN VARIOUS FACSIMILE OLD MASTER DRAWINGS, steel-plate engraved bookplates, etchings etc... (143)

A pair of pencil signed botanical prints

Four various pictures to include two botanical prints etc.

A selection of ceramics including Portmeirion botanical garden

Set of 4 wood carvings including 2 fish, mushrooms and botanical. The mushrooms and leaf are 19th C. and are beautifully carved. while the other two are from the early to mid 20th C.One of the fish has glass eyes. Carved leaf is engraved on the upper side. Dimensions: Longest 4.75"Country of Origin: China Condition: consistent with age

Four framed Japanese botanical prints, (4)

Louis Jeanson, Mongolian soldier, signed artist's proof, lithograph, 61 x 46cm, together with K Margaret Insh, bird's nest, watercolour, and Elisabeth Norman, botanical watercolour (3)

HENREY (Blanche) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800, 3 vol., original cloth in slip case, Oxford University Press, 1975; sold with BIRCHAM (Peter) A History of Ornithology, d/w, original cloth, 200; and CAVE (Roderick & Geoffrey Wakeman) Typographia Naturalis, limited edition 86/333, tape marks to end papers,morocco backed boards, Wymondham, Brewhouse Press, 1967, plus a quantity of natural history bibliography vols, v.s. (c.60 vol.)

A SET OF TEN "FLOWERS OF SHAKESPEARE" SERIES OF 19TH CENTURY WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS, each a botanical study, inscribed beneath with a relevant quote from The Bard, includes; Holly, Violets etc., 32cm x 25cm, each gilt framed and glazed

J ABDELLA ''Dipper - Cinclus cinclus', ornithological Watercolour painting, signed and inscribed to mount, in gilt glazed frame, 20cm x 28cm, together with a framed Botanical watercolour study, with Butterfly field (2)

GB Two First Day covers International Red Cross centenary 1863-1963 (PM 15/8/63)and Botanical Congress (5/8/64). Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.

A Very Interesting Large Original Photograph 'Sheffield and Neighbourhood' Album, all pictures printed circa 1881 from plates taken by the photographer Laurence Peacock of Gell Street. An incredible archive including pages of images of the Sheffield Flood 1864, Roche Abbey, Beauchief, Broomhall, Porter Brook, Rivelin, Stanage Pole, Prince of Wales 'Arches' cemeteries, Wharncliffe, Western Park, Botanical Gardens (interiors and exterior), Endcliffe and Brincliffe and much more beside. Unique record.

David Wallace - Sanders And Wallace Glassblowing Company - A 20th Century 1980's North Yorkshire studio art glass vase / botanical jar having a frosted and blue speckled bowl with dark red pedestal base, rim and textured prunts / side adornments. Signed to base David Wallace. Measures 14cm. 

Three black and white portraits of gentleman and two botanical prints and three German vases (8)

Painted binding.- Album, containing watercolour of classical shrine amongst the ruins of Pompeii and 2 other watercolours (architectural sketch and another of the Ponte Vecchio at Florence), plus many mounted botanical specimens captioned in ink and dated 1830s to 1865, with manuscript presentation in Italian dated 1833 at beginning, attractively bound in original natural calf, upper cover with central diamond panel painted in oils depicting Italian scene of gentry walking in a park before a circular classical building, signed ?Massal, elaborate decorative borders of putti, harps and ornaments tooled in black and gilt and highlighted in white, spine gilt in compartments with two red morocco labels (unlettered), a little rubbed, lower corners bumped, oblong 4to, [Italy], [c.1830].

