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Early 19th Century English School, W. Smith by T. Holland & W. Smith Watercolours: Two very fine colourful Flower Pieces both signed, ovals approx. 18cms x 15cms (7" x 6"), in gilt frames. (2) * Both illustrated for Curtis "Botanical Magazine" & Edward's "Botanical Register".

A collection of English porcelain To include an 18th Century Worcester saucer dish circa 1775, of circular form the scrolling scalloped central reserve picked out with gilt spring flowers reserved against a turquoise ground together with a cobalt dessert dish of oval lobed form, the ivory and cobalt ground further detailed with a series of seven panels filled with English botanical designs and a Staffordshire low comport painted with central design of a teal duck, reserved against a diaper work and rocaille ground. CONDITION REPORT: oval bowl with all over fine crazing teal bowl - areas of staining, areas with old restoration plate good

1964 BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND FORTH ROAD BRIDGE GREAT BRITISH PRESENTATION PACKS

Set of four Chinese gouache pictures, botanical studies, 56cm x 40cm.

Three framed reproduction botanical prints

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

Assorted pictures and prints to include botanical pencil and watercolour

GORDON CHARLES GEORGE: (1833-1885) British Army officer, known as Chinese Gordon. A good, interesting series of sixteen A.Ls.S., C G Gordon, thirty one pages (total), mainly 8vo, various places (Mauritius, Jerusalem, Cape Town, Southampton etc.), November 1881 - November 1882, all to Charles Button in the Seychelles. The letters relate to the botany of the Seychelles, in particular the Coco de Mer and tortoises, and state, in part, ‘I got your paper on the Coco de Mer…if it was you who sent me the little tortoise, many thanks for it’ (20th November 1881), ‘I sent your remarks on to Mr. Broome about the Coco de Mer, and he writes that he takes the greatest interest in them. The great officials at Kew are also very much interested in the subject and you may expect that orders will come out, for a much more careful surveillance over there….I have asked Mr. Brodie to do some commissions for me, and feel sure you will help him’ (20th December 1881), ‘I am also glad that you are looking after the Coco de Mer….Glad to hear of your success in curing Cocoa Nut tree disease by the tests. Get the case or any you have given Brodie, for me, for he is too busy to attend to anything. Look after the two tortoises in the Govt. Plot…’ (5th February 1882), ‘I want the four little tortoises alive not dead. You may have to pay more for them than I put down however I will repay you. I send you a little box enclosing two brooches (neither the box or brooches still present) for Mrs. Button, one is the arms of the Seychelles when it gets free of the Mauritius, the other is the Hindoo representation of Universe. The Hindoos think that Curuman one of the incarnations of Bhudda, and which name signifies Tortoise when the flood came took the form of a tortoise and placed the Ark on his back & took it to Ararat with Noah. The tortoise eggs take six months to hatch. The flood lasted four months so that I think the flood covered them and that when it subsided, the eggs were hatched, they never could have walked down from Ararat. You see none of these isles have much animal life on them. NB. I forgot to ask you to get me in a bottle of spirits one of the little snakes, which are found on Praslin’ (10th February 1882), ‘I want the two or four Tortoises to be little ones and alive’ (16th February 1882), ‘Your letter was very interesting and I hope you will keep an eye on everything connected with the Coco de Mer, especially its mode of germination….this will be closely looked into….’ and ‘I would like a short bit of Common Cocoa nut wood, as well as of the Coco de Mer wood’ (both 7th March 1882), ‘If I do not come, keep the little tortoises for me. I may send for them at some future time’ (15th March 1882), ‘The vessel for Zanzibar which I had hoped to catch has not been able to await the coming in of mail, so that I may after all, have to come by the April mail. Please have everything ready….’ (19th March 1882), ‘I hear all the first class passages are taken for the mail leaving here on 18th April, so I may consider it almost certain I cannot come through Seychelles, so kindly see the things packed safely and ready to go….Mr. Broome….has no objection to you making the collection of things I want, and of taking specimens from the Govt. lands. I fear you will have trouble to get the two roots. If you have enough money, get a double set of each….’ (21st March 1882), ‘Many thanks for all you have done for me….Let me know how you go on at Seychelles in which place I take a great interest….This colony is a smart one & there is plenty of vigour in it’ (Cape Town, 17th June 1882), ‘Tell me about the Coco de Mer and anything you can think of in the way of curious things, for I shall take a great interest in Seychelles & Praslin….How is the Coco de Mer in the Govt. garden….and how are the Tortoises. I hope that they are looked after. Remember you are to keep two little ones for me of the Brood which came out last October. I wish I could come and settle out at Seychelles but it is too far off and I am thinking of settling down in Palestine’ (22nd October 1882), ‘Here is a letter (no longer present) from Mr. Dyer who evidently considers you to be what I know you are, a most valuable botanical ally….You know the buds sprout [here Gordon has illustrated his letter with two small ink drawings of clusters of buds]…put some of these up for me, but do not send them…for fear they should be stolen. I am sorry I lost the small cooped backed tortoise, in fact all the small things were stolen….Write me how the two big Tortoises are, also anything new about Coco de Mer’ (25th November 1882), ‘Thanks for your kind offer of the small Tortoises. I hope you will not give any away at all. A time will come when they will be very valuable and it is a great pity to give any of them away, they are only neglected’ (n.d.). Also including an autograph manuscript, unsigned, in Gordon’s hand, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. The manuscript is a list of seven numbered repairs which Gordon wishes to be carried out, including fixing roofs to outbuildings, repairing water pipes, placing double sashes in the windows, fixing an iron stove and slightly expanding a stable for three horses etc. A small original ink drawing in Gordon’s hand appears to the verso, detailing the rooms of the buildings and identifying the kitchen and stables. With some further pencil calculations and a small diagram in an unidentified hand. A fascinating archive of letters. Some of the letters have small, neat splits at the folds (a few slightly more extensive, and with contemporary repairs with small pieces of tape) slightly affecting some words of text, a few letters with small holes just affecting a few words of text etc. FR to generally G, 17

