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Curtis (William). The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden displayed, 3 volumes only, nos, 4 - 6 (only), 1791 - 1793, title to each volume, 108 engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, the last ten plates in volume 5 have some rodent damage to the lower margin, some affecting image, contemporary half calf, frayed and worn with some boards detached, 8vo Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (3)
*Curtis (William). A collection of approximately 120 engravings, mostly early 19th century, engravings with contemporary hand colouring, occasional duplicates, a few prints with slight toning and offsetting, each approximately 200 x 115 mm Originally published in 'The Botanical Magazine'. (approx.120)
*Botanical watercolour. A collection of eleven watercolours, circa 1900, watercolours of orchids, ferns, amarylli and agapanthus, titled in manuscript to mounts, each approximately 350 x 250 mm, mounted, framed and glazed in uniform gilt beaded frames The watercolours consist of :- Cattleya Labiata Insignis, Cattleya Autumnalis, Cattleya Trianae, Cattleya Mendelii, Amaryllis, Cypripedium Mastersianum Superbum, Madame Dalliere, Alsophylla Australis, Asplenium Marginatum, Agapanthus Insignis [and] Deutsche Perle. (11)
Turner (Captain Samuel). An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet; Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan, and Part of Tibet. To Which are Added, Views Taken on the Spot, By Lieutenant Samuel Davis; and Observations, Botanical, Mineralogical and Medical, by Mr. Robert Saunders, 1st edition, 1800, folding engraved map, 13 engraved plates, including one folding, occasional light offsetting and a few minor spots and thumbmarks, bookplate, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine label renewed, slightly rubbed, 4toYakushi T227. First eye-witness account in English of Tibet and Bhutan. (1)
Botanical Interest: Nelson (Charles) Shamrock, 4to, Kilkenny (Boethius Press) 1991, illus., cloth, d.j.; An Irish Flower Garden Replanted, 4to D. (Castlebourke) 1997, Second Edn., illus. by Wendy Walsh, ptd. wrappers; The Brightest Jewel, a History of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, folio Kilkenny (Boethnus Press) 1987, First, ilus. by Wendy Walsh, cloh 7 d.j.; A Heritage of Beauty, folio, D. 2000, illus, logh & d.j. a a lot; (8)
Three items of Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica porcelain, each hand enamelled and gilded with botanical specimens, including an oval dish, a boat shaped dish and a soap dish, decorated with Solanum Dulcamara L, Campanula uniflora L and Azalea Capponica L respectively, painted and printed marks verso, 22 cm, 18 cm and 11 cm respectively
Curtis (William) On Tuesday the 13th of May, 1788, W. Curtis... Will Begin his Annual Course of Botanical Lectures, at his Botanic Garden, Lambeth-Marsh. And On Friday the 16th of May, His Herbarizing Excursions will Commence, 4pp., slightly browned, disbound, 8vo, 1788. ⁂ An advertisement for Curtis's annual botanical lectures.
Knight (Joseph) On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae, fine hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved printer's device to title and verso of final text f., scattered spotting to text, bookplate, contemporary half calf, 4to, 1809. ⁂ An important and rare early work on the proteas, we know of only the Quentin Keynes copy previously at auction. Joseph Knight (1778-1855) worked as George Hibbert's gardener, during which time he became one of the first people in England to successfully propagate Proteaceae. The book itself contains only 13 pages on the cultivation of the plants, with the remaining 100 anonymously authored by George Salisbury and dedicated to taxonomic revision of the family. As later transpired, George Salisbury had plagiarised a number of the names from Robert Brown whose paper On the Proteaceae of Jussieu had been read at the Linnean Society earlier in the year with Salisbury in attendance but had yet to be printed. By beating Brown to print therefore Salisbury was able to claim priority for the names. In the ensuing scandal, Salisbury was dubbed a plagiarist and shunned by the botanical community, with his subsequent works ignored during his lifetime. Letters from the time indicate that some even went so far as disposing of their copies of Knight's work likely explaining the current rarity.
Thornton (Robert John) Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, engraved title and dedication by Vincent after Tomkins, 20 only mezzotint and/or aquatint plates printed in colours and hand-coloured by Ward, Earlom, Dunkarton and others, after Abraham Pether, Philip Reinagle, Sydenham Edward and others, some heightened with gum arabic, comprising: (1) "Tulips"; (2) "The Superb Lily"; (3) "The Aloe"; (4) "The Night Blowing Cereus"; (5) "The White Lily"; (6) "The Oblique-Leaved Begonia"; (7) "The American Cowslip"; (8) "Hyacinths"; (9) "The Dragon Arum"; (10) "The Winged Passion-Flower"; (11) "The Quadrangular Passion-Flower"; (12) "The Blue Passion-Flower"; (13) "The Pontic Rhododendron"; (14) "The Maggot-Bearing Stapelia"; (15) "Large Flowering Sensitive Plant"; (16) "The Nodding Renealmia"; (17) "The China Limodoron"; (18) "A Group of Auriculas"; (19) "A Group of Carnations"; (20) "Pitcher Plant", lacks frontispiece, contents leaf and "Select Plants" leaf, and some letterpress, some foxing, browning and offsetting, new endpapers, contemporary half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, morocco label on spine, [cf.: Cleveland Collections 722; Dunthorne 301; Great Flower Books p.143; Nissen BBI 1955; Stafleu and Cowan 14283], folio, 1799; sold not subject to return. ⁂ Part only of what was to become known as "The Temple of Flora".
A Derby Warwick Vase Trotter service type ice pail, liner and cover, decorated with a spray of colourful summer flowers, below further botanical specimens divided by panels of green, domed cover conforming, gilt bud finial, divided entwined gilt fruiting vine handles, square plinth, 36cm high, red crown, crossed batons and D mark, c.1820-25 Condition Report: loss to edge of cover. crack to liner. some typical crazing, staining and pitting. some wear to gilding, otherwise ok
A Spode Union Wreath pattern shaped circular dish, with handle, printed with rose, thistle and shamrock, the border with daffodils, flowers and foliage, 24cm wide, printed mark; a similar plate; a Copeland & Garrett Late Spode Floral pattern shaped circular plate, 24.5cm diam, c.1830; a Spode Imperial Blue Rose pattern plate, 25cm diam, c.1825; a Trophies pattern bowl, 24cm diam, c.1810; a Botanical pattern bowl, 25cm diam, c.1825 (6)
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