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Victor Skellern (1909-66), a collection of Wedgwood scrapbooks compiled by the then Artistic Director, containing hand coloured botanical prints, some with pencil annotations, presented in five volumes (5)

Two pairs of 19th century porcelain cabinet plates, comprising a Coalport example with floral design, with gilt ground, and a Spode pair with botanical scenes (4)

Five pieces of Creamware / Pearlware painted with Botanical studies, to include a lidded supper dish segment and four dishes, one impressed with a crowned 'G' for Neale & Co. another Wedgwood, all with hand painted subject titles, early 19th century, (6) The largest dish measures 29cm wide. Condition report: The lidded dish has a short crack and filled rim chip, there is some flaking and retouching to the enamel. The Wedgwood dish has some wear and a restored crack. The other rectangular dish has a small restored area. The is crazing to all and signs of wear.

A PAIR OF DERBY COBALT GROUND BOTANICAL DISHES, C1820 painted in the manner of William 'Quaker' Pegg with two specimens, 28.5cm w ++Some slight glaze wear and pitting but in overall good condition

A STAFFORDSHIRE BONE CHINA TURQUOISE GROUND BOTANICAL DESSERT SERVICE, C1840 plates 23cm diam, painted 3/No 4722 in red (15) ++An attractive service in fine condition

Harold Hitchens (fl.1970s) - A pair of woodland studies Pen and black ink and graphite Both signed and dated 1972 Largest 18.5 x 28 cm. (7 1/4 x 11 in) Together with a group of ten other framed prints, including botanical subjects, portrait miniatures, a Baxter print, and others, of various sizes

A George III lacquered brass Withering pattern botanical microscope Unsigned, circa 1800 With two objective lenses mounted via twin turned uprights above an up/down adjustable ring-shaped stage with ebonised/natural surface ivory disc insert for the central aperture and cut with slots to take the four various accessories to circumference, on conforming open loop base with three turned brass feet, 10cm (4ins) high; with original textured paper-covered cylindrical card case, 10.7cm (4.25ins) high overall. This form of relatively simple portable botanical microscope was developed by Dr. William Withering (1741-99). Originating from Birmingham and an active member of the Lunar Society, Dr. Withering first described this form of microscope in his 1776 work A Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain.

A Meissen pommade or toilet pot and cover c.1740, finely painted in the botanical manner with a spray of tulip and narcissus, the reverse with single scattered sprigs, repeated to the cover with a small pinecone finial, blue crossed swords mark, 8.5cm. (2)

A set of ten Royal Worcester porcelain botanical plates Each centrally decorated with floral spray, the blue borders with further floral vignettes, green printed mark with date code for 1901. 26 cm diameter. (10) CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, some rubbing to decoration.

After SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER (1785-1865) British Indian Botanical Studies, comprising: Humming Birds at the Brazils, with the nest on the orange tree; Taylor Birds and Fruit Baring Convolvulus; Blue Lizard and Neva Tree; Blue Locust and Faggot Caterpillar with its nests on the variegated acasia baubel tree in Guzerat; Skeleton Mantis and Oil Plant of Guzerat; and The Mahwhaw Tree of Guzerat Originally published by James Forbes 22.5 x 30 cm, framed and glazed CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, some slight staining/fading.

STONEWARE JAR. A late 1930's stoneware jar, for The Lancashire Botanical Brewery Co. Ltd. Height 30cm.

A set of five late 19th century Royal Worcester dessert plates with painted botanical detail within pink and gilt borders with puce printed marks to reverse together with two 19th century child's plates with relief moulded borders and printed decoration, of a shepherd shearing a sheep and a Japanese female character, a Royal Doulton Old Moreton series ware plate, a Shelley jelly mould, a collection of Shelley coffee wares comprising coffee pot and three coffee cans, etc

A collection of pictures and prints including a watercolour of a town view at Wotton-under-Edge showing The Tabernacle, signed bottom left Rhona Cowell, 27 x 37 cm approx, further framed watercolours of various subjects including landscapes, etc, a 19th century charcoal profile portrait, a miniature portrait of a seated siamese cat, signed bottom right Jeane Nichols, folders of prints including botanical subjects, subjects after Audubon, etc