COLLECTION OF PICTURES, ADVERTISING POSTERS AND NEEDLEWORKS including two framed military needleworks under glass, an unframed botanical oil painting, two vintage advertising posters, etc (7)

Sicilian Botany.- Hogg - Observations on some of the Classical Plants of Sicily, MS (John, classical scholar and naturalist, 1800-69) Observations on some of the Classical Plants of Sicily, MS. to be printed in Professor Hooker's Journal of Botany, 1834, JH, autograph manuscriptinitialled "JH", title and 14pp., 1834; Catalogue of Sicilian Plants, 40pp., [1843], both autograph manuscripts, folds, some soiling ; and a small quantity of others, Botany, including an ALs from William Yarrell to Hogg thanking him for having sent the catalogue, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty). First mentioned published in Hooker's Botanical Journal, 1834.

Hibberd (Shirley) - The Fern Garden, first edition , 1869 § Sowerby (John E.) British Wild Flowers, 1882 § Martyn (Thomas) Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, 1788, all with hand-coloured engraved plates, illustrations, offsetting, a little soiling, original cloth or modern boards , the first two with g.e., rubbed ; and c.100 others on botany, gardening etc. including some hand-coloured plates from Curtis's Botanical Magazine and a quantity of guides, seed catalogues and price lists, v.s (large qty.)

J Baptiste, after N & E PoillyFOUR COLOURED BOTANICAL PRINTS47 x 36.5cm

A late 19th century ewer in the Worcester manner with shaped neck and painted and gilded decoration of a mallard in flight, a Minton vase with painted Dog Rose decoration, a further Minton two handled vase with botanical detail, a Belleek vase with moulded decoration, a Royal Doulton Character Jug - Robin Hood D6534, etc

A collection of ceramics including Foley Century Rose pattern tea wares comprising six cups, six saucers and six tea plates, further Roslyn tea wares in the Art Deco manner, a Victorian cup and saucer with painted botanical detail, a 19th century continental two sectional serving dish with painted floral detail, etc, a Royal Doulton George V 1911 Coronation mug, etc (displayed beneath table)

A Derby botanical plate: finely painted with 'Scorzonera Tingitana', the fluted rim with gilt foliate and line borders, named in blue to the reverse with crowned crossed batons and pattern number 141, circa 1790/1800, 23 cm diameter [tiny chip to inside of foot rim]. * Provenance: paper label for Field Collection no194.

A set of four Chinese botanical drawings on rice paper: each painted with a large bouquet of flowers and foliage, mid 19th century, 15 x 24 cm [minor damage and staining].

3 18th/19th century hand tinted botanical prints

J.L. STEWART, EARLY 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL, WATERCOLOUR of a lock side scene, watercolour on paper, signed lower right 31cm x 51cm together with a chromo lithograph of horses hauling timber by the side of a river together with three decorative botanical prints and three reproduction Japanese woodblock type prints (8)

WORCESTER PLATE, circa 1772, painted flowers and insects within reserved panels on a blue ground, 21.5cm diam plus a pair of early 19th century botanical plates with pierced rims and handpainted centres, 23.5cm diam. (3)

A Fuller and Hick of Bath stoneware flagon numbered 6646 and a Pick Up and Co. Botanical Brewers Bristol 1929 stoneware flagon.

