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An Art & Crafts style embroidered textile panel in the manner of William Morris, the square sample of botanical design embroidered with extensive blossoms of harebell's, honeysuckle and trailing vines and foliage, woolen threads, 124cm H, with a French tapestry cushion cover, 58cm x 59cm and two needlepoint tapestries including a beaded example (4) CONDITION REPORT: The panel appears to have been in a framed previously. Some nail holes and wear along the edges. (see extra images uploaded). There is some loss / fraying to the stitching at the edge. The ground is lightly grubby throughout with some light and dark marks.

A selection of vintage ephemera to include a 20th century Folk Art oil on panel depicting a pig in a farmyard setting, framed, 15.5cm x 18.5cm, a No.2 Kodak Box Brownie, a 'Touring' Automobile card game, boxed, a miniature cuckoo clock, two silk ribbon bobbins, a collection of cigarette cards of naval, automobile and botanical interest etc (Qty)

A large quantity of unframed engravings and drawings, to include botanical and architectural examples, all loose (a lot)

A set of six gilt framed Redoute prints; together with five other framed botanical prints (11)

Three boxes of miscellaneous mainly hardback books, to include botanical volumes

NO RESERVE Italian Art.- Berenson (Bernard) Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, together 7 vol. (Venetian School, 2 vol.; Florentine School, 2 vol.; Central Italian & North Italian Schools, 3 vol.), 1957-68 § D'Ancona (M.L.) The Garden of the Renaissance: Botanical Symbolism in Italian Painting, Florence, 1977 § Millon (H.A.) & V.M.Lampugnani. The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, 1994 § Hale (J.R.) Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, New Haven & London, 1990 § Mack (R.E.) Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art 1300-1600, Berkeley, 2002, illustrations, original cloth with dust-jackets; and c.20 others on Italian Renaissance art, 4to & 8vo (c.30)

RAY JOHN. Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum. 24 eng. botanical plates. Calf, tending to split. 1724; also John Berkenhout, Calvis Anglica ... or A Botanical Lexicon, calf, 1764. (2).

SWISS SCHOOL (LATE 19TH CENTURY) The Crosser Mythen, Switzerland, oil on card, 8 x 11cm; and a 19th Century Italian hand-coloured aquatint engraving - The Baptistry, Florence, 5.5 x 8cm; four various 19th Century botanical studies; and a Japanese print, all unframed (7)

JAN THEODORE DE BRY (1561-1623) Tab CCLXXXV and Tab CXCVI, two hand-coloured botanical engravings from the 'Florilegium Renovatrim et Auctum', 1641, 28 x 19cm (both mounted but unframed (2)

A PORTFOLIO OF MIXED ENGRAVINGS AND WATERCOLOURS TO INCLUDE: two Rossini etchings - 'Veduta dell' Isola Tiberina' and 'Veduta di Fianco dei Portici d'Ottavia'; various works by Sidney Curnow Vosper, two wood engravings by Clarence Whaite; etching after Rembrandt; miscellaneous botanical engravings and watercolours, print after Henry Moore; calligraphic Lord's Prayer etc., and a small collection of black and white photographs taken by Donald Dyer Richardson, all unframed

SEVEN FRAMED BOTANICAL STUDY PRINTS OF A VARIETY OF FLOWERS IN BLOOM, all mounted, framed and glazed, approximate largest size 76cm x 57cm including frame, smallest 66cm x 60cm including frame

