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3 framed and glazed botanical prints.

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)

Darton and Harvey (publishers). Botanical Illustrations of the Twenty-Four Classes in the Linnaean System of Vegetables, By Select Specimens of English Plants, by [Benjamin Meggot Forster], 1st edition, printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1813, 48 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, one with short closed tear to top edge, occasional light spotting and minor marks (mainly to text), endpapers renewed, contemporary red morocco, rubbed and a trifle marked, rebacked, 82 x 72mm (3.25 x 2.75ins) Darton G355; Welsh 1418. A rare and attractively illustrated miniature children's book on botany. (1)

Various 19thC ceramics, dessert plates, to include a Spode type part set, decorated with botanical flowers etc.

Miscellaneous prints, to include reprints of Fores' hunting sketches, fashion prints, botanical specimens, animals etc., a large quantity

4 Botanical works, comprisingc. 200 loose chromolithographed plates from The Garden [1884-85], most strengthened with tape at inner margin, loose in 2 half calf bindings; Lowe, E.J. Beautiful Leaved Plants. London, 1868. 8vo, 60 coloured plates, original green pictorial cloth, binding a little worn; 43 loose botanical engravings (34 hand-coloured), 4to, partly bound into a worn cloth binding, cover detached, a few mounted, some spotting and soiling; and 6 smaller hand-coloured engravings loosely inserted

New Naturalist books, 10, comprising Boyd, J. Morton & I.L.The Hebrides. London: Collins, 1990. First edition, 8vo, number76 of the New Naturalist series, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some very slight offsetting onto title-page and map; and 9 other books from the 'New Naturalist' series: Britain's Structure and Scenery, 1947, second edition (4); Wild Flowers, 1954 (5); Natural History in the Highlands & Islands, 1947 (6); Insect Natural History, 1947 (8); The Sea Shore, 1949 (12), dust-jacket price-clipped and attached to covers by plastic coating; The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950 (14), bookplate; Life in Lakes & Rivers, 1951 (15); Mountain Flowers, 1956 (33), dust-jacket creased along joint; Fossils, 1960 (42); all with dust-jackets not price-clipped unless stated (10)

Sweet, RobertThe Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory; Containing Coloured Figures of the Choicest Flowers, Cultivated by Florists, including Ranunculus, Carnations, Picotees, Pinks, Roses, Georginas, Polyanthus, Auriculas, Hyacinths & Tulips. London: James Ridgway, 1827-32. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (230 x 146mm.), 200 hand-coloured engraved plates J. Watts after Edwin Dalton Smith, contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides, spines lettered in gilt, a fine setNote: Robert Sweet (1783–1835) was a prominent English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist.Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner in a series of nurseries close to London at Stockwell, Fulham and Chelsea. In 1812 he joined Colvills, the famous Chelsea nursery, and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society. By 1818 he was publishing horticultural and botanical works.He published a number of beautifully illustrated works on plants cultivatd in British gardens and hothouses. The fine plates were mainly drawn by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800–1883), a botanical artist, who was attached to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His works include Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis(1818), Geraniaceae (five volumes) (1820–30), Cistineae, Sweet's Hortus Britannicus (1826–27), Flora Australasica (1827–28) and British Botany (with H. Weddell) (1831). He died at Chelsea, London in January 1835. Aside from a little light offsetting from some plates to facing text, a tiny light dampstain to the extreme lower corner of a few leaves, and a very few light spots this is an exceptionally clean fresh copy with fine bright colouring.

Switzerland, Botany - Candolle, Augustin Pyramus dePlantes Rares du Jardin de Genève. Geneva: Librairie de J. Barbezat & Comp., 1829. First edition, 4to, 4 parts in one volume, folio (360 x 273 mm.), [vi], 92, [i]; half-title, 24 stipple-engraved plates, all printed in colours and some finished by hand, after Heyland (21), Mlle. Car. Chuit (2) and Anspach (1) by Heyland (7), Millenet (11), Anspach (4), Bovet (1) and Bouvier (1), printed by Tattegrain, original printed boards (371 x 290mm.), uncut, rebacked with cloth, boards a little dust-soiled and scuffed at foot, internally mostly very cleanNote: FIRST EDITION, second "consolidated" issue, with the title dated 1829, otherwise identical to the first issue. This rare work was originally published in four fascicules between 1825 and 1826 or 1827.The present rare work was published a few years after the Swiss botanist Candolle settled in Geneva where he became director of the ‘Jardin Botanique’. Candolle's main focus was botany but he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany.Candolle proposed a "natural" method of plant classification as opposed to the artificial Linnaean method, a classification system which he outlined first in his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (Elementary Theory of Botany, 1813), the principle of which was taxa do not fall along a linear scale; they are discrete, not continuous. This work also introduced the concept of "taxonomy". His theory of "Nature's war" - of plant species fighting each other for space and existence - influenced Charles Darwin and was one of the considerations that influenced Darwin's theory of natural selection.The present work describes a number of rare plants of Geneva's famous botanical garden which was founded by Candolle himself in 1817. The remarkably fine stipple-engravings are all beautifully printed in colour and some are finished by hand. Great Flower Books, p.53; Nissen BBI 327; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1000.

