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Presentation Packs - A useful run of the better early packs from 1964 Shakespeare to 1969 Architecture. Missing 1964 Geographical but includes Shakespeare, Botanical , Churchill and BOB packs. (28)

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)

Robert Gwelo Goodman (South African 1871-1939) PROTEAS signed with artist's initials oil on canvas PROVENANCE The Barlow Family of Vergelegen; T Barlow Trust; Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, in Association with Sotherbys; Johannesburg, 11 November 2008, lot 430 108 by 98cm The final exhibition that artist Robert Gwelo Goodman held in Cape Town was at the Argus Gallery from late February until mid-March 1938. On March 12th Germany had invaded Austria, and there was little doubt in the minds of the many who gathered to see his work, of the grim future that awaited the world. No one bought and for the first time, the colossus of the South African art scene had to concede defeat – his exhibition of 52 pictures was a financial disaster. Seventeen of the works included in the fateful exhibition were flower pieces, “…among them was a large picture of Proteas. Lady Bailey (then Miss Stella Chiappini) in decorating the Gallery had set a vase of giant proteas next to this picture. With a smile at the effect, Gwelo asked, ‘So you are putting nature up in competition with me? I must say nature runs me a very good second.’"¹ Such was the nature of Gwelo Goodman in the last years of his extraordinarily successful life in South Africa. It began as the fifteen year old emigrated to Cape Town from Britain with his relatively poor parents. They seized the opportunities in their new country in order to realize the aspirations of their child. Robert Goodman (as he was christened, adopting Gwelo later on in life) had the opportunity of studying art in Cape Town, Paris and London, where he remained until 1915 gaining a considerable reputation abroad, including the prestige of having three landscapes accepted by the Royal Academy. On his return to South Africa he moved in prominent circles and built on his successes as a painter of landscapes, heritage architecture and above all flowers. He developed a strongly personal style of painting adapted from French Impressionism and Pointillism, using loose, short brush-strokes in bright colours, juxtaposed against a dark background to render light effects such as foliage and shadows in a spectacular manner. His tour de force is recognized as the large painting of Cape Town Parade and City Hall against the backdrop of Table Mountain, housed in the Permanent Collection of the Iziko South African National Gallery. In Proteas, a commanding composition of bushy, naturally foraged specimens, illustrates - in shades of pink, cream muted green and browns - the diversity and grandeur of the species. It also demonstrates his botanical insight in the rendering of at least five varieties of Cape flora. Majestic King proteas (p.cynoaroides) are central, surrounded by sugarbush (p.repens), velvet edged (p.neriifolia), leucodendron and pin-cushion (leucospermum cordifolium) varieties set against a calming, unadorned background of dark brown canvas. The present large work was in the possession of the Barlow family at Vergelegen for seventy years, making it likely that it was purchased around the time of his last exhibition in Cape Town in 1938. The artist died a year later, on March 11th 1939. Some of Goodman’s other acclaimed protea pieces² were purchased after his death by the Cape Government for inclusion in the Government Residences amongst them Westbrooke (renamed Genadendal by Nelson Mandela in 1994) and Leeuwenhof in Cape Town - C. K. Berman, E., Art and artists of South Africa, AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1974 Newton-Thompson, J., Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951 Fransen, H., Three centuries of South African Art, Donker, Cape Town, 1982 ¹ Newton-Thompson, J., Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951, p115 ² A similar oil painting, also titled Proteas, is reproduced in colour (plate 100-108) in Newton-Thompson, J., Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951

UNITED KINGDOM Elizabeth II eight numismatic philatelic coin covers including three Millennium Moment £5 2000, three National Botanical Garden of Wales £1 2000, 50th Anniversary of D-Day 50 pence 1994 by Mercury and 300th Anniversary of The Bank of England £2 1994 by Mercury.

BOTANICAL WALL CHARTS, 1970s, German, printed on canvas in scroll from, 115cm x 95cm. (4)

***AWAY - CLIENT COLLECTED 27/10/18 SW*****After Nicolas (Robert), six 18th century copper plate engravings of botanical subjects with contemporary hand colouring engraved by Robert Abraham Bosse, Louis de Chatillon, and Robert Nicolas, 40cm x 30cm. (6)

Two Royal Worcester Botanical plates, two Royal Worcester landscape plates signed A. Badham and a Royal Doulton plate Sir Roger De Coverley".