JULIEN HENRI DILLENS (1849 - 1904)Kneeling girl Bronze, on wooden base, 54 x 62 x 50cm highSignedJulien Henri Dillens was born in Antwerp in 1849, the son of the painter Hendrick Joseph Dillens. He studied under Eu- gène Simonis at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and in 1877 received the Prix de Rome for A Gaulish Chief taken Prisoner by the Romans. He was awarded the medal of honour in 1889 at the Paris Universal Exhibition for Figure Kneeling (Brussels Gallery), and the statue of the lawyer Hippolyte Metdepenningen in front of the Palais de Justice at Ghent and in 1900, his Two Statues of the Anspach Monument gained him a similar distinction. For the city of Brussels he executed The Four Continents (Maison du Renard, Grand, Place), The Lansquenets Crown- ing the Lucarnes of the Maison de Roi, and the Monument at Everard ‘t Serclaes under the arcades of the Maison de l’Etoile, and, for the Belgian government, The Laurel at the Botanical Garden of Brussels, and the statue of Bernard van Orley (Petit Sablon Square, Brussels). Additional works produced by Dillens include An Enigma (1876), the bronze busts of Rogier de la Pasture and P. P. Rubens (1879), Etruria (1880), The Painter Leon Frederic (1888), Madame Leon Herbo, Hermes, a scheme of decora- tion for the ogival façade of the hotel de ville at Ghent (1893), The Genius of the Funeral Monument of the Moselli Family, The Silence of Death (for the entrance of the cemetery of St Gilles), and The Three Burgomasters of Brussels. Dillens died in Brussels in November 1904.

Edwardian street scene, monochrome etching, dated 1918, 27cm x 20cm; botanical print, Flora Danica, figural prints and a county map.

A good wine glass c.1760, the bell bowl finely engraved with a botanical flower spray, raised on a mixed twist stem of a single opaque strand around an airtwist corkscrew, 17.5cm. Provenance: from a private collection in London.

A Paris porcelain (Feuillet) part dessert service c.1840, finely painted with botanical specimens of flowers and fruit, the rims with panels of further flowers within elaborate gilt borders on a green ground, one plate incised 'Chantilly', another signed in gilt for Feuillet. Comprising: a tazza and eight plates. (9)

A Chelsea Hans Sloane oval dish c.1755, painted with a bold botanical specimen beside a butterfly and other flying insects, with a shaped brown line rim, red anchor mark, 28.2cm. Exhibited: Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia, 7th August 2000 - 8th April 2001, The Gold Treasury, Melbourne, Ballarat and Hamilton Art Galleries. Illustrated: Flowers and Fables: A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, no. 109. Provenance: the Nigel Morgan collection.

A Chelsea Hans Sloane plate c.1755, painted with a large botanical leaf amidst butterflies and other flying insects, within a shaped brown line rim, red anchor mark, 21.7cm. Illustrated: Flowers and Fables: A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, no. 110. Provenance: the Nigel Morgan collection.

A watercolour still life study; together with botanical prints, an Edwardian fashion print etc.

ROSLYN CHINA 'WHISPERING GRASS' PATTERN TEA SERVICE FOR SIX PERSONS, 21 PIECES, 'THE ROYAL COLLECTION' BOTANICAL PLAQUE AND A HAWK DECORATED PLAQUE (23)

A set of six large framed limited edition botanical prints, approx 65x77cm

Magda Clarke "Camellia Japonica" Botanical Watercolour, in a glazed frame, signed, 29 x 41cm

Two rosewood framed botanical coloured prints, 40 x 46cm, (2)

A mixed collection of items to include chromed tea pot set, Interesting glass botanical sllides, inlaid modern jewellery box & Lladro figure of Ballet Dancer

A large collection of mixed ceramics including - Portmeirion Botanical coffee cans, large Carltonware pewter rimmed fruit bowl, Coopercraft Dog, London themed decanter, etc. (2 trays).

Maria Sibylla Merian book of botanical prints

A parcel of framed pictures including three botanical studies, one of which is inscribed to the back 'Isabella Ann Alan 1830' together with a watercolour of a coastal scene with figures

Poole vase (A/F), Portmeirion chicken, Botanical Roses plates etc

Framed pictures and prints: to include religious and botanical studies various sizes BSR

Medical Interest. Culpeper, Nicholas. English Physician and Complete Herbal with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Properties, London: Printed for the Author, no date, circa 1790s, rebound in full panelled calf with raised bands and gilt title, marbled endpapers, botanical/anatomical plates, lacking frontispiece, dedication page to Thomas Dunckerly, Provincial Grand Master of the Masons in Dorset, from E. Sibly