Wallace (Alfred Russel, naturalist, evolutionary theorist, and social critic, 1823-1913) 12 Autograph or Letters signed, Autograph Postcards or Postcards signed & other signed items, comprising: (1). 3 Autograph Letters signed, 1 Autograph Postcards signed & Postcard signed to Rev. George Edwards Comerford Casey, (2) Autograph signed reference & Letter signed to Edward Comerford Casey, (3). Autograph Letter to Ernest Westlake (4). Autograph presentation inscription to Mrs Casey (5). Autograph botanical note signed (6). Autograph Letter signed & initialled note to Olive Casey, together 15pp. and 3 sides, Parkstone and Broadstone, Wimborne, Dorset, 1896-1913, on a variety of subjects, (1) to Rev George Edwards Comerford Casey, "I am very very busy, seeing my large 'Spruce' book [Richard Spruce's Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes..., 1908] through the press arranging illustrations maps &c, getting materials for Biographical Introduction &c. ... . I began reading your 'Great & Good' book [Casey's ?The Broad Churchman, 1891] - the two first chapters were excellent - but afterwards it did not interest me so much, but I have read on, at intervals, till I got to the Chapters on 'Christians' and 'Quakers' - both of which are really admirable... . My publisher's have arranged for a new, cheap, & much reduced edition of 'My Life', - So Will is going to do the cutting out, under my general direction, less than halfis to remain..."; (2). "I have much pleasure in saying that I have known Mr. Edward C. Casey as well as his family, for eight or nine years... and that I consider him to be a young man of exceptionally high character and of a disposition well suited for the profession of an instructor of youth" (3). To Ernest Westlake, "Allow me to introduce to you my young friend Mr. Edward Casey who is much interested in flint implements..." (5). "My Holly-like shrub is Desfontainea spinosa (Gentianacea) native of Peru" (6). Letter & note to Olive Casey, one replying to a juvenile verse in Irish, "To complete your copy of Man's Place in the Universe AR.W"; and a small quantity of other Wallace and Casey family material including: "A verse from The Higher Catechism by Sam Walter Foss", written out and signed by Wallace, verse by Wallace in reply to a riddle by Casey (not Wallace's autograph), photographs of the Wallace and Casey families, ephemera, including tickets, 2 copies of a printed reference for Edward Casey, newspaper cuttings of Wallace's obituary, correspondence from Wallace's son William G. Wallace to Olive and Edward Casey, 2 photographs of Olive and Alvina Bertram "Bertie" as children etc., folds, v.s., v.d. (c. 23 pieces & a qty of photographs).⁂ Friends and neighbours of Alfred Russel Wallace. Rev. George Edwards Comerford Casey (1845-1912), came from an Anglo-Irish family that made their money in the soap industry in Liverpool. Casey served as a curate in Lincolnshire before becoming an Assistant Master at the High School in Nottingham. Casey was the author of several works, including, Riviera Nature Notes, published in 1898.

Scopoli (Giovanni Antonio) Deliciae florae et faunae insubricae seu novae, 3 vol., first edition, 3 additional engraved architectural titles (vol.2 printed in blue, vol.3 with additional state printed in red and yellow), engraved title-vignettes and head-pieces of Pavia Botanical Garden, 74 engraved plates only (of 75, lacking plate XIX in vol.2) after Bordiga, Cairoli, Chiesa and Lanfranchi, with all but 2 plates with additional state printed in colours and finished by hand (lacking plates VI in vol.1 and XIX in vol.2), occasional foxing, mostly to text, plates generally clean, light water-stain to outer margin of final few leaves of vol.1, vol.1 & 3 handsome contemporary calf with Bourbon arms in gilt, blue marbled edges, vol.2 contemporary mottled calf, gilt, all with gilt borders and spines with morocco labels, a little rubbed and marked, a few scuffs, spine ends slightly worn, [Great Flower Books p.139; Nissen BBI 1822], folio, Pavia, Monastery San Salvatore, 1786-88.⁂ Scarce work on the fauna and flora of Pavia and the Lombardy region, with a very rare additional set of plates printed in colours. G.A.Scopoli (1723-88) was born in the Italian Tyrol and studied medicine and chemistry before becoming Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pavia in 1777, where he founded a botanical garden and chemistry laboratory. He was greatly interested in botany and zoology and corresponded with Linnaeus, whose system of nomenclature he adopted. Linnaeus named several plants and insects after him.The present copy lacks the colour state of 'Lotus Oligoceratos' in vol.1 and both colour and black & white states of 'Falco Rufus' in vol.2, but it does contain pp.103-114 in vol.2 which are sometimes missing having been destroyed "by war action". It is very rare to find the work with the plates in two states, only this copy has appeared at auction, most recently in the De Belder sale in 1987. In the British Library there is the Sir Thomas Bankes copy of which vol.1 only contains the plates in both states.