R Bradley; Dictionarium Botanicum: Or, A Botanical Dictionary for the Use of the Curious in Husbandry and Gardening, first edition, 2 vols, 8vo, calf, published by T Woodward, London 1728.

Derby tureen and cover with stand circa 1800, finely painted with titled botanical studies, blue painted marks to base, (3) the tureen measures 13cm high Condition report: The tureen has restored chips to the inner rim, the main body of the tureen has been re-joined to the foot. The stand has two chips to the foot. The are small gilt losses.

A quantity of pictures to include botanical studies, two watercolours of Regency era Venetian costume, Henry Moore prints, a watercolour of a donkey signed O J Awary, and various landscapes

A framed and glazed botanical print of narcissus (51cm x 33cm)

Two wooden boxes and a tin of microscope specimen slides including pathology, physiology, botanical, entymology etc

Two oblong wooden boxes of microscope specimen slides including pathology, physiology, botanical, entymology etc.

A collection of ornithological and botanical prints, coloured prints of classical scenes and a gouache of a nurse signed by Walter Turton 82 (approximately 33cm x 26cm)

Follower of Anne Lee (c.1753-1790) - A group of twelve botanical studies Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, each with double ruled black ink border Each c.44 x 28 cm. (17 1/4 x 11 in), (12).

A large quantity of unframed colour prints, to include: botanical subjects, birds, characters, by Ronald Ambleton, Naval and Military, etc.

Three botanical prints, within walnut frames. H.35cm W.22cm

A collection of watercolours, oil on canvas, embroidered panels and print, comprising a 19th century botanical study, two studies of cavaliers and other items (parcel)

MARGARET JANE HOBBS, SIGNED AND DATED 1861 LOWER RIGHT, WATERCOLOUR, Botanical Study, 10 x 7 = TOGETHER WITH ONE FURTHER SIGNED WATERCOLOUR OF FLOWERS BY ANOTHER ARTIST (2)

PATIENCE ARNOLD, GROUP OF THREE SIGNED WATERCOLOURS, Botanical Studies, TOGETHER WITH ONE FURTHER WATERCOLOUR BY A DIFFERENT ARTIST, ASSORTED SIZES (4)

Two Chinese paintings of vessels, and two Chinese botanical prints

A collection of botanical and entomological microscope slides in three boxes, together with various microscope accessories:.

Dutch School, late 18th century- Eleven Botanical Studies; pen, ink and wash on laid, from the same or associated artist, inscribed with Latin species in pen or pencil, watermarked J Honig & Zoon(en) or C&I Honig with crest, in matching green mounts, ea. 39.5x24cm, (11) (mounted, unframed) CONDITION REPORT: not stuck down, hinge mounted along the top edge sheets slightly yellowed and with some handling creases around the edges of the sheets some grubby marks to sheets some signs of age however appears in overall good original condition with no major defects or tears

Three late 19th / early 20th Century albums of Chinese botanical studies and paintings of junks on rice paper, 26 cm x 33 cm

UNFRAMED HAND COLOURED GOULD & RICHTER BOTANICAL LITHOGRAPH titled "TOPAZA PYRA", 55cm x 38cm, together with three framed engravings under glass

Margaret Wild, six botanical watercolours, 18" x 13"

Four framed Redoute botanical prints

A rectangular silvered frame wall mirror, two botanical watercolours, two prints and a hobby horse

BOX OF BOOKS, GARDEN DESIGN AND BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION

A collection of china wares to include a Spode's "Italian" pattern chamber pot, an "Asiatic Pheasant" pattern platter, a stoneware jar inscribed "Bamforth & Co. Botanical Brewery Swindon 1914", a small collection of Denby dinner and tea wares, two blue and white butter dishes, a Brixton pottery teapot, a further teapot, a collection of Alfred Meakin plates decorated with fish, two Royal Grafton mugs decorated with fish, etc

Four stoneware jars "White Bros Botanical Brewers Derby", "JH Jones & Sons 1933", "White Bros Derby 1925" and the last one stamped "Doulton & Co. Limited Lambeth" and bearing monogram, together with a "The New Slipper Bed Pan"

An early 19th Century Jones-type botanical Microscope in lined fitted leather case, 4 1/4in

Audrey Hardcastle, 'Paphiopedilum X Maudiae X Makuli', signed l.c., watercolour, 43 x 28cm, and three other botanical studies by the same hand

British Ferns - Victorian A beautiful Victorian collection housed in a special album, similar to those for British Crests etc., with pressed flower examples of a wide range of ferns, mostly collected in the Lake District, each annotated with the species and location of the collectors specimens in almost perfect order. A very special botanical collection.