A SET OF SIX BOTANICAL COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS, published by Reeve & Co. London, each with individual specimen, contained within marbleised mounts, and gilt frames. Each 24 x 14cm. (6)

Three J Booth, Botanical Brewer Darlington stoneware flagons; glass bottles including some relating to Darlington; copper; brass etc

Thomas Kitchin, Engraving, Map of Cheshire, 16cm x 24cm,with other maps of Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, engravings from 'London and its Vicinity' by George Cook, and other botanical plates etc (Qty)

J W Ford - early 20th century, Near pair of botanical watercolours, Studies of hyacinths, Largest 34cm x 26.5cm, Unframed, Provenance: Chisties auction 22nd May 1991

J W Ford - early 20th century, Four botanical watercolours, Studies of gladioli, Largest 33.5cm x 25.5cmUnframed, Provenance: Chisties auction 22nd May 1991

J W Ford - early 20th century, Five botanical watercolours, Studies of sweet peas, fox gloves, cyclamen and freyniana, Largest 34.5cm x 25cm, Unframed, Provenance: Chisties auction 22nd May 1991

J W Ford - early 20th century, Four botanical watercolours, Studies of gladioli, Largest 34.5cm x 24.5cmUnframed, Provenance: Chisties auction 22nd May 1991

J W Ford - early 20th century, Four botanical watercolours, Studies of crocus, hydrangea, gerbera and asters, Largest 34.5cm x 24.5cmUnframed, Provenance: Chisties auction 22nd May 1991

J W Ford - early 20th century, Four botanical watercolours, Studies of gladioli and sweet pea, Largest 33.5cm x 25.5cmUnframed, Provenance: Chisties auction 22nd May 1991

A quantity of assorted prints and engravings, of mainly botanical and furnishing subjects.(qty)

A group of assorted engravings of botanical and fish subjects, together with a watercolour of pears, (9).

Six various Chinese export plates painted with birds and foliage (all with rim chips and one repaired), 23cm diameter and two English botanical plates (repaired) (8)

Two 20th Century watercolours, one depicting a humming bird, the other a botanical illustration of wild flowers and strawberries; together with a pair of carved gilt frames (4)

Collection of gardening/botanical/horticulture books, late-19th and early-20th century, comprising: 'The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening', George Nicholson (eight volumes); 'The Gardener's Assistant', William Watson (six volumes); 'Trees and Flowers of the Countryside', Edward Step (two volumes); 'Popular Encyclopedia of Gardening', H. H. Thomas (two volumes). In one box.

Doulton Burslem Superb Quality Set of 12 Aesthetic Movement Hand Painted Floral Cabinet Plates. Each One Is Exquisitely Hand Painted In The Aesthetic Movement Style, Each Plate Depicts a Different Botanical Subject on a Matte Ivory Ground. The Shaped Rims In Painted Ornate Gold Decoration, Softly Applied Signed on Back of Plates - Monogrammed H.B. Each Plate 8.75 Inches - 22.5 cm Diameter. Comes with a Pair of Superb Quality Pair of Matching Hand Painted Tazza's / Comports of Exquisite Proportions and Quality, Monogrammed to Undersides H.B. Height 5.5 Inches & Diameter 9.25 Inches. Reg No 184626. c.1890's. All 14 Pieces are Wonderful Condition and Quality.

A small brass botanical microscope, by R. Field & Son, Birmingham, height 12cm, in a mahogany case.

Five 'Botanical' bird and insect gilt decorated porcelain plates, 19th century, diameter 23.5cm, some inscribed 'Stone 1862 and 1863' to the underside, and seven Pointons Stoke on Trent gilt and floral decorated porcelain plates, diameter 21.5cm. Condition report: Signs of use, some are damaged. Generally good.

Portmeirion Botanical Garden teaware; bowls; plates;etc

A collection of microscope slides various subjects including Marine, Zoology and Botanical:, (a lot).

RAPHAEL KIRCHNER (1875-1917) DESIGN BY FOR 'BAISER DE FEMME' inscribed, pencil, 30 x 20.5cm, an 18th c botanical watercolour of larkspur and various other prints and drawings, sold in portfolio++Kirkchner drawing not laid down, some light surface dust soiling from storage in a folder but in good overall condition. Most of the other items in the lot also in satisfactory condition

An early 19thC album of botanical watercolours by Charlotte Metcalfe, Flowers of Field and Woodland, dated Dec 10th 1818.

