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Architectural Telford Bridge Blueprint Black Wood Frame The Art Line Collection Comprises A Meticulous Selection Of Art Images Sourced From The Best Archives Around The World. The Sourcing Team Is An Experienced Group Of Experts Hailing From Top Art Houses, Who Have Worked Tirelessly To Bring Together A Unique Collection Of Rare And Beautiful Images. Printed With Some Of The Best, Most Traditional Printing Machines, Each Image Is Painstakingly Produced And Treated, With A Vintage Quality That Resembles A Painting. The Collection Is Varied And Includes Images Of Landscapes, Celestial And Botanical Images, Portraits Of Sports Teams, And Architectural Drawings, Among Others. RRP £1300
H.W. Archer Botanical Brewer stoneware flagon, brass coal bin embossed with cherubs, Victorian cast iron pen stand with impressed Rd. no., two brass warming pans, Dolly stick, H88cm and three other brass coal scuttles (9) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
A Staffordshire Pearlware Platter, circa 1820, printed in underglaze blue with The Fort of Madura within a foliate border, 38.5cm wide; A Wedgwood Pearlware Plate, printed in underglaze blue with a botanical specimen; Two Pearlware Soup Plates, printed with European river landscapes; A Dessert Plate, printed with a Chinese vase and flowers; and Two Pearlware Nursery Plates (7)
ATTRIBUTED TO PRISCILLA SUSAN FAULKNER "BURY" NEE FAULKNER (1799-1872) "Lilium Candidum, June, the Levant", botanical study, pen and ink, titled, together with "Lilium, Martagon, May, Caucasus", botanical study, pen and ink, titled and "Heleborus Niger Christmas Rose, December, Austria" (3) CONDITION REPORTS All three appear to have come out of a book or artist's pad as they are numbered in top right corner. The helibore has been out of its frame and, although stuck down at the top of the mount, the rest is loose, one side is roughly torn and the others are straight-cut, there is some discolouration all over and especially to the edges. There appears to be some water / damp damage to the top left quarter. A damp mark running through the picture and the mount,and there is a crease line to base of picture. The lily has some discolouration, some areas of foxing, especially to bottom left corner. There are thunderbugs beneath the glass and some dots to the surface of the painting, possibly dirt or insect marks. The Lily Martagon has foxing, various stains, discolouration, there are thunderbugs beneath the frame and other insects. All three have general wear. Frames are bit tatty and mounts are discoloured and stained. Please see images. These pictures have come from a local private vendor. 37 cm x 26 cm
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Science & Medicine.- Freeman (R.B.) The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist, second edition, frontispiece, Kent & Connecticut, 1977 § Keynes (Geoffrey) A Bibliography of the Writings of Dr William Harvey, second edition, one of 750 copies, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, Cambridge, 1953 § Durling (Richard J.) A Catalogue of Sixteenth-Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, Maryland, 1967 § Henrey (Blanche) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800..., 3 vol., frontispieces, vol.I and II illustrations, most colour, 1975 § Blake (John B.) A Short-Title Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, Maryland, 1979, each original cloth, second dust-jacket, with loss and closed tears, third slip-case, rubbed, joints splitting; and a quantity of others, related, 4to & 8vo (qty.)
Photograph Album.- Maiden Voyage of the HMS Apollo, 1936.- c.200 mounted ethnographical, architectural, and topographical views by Able Seaman A. W. Ames, showing Gibraltar, Cuba, The Panama Canal, California, the Carolinas, Acapulco, the West Indies, Vancouver, Quebec, Newfoundland, Montreal, Manaus, and Haiti, also ship life and sports among the crew, hand-drawn chart in facsimile detailing the ship's route, programme for a performance of Cinderella at the Botanical Gardens Edgbaston in January 1914 loosely inserted, limp rexine, a little marked, oblong 4to, 1936-8.⁂ Two years after its commission the ship was sold to the Australian navy and renamed the HMAS Hobart.Inter alia Ames documents the embarkation of the body of Ramsey MacDonald at Bermuda and its return to Devonport.