[BOTANICAL] Biographical books on Botanists, Gardens & Plant Hunters, with a few others associated, a modern selection.

[BOTANICAL] including some Local Floras; with a few associated books, a modern selection.

English School (early 20th century), Botanical studies for wallpaper/textile designs, nine watercolours, all unframed, various sizes. (9)

Set of four Chinese gouache pictures, botanical studies, 56cm x 40cm.

SWEDISH PEWTER BEER TANKARD DATED 1837 WITH MARKS ON THE LID (THREE CROWNS) AND HAND TOOLED BOTANICAL DESIGN ON THE SIDES. HALLMARKS ON THE INSIDE OF THE BASE (H: 19.7 cm)

CHRISTOPHER STONE A DEVON GLADE original oil on canvas, signed, framed together with a open edition print after JohnLowrie Morrison (Jolomo), and two original pictures, one oil and one botanical study in watercolours (4) Each picture is framed, the overall condition is good.

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20 (Capt. John) Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 , first edition, first issue with text ending on p.768, lacking half-title and errata slip and 8pp. advertisements at end, with 4 folding engraved charts and 30 engraved plates by Edward Finden and J.Curtis after Curtis, George Back & Robert Hood, 12 hand-coloured (mostly aquatints), with separately-issued stipple-engraved portrait of Franklin bound in as frontispiece (foxed and offset on title), and with A.L.s. from John Richardson to a Mr.Parker dated 1824 concerning proofs for a Botanical appendix to another work loosely inserted in pocket at end, title with marginal tear repaired, some foxing and soiling, mostly marginal and to uncoloured plates, offsetting from and occasionally to plates, ex-library copy with faink ink stamp to verso of title and on final leaf of text but no other discernible marks, engraved bookplate of Park Benjamin, later half morocco over blue cloth, spine gilt, uncut, slightly rubbed, boards a little scratched,[Sabin 25624; cf.Abbey, Travel, 635, second edition], 4to, 1823. Account of Franklin's first expedition in search of the North-West Passage, which included a 5500 mile overland journey exploring the Arctic coast and back across the Barren Lands in appalling conditions of cold and hunger. Many of the expedition died as a result and one was murdered by a previously-friendly Iroquois voyageur. Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), physician, naturalist and Arctic explorer, who accompanied Franklin on the expedition as a surgeon and naturalist. He wrote the appendices on geology, fishes and botany for the present work. He was also the one who executed the murderous Iroquois, claiming that it was justified, a decision which received criticism on their return home but which was supported by Franklin. He later accompanied Franklin on his second expedition of 1825-27, but not the ill-fated third expedition of 1845 on which all the members disappeared, but he did set out with a search party in 1848 which was unsuccessful.

A bound Botanical magazine with many published illustrations (1814) - colour and with printer and artist details. Published by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, printed by Stephen Couchman, London 1814, by John Sims M D Fellow of Royal and Linnean Societies, volume 39.

BRITISH GUIANA - 1938-52 $1 bright violet 'Botanical Gardens' perf 14x13 (SG 317a) u/m, fine and scarce, cat £550

A Derby botanical plate possibly painted by 'Quaker' Pegg with pattern number 197 of 'Rhododendron Ponticum Violet Colour'd Rose Bay' within the wavy diamond shaped rim, the oval foot with a gilt line, marks in blue, 30cm (11.75 in) wide Good

Eduard Quitton (Belgian, 1842-1913) In the Greenhouse signed lower right "Ed. Quitton 1877" oil on panel, unframed 64 x 46cm (25 x 18in) For a similar subject by Eduard Quitton entitled "The botanical lesson" see Christie's, New York, Wednesday, 5 September 2007, lot 68, sold for $6875. Old Christie's stencil to the reverse - 37 R and 25 (?) FI. Unframed. A little dirty and with a rubbed damage by the man's feet, and scuffed edges.

A set of twelve framed botanical prints , vases of flowers representing... A set of twelve framed botanical prints , vases of flowers representing twelve months of the year, 39cm high, 27cm wide print size

Audrey Hardcastle'PAPHIOPEDILUM X MAUDIAE X MAKULI'Signed l.c., watercolour43 x 28cm;and three other botanical studies by the same hand (4)