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Botany.- Hermann (Paul) Paradisus Batavus, innumeris exotcis curiosis herbis, & rarioribus plantis..., second edition, title in red and black with woodcut vignette, engraved dedication and 111 plates, rather browned, faint traces of stamps to title and one or two other leaves, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, spine ends repaired, [Nissen BBI 860], 4to, Leiden, P. van der Aa, 1705.⁂ Botanical catalogue by the director of the Leiden botanical gardens from 1679-95.

Botany.- Stanton (F. M.) [Album of Watercolour Botanical Drawings], 20 watercolour paintings of flowers on thick wove paper, each mounted in an album, manuscript list of contents tipped in, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, preserved in a drop-back box, folio, c.1818-28.⁂ The flowers include roses, dahlias, peonies, the Aztec lily, Persian pearl tulip and the Camellia Japonica.

Asia.- Osbeck (Peter) A Voyage to China and the East Indies...together with A Voyage to Suratte, by Olof Toreen...and An Account of Chinese Husbandry, by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg, translated by John Reinhold Forster, 2 vol., first English edition, 13 engraved plates, mostly botanical, some light browning and offsetting, vol.1 with tear to upper margin of Y3, vol.2 with foxing to U gathering, contemporary calf, gilt, red roan labels, a little rubbed and scuffed, slight wear to corners and heads of spines, 8vo, for Benjamin White, 1771.

Irish Botany.- Richardson (S.E.) & A.W. Richardson. Album of botanical watercolours, 46 botanical watercolours (1 at end with tear), all but 2 initialled, most with manuscript captions, all laid down, some slight foxing, original half morocco, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spine, g.e., watercolours average size: 152 x 105mm., album sm. 4to, 1872-75.⁂ Places include: Knockbridge (County Louth), Moyallon (Portadown), Knocknamuckley, Drumlin etc.

Egypt & Europe.- Elliot (Madeleine Harriet Dagmar, daughter of Sir Charles Lister Ryan, of Ascot, wife of Arthur Elliot, MP, politician and journalist, second son of the third earl of Minto, 1846-1923, 1863-1906) Diaries, including journeys to Ismailia [Egypt], Touraine, Paris, Riviera, Florence, Durham, Rheims, Soissons, autograph manuscripts, 4 vol., together c. 130pp., numerous photographs, correspondence to her parents (also letters from Arthur Elliot) and botanical drawings loosely inserted, 1 vol. creased, original limp morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, 1888-1905; and another, an autograph manuscript of poetry, v.s., v.d. (5).⁂ The Elliot's were part of London society, socialising with Lady Churchill, Augustus Hare, Leslie Stephen, visiting Devonshire House, the library at Windsor Castle etc.Egypt. "The pyramids do not impress one with their marvellous size until one stands just underneath them & look up to see people scrambling about on the top looking like flies. Yesterday Arthur discovered some 50 or more of our soldiers who had come over for a treat chipping away stone from the neck of the Spinx [Sphinx]. He was perfectly furious with them, & managed to stop them, & has reported it to the Head of the Public Works in Cairo, whom he happens to know." - Madeleine Elliot's letter.

Middle East.- Russell (Alexander) The Natural History of Aleppo, 2 vol., second, revised and enlarged edition, 20 engraved plates including some botanical plates by Ehret, 6 folding, final errata leaf in vol.1, some foxing, a few small stains, final leaf in vol.2 loose, original boards, uncut and partly unopened, a little worn, vol.2 lacking paper covering from boards and label from spine, [Blackmer 1458; Nissen BBI 3534], 4to, for G.G. and J.Robinson, 1794.⁂ Russell was physician to the English factory in Aleppo, this second edition was revised by his brother Patrick and contains additional plates to those in the first edition of 1756.