A set of six hand coloured botanical engravings, each inscribed in the top left corner 'H. N. Botanique par M. Delile', with illustrations of exotic plants, 78.7 x 62.5cm, in later glazed frames. (6) Alire Raffeneau Delile (23 January 1778 - 5 July 1850) was a French botanist who participated in Napoleon Bonaparte's Egypt Campaign. In 1798 more than a hundred and fifty engineers, astronomers, physicists, chemists, doctors, botanists, naturalists, and artists made the arduous journey to Egypt. They later presented their discoveries in the publication titled 'Description de l'Egypte', including these botanical illustrations. Delile carried on with his botanical studies in North America and then in France and was named director of the botanical garden in Montpellier in 1832.
A pair of Coalport botanical cabinet plates with scrolling acanthus moulded edge to blue ground, with triple sauce rim reserves and central floral sprays (one af), diameter 24cm (2). CONDITION REPORT Some losses to the gilt and with small scratches to the enamels in the central reserves, one with fine crack across the centre
A collection of Portmeirion Botanic Garden wares comprising lidded storage jars, circular bowl, two graduated oval dishes, jug, etc, together with further ceramics including a studio pottery vase with painted mark Cox to base and inscribed Cranesbill, a collection of Paragon china Belinda pattern tea wares, etc, together with two volumes of Botanical Gardens by Roger Phillips and Martyn Ria
Mary Harper (20th century), three signed coloured limited edition etchings of botanical subjects - Pink Sweet Peas, edition number 5/30, signed and dated 76, 37 x 44 cm approx visible sheet size, Green Hellebores signed and dated 76, edition number 4/30, 52 x 34 cm approx sheet size visible, both framed, Foxgloves, signed and dated 74, artists proof 1/2 out of an edition of 15, 76 x 53 cm approx, unframed sheet size
Works of Near Eastern interest Aflalo, Frederick G. An Idler in the Near East. John Milne, 1910. 8vo, org. red cloth; 40 photographic plates with captioned tissue guards. Lively account of a summer season travelling from the Caucus to Egypt by a traveller, writer, and pioneer sea-angler. Holmes, Robert Walter Greenway Spy and Hero. His Life Story. William Blackwood and Sons, 1917. 8vo, org. cloth; provenance: inscribed by the author. The life of a British clerk, addicted to B and E (but not burglary), who married an Arab woman and carried out sabotage against the Turks in WWI. The tale was smuggled to Holmes in botanical samples. The book incorporated interviews with Greenway's family and a notebook - smuggled by a sailor from Greenway's Sheikh father-in-law. Tyrell, Henry The History of the War with Russia. [c.1855]. 4to (3 vols in 2). Half calf over patterned boards; eng. titles, numerous plates Bartlett, W.H. Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem. [c.1844]. 8vo, org. red cloth gilt; numerous plates and illus to text. Second ed. Steevens, George W. Egypt in 1898. 1898. 8vo, org. pict. cloth; photo illus; provenance: Samuel Osborn, Clarke House, Sheffield, June, 1898 (nscrip. ffep). Sir Samuel Osborn was a scion of the Sheffield steel family. Falkland, Viscountess Chow-Chow. Being Selections from a Journal Kept in India, Egypt, and Syria. 1857. 8vo (2 vols in 1). Quarter leather; eng. coloured frontis. to both. Second ed., Revised.Varying conditions, scuffed and worn bindings (Chow Chow upper board detached and spine cracked) and dusty or foxed edges, some variable foxing etc. but generally very good and clean internally.
HABERSHON (M), THE ANCIENT HALF TIMBERED HOUSES, full cloth, London, Weale, 1836; D'OYLY (REV), THE HOLY BIBLE, 3 vols, engraved plates, tan calf, 1817; with a botanical books with folding plates and a selection of pictorial bindings, etc - some books with the book plate for Edward Philip Thompson originally of Thingwall Hall but later built Pauls Moss in Whitchurch Shropshire (Qty)
NO RESERVE Scrap albums.- English School (19th century) An album with over 60 original watercolours by various hands, including landscapes, maritime studies, natural history interest, caricatures, and others, many with ink attributions, including to Mary Hamilton, F. Hardy, Lady Medlycott, Miss Barter, W.H. Turner, and many initialled 'E.B.', watercolours, pencil, pen and ink, various sizes, neatly tipped onto album leaves, half marbled boards, gilt, small folio, worn, [circa 1840-1850]; together with two further scrap albums of over 300 late 19th century engravings, and a further mixed group of loose engravings, lithographs and drawings, including a small group of botanical studies bay various hands [19th century] (qty.).