The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, Practical and Scientific, G. Nicholson, c.1900, set of eight volumes, together with a quantity of other botanical publications

Collection of gardening/botanical/horticultural books, to include: The Lady's Country Companion, Mrs. Loudon, London: Longman, 1845, publisher's green cloth; Old Garden Roses, Edward A. Bunyard, London: Country Life, 1936; Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens, E. T. Cook, London: Country Life, 1902; Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, W. J. Bean, sixth edition in three volumes, London: John Murray, 1936; A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners, E. A. Bowles, London: Martin Hopkinson, 1924; The Rock Garden, Reginald Farrer, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack [no date]; Alpine Flowers for Gardens, W. Robinson, London: John Murray, 1903; Colour Planning of the Garden, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1929; My Garden Book, Scottish Seed House, Perth, 1939; Century Book of Gardening, in two volumes, London: Country Life [no date]; Gardens for Small Country Houses, London: Country Life, 1924

Prints: A set of 6 Botanical Prints by G.D. Ehret Delin, in attractive black and gilt frames. (6)

A very attractive hand painted early English porcelain Botanical Dessert Service, consisting of two comports and eight plates, each with a different central flower and rose pompadour borders. (10)

A miscellaneous lot of framed and glazed prints and watercolours to include five botanical prints

An 18th century hand-coloured botanical print and five other botanical prints, in strip frames

Spy print of horse racing, etching of two ducks, two botanical studies and a map of Middlesex by Moule

[Travel Journals] Victorian handwritten diaries of a voyage aboard the S.S. Warrior, S.S. Bladworth and the S.S. Good Hope in the years 1872/3 journeying to Calcutta and Capetown, journals kept by a doctor/passenger comprising 3 notebooks in which is detailed places visited, weather conditions, collecting of botanical specimens, sketching, playing games, other vessels encountered (including S.S. Oriental, The Windsor Castle, Bismarck, S.S. Danube etc) stowaways, a tom cat falling overboard, attending to the injuries of several "firemen" on board with fingers and toes which were crushed or sliced off, severe head injury, death of a passenger and baby, a knife fight, visit to bazaar, vendors selling fruit, cigars, little dogs "something between a Maltese and a French poodle". Comprising over 300 pages with descriptions of the other passengers & temperatures recorded.

A BOX OF ASSORTED PRINTS TO INCLUDE ONITHOLOGIAL, BOTANICAL AND FIGURATIVE EXAMPLES

DORSET INTEREST; A 19TH CENTURY PRINT OF THE REMAINS OF ABBOTSBURY ABBEY and similar pictures, with a pair of 19th century botanical prints

A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY TEAWARES decorated in Royal blue and gilt, with botanical specimens

A set of four Chinese botanical paintings on rice paper: each flowering shrub with a butterfly or insect, each 15 x 21, together with odd unmounted examples.

An unsigned watercolour study of a garden scene; together with two botanical studies

A watercolour still life study; together with botanical prints; an Edwardian fashion print etc.

Herbert Austin: (Austin Motor Co) Moseley Lodge Ladies Evening, Wednesday December 11th 1935, Botanical Gardens, Birmingham dinner banquet menu signed by Guest Herbert Austin (signed H Austin in pencil to front cover)

After Professor Anton Seder (German, 1850-1916): 'Die Pflanze', two coloured chromolithographs of Art Nouveau botanical designs from 'The Plant in Art and Trade', published in 1890 by Gerlach and Schenk, Vienna, titled 'Laurus' and 'Ranunculus' 54 by 37cm. (2)Prof. Seder was Director of School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg

Set of five framed and mounted botanical prints (44cm x 59cm including frames)

Large Portmeirion Botanical Garden comport (diameter 32cm, 14cm high)

1840-77 mixed mint and used collection arranged in an album and on loose album leaves including used 1840 2d., 1858-79 Penny Reds with most plates, 1870 _d. selection, later surface-printed to 5s., mint 1951 Festivals to £1, better phosphors with 1962 NPY, 1963 FFH, Lifeboat, Red Coss, 1964 Botanical, Geographical, later decimal high values; also Channel Islands and Isle of Man; mostly fair to fine. (hundreds)