Scrap Album.- An album with over 230 original artworks, mainly British, by various hands, including one pencil drawing from an artist in the manner of George Chinnery (1774-1852), a cohesive group of 17 landscape studies on grey-blue paper, a good group of late 19th early 20th century caricatures, botanical studies, and many others by various hands, watercolours, pencil, on various papers neatly tipped onto album leaves, variously initialled, inscribed and dated, each album leaf approx 580 x 380 mm. (22 3/4 x 15 in), occasional surface dirt and browning, marbled boards, spine split, lower cover detached, very worn, folio, [late 19th and early 20th century].

Three Chinese rice paper botanical studies (3)

The Botanical Beauties Pattern Blue & White Plates As Displayed On The Dresser

PRINTS a collection of 19th.C. coloured botanical prints, c.300

PRINTS a collection of late 18th.C & 19th.C. coloured botanical prints, c.250

A coloured print on board after Harold McIntosh (American) of a group of dandelions, 60 x 80cm approx, together with a pair of coloured botanical prints of Millet, Rye, Barley, etc, 35 x 27cm, framed

A collection of twelve coloured botanical prints after 18th century engravings of tree, their leaves and fruits, etc, 24cm square approx in green and gilt frames

A set of three coloured prints of sporting scenes after 19th century engravings, also together with a set of six coloured prints of botanical subjects in gilt frames

A SET OF EIGHT ROYAL WORCESTER BOTANICAL PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES. Each with a pink border and gilt band around a white ground. And another similar comport with green border. (9)

A SHEET OF ONE HUNDRED IRISH C.1982 STAMPS. Depicting National Botanical Gardens. One penny. Uncirculated. (1)

A collection of Chinese Export and other wares, including a set of four famille rose botanical plates, a famille rose mug and sauce boat, a redware teapot and sundries plates diameter 23cm

Six framed and glazed Botanical Watercolours and two framed 7 glazed engravings of Banbury

A 19th century Minton twelve place dessert service. With gilt and turquoise borders and each piece enamelled with a botanical specimen. Comprising four comports and eight plates. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. One comport with a staple repair to the pedestal. One of the smallest comports with a rim chip.

3 framed and glazed botanical prints.

Helen Haynes, 2 watercolours, botanical studies, largest 18" x 13", framed.

A set of twelve Copeland plates, painted and printed with botanical designs. Impressed marks. Diameter 27cm. (12)

A Pair Of Antique Leatherbound Sketchbooks Two early Victorian sketchbooks, each with tooled leather cover and inner plate marked 'Julia Hyndman' The smaller containing a variety of handwritten poems and accompanying sketches. The larger, containing a small amount of botanical illustrations, the majority of the pages blank. Each book with gilt edge pages and tracing paper overlays intact

A John Lewis foundation Indian 100 % wool rug in the Botanical Rose pattern, label verso, 94" x 66"

A late 19th century Meissen porcelain table centre fruit bowl, pierced shaped frieze with allover applied flowerheads and painted botanical designs, length 33cm, height 22cm.

Three large coloured Botanical engravings, in later painted frames, Provenance: removed from the Sultan of Brunei's Bishops Avenue mansion, Hampstead

Victorian album containing Boer War and other colonial photographs - some cabinet cards, a cattle and goods market 19th century photograph Henwoods Arcade Durban and botanical watercolours, an album of Constantinople postcards and an Epping, Essex 19th century large leather bound Rents Book (qty)

Textile Art - botanical and floral pictures worked in cross-stitch multicoloured wool on black ground, in matching glazed frames, 52cm square approximately (10)

Limited edition botanical print"Crown Imperials", 50/100

English school - A botanical study of Convulvulus, sepia watercolour, 32 x 23 cm

Two 18th century hand coloured botanical engravings from Curtis Botanical, comprising No.951, Laurel Leaved Rhododendron, c.1806; and No.1974 Evening primrose or suncup, Oenothera corymbosa, c.1818, from 'The Botanical Magazine; or Flower Garden Displayed', in Hogarth frames. (2)

A Royal Worcester Herbs part dinner service + three Portmeirion Botanical storage jars (qty)

Four framed 19th century botanical watercolours plus one other. (5)

Two framed botanical prints in heavy gilt frames, 67cm x 56cm (frame) approx.

