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Click here to subscribeHerbal.- Nylandt (Pieter) De Nederlandtsche Herbarius of Kruydt-boeck, double column, large engraved vignette of botanists seated at a table studying plants, surrounded by their books, botanical woodcuts within text, some spotting and staining, upper hinge broken, contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, [Hunt 364, quoting this copy], small 4to, Amsterdam, Michael de Groot, 1682.⁂ Rare third edition of this Dutch herbal.
Sibbald (Robert) Scotia illustrata sive prodromus historiae naturalis, 3 parts in 1 vol., 23 engraved plates on 21ff. (including the heraldic plate), bookplate, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rubbed and a little worn, [Nissen ZBI 3847; Wing S3727], folio, Jacobi Kniblo, 1684.⁂ Sibbald instituted with Andrew Balfour the Botanical Garden at Edinburgh in 1667 and the above work contains an extensive catalogue of the plants grown in the garden. Provenance: J. R. P. Forrest, Edinburgh (bookplate).
[James (Robert)] The Rational Farmer, and Practical Husbandman by the Author of the new Medicinal Dictionary, to which is added, the British Herbal, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, engraved frontispiece, trimmed to margin and laid down, first part double column, second part with woodcut botanical illustrations, occasional browning, Z2 repaired with some minor loss to text, library cloth, [not in Fussell], 4to, Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1743.⁂ Rare; ESTC lists only 4 copies and we can only trace the Cetus copy at auction.
Trees.- Duhamel du Monceau (Henri Louis) Traité des Arbres et Arbustes qui se cultivent en France en Pleine Terre, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 4 folding engraved plates, 250 woodcut botanical plates, 190 engraved head-pieces mostly of floral analyses, occasional light browning but generally very bright and clean, handsome contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, a little rubbed, spine of vol.2 chipped at head, [Great Flower Books p.91; Hunt 552; Nissen BBI 547], 4to, Paris, H.L.Guerin & L.F.Delatour, 1755.⁂ A handsome copy of Duhamel du Monceau's earliest work on trees, using the fine woodblocks from the "large Mattioli" of 1562.
Board of Agriculture.- Communications to the Board of Agriculture on Subjects relative to the Husbandry and Internal Improvement of the Country , vol. 1-6 only, mixed set, 2 hand-coloured engraved maps (1 folding) and 110 engraved plates (4 hand-coloured, some folding), 1 folding table, vol. II 2I2 small tear with small loss of text, some offsetting, vol. 1 later endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints splitting, gilt spines, slightly rubbed, vol. 1 and 2 and 3-6 different bindings, 4to, 1797-1808; sold not subject to return.⁂ Covers all aspects of agriculture, including farm buildings, drainage, crops and botanical matters. Contributors include Arthur Young and Sir John Sinclair.
Haynes (Thomas) A Treatise on the Improved Culture of the Strawberry, Raspberry, and Gooseberry, second edition, uncut in original boards, worn, 1814 § Brodigan (Thomas) A Botanical, Historical and Practical Treatise on the Tobacco Plant, first edition, cuttings and ink annotations to endpapers, original cloth, worn, lacking backstrip, 1830 § Hayward (Joseph) The Science of Horticulture, 12 folding lithograph plates, foxing, later half calf, 1818 § Porter (George Richardson) The Nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane, first edition, engraved plates, illustrations, publisher's catalogue (dated 1840) at end, original cloth, spine torn, 1830 § Curtis (William) Directions for Cultivating the Crambe Maritima, or Sea Kale, for the Use of the Table, folding hand-coloured engraved plate, modern morocco, 1799; and 12 others mostly botany and horticulture, 8vo (17)
Fruit.- Phillips (Henry) Pomarium Britannicum: An Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits..., 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 1820; History of Cultivated Vegetables, 2 vol., 1822; Flora Historica: or the Three Seasons of the British Parterre, 2 vol., 1824, first editions, contemporary half or full calf, spines gilt, rubbed, a few worn patches to boards; and another by the same, 8vo (6)
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) Florum, et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia, collation: A-V8, title with woodcut printer's device, full-page woodcut botanical illustrations, woodcut head-pieces and initials, some staining, 17th century panelled calf, worn, 8vo (153 x 105mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569.⁂ Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1917.Literature: Hunt 104; Nissen 514; Pritzel 2347; Wellcome I. 1820; Voet 1098.
Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus).- Laetus (Pomponius) Hortuli commentarium, sive In de re rustica Lib. X commentum, collation: [a6, b4], 10 leaves, text in single column, 35 lines, type: 4:86G, blank space for one capital, with printed guide letters, on recto of first leaf, some light marginal water-staining and spotting, 19th century red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt, spine lettered in gilt, 4to (207 x 141mm.), [Rome, Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck], [c.1485].⁂ Rare edition of this commentary on the tenth book (entirely devoted to gardening) of De Re Rustica by Columella, the most systematic of all treatises of Roman writers on agricultural affairs, which first appeared in Rome in about 1472. This commentary is without the text, and was circulated in manuscript around 1467. On the basis of a comparative study of the surviving manuscripts, authorship can be attributed to the famous Roman humanist Pomponius Laetus (1428-1498). "Laetus apparently did not edit the text, and the commentary is concerned with the explication of mythological, geographical, and botanical points [...] much of his material comes from Cato, Varro, and Pliny the Elder" (V. Brown, "Columella", p. 181).Only 14 copies of the Hortuli commentarium are recorded in institutional libraries, including the Rothamsted one. The edition was issued entirely anomymously and without date, and is now generally assigned to the printing house established in Rome by Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck. Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1915 Literature: ISTC ic00765000; H 5494*; GW 7188; Bod-inc C-390; BMC IV 73; IGI 3068; Goff C-765; Klebs 288.2; V. Brown, "Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus", in CTC III, pp. 175-176, 181-184.
Dodoens (Rembert) Purgantium aliarumque eo facientium, turn et radicum convolvulorum ac deleteriamm herbarum historiae libri IIII, 2 parts in 1, including appendix, collation: A-Z8 a-i8, titles with woodcut printer's devices, numerous full-page woodcut botanical woodcuts, sig. C misbound, some water-staining (mostly at end), a few ff. soiled, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, lightly soiled, 8vo (170 x 103mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1574.⁂ Rare first edition. Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1917.Literature: Hunt 116; Nissen 515; Pritzel 2657 & 7058.
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, fine engraved architectural title with figures of Theophrastus and Dioscorides, over 1,300 woodcut within text, penultimate f. with large woodcut printer's device on verso, final f. blank, some spotting, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary ornately blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, covers with central portraits, lacking clasps, lightly soiled, [Hunt 201; Nissen BBI 517], folio, Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1616.⁂ The second and most definitive edition of Dodoens' 'last and most comprehensive botanical work' (Hunt). Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1917.
Herbal.- Theophrastus. De Historia plantarum libri decem, first edition edited by Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel, double column. text in Latin and Greek, fine engraved pictorial title, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, small part of upper margin of title repaired, 4Y1 section of margin torn away, affecting a few letters, sig. 5H misbound, small wormholes to upper margins, occasional spotting, [Hunt 240], 20th century half calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather labels, corners worn, rubbed, folio, Amsterdam, apud Henricum Laurentium, 1644. ⁂ 'It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Escluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work' (H.H. Bartlett, Fifty-five Rare Books, quoted by Hunt ).
