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English School (19th Century) A collection of botanical watercolours including flowers and plants native to Brazil, one of a Lily, signed "FJW, Rio de Janeiro Jan 20 / 1825", 23 x 25 cm (9 x 10in), larger ones 46 x 61 cm (18 x 24in) majority inscribed in pencil with descriptions below watercolour, pencil (15) Some frayed margins. Few leaves foxed and stained. Foxing largely to the edges.
Major Alexander Cunningham and other hands A collection of botanical watercolours (19th Century) depicting various plant species from India, Australia and New Zealand, including several of Eucalyptus, some dated in the 1850s and 1860s, various sizes, approximately 30 x 25 cm (11.8 x 9.8in); with several pages of handwritten notes, some signed by Major Alexander Cunningham detailing his observations of different woods inscribed in pencil with Latin names below ink, pencil, watercolour (28)
A mixed lot to include various etchings and watercolours, some signed, after Cecil Aldin a print signed in pencil to the margin, after Dorothea Hyde 'Fishing Party', signed in pencil to the margin, Robson 'St. Mary's church, Oxford', an oil on board by Caughlan, antique prints, botanical prints, a series of the Mythical calendar etc. (qty)
*Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of twenty-four engravings and prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, including hand coloured vue d'optiques of London and Philadelphia, Vanity Fair caricatures of Queen Victoria and the jockey Tod Sloane, topographical engravings, watercolours of botanical subjects, classical scenes, sporting scenes, a 1781 mezzotint of 'Orpheus' by Richard Earlom and large topographical aquatints by Lewis and Reeve, various sizes and condition (24)
Album. Album belonging to Mary Alloway, 1831, approximately 130 leaves, containing a variety of drawings, engravings (costume, natural history, botanical, views, etc.), and manuscript writings, including sixteen watercolours and pencil drawings, mainly portraits, landscapes, and topographical views, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, original straight-grained red half morocco, gilt decorated spine, rubbed, large 4to With bifolium loosely inserted, inscribed in contemporary manuscript on the first page 'Sacred to the Memory of Mr. Jas. Alloway, who for 34 years filled a Confidential Office in the British Museum: And departed this Life the 14th of Febry 1831 Aged 69 Years...' (1)
Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, with a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson, George Allen, 1903, half-title with contemporary inscription at head, and additional ownership address to verso of front free endpaper, frontispiece and numerous illustrations, some spotting to first and final leaves, all edges gilt, original green cloth, with elaborate peacock design in gilt to upper cover, in bright condition, spine lightly faded with slight wear, 8vo, together with Goldsmith (Oliver), The Vicar of Wakefield, with a preface by Austin Dobson, and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson, published Macmillan and Co., 1892, half-title, frontispiece and numerous illustrations, contemporary ownership address to verso of front free endpaper, occasional spotting, all edges gilt, original green cloth, with elaborate botanical decoration in gilt to upper cover, 8vo (2)
Henrey (Blanche). British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800..., volumes 1-3, OUP, 1975, colour and monochrome illustrations, uniform original blue cloth in slipcase, 8vo, together with other modern natural history reference and related, including New Naturalist series, 12 volumes, and publications by Blandford, Batsford, Observer's series, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
Clusius (Carolus). Caroli Clusii Atrebatis Rariorum aliquot Stirpium, per Pannoniam, Austriam, & vicinas quasdam Provincias observatarum Historia, quatuor libris..., 1st edition, Antwerp: Christophori Plantini, 1583-1584, printer's woodcut device to title, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, lacking thirty-two leaves and provided in photocopy facsimile (comprising P1-P5, Z1-Z8, CC1-CC8, Appendix leaves CC2-CC3, Index DD1-DD8, & title to Stirpium Nomenclator Pannonicus), general title and following three leaves repaired to upper outer corner, leaf O8 torn to blank fore-edge and repaired, some browning and spotting throughout, later limp vellum, 8vo (1)
Thornton (Robert John). New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus..., published T.Bensley, 1807, title page with ink library stamp, portrait frontispiece, additional calligraphic title and allegorical engraving of 'The Universal Power of Love', mezzotint portrait of Linnaeus in Lapland dress and twenty-four uncoloured portraits, ninety one uncoloured mixed method engravings of botanical studies, one with later hand colouring which is detached and twenty tables and diagrams, occasional spotting, later endpapers, lacking the 'Temple of Flora' 20th century half sheep, rubbed and worn, folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)
A Nantgarw dessert dish and a plate c.1815-20, the dessert dish of square form and moulded with flowers and C scrolls, painted with butterflies in flight around floral sprays and sprigs of gooseberry and redcurrant, the plate London-decorated in the Sims workshop with an arrangement of pink roses and a single insect, impressed Nantgarw CW marks, and a Wedgwood botanical plate painted with chrysanthemum blooms, 28.8cm max. (3)
A 19th century coloured engraving of a parrot with pink and blue plumage, 29 x 26cm together with a set of three further coloured prints of parrots, a coloured botanical print, a well detailed study of the branch of a peach tree with fruit, butterfly, caterpillar etc, various sizes, 50 x 34cm max, all framed
An oil painting on board showing Dante and Beatrice after Henry Holiday, 39 x 55 cm approx in moulded gilt frame with gilt slip together with further pictures and prints including a set of four coloured prints of 17th century style botanical subjects, a pair of late 19th century coloured prints of young women in oak frames, a black and white advertising poster for an exhibition of Cecil Beaton's Photography 1984 showing Marilyn Monroe, etc
A pair of 19th century Grainger Worcester dark blue ground vases with painted and gilded butterfly, dandelion and other botanical decoration, with gilded mask handles and printed marks to base, 13 cm tall approx, together with a Royal Doulton figure of Chloe M9, registered number 764558, also together with a continental tin glazed earthenware ewer with painted cherub and mask decoration and serpent handle, with painted mark to base M Pasaro (?)
A Poole Pottery Art Deco vase with painted geometric and botanical decoration in tones of grey, yellow and black, Pattern No YE, to a design by Truda Carter, with impressed rectangular mark to base, incised number 203, painted letters YE and with painted mark for Ruth Pavely, 20 cm tall approx
A collection of 19th century dessert wares with painted botanical sprays within a green, yellow and gilt border comprising a high comport and three low comports and ten plates together with further ceramics including a Wedgwood dark blue ground jasper ware biscuit barrel and cover, a Paragon China 1937 coronation mug, a Royal Doulton model of an Airedale Terrier, a Fielding's Crown Devon musical tankard with relief moulded decoration of Daisy Bell and a boxed Spode cake serving plate
A 17th century 12mo pocket book, with handwritten entries for the Spurgeon family from circa 1656 to 1750, listing accounts, births, remedies, receipts and miscellaneous jottings, in various hands; TURNER (Dawson), Muscologiae Hibernicae Spicilegium, Yarmouth 1804, 8vo, author's inscription to I. G. Spurgeon with Spurgeon's bookplate, 16 hand-coloured plates; PHELPS (William), Calendarium Botanicum, or A Botanical Calendar, London 1810, 8vo, an interleaved copy with contemporary handwritten notes, W. F. Acton bookplate to first pastedown, engraved plates, half calf (3)
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