Sydney Parkinson (Britain 1745-1771) 'Commersonia Bartramia,' and 'Polygala Linariifolia.' two coloured botanical etchings reprinted from the original plates, 47cm X 29cm approx (each). Sydney Parkinson was a botanical artist, hired by Joseph Banks, who

Microscope and entomological and botanical slides

Group of ceramics comprising: Capodimonte figure group of a chemists or apothecary shop, two blue glazed apothecary jars, and set of six Limoges apothecary style jars with botanical print Condition:

AN 18TH CENTURY DERBY BOTANICAL PLATE painted with "Lathyrus articulatus', jointed podded Lathyrus, titled verso, blue mark, firing crack to cavetto pattern 141.

AN 18TH CENTURY DERBY BOTANICAL PLATE painted with "Cistus Ladaniferus Gum Cistus', titled verso, pattern 141.

A GOOD BOTANICAL PLATE, painted with Rhododendron within a blue border, Mark No. 3 over 4374. 8.75ins diameter.

A Portmeirion part dinner/tea service with transferred botanical decoration.

A collectors lot to include a boxed Otis King calculator with leather case, a Zippo lighter, a brass lighter with coin inset, a screwdriver set in leather case, a prayer book, a botanical book with leather cover, a mirror and three Homepride flour men (10)

RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'CORNUCOPIA' WALL VASE QIANLONG PERIOD the horn painted in polychrome enamels with scrolling tendrils bearing composite flowerheads as botanical specimens, the tip decorated with a small cartouche featuring a traditional Chinese landscape 24.5cm high Note: For a nearly identical vase, see Lyon & Turnbull's London Asian sale on 08.11.2017, lot 282, sale 505. Provenance:Private Scottish collection. For more information, please see lot 176.

A SET OF EIGHT ENGLISH PORCELAIN BOTANICAL DESSERT PLATES, PRINTED AND PAINTED WITH DIFFERENT FLORAL SPECIMENS IN GREEN BORDER, 23CM D, PATTERN 3990, C1870

Portmerion - substantial Botanical Garden pattern bread bin, various conforming spice jars; Christmas plates; qty

Botany - Provincial Imprint, Hill (Sir John, M.D.), The Family Herbal, Or An Account of All Those English Plants, Which Are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs, which are produce by Vegetables of other Countries [...], C. Brightly [...], Bungay [c. 1810], full-page hand-coloured etched botanical plates, contemporaneous ink MS Crawshaw family ownership inscriptions, contemporary calf, the spine with raised banding, 8vo

Gronovius (Jan Frederik). Flora Virginica exhibens plantas, quas Johannes Claytonus, in Virginia crescents observavit, collegit et obtulit, 2nd edition, Leiden, 1762, engraved folding map of Virginia, contemporary marginalia, a few pressed flowers loosely inserted, edges untrimmed, original wrappers bound in, contemporary calligraphic ownership inscription of one M. Davies to front panel verso, offset partially onto title, variable light spotting (the map clean), small marginal hole in sig. R2, 19th-century black quarter cloth, marbled sides, slightly rubbed, tips worn, 4to The first edition to contain the important map of Virginia, "one of the earliest botanical maps of any region of the world" (Stephenson and McKee, Virginia in Maps, p. 106). The work was "the first flora of Virginia" (Sowerby), and Jefferson used this second edition for his Notes on the State of Virginia, referring to Clayton as "our great botanist". Hunt 571; Sabin 28294; Sowerby, Library of Thomas Jefferson 1075. (1)

A set of three Royal Kew Gardens botanical prints, with certificates verso and a print of a horse

