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A Spode botanical dessert service, c.1820-25, the wells finely painted in pattern 4373 with mixed specimens of native flowers reserved within café au lait borders with moulded detailing in gilt and white, printed marks. Comprising: an oval comport, four large oval dishes, two small oval dishes, three handles dishes and seven plates. (17)

A Portmeirion Botanical garden pattern bowl, Losel ware biscuit barrel, C19th jardiniere, Copeland Spode blue and white dish, etc.

A pair of early botanical Engravings

Large Portmerion Botanical Bread Crock

A matched set of six late 18th century botanical engravings, hand-coloured, later framed and glazed, each 19 x 10cm

A JAPANESE BOTANICAL WATERCOLOUR with five specimen flowers and calligraphy, framed and glazed 10ins x 36ins overall.

A late 19th Century continental dessert service, comprising a pair of oval dishes, pair of oblong dishes and seven plates, each with shell and scroll moulded rim and over painted transfer print of botanical studies to the centre and border (11)

AN EXTENSIVE EARLY 19TH CENTURY SWANSEA CREAMWARE BOTANICAL DINNER SERVICE comprising: two sauce tureens, 6.25" high x 9" wide; a comport, 5.2" high x 11.25" wide; twenty two side plates, 8.75" dia.; two deep bowls, 8" dia.; two lozenge-shaped bowls, 11" long; two star-shaped dishes, 10" long; and two rectangular dishes, 10" x 8.5", each piece decorated with flowers and inscribed on the underside in puce or black script stamped Swansea (one plate unmarked) (33 pieces) Provenance: The Batten Family, Church Farm, Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset.

AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY CREAMWARE BOTANICAL PEDESTAL BOWL, three dinner plates, a shallow soup bowl and side plate, each painted with flowers, the dinner plates, soup bowls and pedestal dish inscribed in red and puce on the underside (6) Provenance: The Batten Family, Church Farm, Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset.

SUN QUA (late 19th century) A study of flowers in bloom, gouache on pith paper, signed in the centre, 7" x 12"; and a botanical illustration attributed to Lam Qua, 9.25" x 8" (2) Provenance: The Collection of the late John Walden (1925-2013).

CHINESE ARTIST (late 19th century/early 20th century) Five botanical illustrations, the largest example 18" x 13", the smallest 15" x 12" (5) Provenance: The Collection of the late John Walden (1925-2013).

Kate Nessler (contemporary), Botanical specimens, a group of four watercolours, all signed and dated '95, the largest 57cm x 32cm.(4)

PURTON (T.) A Botanical Description of British Plants, in the Midland Counties, particularly of those in the neighbourhood of Alcester . . . First Edition, 2 vols.; 8 hand-coloured engraved plates, half titles; uncut in original grey boards, printed spine labels. Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1817; together with vol. iii ('An Appendix') in 2 vols. (i.e. pts. I & II). First Edition. with 30 hand-coloured plates (2 folded), half titles, bound as previous. 1821. * a very scarce set; inscribed by the author (to a named collaborator) on first half title.

HENREY (B.) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 . . . First Edition, 3 vols. coloured plates & other illus.; gilt-lettered cloth, in slipcase. roy. 8vo. Oxford University Press, 1975. * being a history & bibliography; a major 20th cent. publication in this field

A set of four Chinese rectangular soapstone seals with character inscription and engraved Botanical decoration, 4'' long

A set of four framed Botanical prints, 3½'' x 4½'', Best Bid

An extensive collection of 19th century and other ceramics including four Minton tiles with brown printed stylised sunflower and other botanical decoration, various meat plates, a yellow ground jug and basin set (displayed on floor below shelf), a pair of unusual vases with drawn necks and applied figures of climbing children, a pair of Sylvac yellow ground wall pockets modelled as shells, a Torquay ware hat pin holder with cockerel design, etc

A selection of Sotheby's and Sotheby's Belgravia auction catalogues, mostly 1970's; together with a selection of botanical books (two shelves)

Emma Churchyard, pair of watercolour botanical studies, one signed and dated April 1870

Set of four chromolithographs of interior scenes with woman and children and two other prints together with a print after Gauguin and two botanical prints

Eleven botanical prints

A pair of Chinese still life aquatints of flowers, another pair on silk and a single botanical print (5)

Three Boxes Of Old Earthenware Storage Jars, Bottles & Jelly Moulds, Some Named To Include Cinammon Sugar, Barley, Raisins, Marmalade, Philpotts Footwarmer, Botanical Beverages Bolton, Home Made Pickles Etc 19th/20thC A/F Plus 2 Staffordshire Spaniels

Botanical and colour plate interest - Curtiss'sBotanical Magazine upwards of 60 hand-coloured plates.