Vegetables.- Sharrock (Robert) The History of the Propagation & Improvement of Vegetables by the concurrence of Art and Nature, second edition, engraved plate with explanation f., errata f., lacking 3 final advertisement ff., later ink inscription to verso of title, 19th century half calf, [Henrey 341; Wing S3011], Oxford, by W. Hall, 1672 § Switzer (Stephen) A Compendious Method for the Raising of the Italian Brocoli, Spanish Cardoon, Celeriac, Finochi, and other foreign Kitchen Vegetables, second edition, advertisement f. following title and 2ff. advertisement ff. at end, damp-staining, manuscript index in a contemporary hand tipped in after title, library cloth, original lower cover with a number of manuscript notes bound in, [Henrey 1401], Thomas Astley, 1728, 8vo (2)⁂ Sharrock was an English clergyman, botanist and Fellow of New College, Oxford. He carried out experiments in grafting and other techniques in the Physick Garden of the city. Away from the garden he was a vehement critic of the work of Thomas Hobbes. The second mentioned with only two copies listed on ESTC (Kew Library and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in the US).
Elsie Margaret Stones (known as Margaret Stones) AM MBE (Australian, b.1920) Tulipa Eicheevi, botanical study, watercolour, pencil signed, entitled verso "Tulipa Eicheevi, F&S 680, Coll. Turkey, Drawn 16.3.61", framed and mounted under glass, 23 x 15 cm Australian botanist Margaret Stones worked as principal contributing artist to "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" from 1950 to 1981 and produced more than 400 watercolour drawings for the publication. Her work is widely regarded and in 1957 she was commissioned to prepare a set of floral designs for Australian postage stamps. During her career Stones worked closely with pioneer researcher in plant embryology and cytology Winifred Curtis between 1967 and 1978 and provided the illustrations for "The Endemic Flora of Tasmania". She was awarded a silver Veitch Memorial Medal in 1976 and a gold Veitch Memorial Medal in 1985 by the Royal Horticultural Society. Stones has two genera named after her, "Stonesia" and "Stonesiella".
ALICIA MARGARET TYSSEN AMHERST, LADY ROCKLEY (1865-1941) BOTANICAL STUDIES Seven, each initialled AR, two dated 1935, watercolour Each 35 x 24.5cm. approx (7) * The artist was an English horticulturist, botanist and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history. The pictures have passed by descent through the artist's family. ++ Some with slight fading/discoloration
Large selection of 19th Century and later ceramics to include; Staffordshire pottery character jug modelled as The Squire, Derby oval dish with floral decoration within gilt enriched mazarin blue ground, printed mark 1825-40, plate painted with a landscape of similar date, Victorian loving cup printed with two scenes 'Rather alarmed' and 'A half holiday', 19th Century porcelain part dessert service painted with botanical specimens, Ridgeways Queen Victoria commemorative beaker, Royal Doulton Titanian Ware vase printed with a perching bird, a small selection of crested wares etc Condition:
λ A rare collection of thirty-six Indian carved ivory botanical specimens, polychrome decorated, comprising: fruit, vegetables and spices, including: mango, nutmeg and mace, pineapple, plantain, jack fruit and pomegranate, late 19th century, together with a beetle, housed in an English stained pine box with numbered divisions and a typed index list, 9.1cm long (max), the box: 35cm wide. (38)Click here to view the online page turning catalogue.
Assorted stoneware jars to include examples marked "Bamforth & Lockwood Botanical Brewers Swindon", another converted to a table lamp marked and incised "630 Edwin Goddard Wine & Spirit Merchant Swindon" and a further labelled "Mason's Swindon", various further stoneware bottles to include one marked "Plyline Coy Ltd Edinburgh Household Ammonia", together with assorted glass bottles marked "D H Taylor 1 Borough Tuberculin Tested Milk", a further impressed "E Lawrence Veterinary Surgeon Swindon" etc (28)
Gardening/Botanical/Horticultural interest: Miller, Philip. 'The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing The Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit, Flower Garden, and Nursery; As also for Performing the Practical Parts of Agriculture: Including The Management of Vineyards, with the Methods of Making and Preserving the Wine', seventh edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1759. Folio, full leather binding with oxblood morocco title label and gilt lettering/decoration to spine, engraved frontispiece (detached) and numerous engraved plates throughout. a/f
Botanical/Horticultural Interest. Small collection comprising: Sowerby, James. 'English Botany', Vol.I (second edition, no date), and Vol.IV (third edition, 1851), publisher's cloth, numerous hand-coloured plates; 'The Botanical Souvenir', B. Maund, London: T. J. Allman, no date, vibrant hand-coloured plates throughout, gilt cloth binding a/f; and a collection of approx. 200 botanical plates, predominantly 19th-century hand-coloured, some lithographic.