A collection of various 19th century coloured botanical engravings, subjects including Nigella, Crocus, Verbena, etc, approx size 27 x 21 cm, all in simple wooden frames (7)

English School - 19th Century, pencil and gouache miniature, portrait of a gentleman in a blue coat, 7.5cm x 6cm, with six hand coloured botanical prints (qty)

English School - 20th Century, oil on panel Moorland landscape beneath a cloudy sky unsigned 44.5cm x 34.5cm along with a further picture and a collection of botanical drawings

A 20th century Chinese famille rose jar and cover, a Canton tea bowl and saucer together with two botanical and bird plates and three enamel decorated platters - 9 pieces Condition report: Some minor usage wear, mainly good

A pair of botanical watercolours, 11" x 8"

Two botanical watercolours

Curtis (William) - The Botanical Magazine..., vol.I & II only, bound in one, engraved frontispiece, 72 hand-coloured engraved plates, modern half morocco , 1794; and 3 further vol. of the same, 8vo (4)

Curtis (William) - Curtis's Botanical Magazine, first series, vol.CXLVII (4 parts in 1); new series, vol.CLXV-CLXXXIV (vol.CLXX with parts 1 & 2 only), 1938-1982; Kew Magazine (The), Incorporating Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol.1-11 (vol.3 with parts 1 & 2 only), 1984-1994; [- Curtis's Botanical Magazine], vol.12-31 (vol.21 with parts 1, 2, and 4 only; lacking vol.22; vol.23 with parts 1 and 2 only; vol.26 with parts 1 and 2 only; vol.28 with part 1 only; vol.29 lacking part 4), 1995-2014, plates (most colour), original printed wrappers, a little rubbed, some duplicates § Nelmes (Ernest, editor ) and William Cuthbertson. Curtis's Botanical Magazine Dedications 1827-1927 , plates, original cloth, [1931]; with a number of duplicates, plus a couple of related items, 8vo ; sold as a periodical not subject to return (qty)

Gerard (Louis) - Flora Gallo-Provincialis, half-title, woodcut device title, folding engraved map, 19 engraved botanical plates, internally very good, contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving contemporary gilt backstrip, edge wear, joints rubbed, 8vo, Paris, C.J.B. Bauche , 1761.

Hawaiian Flora.- Hillebrand (William) - Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, frontispiece, 3 folding maps, some age-toning, one map torn at lower margin, later cloth , 1888 § Neal (M.C.) In Honolulu Gardens, illustrations and plates, original cloth, Honolulu , 1928 § Rock (J.F.) The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands, full-page illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, printed slip-case, v.p. , 1974; and a small quantity of others, Hawaiian Flora, including 16 issues of The Bulletin: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden , v.s. (sm.qty)

Orchids.- Boyle (Frederick) - About Orchids: A Chat, 1893 § Watson (W.) & W. Bean. Orchids: Their Culture and Management , second edition , n.d. § Curtis (Charles H.) Orchids for Everyone, 1910 § Bolus (Harry) The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula, second edition, Cape Town , 1918 Brooke (Jocelyn) & Gavin Bone. The Wild Orchids of Britain, limited edition , The Bodley Head , 1950 § Hunt (David R., editor ) Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1981 § Cribb (Phillip) & others. The Genus Paphiopedilum, Kew Magazine Monograph, 1987, plates and illustrations (most colour, hand-coloured in fifth mentioned, some folding), original cloth, rubbed, the second and fifth gilt, the third elaborately gilt and illustrated, last three with dust-jackets ; and a large quantity of others, Orchids, including others in the Kew Magazine Monograph series, v.s. (large qty.)