Dora Mills, Three Botanical Studies, pastels, signed; E Edard, Still Life, Yellow Roses in a Vase, signed, oil on canvas; another (5)

A pair of Sampson Hancock shaped circular Botanical specimen plates, painted with tulip and honeysuckle, pierced border picked out in gilt, 23cm diam, S, H, crown, crossed swords and D mark in red and puce

Collection of Spode items from the George Worlock Collection including a Spode "New Fayence" oblong dish, lamp in "Silver Birch" pattern and 19thC pedestal bowl with botanical decoration

Judy Ball, limited edition coloured botanical etching, together with a humorous sporting cartoon after S. Dier. Framed and glazed. (2)

A set of six Royal Worcester botanical coffee cans and saucers, boxed

Three framed c1950s Margaret Melville botanical tapestries.

Elspeth Harrigan Botanical Watercolour Signed, in glazed giltwood frame, 55 x 40cm

A Suite of Twelve Colour Reproduction Prints of Botanical Subjects, each in matching glazed parcel gilt and green painted moulding frames, 37x25.5cm., ea., (12)

Minnie Walters Anson, British 1875-1959- "Catta II Fabia var Prince of Wales", botanical study of an orchid; watercolour, signed, and dated 1913, bears inscription, 36.5x25.5cm (may be subject to Droit de Suite)

A Collection of Drawings in Pencil, traditionally held to be drawings done as demonstrations by the tutors of the artist Dorothy L Swain (nee May), British b.1922, whilst a student at the Wimbledon School of Art 1937-41 and at The Royal College of Art 1944-46, to include life and nude studies, portraits, botanical and architectural compositions. The drawings bear attributions to James Hockey, Robert Baker, Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Charles Mahoney, Robert Austin, Percy Horton, Robert Buhler, Lionel Ellis and Noel Laura Nisbet, various sizes, many of of irregular shape, 22x41cm., (max) (18) (unframed) Note: The artist Dorothy L Swain was born in SW London, studied at Wimbledon School of Art and The Royal College of Art, broken by war work. She exhibited at the RA in 1954 and 1958 and was included in the 1959 Royal Academy touring exhibition organised by The Art Exhibitions Bureau.

A quantity of pictures and and prints to include a print of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Rory McEwan Botanical Paintings poster, an Ayers Sarsaparilla poster, an Annie Firth original on canvas, and a series of prints from 'The Little Go To Sleep Book' by Juliet Harmer 1985, published by Collins. (5)

A box of botanical books - as listed

Late 19th century Continental School, two botanical studies, oil on canvas, indistinctly signed and dated lower right. H.71cm W.33.5cm

Set of nine 19th Century Copeland dessert plates painted with botanical specimens within pale blue and gilt borders

Harold Moorcroft (brother of William), two watercolour botanical studies mounted on a single card, irises and daisies, one signed with monogram, both bearing E.S.K. embossed stamp, each 15ins x 10ins, the margin bearing an original paper label with students name Moorcroft, date 1900 and age 20 (damages to the margins of the card)

Pair of 19th Century oval gilt framed watercolours, botanical studies, signed and dated 1878

A Pair of Early Derby Named Botanical Plates (A/F) and pair of Chamberlains Worcester floral decorated plates 

Three botanical style prints. Each measuring 7 1/2'' x 9 1/4''

Two Botanical Prints in gilt frames with green mounts.

Two Joan Stenlake watercolour/wash fashion paintings together with 4 framed botanical prints

Fanny Jane Bayfield watercolour - Still Life Botanical study - monogrammed and dated 1890 - 1.5 cm x 27.5 cm Condition report: No obvious faults

First Day cover collection of the scarce Phosphor issues 1962 NPY to 1967 Flowers. The Collection includes some better covers including 1962 NPY Slogan, 1963 Freedom from hunger Southampton T, 1964 Botanical, Southampton, etc. Retail is over £500.