Two trays of 19th Century English porcelain botanical cabinet plates and tazzas, overall in very poor condition. (2)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: The majority are damaged, and in poor condition - cracks, chips, staple repairs etc.

Three trays of assorted collectors and other plates, botanical, Wedgwood, Crown Ducal hunting scene, cabinet plates etc. (3)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

Group of three English 19th century porcelain plates with gilded rims decorated in botanical style with the titles to the base, pattern number 234, 21cm diam

English School, circa 1830/Botanical Study/watercolour, 28cm x 19cm/a pair of botanical studies signed E Mason, another titled Narcissus and another of a large purple flower (4)

A Spode India pattern meat plate and two small clobbered plates, a Wedgwood Water Lily pattern oval platter, two Hibiscus and Botanical flowers pattern plates and five other floral soup and plates, the meat plate 53cm wide

A fine Minton botanical dessert service for T Goode & Co., South Audley St. London, painted orchids on a green ground with gilt borders, comprising twelve plates, four stands and two comports, pattern No. A7024 and six Cauldon dessert plates painted orchids on a green ground with gilt borders Condition Report: The four low tazzae are all in good conditionOf the plates, one has a rim chip and another has some stained crazing but otherwise they are good with very little wearBoth high tazza have been cracked around the stem and through the plate, with rivet repairs, one in piecesThe Cauldon plates are without damage

Nineteen Davenport botanical plates with impressed anchor mark, 23cm diameter Condition Report: One plate with large section of rim broken in pieces and rivet-repaired. Two plates with stained star cracks. One plate with a footrim chip. Fifteen plates without damage but three of these have significant flaking to gilding. The some of the blue and purple enamels have deteriorated.

Bryology, Mosses and Liverworts - Africa and Australasia - Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 2 Southern Australian Liverworts; Beever, Allison, Child - The Mosses of New Zealand; Beever, Malcolm - the Moss Genus Fissidens in New Zealand an Illustrated Key; Catcheside - Mosses of South Australia; Chuah-Petiot - Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of Kenya; De Sloover - Illustrations De Mousses Africaines; Horikawa - Distributional Studies of Bryophytes in Japan and the Adjacent Regions; Jarman, Fuhrer - Mosses and Liverworts of Rainforest in Tasmania and South-Eastern Australia; Ed Leistner - Botanical Research Institute Flora of Southern African (four volumes); Meagher, Fuhrer - A Field Guide to the Mosses and Allied Plants of Southern Australia; Sainsbury - Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin No. 5 A Handbook of the New Zealand Mosses; Scott, Stone - The Mosses of Southern Australia; Ed Wigginton - E W Jones's Liverwort and Hornwort Flora of West Africa

Botany, Flora - British - Angel - The Countryside of South Wales, British Wild Orchids; Averis, Birks et al - An Illustrated Guide to British Upland Vegetation; Braithwaite, Ellis, Preston - Change in the British Flora 1987-2004; Clapham, Tutin, Warburg - Flora of the British Isles, Excursion Flora of the British Isles; Comp. Drewitt - The Vegetation of the Yorkshire Dales National Park; Fleure - The Natural History of Man in Britain (published by Readers Union); Haslam, Sinker, Wolseley - British Water Plants; Ed. Hulme, Barrow - Climates of the British Isles; Jameson - Illustrated Guide to the Trees and Flowers of England and Wales; Jermy, Chater, David - Sedges of the British Isles; Ed. Leach, Page et al - Botanical Links in the Atlantic Arc; Legg - Purbeck's Heath Claypits, Nature and the Oilfield; Pennington - The History of British Vegetation; Poland, Clement - The Vegetative Key to the British Flora; Polunin - Trees and Bushes of Britain and Europe; Raistrick - The Pennine Dales, Malham and Malham Moor; Sinker, Packham, Trueman et al - The Ecological Flora of the Shropshire Region; Stace - Field Flora of the British Isles; Tansley - The British Islands and their Vegetation; Tansley revised Proctor - Britain's Green Mantle (two copies); Williams, Arlott - A Field Guide to the Orchids of Britain and Europe; Wilson - Supplement to the North Western Naturalist The Altitudinal Range of British Plants