A collection of Spode blue and white printed pottery plates, first quarter 19th century, comprising: a 'Union Wreath' (3rd) pattern plate, 25cm diameter; a 'Lucano' pattern plate, 25cm diameter; an 'India' pattern plate, 25cm diameter; an 'Italian' pattern plate, 24.5cm diameter; a 'Grasshopper' pattern soup plate, 24.5cm diameter; a 'Waterloo Italian Church' pattern plate, 20.5cm diameter; a 'Botanical' series plate, 18.5cm diameter; a stand similar and a 'Tower' pattern two-handled bowl and cover, all with factory marks Provenance: From a private Northants collection.
Henderson (George & Hume, Allan O. ). Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870, under T.D. Forsyth, 1st edition, L. Reeve, 1873, folding map, 16 heliotype plates, 32 ornithological and 6 botanical hand-coloured lithographed plates, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue (1 March 1873) at rear, inner hinges cracked, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, heavily rubbed and joints cracked, together with Hume (Allan O.), Contributions to Indian Ornithology (Extracted from "Lahore to Yarkand - Henderson and Hume"), L. Reeve, 1873, 152 pp., 31 (of 32) hand-coloured lithographed plates, the missing plate (Podoces Hendersoni) reproduced in watercolour and pencil facsimile by Martin Woodcock (initialled in pencil lower left), Martin Woodcock's pencil ownership signature to both volumes, related note loosely inserted to second volume, modern half morocco, large 8vo (2)
Henrey (Blanche). British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800..., 3 volumes, OUP, 1975, colour frontispiece and monochrome illustrations, uniform original blue cloth, boards lightly marked, 8vo, together with Hind (Arthur M.), Engraving in England in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries..., 3 volumes, C.U.P., 1952-64, numerous monochrome illustrations, ex library copies with associated marks, uniform original red cloth in dust jackets, minor loss to volume 3 spine, 8vo, and other 20th century bibliography reference and related, including publications by Oxford, Cambridge, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves + a carton)
*Botanical cards. A set of twenty-two hand-drawn cards, circa 1810, 22 cards, each with pen, ink, and watercolour illustrations of flowers and their components to upper portion (e.g. a selection of leaves, examples of seed pods, various stamens, an array of stalks, different kinds of roots, etc.), above neat manuscript text, each card numbered to upper left corner, first card (title) lightly toned, 11 x 7.5cm (4.5 x 3ins), housed in original green paper-covered card slipcase, with remains of embossed gold border to edges, lightly rubbed and marked, and a little split to one joint, together with a set of 27 (of 28) picture cards, circa 1880, comprising seven sets of colour lithographed cards, each set depicting a fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood; Puss in Boots; Jack and the Bean-Stalk; Jack the Giant Killer; Cinderella; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; and Bluebeard, Red Riding Hood set lacking a card, some rubbing, marks, and creases (The Proud Sisters card with consequent short split in lower edge), Golden Locks and Baby Bear cards both with surface loss to one corner (affecting some of text), plain pale pink versos (dusty), rounded corners, 11 x 7.5cm (4.25 x 3ins) The first item comprises a set of neatly executed instructional cards, perhaps made by a competent adult and intended as an educational tool for the older child, the first card stating: 'Botany is a Science which treats of Vegetables & Plants. Divided into Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, & Varieties.' (2)
Curtis (William, and others). The Botanical Magazine; or Flower Garden Displayed...., Seven volumes, 1787, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1913 & 1914, 440 engraved plates (including forty-nine folding) all with contemporary hand colouring and 120 lithographic plates, (including twenty-five folding), each plate with a sheet of descriptive text, occasional spotting, mixed bindings, the first volume with upper board detached, various condition, 8vo Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (7)
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