One volume "Botanical Specimens Copied From Nature and Designed As Simple Illustrations of The Twenty-Four Classes Into Which According to The Linnaean System of Arrangement All Plants Are Divided", printed by George Smith, Tythe Barn-Street, Liverpool, 1827, with hand-coloured loose leaf plates and description, housed in cardboard slip with paper printed frontispiece CONDITION REPORTS The case is split, including at all its corners. There is discolouration, foxing and dots of red paint / ink. A pencil mark to top right corner, various scratches. Back has signficant scratch and tear. The plain pink covered pamphlet has spots of staining, foxing etc, discoloured around edges, back page is creased, opening to reveal un-numbered frontispiece then illustrations page lettered b, then page 3 to 21, all have discolouration to edges, the leaves are loose having torn from the string binding to spine, the pink back page and several other pages have watermarks in them inscribed Smith and Allnutt 1827. Plates are numbered 1 through to 24 inclusive, some are on heavier weight paper than others. There is discolouration to the plates and areas of foxing on most. Plate 1 has a small tear to the bottom. Plate 2 has a significant stain. Plate 5 has a stain top right. Plate 8 has been cut top left and is not straight. Plate 9 has an impression stamped "awing boards" bottom left. Plate 10 has bigger areas of discolouration. Plate 12 has an impression stamped "London boards" to the bottom right. Plate 15 has the top left corner torn off. Plate 21 has impressed mark "drawing boards". Plate 23 has spotting, and stain to centre. Plate 24 has foxing stains to back which is coming through and is stamped "drawing boards" to bottom corner. Spine of pink pamphlet has various tears and rips. All plates have foxing and stains, general wear.
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A 19th Century hand written and drawn volume of botanical studies, variously with descriptions (unfinished), bearing inscription to front "Arthur E Donkin - Francis Gibson (collector of customs at Whitby) married my Great Aunt Alice, daughter of Thomas and Alice Fishburn ..... these flowers were copied from those growing in Mulgrave Woods ....", paper board bound with tooled leather spine, together with a vellum bound volume / account book inscribed "John Gardner his book February 26th 1774 .... the disburstments of John Gardner 1775 containing various entries up to circa 1831"
Culpeper's Complete Herbal, To Which Is Now Added, Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, With A Display of Their Medicinal and Occult Qualities, Richard Evans, London 1814, 4to, vi + 398pp + index [iv], engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, engraved and hand-coloured botanical plates throughout, the endpapers with contemporaneous ink ms. annotations on coughs, dropsy and consumption,
A 19th century Wedgwood pottery part dinner service, decorated in iron red with printed botanical specimens including: tureens and covers, casters, meat plates, dishes, plates, a pair of custard cups and covers and other items, impressed marks 'WEDGWOOD' and 'ABN', 42cm wide (max). (49) Provenance: Purchased by the current vendor from Tom Smith Antiques, The White Horse, Lavenham, 27th August, c.1981.
A Spode botanical tureen and cover, with butterfly handles & finial, decorated with enamelled specimens & botanical names on the interior & base, circa 1815, SPODE mark, base 10cm high, with lid 14 cm high, 19cm diameter handle to handle Provenance: A Private Collection Condition: Good, slight wear to gilding on rim of tureen, no restoration or damage
Macclesfield interest; SAINTER, J.D.; The Jottings of Some Geological, Archaeological, Botanical, Ornithological, and Zoological Rambles Around Macclesfield, with many black and white illustrations, published in Macclesfield by Swinnerton & Brown 1878, with map insert, in original cloth binding, and a information sheet relating to Macclesfield Subscription Library detailing the arrangements for the library and inviting subscriptions, 19th January 1858 (2). CONDITION REPORT: There is damage to the edge of the spine, and the binding is loose on the end papers, a little foxing.
*Watercolour Album. Album Choisi [so titled to cover], circa 1835-70, containing hand-coloured decorative title, and approximately 50 original watercolours and drawings, including 20 watercolour views of Oxford, Malvern 1835, Alderley Rectory 1840, Tewkesbury Abbey, The Wynde Cliff 1841, Sedgley 1840 (all apparently by the same hand, and several initialled CG), Laleham Middlesex, Bloxham 1840, several views of the Thames at Eton, Windsor, Virginia Water, etc., 20 mostly pencil drawings including some pen & ink, including one of Broad Street, Oxford by Delamotte, 1834, A Mill near Barnstaple, River Iffley, near Oxford, by Sarah Golden, etc., 12 mostly fine botanical and bird studies by Sophia Parker, Sarah Golden and Ann Patteson, including one leaf of four fine watercolour studies of butterflies, etc., mounted, some loose (on album leaves, watermarked Whatman 1832), all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated plum full morocco, rubbed and scuffed, 4to (267 x 215 mm, 10.5 x 8.5 ins) Provenance: Likely to have belonged to Sarah Parker, daughter of John Parker of Oxford, who married John Golden, of Lincoln's Inn in April 1824 (the marriage listed in Gentlemen's Magazine Volume 94, Part 1). (1)
An assorted collection of British and foreign silver, white metal, bronze and copper medallions and medalets, to include; 1851 Great Exhibition, 1862 Universal Exhibition, Northumberland Botanical Society medal, George Stephenson memorial medal, George V Coronation medal and assorted Royal medalets etc (a lot)
A collection of good quality textile and embroidered effects to include a felt cushion cover with highly detailed embroidered botanical panel, a similar embroidered brightly coloured foliate bell pull panel (110 cm long approx), together with a wall hanging depicting Deer beneath stylised foliage , etc, also together with framed finely detailed embroidered landscape studies, all of reural landscapes, etc, together with an embroidered clutch bag
Derby botanical part dessert service, attributed to John Brewer, 1790s, each with a named botanical specimen within a gilt and rust outline, comprising a lobed lozenge dish, Golden Flower'd Henbane, 30cms, a two-handled oval pedestal sauce tureen, the lid Moss Rose, the bowl Canterbury Bell and Heartsease, (repaired and damaged), 17cms, a navette shape stand, Tuberous Rooted Limodorum, 23cms, and four plates, Jerusalem Cowslip, Cut-leav'd Violet, Whorled Coreopsis and Prickly Poppy, the later repair, diameter 23cms, each standard cross batons mark in blue, pattern number 313, some of the titles also in Latin, rubbed and old repairs, (7).
A collection of 3 Wills cigarette card albums being filled in the main. To include Signalling Series, Naval Dress & Badges, Ogdens Flags & Funnels of Leading Steamship Lines, Wills Flag Waving, Wills botanical, Players Architectural, Players countryside, Ogdens vehicles, occupational, armorial crested etc. Also Players Dickens, Royalty, Greek gods, portrait and others etc
*Curtis (William, and others). A mixed collection of approximately 150 engravings, mostly late 18th & early 19th century, botanical engravings with contemporary hand colouring, each engraving accompanied by a contemporary sheet of descriptive text, some prints with offsetting and/or browning, each approximately 220 x 125 mm (approx.150)
*Botany. A mixed collection of approximately 125 engravings, 18th & 19th century, engravings with contemporary hand colouring, many with contemporary sheets of descriptive text, including examples by Curtis (including plates from the 'The Botanical Magazine' and 'Flora Londinensis'), Weinmann, Dietrich and Sowerby, various sizes and condition (approx.125)
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