A Collection of Three Botanical Brewers Bottles for Sherwood and Morris Wolverhampton, 1931/1952

A Member of the Royal College of Physicians (Edited by), Flora Medica: containing coloured delineations of the various medicinal plants admitted into the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias; with the natural history, botanical descriptions, medical and chemical properties & c. & c; together with a Concise Introduction to Botany; a copious glossary of Botanical Terms; and a list of Poisonous Plants, & c. & c, Callow and Wilson, in two volumes, 1829/30, 8vo, 185 coloured plates, green embossed leather with green calf spines. (2) 

Susan Corbett, botanical studies, a pair, watercolour, signed in pencil and dated 1998, 58.5cm x 48.5cm

An early 20th Century sketch bookTo include approximately forty sketches and drawings depicting figures, landscapes, text, botanical studies etc., dated approximately 1908-1912.

AFTER W H FITCH "Dendrobium Wardianum", coloured lithograph of the Dendrobium Wardianum flower, together with five other botanical studies similar, printed by Vincent Brooks, together with AFTER J MILLER "Fleur du Soleil", coloured lithograph, published by P Miller September 30th 1759, together with two other coloured lithographs

ENGLISH SCHOOL "Coastal scene with figures", watercolour, together with various other paintings and prints to include rural imagery, a Cubist figural study of a woman playing the cello, various botanical prints, etc (7)

Six assorted botanical prints, together with one futher print of a pewter mug with white flowers and books

Africa.- Paterson (Lt. William) A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria, first edition, without pp.vii-viii as usual, with 17 engraved plates (mostly botanical or natural history subjects), folding engraved map at end, some light foxing and offsetting, original boards, uncut, a little worn and stained, rebacked, new label, 4to, 1789.⁂ One of the earliest descriptions in English of the interior of southern Africa, particularly important for the botanical specimens collected.

A twelve piece English porcelain botanical service possible Derby, individually painted and with inscriptions to the reverse

BEAUHARNAIS JOSEPHINE DE: (1763-1814) Empress of the French 1804-14, the first wife of Napoleon I. L.S., Lapagerie Bonaparte, two pages, 8vo, n.p. (Chateau de Malmaison?), 30th May 1800, to an unidentified recipient, in French. Josephine thanks her correspondent for the plants which she had been promised and informs her correspondent that her gardener (Alexander Howatson?) will receive and take care of the plants, which she provides a list of, and which includes a rose, as well as various species of Eucalyptus, Magnolia, Laurel and Hibiscus etc. She further invites her correspondent to visit her garden and provide her with some advice. The text of the letter is in the hand of Mme. De Remusat. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG £2000-3000In 1799, while Napoleon was in Egypt, Josephine purchased the Chateau de Malmaison. She had it landscaped in an English style, hiring landscapers and horticulturalists from the United Kingdom including Thomas Blaikie, a Scottish horticultural expert, and Alexander Howatson, a Scottish gardener. The rose garden was begun soon after purchase and Josephine took a personal interest in the gardens and the roses, as illustrated by the present letter, and learned a great deal about botany and horticulture from her staff. Josephine wanted to collect all known roses so Napoleon ordered his warship commanders to search all seized vessels for plants to be forwarded to Malmaison. The English nurseryman Kennedy was a major supplier and, despite England and France being at war, his shipments were allowed to cross blockades. Sir Joseph Banks, Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, also sent her roses. The general assumption is that she had about 250 roses in her garden when she died in 1814. Unfortunately, the roses were not catalogued during her tenure, however Josephine produced the first written history of the cultivation of roses, and is believed to have hosted the first rose exhibition, in 1810. The present letter was written just nine days before the Battle of Montebello on 9th June 1800, part of the lead-up to the Battle of Marengo on 14th June 1800, when the vanguard of the French Army in Italy engaged and defeated an Austrian force in a glorious victory. In 1795 Josephine Beauharnais met Napoleon Bonaparte, six years her junior, for the first time. She became his mistress and in January 1796 Napoleon proposed to her. The marriage was not well accepted by Napoleon's family, who were shocked that he had married an older woman with two children. As the wife of Napoleon, Josephine became the first Empress Consort of the French and was crowned by Pope Pius VII at Notre Dame de Paris on 2nd December 1804. She did not bear Napoleon any children and, as a result, he divorced her in 1810 to marry Marie Louise of Austria.