Plant Hunters.- North (Marianne) - Recollections of a Happy Life [- Further Recollections...], together 3 vol., frontispieces, original pictorial cloth , 1892-93 § Oliver (S.P.) The Life of Philibert Commerson, plates , 1909 § Von Goebel (K.) Wilhelm Hofmeister: The Work and Life of a nineteenth century Botanist, plates, library stamp on title, for the Ray Society , 1926 § Dupree (A.H.) Asa Grey, second printing, dust-jacket, Harvard University Press , 1968 § Greene (E.L.) Landmarks of Botanical History, 2 vol., dust-jackets, Stanford, 1983; and c.20 others, Plant Hunters and similar, 8vo & 4to (c.30)

Zoological Illustration.- Bartram - & Joseph Ewan. Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788… (William) & Joseph Ewan. Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788 , Philadelphia , 1968 § Audubon (John James) The Original Water-Color Paintings, vol.I only (of 2), New York , 1966 § Gould (John) & Sacheverell Sitwell. Tropical Birds, 1948 § Dance (S. Peter) The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work, 1978 § Klute (Jeannette) Woodland Portraits, Boston , 1954, plates (most colour), some folding and some double page in third, illustrations (full page in first), all original cloth, first three with dust-jackets, second and last with slip-cases, last damaged ; and 6 others, Zoological Illustration, v.s. (11)

Australasia & Oceania.- Tate (Ralph) - [Horn Expedition] Botany, Linnean Society bookplate on front pastedown, original lower wrapper bound in, modern buckram , [ Adelaide , 1896] § Rodway (Leonard) The Tasmanian Flora, lithographed plates, some spotting to terminal ff., original cloth-backed printed boards, Tasmania , 1903 § Cockayne (L.) Report on a Botanical Survey of the Tongariro National Park, plates, colour folding map, original printed wrappers, worn and dust-soiled, Wellington , 1908 § Van Leeuwen (W.M.D.) Biology of Plants and Animals Occurring in the higher parts of Mount Pangrango-Gedeh in West-Java, plates, illustrations, folding table, original printed wrappers, taped corners and marks at spine, Amsterdam , 1933 § Kelly (Stan, artist ) Eucalypts, 2 vol., colour plates, original cloth, dust-jackets , 1969-78; and c.15 others, Flora of Australasia, Oceania and South East Asia, v.s. (c.20)

A mid Victorian Valentine's card by Dean & Son, of embossed and cut design depicting Oriental figures on a terrace, amid exotic birds and botanical specimens, and with lovebirds and a hand painted floral spray with a scroll inscribed 'little more remains to be told', inscribed and with an elaborate envelope with penny red stamp (1808 cancellation mark), the date stamp for Feb 15th 1860.

A collection of hand decorated Royal Worcester plates with botanical scenes, signed B. Cox

Two trays of assorted china to include Shelley white fluted tea cups, saucers, sugar bowl, sucrier etc, Royal Worcester botanical ramekins, Masons Mandalay dish, Royal Crown Derby English bone china part tea ware comprising cups, saucers, plates, milk jug and sucrier etc. (2)

Pair of Chamberlain Worcester plates (a/f), painted with botanical specimens within green and gilt borders, together with a pair of Coalport plates painted with cottages and landscapes (a/f)

Set of five Royal Worcester wall plaques, botanical specimens

20th century water colour - Holy Island, Northumberland by Reinhild Rasterict, Royal Society of Botanical Artists. 36.5 x 47 cm

SWANSEA porcelain - tea bowl, of plain form, tapering and angled inwards over circular footed rim, painted with four botanical studies to the exterior and with stylised gilding and painted foliage to the interior, 6.25ins diam (16cms), no marks / signatures, circa 1815-1820

[NATURAL HISTORY]. BOTANY Thornton, Robert John. The Temple of Flora, or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher, being Picturesque Botanical Plates of the Choicest Flowers of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, facsimile limited edition 43/600 in book form, The Folio Society, London, 2008, half leather, colour and monochrome plates, folio; with a commentary by Stephen Harris, green buckram, octavo, cased as one.