Ernst Leitz Wetzlar No 295797 U C E compound microscope in a mid 20th century wooden case with three objective lenses, two eyepieces and other assorted lenses, together with a box containing small quantity of botanical slides and a table magnifying glass marked 'Zoo Department U C E'

Botany, Classification, Anatomy, Taxonomy, Evolution - Bailey - Manual of Cultivated Plants; Biological Council - Abbreviated Titles of Biological Journals; Botanical Society of the British Isles - Altitudinal Limits of British and Irish Vascular Plants; Briggs, Walters - Plant Variation and Evolution; Cain - Foundations of Plant Geography; Corner - The Life of Plants; Cutter - Plant Anatomy Experiment and Interpretation Part 1 and Part 2; Davis, Heywood - Principles of Angiosperm Taxonomy; Davis, Cullen - The Identification of Flowering Plant Families; Dressler - Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family; Eames, MacDaniels - An Introduction to Plant Anatomy; Esau - Plant Anatomy; Ed. Friis, Chaloner, Crane - The Origins of Angiosperms and their Biological Consequences; Gilbert-Carter - Catkin-Bearing Plants; Harper - Population Biology of Plants; Hickey, King - 100 Families of Flowering Plants; Holmgren, Keuken - Index Herbariorum Part 1 Edition 6; Hunt - Studies in Biology No. 96 Plant Growth Analysis; Ingold - Spore Discharge in Land Plants; Jackson - A Glossary of Botanic Terms; Jones - Plants and Microclimate; Trans. Lang - Strasburger's Text-Book of Botany; Lawrence - Taxonomy of Vascular Plants; Mabberley - The Plant-Book A Portable Dictionary of the Higher Plants; Mac Arthur, Wilson - The Theory of Island Biogeography; Ed. Myers, Giller - Analytical Biogeography; Nichols, Johnson - Plants and the K-T Boundary; Rosenzweig - Species Diversity in Space and Time; Sculthorpe - The Biology of Aquatic Vascular Plants; Ed. Silvertown, Franco, Harper - Plant Life Histories Ecology, Phylogeny and Evolution; Sporne - The Morphology of Angiosperms, The Morphology of Angiosperms; Stearn - Botanical Latin; Tilman - Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities; Walter - Vegetation of the Earth; Whittaker - Communities and Ecosystems; Ed. Whittaker - Classification of Plant Communities, Ordination of Plant Communities

Botany and Flora - Lord Avebury - Nature Series on British Wild Flowers Considered in Relation to Insects; Bower - Plant-Life on Land Considered in Some of its Biological Aspects; Hutton Balfour - Collins' Elementary Science Series Second Book of Botany; Johns - Flowers of the Field; Kingdon Ward - Field Notes of Trees, Shrubs and Plants. Collected by Kingdon Ward in 1937; Lester-Garland - A Flora of the Island of Jersey; Lindley - School Botany or The Rudiments of Botanical Science; The Elements of Botany; together with six unbound hand-coloured engraved botanical plates published by J Ridgway of 169 Piccadilly, and two framed botanical plates

New Journal of Botany Journal of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, published by Maney Publishing, 13 issues, 2011 Volume 1 Number 1 to Volume 5 Number 3. THERE MIGHT NOT BE A FULL AND COMPLETE RUN BETWEEN THE DATES SPECIFIED IN THIS DESCRIPTION. THE BUYER MUST SATISFY THEMSELVES AS TO THE CONTENTS OF THIS LOT.