Late 18th Century Staffordshire pearlware jug painted with a basket of flowers, 19.75cm high, an early 19th Century pearlware jug with painted botanical decoration, possibly Swansea, 17.5cm high, an early 19th Century Staffordshire pink lustre relief jug decorated with a hunting scene, 15.5cm high, a small 18th Century creamware baluster jug painted with a romantic couple in a garden, 14cm high and an early 19th Century Staffordshire polychrome transfer printed jug decorated reserves depicting a hound and bird, birds amongst foliage and a romantic couple in a landscape, 16.5cm high (5) Condition: Reports in order of cataloguing - 1: three pointed star shaped crack below the basket decoration approximately 25mm in diameter, the base with faint 40mm long hairline crack and further bruise/crack to the foot rim not visible from the outside, small chip to the underside of the spout and crazing and staining around the upper rim. 2: some very minor losses to the enamel decoration and losses to the enamel decoration particularly around the top rim near the spout, 3: Honiton jug with hairline crack form the rim descending approximately 30mm, rubbing to the lustre top rim, 4: star cracks to the base over approximately one third the area of the base with a further foot rim chip, crack running horizontally through the lower part where the handle joins approximately 100mm in length, wear to the top rim, 5: extensive restoration around the top third with overpainting, crack through the foot and restoration to the handle - **General condition consistent with age

* MARY NEWBERY STURROCK (SCOTTISH 1890-1985),AN EXOTIC WOMANpen and ink on paper, signed with initials25.5cm x 13cmMounted, framed and under glassExhibited: 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.

FINLAY MACKINTOSH,BOTANICAL GARDENS, WINTERoil on canvas, signed25cm x 45cmFramed

FINLAY MACKINTOSH,BOTANICAL GARDENS, WINTERoil on board, signed60cm x 75cmFramed and under glass

A 19th century hand-painted botanical dessert service comprising four comports and eleven plates (15).

MEISSEN SHALLOW DISH PAINTED WITH PANELS OF BOTANICAL SPRAYS WITHIN RAISED GILDED CARTOUCHES ON A CLARET GROUND IMPRESSED 54109 AND CROSS SWORDS MARK UNDER GLAZE BLUE 28CM DIA APPROX, A SMALLER MEISSEN PLATE, THE CENTRE WITH A RESERVE OF BOTANICAL SPRAYS IMPRESSED NUMERALS 79354100 22CM DIA APPROX AND ONE OTHER

A collection of pictures to include four dog etchings signed Woodhouse in pencil, four assorted sporting prints and three 20th century botanical prints.

French porcelain Botanical dessert set

A selection of Wedgwood first period transfer-printed bone china, circa 1815, comprising a prow-fronted 'Pagoda' pattern teapot, cover and stand; a saucer dish ensuite, 20cm diameter; a 'Dragon' pattern plate; assorted botanical plates and a 'London' shaped teapot and cover decorated with butterflies Provenance: The Oxborrow Collection.

A selection of Staffordshire and South Yorkshire pearlware, various dates late 18th/early 19th centuries, comprising: a pair of Wedgwood columnar candlesticks, 23cm high, impressed marks; a small Wedgwood bottle coaster, 8cm diameter; a Ferrybridge Pratt-type jug, impressed mark, 12cm high; an oval teapot and cover; a Turner ozier-moulded stand and a Wilson botanical plate Provenance: The Oxborrow Collection.

Anne Pratt, Flowering Plants, Grasses and Ferns of Great Britain, six volumes, R W Butcher, a New Illustrated British Flora in two volumes and other botanical booksAll have rubbing to the spines and damp spots to the pages (assorted severities).Tops of Pratt books are very dusty, one has a rip to the spine, binding is loose on I.V. Rip to the leather spine of V. Some pages loose in I.No apparent rips or tears to the pages and illustrations all clear and bright. No specific dates painted

A late 19th Century Worcester comport and stand, with floral spray design, a pair of pig cruets, a Villeroy and Boch botanical pot and cover, Homemaker items and various other ceramics

Three Bloor Derby botanical plates, various other decorative plates and a blue and white transfer printed pottery mug

Near pair of 19th Century watercolours, botanical studies, both inscribed in ink

SET OF SIX HAND COLOURED ENGRAVINGS FROM THE ELIZABETH BLACKWELL SERIES, of Botanical Studies, 30cm x 20cm, framed and glazed.

SET OF SIX HAND COLOURED ENGRAVINGS FROM THE ELIZABETH BLACKWELL SERIES, of Botanical Studies, 30cm x 20cm, framed and glazed.

A comprehensive collection of Great British Commemorative Presentation Packs, in fourteen albums with 1964 Forth Road Bridge, Geographical, Botanical, with issues to 2017 with post AN GO's (a lot)