Assortment in carton including quantity of 1970s-80s decimal postage (some without gum), a volume of Channel Islands and Lundy locals, several 1930s-50s Philatelic Congress sheetlets in folders, a few 1960s phosphors incl 1963 FFH and 1964 Botanical in blocks of 4, a volume of perfins and some other odds (Few Thousands)

First Day Covers: Collection from 1937 to Christmas 2005, some issues to 1963 on plain covers and/or handwritten addresses, better covers to 1966 include (illustrated with typewritten/label address unless noted) 1960 GLO, 1961 POSB, 1961 Parliamentary Conference, 1962 NPY, 1963 FFH, Red Cross, COMPAC, 1964 Botanical Congress, 1965 BOB with Biggin Hill cds, later issues appear quite comprehensive and almost all illustrated with typewritten addresses including definitives, commems and later min sheets, also a quantity of used 'bundleware' from 1960s-90s neatly arranged in small boxes, ideal for the packet maker! (Few Thousands)

First Day Covers: Accumulation in small carton from KGVI to 1980s with a number of better items (illustrated unless noted )including 1948 RSW (plain, address obliterated), 1946 Victory with 'Don't Waste Bread' slogan, 1948 Olympics with Wembley 'rings' slogan, 1949 UPU (2), another on plain cover with Windsor Castle cds (toned), 1957 Parliamentary Conference (2, one with handwritten address), 1959 phosphor graphite on cacheted cover, 1958 Games with Barry slogan, 1961 Parliamentary Conference with conference slogan, 1964 Geographical Congress phos with Southampton show slogan, 1963 Lifeboat with Edinburgh slogan, 1964 Botanical Congress with Edinburgh congress special h/s (handwritten address), 1966 England Winners (2, one apparently signed Bobby Moore, the other Alf Ramsey, however neither guaranteed), 1969 Ships with Lloyds of London h/s, 1974 Churchill (card) with Woodford Green h/s, 1974 Warriors with BFPO Royal Tournament h/s, also some non-fdcs including 1951 Festival sets to £1 (2) and 1929 PUC set to 2_d on 1930 flown cover to Brussels, odd fault but mostly fine (50+)

Albums. A group of five early 19th century and Victorian manuscript and scrap albums, including: an album filled with manuscript writings in prose and verse, in various neat hands, including the work of poet Bernard Barton, Washington Irving, Charles Lamb, John Milton, William Cowper, and others, some dated 1820s/30s, with a few mounted original drawings and engravings, paper watermarked 'J Budgen 1823', stitching partially broken, and some leaves detached, original calf, spine crudely strengthened with fabric tape, 4to; a late 19th/early 20th century album of cuttings, photographs, original drawings and watercolours, printed souvenirs, etc., relating to the Hawkshaw family, including drawings and photographs of places in Norway, Baden, Baltic Sea, Cologne, Folkestone, Herefordshire, Ewelme, Kildare, Chester, disbound (but rear board extant), folio, plus another from the Hawkshaw family, filled with newspaper cuttings; and an album of engravings, including armorial and large format topographical and botanical engravings, with some newspapers laid in at rear, including The Malta Observer, 1859, and The Kelso Mail, 1860, original half vellum, worn, folio Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (5)

*East India Company. Autograph letter signed from Sir Evan Nepean as governor of Bombay to Sir Joseph Banks as president of the Royal Society, Malabar Point, 18 April 1814, single sheet of laid paper, written on both sides, faintly creased where folded, 22.8 x 18.6 cm, together with Nepean's autograph transcript of a letter from the inspector of forests concerning Malabar teak, single sheet of wove paper, written on one side only, creased where folded, 22.5 x 18.6 cm Nepean informs Banks of the recent arrival in India of a consignment of vines from Persia, which had been delayed at Bushire, and of the impending arrival in London of 'another valuable consignment ... the Bussorah Clover'. He also discusses the practicalities of sending Malabar teak seeds back to England via the Cape, and encloses his autograph transcript of a letter from 'the inspector of our forests' concerning the various species of Malabar teak. 'Bussorah' is the archaic spelling of Basra, modern-day Iraq. Nepean's appointment as governor of Bombay in 1812 allowed him to develop his botanical interests. He corresponded regularly with Banks and himself became a fellow of the Royal Society on his return to England in 1820. Provenance: Francis Edwards, July 1966 (typescript purchase note laid in). (2)