A collection of six coloured prints of 19th century style botanical subjects, four coloured prints of horse racing subjects after Degas and nine coloured prints of stylised landscapes, various sizes, all framed

Four Portmeirion 'Botanical Garden' storage jars, matching vase, set six Royal Worcester oven-to-tableware covered chocolate pots (17) 

Alice Catherine Duppa (nee Miles) (1850-1926) a fine Victorian watercolour album of ninety two botanical studies, including birds, butterflies and insects (approx. 28.5 cm x 21 cm) each pencil monogrammed or signed ACD and  AC Duppa and dated between 1875 and 1895, within a gilt tooled leather bound album by Birdsall & Son, NorthamptonProvenance: Alice Miles m. George Duppa 1870, resided at Hollingbourne House, Kent, thence by descent

A Victorian watercolour illustrated photograph album, a family album compiled by Alice Catherine Duppa (nee Miles) from 1872, subjects including botanical studies, birds, butterfly etc., portraits of Duppa family members of Hollingbourne House, Kent, photographs include views around Hollingbourne, Maidstone, Warwick, Margate, Dover, Derbyshire, Matlock etc etc, bound in a tooled leather album 30 cm x 23 cmNote: Alice Catherine Miles (1850-1926) m. George Duppa 1870 (died 1888) m. Lt.Col Gerard Ames 1889

An album of first day issues covering Tenth Botanical Congress, Westminster Abbey Commonwealth Christmas 1966, British Painters entire Voyage of Sir Francis Chichester etc, along with Stanley Gibbons stamp album and contents. 

GB: SMALL BOX 1964-70 PRESENTATION PACKS, INCLUDES 1964 FORTH ROAD BRIDGE, BOTANICAL AND OTHERS, POSSIBLY WITH CELLOPHANE OUTER COVERS REPLACED (53)

19th.C.SCHOOL.   TWO WATERCOLOUR BOTANICAL STUDIES ON SILK, EACH IN GILT FRAME,   LARGEST.   14 x 44cms.  (2)

LADY EMMA TENNANT. (NEE CAVENDISH) (B1943-) ARR. IRISES, SIGNED AND DATED 1993, WATERCOLOUR. 55 x 45cms TOGETHER WITH TWO OTHER BOTANICAL SUBJECTS BY THE SAME HAND. (3)

AN ALBUM CONTAINING FOURTEEN BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS DATED 1819/20. 23.5 x 33.5cms.

A GROUP OF FOUR 19th.C.WATERCOLOURS, TWO BEACH SCENES, A PORTRAIT OF A GIRL AND A BOTANICAL STUDY. LARGEST. 23.5 x 28.5cms. (4)

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 Swansea earthenware named botanical shaped oval dessert dish by Thomas Pardoe 'Scarlett Thomoea' impressed Swansea, maximum width 28cm. Condition report: A very faint hairline on one cusp, otherwise condition commensurate with age.

A pair of Swansea porcelain named botanical plates 'Shrubby Rest Harrow' and 'Indian Chrysanthemum', plain gilt borders, each named in black with factory names in red, diameter 21cm. Condition report: Chrysanthemum - Factory fault to foot rim, 3cm. Faint hairline or scratch to underside, 4cm.Harrow - No condition issues.

A pair of Swansea porcelain named botanical plates 'Willow Leav'd Allamanda' and 'Alder Leaved Hermannea', black titles and red factory names, diameter 21.5cm. Condition report: Good order, no condition issues.

A pair of 18th century Worcester scale blue ground shaped fluted bowls each with botanical panels, diameter 24.6 cm. Condition report: Bowl 1 - small rim chip.Bowl 2 - Good order - 1 scratch, pitting to reverse of rim.

A pair of 18th century Worcester scale blue ground oval moulded dishes, each with botanical panels in ornate gilt frames 20cm and a matching dish with riveted crack. Condition report: One dish is cracked in half and repaired.

An 18th century Worcester scale blue ground rectangular shaped dish with botanical 29 x 20 cm. Condition report: Some minor use. Small chip to edge.

A set of ten 18th century Worcester scale blue ground botanical painted and gilt shaped plates, the centre of each has a plant with three flowers in pink and yellow, diameter 22.5 cm, three plates are damaged. Condition report: Signs of wear/use. Three plates have small chips and one is cracked.