Two 19th Century botanical watercolours, framed

A quantity of floral/botanical prints, water colours & oil paintings

A large quantity of floral/botanical prints, water colours & oil paintings

A Bavarian porcelain part tea set plus a botanical jardiniere and glass

Pictures and Prints - a set of three, A. Leck, Botanical illustrations, Dutch Tulips, 22.5cm x 16cm, gilt frames

A set of six Minton botanical dessert plates, decorated with various flower samples, the rim interlaced with ovals, picked out in puce and green, gilt line borders, impressed marks and pattern number, late 19th century

A George III South Staffordshire enamel waisted rectangular snuff box, hinged cover painted with a shepherd and shepherdess, the sides with botanical specimens, within shaped reserves outlined with raised-gilt scrolls on a pale green ground, 7cm wide, c.1770

A SET OF EIGHT MODERN FRAMED BOTANICAL STYLE PRINTS (8)

Quantity of prints and pictures to include 20th century oil on canvas of riverscape, signed M.Knight lower left, a limited edition print by Michael Koning, botanical prints, etc (11) 

Two botanical colour prints  Flowers for the months of December and March and three further architectural prints (5) 

Framed set of five 19th Century botanical prints, together with two colour prints after Russell Flint

A set of eight Victorian leaded light panels each with individual botanical sprays set within wider geometric borders, average size 42CM x 45CM

A 19th century sketch book containing an interesting collection of botanical watercolour studies, ornithological studies, shells and other natural history subjects, 23 x 20 cm album size, together with a further mid 19th century album of studies by Fanny Matthews containing watercolours of mushrooms and toadstools and other fungi, inscribed to front cover and dated 1858, 13 x 22 cm approx, together with further loose botanical studies

A quantity of 19th century and other ceramics including four 19th century Copeland dessert plates with botanical decoration, a 19th century blue and white printed comport in the Etruscan and Greek Vases pattern, various figures including a Staffordshire example of Napoleon, decorative ribbon plates, etc, together with a collection of glassware including decanters and stoppers, sundae dishes, etc

An Art & Crafts style embroidered textile panel in the manner of William Morris, the square sample of botanical design embroidered with extensive blossoms of harebell's, honeysuckle and trailing vines and foliage, woolen threads, 124cm H, with a French tapestry cushion cover, 58cm x 59cm and two needlepoint tapestries including a beaded example (4) CONDITION REPORT: The panel appears to have been in a framed previously. Some nail holes and wear along the edges. (see extra images uploaded). There is some loss / fraying to the stitching at the edge. The ground is lightly grubby throughout with some light and dark marks.

A selection of vintage ephemera to include a 20th century Folk Art oil on panel depicting a pig in a farmyard setting, framed, 15.5cm x 18.5cm, a No.2 Kodak Box Brownie, a 'Touring' Automobile card game, boxed, a miniature cuckoo clock, two silk ribbon bobbins, a collection of cigarette cards of naval, automobile and botanical interest etc (Qty)

A large quantity of unframed engravings and drawings, to include botanical and architectural examples, all loose (a lot)

A set of six gilt framed Redoute prints; together with five other framed botanical prints (11)

Three boxes of miscellaneous mainly hardback books, to include botanical volumes

NO RESERVE Italian Art.- Berenson (Bernard) Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, together 7 vol. (Venetian School, 2 vol.; Florentine School, 2 vol.; Central Italian & North Italian Schools, 3 vol.), 1957-68 § D'Ancona (M.L.) The Garden of the Renaissance: Botanical Symbolism in Italian Painting, Florence, 1977 § Millon (H.A.) & V.M.Lampugnani. The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, 1994 § Hale (J.R.) Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, New Haven & London, 1990 § Mack (R.E.) Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art 1300-1600, Berkeley, 2002, illustrations, original cloth with dust-jackets; and c.20 others on Italian Renaissance art, 4to & 8vo (c.30)

RAY JOHN. Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum. 24 eng. botanical plates. Calf, tending to split. 1724; also John Berkenhout, Calvis Anglica ... or A Botanical Lexicon, calf, 1764. (2).