Qty of assorted Botanical & decorative prints

A large Denmark Furnivals pattern dinner service To include dinner plates, side plates, soup bowls, tea service, mugs, condiments, etc., also two Kew Gardens botanical plates. (qty)

Folio of Botanical prints "The Auricula" by Jose Escofet

A quantity of Portmeirion Botanical Ware and Worcester Herbs ware

A quantity of Portmeirion Botanical Garden pattern items including a wall clock, canisters, vinegar bottle, toast rack and a Heritage collection Portmeirion jug

Assorted unframed prints, to include botanical example; and a pair of mezzotints etc

Botany - Provincial Imprint, Hill (Sir John, M.D.), The Family Herbal, Or An Account of All Those English Plants, Which Are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs, which are produce by Vegetables of other Countries [...], C. Brightly [...], Bungay [c. 1810], full-page hand-coloured etched botanical plates, contemporaneous ink MS Crawshaw family ownership inscriptions, contemporary calf, the spine with raised banding, 8vo

Botany - The Principles of Botany, and of Vegetable Physiology, Translated from the German of D.C. Willdenow, Professor of Natural History and Botany at Berlin, University Press for William Blackwood, Edinburgh 1805, iv, 508pp, 10 full-page engraved plates (Plate X hand-coloured, Plates IX & X bound the wrong way), contemporary tree calf boards (disbound), the front embossed: Physico Chirurgical Society [later, Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh], title-page stamped: Library, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 8vo; Hull (John), Elements of Botany, Illustrated by Sixteen Engravings, two-volume set, R. and W. Dean, Manchester 1800, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards (disbound), title-pages stamped: Library, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 12mo; Provincial Imprint, Fox (William) and Nadin (Joseph), The Working Man's Family Botanic Guide [...], Dawsons, Sheffield 1852, contemporary leather (disbound), 12mo; Culpepper (Nicholas), The Complete Herbal [...], Virtue and Co., London [c. 1830], hand-coloured full-page etched plates, contemporary boards (disbound, crude repair to spine), large 4to; a late 19th century sammelband of botanical monographs and pamphlets, mainly in French, contemporary blue cloth, gilt-embossed red morocco title label to spine, bookplate: Royal Horticultural Socety: The Lindley Library to pastedown, 8vo; Smith (Sir James Edward), An Introduction to the Study of Botany, seventh edition, corrected by W. Jackson Hooker, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London 1833, prefixed with Longman adverts, verso with botanical plates of dissected flowers and cross-sections, stamped title-page: Library: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, contemporary boards (disbound), 8vo; The Cottage Gardeners' Dictionary, fifth edition, W. Kent & Co., London 1860, contemporary green buckram as issued, spine relayed, small 8vo; Thompson (Robert), The Gardner's Assistant [...], revised and edited by William Watson, volume II only, The Gresham Publishing Company, London 1904, chromolithographic full-page plates, other monochrome vignettes, quarter-green morocco, buckram boards, 4to; other 19th century works on flowers, [14]

Port Merion Botanical Garden four piece dinner set and vases

A box containing two phones; a Pantax camera; a botanical print

ELIZABETH BLACKWELL 'Botanical and Fruit Studies', a set of six 19th century hand-coloured engravings, each 30cm x 19cm, framed and glazed. (6)

Walsh, Wendy. An Irish Florilegium. Volumes I and II. Volume I with signed original watercolour to the half title page. Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1983, first edition, 224pp with large format collection of forty-eight illustrations, all hand-tipped colour plates of exquisite drawings by renowned botanical artist Wendy Walsh, brown cloth gilt, with original dust jacket. Loosely inserted four page subscribers list with original signed sketch by Walsh also signed by Dr Charles Nelson. Together with An Irish Florilegium II: Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. first edition. The second volume of the much acclaimed work, with 48 colour plates by Wendy Walsh and text by Charles Nelson, green cloth gilt with original dust jacket.