Gardening/Horticulture/Botanical Interest: 'The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist's Magazine', Joseph Harrison, London: Whittaker and Co. [1842]. Featuring 14 plates/illustrations of flowers, aquatint etchings with early original hand-colouring. Octavo half-calf with oxblood title label and marbled boards.
Wright, John. 'The Fruit Grower's Guide', with illustrations by Miss May Rivers, first edition in six volumes, London: H. Virtue and Company Limited [1891-1894]. Featuring numerous vibrant chromolithographic plates depciting fruit. Quarto, publisher's green & black pictorial cloth with gilt titles to spines, grey floral endpapers, all page edges gilt, Div.I with cockling/wear to lower board. Horticultural/Gardening/Botanical interest. (6)
Small collection of late-15th to 17th-century engravings, including: ‘Cerve Fugax Facilis Varios Audire Sonores’, engraving on laid/chain-lined paper, possibly after Maerten de Vos (1532-1603), from ‘The Five Senses’; David with the Head of Goiliath, 17th-century engraving; ‘Les Trois Graces’, 17th-century etching, also ‘Jupiter et Europe’, possibly Peter Beretin de Cortona; woodcut illustration of a badger taken from a 17th-century work, probably ‘Paralipomena’; c.1577 engraving depicting Ruth and Boaz in the barn, possibly Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) / Johannes Janssonius (1596-1664). Together with three lithographic botanical plates by P. Stroobant, and a hand-coloured etching depicting dog breeds, published 1791 for the Royal Encyclopaedia, plus a small collection of 19th-century bookplates. Condition varied. To also include a pair of 17th-century ink drawings, possibly German, still lifes with flowers and fruit in baskets, dark brown ink heightened with grey watercolour, on laid/chain-lined paper, with attribution letter from Philips, dated 1999, suggesting German School.
Four Vintage Postcard Albums with a varied collection of world used and unused cards including topographical, real photographic, ethnic types, tourism, thematic with cricket, ships, some comic and greetings. Also noted some good Australian States postal stationery items and a small Holy Land book of botanical specimens. Interesting lot with many 10's of cards and some better.
FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES, 4 vols. Published Cambridge University Press. The Badminton Library Piker and Coarse Fishing. Published Longman and Co., 1901, Natural History of Cage Birds, Illustrated. Published Groadbridge, William Fox. The Working Mans Botanical Guide. Published William Fox 1893. TOGETHER WITH OTHER NATURAL HISTORY TITLES
VOIGT, J.O. Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis. A catalogue of the plants which have been cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Garden, Calcutta, and in the Serampore Botanical Garden, generally known as Dr. Carey's Garden, from the beginning of both establishments (1786 and 1800) to the end of August 1841 ...Calcutta, Bishop's College Press, 1845 A substantial catalogue of the plants cultivated in two Anglo-Indian gardens: the East India Company Botanical garden in Calcutta and the Serampore Botanical Garden. The author J.O.Voigt was a Danish government surgeon at Serampore. He based the work on Roxburgh's Hortus Bengalensis, which had been prepared for publication by the orientalist and missionary William Carey, who himself had a strong interest in botany and founded the second of the gardens which this work catalogues. Voigt was careful to note down the native Bengal names of the plants so that specimens might be more easily procured from local Indian gardeners. A good copy of an uncommon work. First edition. 8vo (15.5 x 23.5cm) xxv, [1], 747, [1], lxviii pp., modern pebble grain boards in period style, endpapers renewed, a very good, clean copy. Copac lists copies at British Library, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow.