SWISS SCHOOL (LATE 19TH CENTURY) The Crosser Mythen, Switzerland, oil on card, 8 x 11cm; and a 19th Century Italian hand-coloured aquatint engraving - The Baptistry, Florence, 5.5 x 8cm; four various 19th Century botanical studies; and a Japanese print, all unframed (7)

JAN THEODORE DE BRY (1561-1623) Tab CCLXXXV and Tab CXCVI, two hand-coloured botanical engravings from the 'Florilegium Renovatrim et Auctum', 1641, 28 x 19cm (both mounted but unframed (2)

A PORTFOLIO OF MIXED ENGRAVINGS AND WATERCOLOURS TO INCLUDE: two Rossini etchings - 'Veduta dell' Isola Tiberina' and 'Veduta di Fianco dei Portici d'Ottavia'; various works by Sidney Curnow Vosper, two wood engravings by Clarence Whaite; etching after Rembrandt; miscellaneous botanical engravings and watercolours, print after Henry Moore; calligraphic Lord's Prayer etc., and a small collection of black and white photographs taken by Donald Dyer Richardson, all unframed

SEVEN FRAMED BOTANICAL STUDY PRINTS OF A VARIETY OF FLOWERS IN BLOOM, all mounted, framed and glazed, approximate largest size 76cm x 57cm including frame, smallest 66cm x 60cm including frame

JULIEN HENRI DILLENS (1849 - 1904)Kneeling girl Bronze, on wooden base, 54 x 62 x 50cm highSignedJulien Henri Dillens was born in Antwerp in 1849, the son of the painter Hendrick Joseph Dillens. He studied under Eu- gène Simonis at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and in 1877 received the Prix de Rome for A Gaulish Chief taken Prisoner by the Romans. He was awarded the medal of honour in 1889 at the Paris Universal Exhibition for Figure Kneeling (Brussels Gallery), and the statue of the lawyer Hippolyte Metdepenningen in front of the Palais de Justice at Ghent and in 1900, his Two Statues of the Anspach Monument gained him a similar distinction. For the city of Brussels he executed The Four Continents (Maison du Renard, Grand, Place), The Lansquenets Crown- ing the Lucarnes of the Maison de Roi, and the Monument at Everard ‘t Serclaes under the arcades of the Maison de l’Etoile, and, for the Belgian government, The Laurel at the Botanical Garden of Brussels, and the statue of Bernard van Orley (Petit Sablon Square, Brussels). Additional works produced by Dillens include An Enigma (1876), the bronze busts of Rogier de la Pasture and P. P. Rubens (1879), Etruria (1880), The Painter Leon Frederic (1888), Madame Leon Herbo, Hermes, a scheme of decora- tion for the ogival façade of the hotel de ville at Ghent (1893), The Genius of the Funeral Monument of the Moselli Family, The Silence of Death (for the entrance of the cemetery of St Gilles), and The Three Burgomasters of Brussels. Dillens died in Brussels in November 1904.

Edwardian street scene, monochrome etching, dated 1918, 27cm x 20cm; botanical print, Flora Danica, figural prints and a county map.

A good wine glass c.1760, the bell bowl finely engraved with a botanical flower spray, raised on a mixed twist stem of a single opaque strand around an airtwist corkscrew, 17.5cm. Provenance: from a private collection in London.

A Paris porcelain (Feuillet) part dessert service c.1840, finely painted with botanical specimens of flowers and fruit, the rims with panels of further flowers within elaborate gilt borders on a green ground, one plate incised 'Chantilly', another signed in gilt for Feuillet. Comprising: a tazza and eight plates. (9)

A Chelsea Hans Sloane oval dish c.1755, painted with a bold botanical specimen beside a butterfly and other flying insects, with a shaped brown line rim, red anchor mark, 28.2cm. Exhibited: Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia, 7th August 2000 - 8th April 2001, The Gold Treasury, Melbourne, Ballarat and Hamilton Art Galleries. Illustrated: Flowers and Fables: A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, no. 109. Provenance: the Nigel Morgan collection.

A Chelsea Hans Sloane plate c.1755, painted with a large botanical leaf amidst butterflies and other flying insects, within a shaped brown line rim, red anchor mark, 21.7cm. Illustrated: Flowers and Fables: A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, no. 110. Provenance: the Nigel Morgan collection.