*Ceylon. A good group of eight views of Ceylon, circa 1860s, albumen prints, all but one with English pencil inscriptions to versos, scenes include the harbour at Colombo with masted ships, a coastal view of Pettah, Colombo, Colombo Fort, Matala Town, Nuwara Eliya Plains and a group of palms in the Royal Botanical Gardens, 21.5 x 28.5cm and similar sizes (8)

*Magic lantern slides. A large collection of magic lantern slides, late 19th and early 20th century, subjects include views in UK, Turkey, botanical slides, etc., contained in four wooden slide boxes and a small card slide box (a carton)

Goes Willem. Rei agrariae auctores legesque variae. Quaedam nunc primum, caetera emendatiora prodeunt cura Wilelmi Goesii, cuius accedunt indices, antiquitates agrariae & notae: una cum Nicolai Rigaltii notis & observationibus, nec non glossario eiusdem. Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1674. Due parti in un volume in-4° piccolo (mm 192x150). [20], 360, [60]; 328 pagine. Antiporta calcografica in paginazione. Numerose illustrazioni calcografiche e silografiche nel testo, alcune a piena pagina. 3 tavole incise su rame (2 ripiegate). Iniziali decorate, testatine e finalini silografici. Alcuni fascicoli uniformemente bruniti; sporadiche fioriture. Legatura coeva in pergamena su piatti in cartone. Dorso liscio, con titolo impresso in nero nel XIX secolo. Tagli spruzzati in rosso, taglio di testo scurito. Contropiatti e sguardie rinnovati. Applicata al contropiatto anteriore tavola incisa di soggetto botanico.Prima edizione di questa importante collezione di scritti di autori antichi sulla scienza agraria e l'economia rurale, riccamente illustrata. L'edizione fu curata dal giurista e filologo olandese Willem Goes (1611-1686), in collaborazione con Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654), che corredò i testi selezionati di accurate note, nonché di un utile glossario dei termini. Kress 1398.Two parts in one volume, small 4° (192x150 mm). [20, including engraved frontispiece], 360, [60]; 328 pages. Numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text, some are full-page. 3 engraved plates (2 are folding). A few quires uniformly browned, foxing in places. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards. Smooth spine, with 19th-century stamped title. Edges speckled red, head-edge darkened. Pastedowns and flyleaves renewed. An engraved botanical plate tipped in on the front pastedown. First edition of this remarkable ald lavishly illustrated collection of classical writings on agriculture and rural economy. The publication was edited by the Ditch lawyer and philologist Willem Goes (1611-1686) in partnership with Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654), who supplemented the texts with accurate notes and a very useful lexicon of terms used. Kress 1398.

18th Century Continental School. A Botanical Study, Watercolour, Indistinctly Signed and numbered 'No 102' in Pencil, Unframed, 13.5" x 9.25".

Lavinia Buswell (1932-2017) British. "Amaryllis Reticulata", Watercolour, Signed, Inscribed and Dated 1983 in Pencil, Unframed, 20" x 15.75", and another, with a collection of miscellaneous Prints of Botanical Studies by different hands, (Q).

Dorothy Fitchew (19th-20th Century) British. A Flower Study, Watercolour, Signed, Unframed, 10.25" x 8.75", together with a Collection of Botanical Studies by the same hand, (Q).

AN UNUSUAL EARLY 19TH C TWIN BLADED FOLDING KNIFE WITH BONE SCALES, INSCRIBED LADY MILTONS BOTANICAL KNIFE, 7.3CM L, ONE BLADE STAMPED G [CROWN] R AND HARRISON, THE OTHER BLADE DAMAGED