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Collection of twelve New Naturalists, all with dust-wrappers and all first edition (unless otherwise state) to include; London's Natural History - 1946 reprint; Wild Flowers; Natural History in the Highlands and Islands; Mushrooms and Toadstools - 1972, sixth impression; Insect Natural History; British Plant Life - 1971 reprint; The Sea Shore; The Art of Botanical Illustration; Life in Lakes and Rivers; Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone - 1969, second edition; The World of Spiders and Ants - ex library (12)
BOTANICAL - NICHOLSON, George - The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, a Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists - four vols [as issued], half calf, with numerous coloured plates throughout tog. w. FISH, D. T (ed.) - Cassell's Popular Gardening - four vols, a subscription only publication, with numerous double-page coloured plates throughout and SUDELL, Richard - The New Illustrated Gardening Encyclopaedia (9)
Collection of twelve New Naturalists, all with dust-wrappers and all first edition (unless otherwise state) to include; Butterflies; London's Natural History - 1946 reprint; Britain's Structure and Scenery; Mountains and Moorlands; The Sea Shore; The Art of Botanical Illustrations; Insect Natural History; The Herring Gull's World - 1965 reprint; Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone; The Weald - 1972 fifth impression; Dartmoor - 1970 reprint and Moths (12)
A 19th century English botanical part dessert service, possibly Rockingham, comprising a large tazza with twin foliate strap handles, 7.75in. (19.75cm.) high; two oval dishes with twin pierced foliate handles, 11.75in. (30cm.) long; three dishes with single pierced foliate handle, 10in. (25.5cm.) long; and twelve 9.5in. (24cm.) plates, all hand painted with garden flowers within pale grey and ivory foliate and cell diaper borders, painted pattern no. '256' to all but one dish, one with painted no. '8170'. (18) * Condition: All have some gilt wear to gilt tendrils around edges of white reserve and on gilt rims. A few small scratches and scuffs to painted decoration, but decoration good overall. Tazza - both handles with old wire wrapped repairs. Patch of brown discolouration to centre of well. Twin foliate handled dishes - the example marked 8170 with small crack to one handle. Otherwise good. The other broken with old stapled repair and large crack around base. Three single handled dishes - two good. The third with firing crack to foot rim. Plates - all in good condition with no chips or cracks.
An extremely rare Victorian botanical album 'Marine Algae, Alderney', a rare, probably unique Victorian natural history record, the album with gilt tooled full leather binding with gilt title plaque and combed marbled end papers, each page within tissue guards, each with from one to eight pasted papers featuring delicately pressed seaweeds, approx. 160 specimens in total, each with the hand written Latin name either on the sheet or beneath on a clipped label, some dated from 1849 to 1850 and some with location noted , the album 15 x 10¾in. (38 x 27.25cm.). * Bookplates to front end papers for John de Mesurier, dated 1851 and Lord Rivers.
A collection of 19th century Davenport botanical porcelain, painted with botanical subjects within dull green borders, some with white and gilt tied wheatsheaf handles, comprising two kidney form bowls, five 8¼in. circular plates with scalloped rims, (one badly cracked); and a 10½in. circular bowl, red printed factory marks and Latin botanical name in red painted script to underside (8).* PLEASE NOTE - Five plates and a kidney shaped bowl out of the fourteen originally mentioned removed due to breakages (they were warped with large, recent cracks and disintegrated with light handling). The pieces are available to the buyer of the lot if required.
Hooker, Sir William Jackson, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pub. Lovell Reeve, London, c1856, comprising the plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and of other botanical establishments in Great Britain; with suitable descriptions, volume XII, third series, with coloured plates throughout. * Condition: In good condition overall - spines with wear, light foxing to pages, plates good.
Hill (John). Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the several useful Products of a Garden..., Compiled and Digested from the Papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the Authors of the Compleat Body of Husbandry..., 1757, fifty-six hand-coloured engraved botanical plates only (of 60, lacking plates 2, 20, 48 & 53), lacking frontispiece, plates 1, 7 & 8 detached, first & last few leaves a little creased with margins to title, dedication leaf & final leaf repaired to margins with tissue, light toning throughout, few marks, contemporary calf, late 19th century calf, joints cracked, stain to spine, covers marked and some wear, folio, plus four other related hand-coloured engraved plates from the same work Henrey 776; Nissen 880. The work was issued in 60 numbers from 28 August 1756 to 8 November 1757. (1)
Basilius Besler (German publisher, 1561-1629): an 18th century full sized botanical bookplate, 'Roses', from the Third Edition of 'Hortus Eystettensis', published Nuremberg 1713, hand coloured, showing various Rose specimens, with Latin names, 40 by 50cm, in a modern maple frame, 80 by 100cm.
Photography - WW2/Third Reich - a German Luftwaffe NCO's wartime photograph album, probably stationed in Belgium, applied with images from Christmas 1941, showing him and his comrades at leisure and duty, venerating their Führer Adolf Hitler, military drills, procedures and exercises, burying servicemen, Gaasbeek Castle, playing in the snow, amateur dramatics, music concerts and band, transport, interior shots of canteen and kitchen, architecture, Botanical Garden of Brussels, horse racing at Bosvoorde, mess dinners and larks, red card boards, oblong 4to
I Paulini - Mythological Alphabet, a vellum and gilt highlighted bound book comprising twenty engraved plates, some with gilt highlights each showing an ornamented letter of the Roman alphabet with a background depicting a scene from Greek and Roman mythology; A-I, L-T, V & Z, each letter is a fantastic composite of human figures, botanical and marine specimens, landscapes or cityscapes, with a frame of arabesque's, grotesques, putti, antique statuary, and the like. No two frames are identical. Each letter encapsulates a mythological episode from the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For example: the A for Actaeon, B for Bacchus, C for Cadmus, etc. The Ovidian episode is illustrated behind each letter, and printed captions identify the figures: for example "Ateone mutato in Cervo da Diana:" Actaeon being metamorphosed into a deer by the nude bathing Diana, etc. book plate "Ex Libris Ralph S Eves"
A good collection of stamps in fifteen albums spanning 1850s - 1970s, mostly Commonwealth commemoratives and definitives, some mint. Albums arranged by country: Malta (including QV stamped covers), Canada/Newfoundland, Ceylon/India, New Zealand, Australia, Cyprus, Gibraltar/Jamaica, Ireland, Jersey/Guernsey. To include a couple of slim thematic albums of world stamps (artists/paintings, botanical), and a couple of albums of loose Commonwealth and GB stamps, mostly used, some sheetlets.
A massive 19th century Italian Nove Bassano Maiolica pedestal cistern with reeded moulding. Decorated with coloured enamels to the interior with a bird in a landscape under a scroll and flower head border and to the outside with botanical studies including daffodils, tulips and roses. Blue painted star mark, 45cm wide. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Broken and with staple repair.
A Rockingham breakfast plate with moulded sharks tooth and S-scroll border. Decorated with the Royal Botanical Plants and Flies pattern with a named specimen, Noble Liverwort under a gilt chain link border, known to be pattern 695. Painted red script and impressed letter F, c1829, 24.75cm wide. Note; A service decorated in this pattern was supplied to Wentworth House, 8th August 1829. It contained 72 plates. It has been suggested that the impressed F could denote Fitzwilliam. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Crack on the foot, slight gilt wear.
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