A watercolour still life study; together with botanical prints, an Edwardian fashion print etc.

ROSLYN CHINA 'WHISPERING GRASS' PATTERN TEA SERVICE FOR SIX PERSONS, 21 PIECES, 'THE ROYAL COLLECTION' BOTANICAL PLAQUE AND A HAWK DECORATED PLAQUE (23)

A set of six large framed limited edition botanical prints, approx 65x77cm

Magda Clarke "Camellia Japonica" Botanical Watercolour, in a glazed frame, signed, 29 x 41cm

Two rosewood framed botanical coloured prints, 40 x 46cm, (2)

A mixed collection of items to include chromed tea pot set, Interesting glass botanical sllides, inlaid modern jewellery box & Lladro figure of Ballet Dancer

A large collection of mixed ceramics including - Portmeirion Botanical coffee cans, large Carltonware pewter rimmed fruit bowl, Coopercraft Dog, London themed decanter, etc. (2 trays).

Maria Sibylla Merian book of botanical prints

A parcel of framed pictures including three botanical studies, one of which is inscribed to the back 'Isabella Ann Alan 1830' together with a watercolour of a coastal scene with figures

Poole vase (A/F), Portmeirion chicken, Botanical Roses plates etc

Framed pictures and prints: to include religious and botanical studies various sizes BSR

Medical Interest. Culpeper, Nicholas. English Physician and Complete Herbal with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Properties, London: Printed for the Author, no date, circa 1790s, rebound in full panelled calf with raised bands and gilt title, marbled endpapers, botanical/anatomical plates, lacking frontispiece, dedication page to Thomas Dunckerly, Provincial Grand Master of the Masons in Dorset, from E. Sibly

The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, Practical and Scientific, G. Nicholson, c.1900, set of eight volumes, together with a quantity of other botanical publications

Collection of gardening/botanical/horticultural books, to include: The Lady's Country Companion, Mrs. Loudon, London: Longman, 1845, publisher's green cloth; Old Garden Roses, Edward A. Bunyard, London: Country Life, 1936; Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens, E. T. Cook, London: Country Life, 1902; Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, W. J. Bean, sixth edition in three volumes, London: John Murray, 1936; A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners, E. A. Bowles, London: Martin Hopkinson, 1924; The Rock Garden, Reginald Farrer, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack [no date]; Alpine Flowers for Gardens, W. Robinson, London: John Murray, 1903; Colour Planning of the Garden, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1929; My Garden Book, Scottish Seed House, Perth, 1939; Century Book of Gardening, in two volumes, London: Country Life [no date]; Gardens for Small Country Houses, London: Country Life, 1924

Prints: A set of 6 Botanical Prints by G.D. Ehret Delin, in attractive black and gilt frames. (6)

A very attractive hand painted early English porcelain Botanical Dessert Service, consisting of two comports and eight plates, each with a different central flower and rose pompadour borders. (10)

A miscellaneous lot of framed and glazed prints and watercolours to include five botanical prints

An 18th century hand-coloured botanical print and five other botanical prints, in strip frames

Spy print of horse racing, etching of two ducks, two botanical studies and a map of Middlesex by Moule

[Travel Journals] Victorian handwritten diaries of a voyage aboard the S.S. Warrior, S.S. Bladworth and the S.S. Good Hope in the years 1872/3 journeying to Calcutta and Capetown, journals kept by a doctor/passenger comprising 3 notebooks in which is detailed places visited, weather conditions, collecting of botanical specimens, sketching, playing games, other vessels encountered (including S.S. Oriental, The Windsor Castle, Bismarck, S.S. Danube etc) stowaways, a tom cat falling overboard, attending to the injuries of several "firemen" on board with fingers and toes which were crushed or sliced off, severe head injury, death of a passenger and baby, a knife fight, visit to bazaar, vendors selling fruit, cigars, little dogs "something between a Maltese and a French poodle". Comprising over 300 pages with descriptions of the other passengers & temperatures recorded.

A BOX OF ASSORTED PRINTS TO INCLUDE ONITHOLOGIAL, BOTANICAL AND FIGURATIVE EXAMPLES

DORSET INTEREST; A 19TH CENTURY PRINT OF THE REMAINS OF ABBOTSBURY ABBEY and similar pictures, with a pair of 19th century botanical prints