* MARY NEWBERY STURROCK (SCOTTISH 1890-1985), AN EXOTIC WOMAN pen and ink on paper, signed with initials 25.5cm x 13cm Mounted, framed and under glass Exhibited: Edinburgh, Bourne Fine Art, 'British Paintings'. October - November, 1982; and Edinburgh, Bourne Fine Art, 'Edinburgh Group 1988'. Cat no. 8. Labels verso: Bourne Fine Art, 4 Dundas Street, Edinburgh (Now The Fine Art Society). Note: Mary's parents were Francis Newbery (Director of Glasgow School of Art from 1885 - 1917) and Jessie Newbery (prominent "Glasgow Girl"), so it was no surprise that she would become a gifted artist. On 20th December 1899, the young Mary presented the key to the "new" Mackintosh designed Glasgow School of Art to Sir James King, Lord Provost of Glasgow at the official public opening ceremony. She went on study at the Glasgow School of Art and Cecile Walton became her closest friend. Both family's rented holiday homes at Walberswick, Suffolk which became a regular base for many of the Glasgow artists. In 1918 Mary married the artist Alick Riddell Sturrock RSA (1885 - 1953). Charles Rennie Makintosh was a close friend and they often painted the same flowers: Mary telling him the Latin names so that he could inscribe them correctly. Mary was known for her exquisite pen and ink and pencil drawing skills, often with botanical subject matter. Her output was relatively small but in her own right, she was an important and influencial artist. Additional note: The ceremonial key Mary presented to Sir James King in 1899 was offered at auction in Edinburgh in April 2018 and sold for £40,000 (premium) which almost certainly makes it the most valuable key ever sold at auction in Scotland.
William John Caparne (British, 1856-1940), 'Nerines', watercolour on gold paper, signed and inscribed verso, 12 5/8 x 8¾in. (32 x 22.25cm.). * This is a fine and particularly dramatic example of Caperne's use of coloured paper in executing botanical studies and is an extremely rare example of a study of the nerine, as featured in some of his most sought after views of Guernsey greenhouses.
*Krause (Georg). A collection of approximately 100 colour plates of Eggs, originally published in 'Oologia univeralis palaearctica', Stuttgart, circa 1900, chromolithographs printed on card with titles below in Latin, German and English, many with cards of explanatory text, occasional soiling, a few prints with juvenile scribbling to verso, a few in original printed paper wrappers, each 300 x 225 mm, together with Sowerby (James), A collection of thirty-five botanical engravings, circa 1800, engravings with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 200 x 130 mm, mounted (approx.135)
Orta (Garcia de). Due libri dell'historia de i semplici, aromati, et altre cose; che vengono portata dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'uso della medicina, Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1582, numerous botanical woodcuts on 17 pages, moderate browning, occasional faint damp-staining in margins, front free endpaper torn, small worm-track in fore margins of quires C-E partially touching a few letters, old marginal repair to lower margin of signature V5, final blank (Y8) removed, 18th-century calf-backed pink paper boards, sunned and rubbed, each joint cracking at head, extremities worn, 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm) BM STC Italian 1465-1500 p. 478, DSB X pp. 236-8, Sabin 57668; not in Adams. First complete edition in Italian; an edition published in 1576 was an abridgment. De Orta 'provided Western scholars with their introduction to tropical medicine ... [and] was one of the first Europeans scholars to express admiration for the civilization of China ... He realized too, that the medieval Arabic authors on materia medica knew more about India than the Greeks' (DSB). (1)
Larsen (Sofus & Kyster, Anker). Danish Eighteenth Century Bindings 1730-1780, Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1930, 102 colour and black and white plates, original cloth spine to marbled boards, lightly rubbed, large 4to, together with Tuer (Andrew W.), History of the Horn-Book, 2 volumes, Amsterdam, 1971, numerous black and white illustrations, and folding plates, 7 reproduction horn-books in volume 2, uniform original yellow cloth, boards slightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, and Henry (Blanche), British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3 volumes, OUP, 1975, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, uniform original cloth in slipcase, 8vo, plus other bibliography and literature reference, including Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, 19 volumes, circa 1980-90s, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves + 2 cartons)
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