A small collection of assorted Magic Lantern slides to include botanical examples; together with a folio of photographs showing characters from Much Ado About Nothing

A J Brown 76 St Vincent St. Glasgow monocular microscope with single eye piece, various objective lenses and quantity of botanical slides

A pair of late 18th Century hand painted botanical Derby chocolate cups and stands attributed to William 'Quaker' Pegg with each facade decorated with a different specimen of flower, the first decorated to the stand with Common Dog Rose and Scarlet Bizarre Carnation, the twin handled cup with Sweet Pea and Convolvulus Tricolor Small Convolvulus and the lid Red Heath and Erica Ampullacea Husk Heath. The second decorated to the stand with Common Field Poppy and Jerusalem Cowslip on Spotted Lungwort, the twin handled cup with Province Rose and Narcissus Major Great Daffodil and the lid with Erica Herbacea Herbaceous Heath and Erica Grandiflora Great Flowered Heath, all with blue titles and blue painted marks, circa 1795, total height 24cm, some restoration

Arnold Fairfax - a botanical study watercolour bears a signature 11'' x 8'' in a glazed gilt frame

A quantity of pictures and prints to include three Dutch prints of churches, a Botanical print, an original watercolour monogrammed 'TC' and four others (9)

* Evelyn Fullerton, collection of ten botanical studies, including "Sistus" and "Alstromeria", pen, ink and watercolour. Largest 21 cm x 17 cm. CONDITION REPORT: These are all framed and glazed and in generally good condition. There is some slight discolouration to the edges of some of the images but no significant condition issues. We do not know the exact dates of these works but judging by the principally Hogarth frames they are likely to be in the region of 50 years old in our opinion.

A quantity of five boxes of books including art-related examples, botanical reference books, atlas, tourist and topographical destination examples (5 boxes)

A mid-20th century schoolboy's botany album, collected from a 'Walk from Nottingham Road tram terminus to Coxbench via Breadsall Moor', the album with sixteen pages of botanical specimens preserved beneath tissue paper, including corn poppy, scarlet pimpernel, mallow, hemp kettle and other indigenous plants, the front pastedown with a hand-drawn map of the route in a '[s]cale of three inches to one statue mile', the front cover inscribed 'Form V September 195[?]', the folder 27cm x 38cm overall

An unusual and rare mid-18th century botany album, containing 44 pages of 220 botanical specimens, numbered and annotated in manuscript with their Linnaean taxonomical and vernacular names throughout, 3 pages manuscript index, monogrammed E.I. and dated 1748 to front pastedown, period marbled covered album, small folio

A Chelsea Hans Sloane pattern plate, c.1760, painted with a botanical study of insects and flowers, red anchor mark, 21.5cm, repaired and crazed

A 20th century Japanese botanical print. H.90cm W.129cm

A group of nine Spode dessert plates, having painted floral design to the central surrounded by and green ground and gilt decorated border, together with a selection of Minton botanical dessert plates (parcel)

Various Victorian botanical watercolours

A quantity of pictures and prints to include a watercolour of badgers, botanical watercolours etc

Chinese School 19th century set of 4 watercolours on paper, detailed botanical studies with insects and butterflies, unsigned, 13.5" x 11", framed.

A Derby botanical plate with a fluted border, painted with pattern 216, the named botanical specimens of 'Iris Pumila, Dwarf Iris', within bright yellow and gold borders, 23cm diam, crown, crossed batons, D marks and pattern 216 in blue CONDITION REPORT: Some paint rubbing, glaze imperfections, some gilding rubbing, colour variations to the yellow border

Curtis (William); The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, London: 1797-1798. Vol. XI & XII only in one vol, 72 hand-coloured plates, hand cut paper, marbled board and leather bound

A scrap book: containing pressed leaves and botanical engravings; together with a similar disbound album. (2)

PRINTS : a collection of mainly engravings of animals, with two botanical watercolours.

Four items of modern Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica porcelain, comprising Four items of modern Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica porcelain, comprising: a shaped sauce boat, 21cm in length; a plate, 28.5cm diameter and a pair of small pedestal salts and domed covers, 10cm; a modern Spode botanical plate and other items of modern Continental porcelain including Limoges boxes and trays

Two stoneware bottles, first bearing the markings 'Saxons, Brynmawr & Nantyglo 1916 Botanical Brewery, Chapel Street, Brynmawr', the second 'Saxons & Co. John Keysell Proprietor 1928', each 29cm high, 14.5cm wide (2)

A Davenport style transfer printed bough pot, two botanical plates and a vase

Three prints, botanical specimens. Condition Report: 20% VAT will be charged on the hammer price in addition to our normal commission charges.

Six ornithological and botanical coloured prints

Mary Grierson (20th Century British), botanical illustrations, a pair of watercolours on paper.