Curtis, William. The Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, volumes 1-20 only, 786 hand-coloured plates, titles cropped, some browning, contemporary diced half calf, worn and repaired, 8vo, London: Stephen Couchman, et al., 1790-1804, sold w.a.f. N.B. This run lacks volume 12

Robert Desmond Meikle was born on 18th May, 1923, in Newtownards, County Down, N.Ireland. His childhood in Ireland and his mother's love of nature fostered an early enthusiasm for botany. Known by his second name, Desmond, his formal education began early at the Royal Belfast Academy and led eventually to Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained 1st class honours in his chosen subject, law, and distinguished himself in the LlB examination. Throughout his University studies his obvious love for and knowledge of plants was encouraged by famous botanists of that era and with them he embarked upon plant recording in County Fermanagh; this led eventually to the recent publication (by others) of the Flora of County Fermanagh based upon the work done nearly 60 years previously. Desmond's future was not to be in the field of law despite a visit to London for an interview with the Administrative Civil Service. This was followed by a fortuitous visit to Kew Botanical Gardens, where he had many contacts gained from his interest in plants, and where he was offered a place in the Herbarium, which he accepted, and which changed his life-plan for ever. In time he was appointed to the Africa department and in 1949 went to Nigeria for a Medicinal Plants Survey. Returning in 1950 he was promoted to take charge of the European and Middle Eastern department of the Herbarium which gave him a good grounding for his next appointment. The government of the time was committed to the production of a Flora of Cyprus and Desmond accepted the monumental task of compiling a detailed account of the unique flora of this island. This occupied him for the next thirty years when the outstanding 2-volume Flora was published. His work and travels in that country made a lasting impression and he came to love both Cyprus and the Cypriots despite having worked there in a very difficult period of the 1960's political upheavals. Meanwhile he was appointed editor of the Kew series of Handbooks and author of two of the volumes. He was a council member of the Linnaean Society and also of the Botanical Society of the British Isles whilst holding a variety of offices in global scientific organisations which led to travels all over the world. In 1982 he was a recipient of the Kew Medal which is inscribed "For Merit" given to those deserving of special honour and in June 1983 was awarded O.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours. He retired from Kew after 37 years of distinguished service to botany and a career which made him renowned throughout the world. His lifelong attachment and respect for books is reflected in the diverse array of his life-long collection. We are grateful to Jeanne Webb for this biography. Barton, Richard. Lectures in Natural Philosophy, designed to be a foundation, for reasoning pertinently, upon the Petrifications, Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of Logh Neagh in Ireland, first edition, engraved frontispiece, map and 5 plates, 3 of them folding, contemporary calf, extremities worn, 4to, Dublin: For the Author, 1751

Henrey, Blanche. British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3 volumes, first edition, plates, original cloth, 4to, Oxford: University Press, 1975

Remaining Books from the Library of Robert Desmond Meikle, OBE, BA, LlB, comprising upwards of 500 volumes, mostly pertaining to algae, moss, lichens, seaweeds and other flora, including species monographs, regional surveys, specialist journals and works of general botanical interest, the majority in original bindings, the earlier works in contemporary calf or morocco, those from the mid-nineteenth century in cloth and the more recent in original wrappers or cloth, various sizes (c.500) Works include the following; Braithwaite, R. The British Moss-Flora, 3 volumes, original cloth, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1887; Loudon, J.C. An Encyclopedia of Plants, 2 volumes, half calf, 8vo, London: Longman, Rees, Orme et al, 1829; Deslongchamps, J.L.A. Loiseleur. Flora Gallica, 2 volumes, half morocco, 8vo, Paris, 1828; Withering, William. An Arrangement of British Plants, 4 volumes, third edition, half calf, uncut, 8vo, Birmingham: For the Author, 1796; Wade, Walter. Plantae Rariores in Hibernia, half calf, 8vo, Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, 1804; Turner, Dawson. Muscologiae Hibernicae Spicilegium, calf, 8vo, Yarmouth: J. Black, 8vo, 1804; Hooker, William Jackson. Muscologia Britannica, second edition, original boards, London: Longman et al, 8vo, 1827; Murray, Richard Paget. The Flora of Somerset, half calf, Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 8vo, 1896; Greville, Robert. Algae Britannicae, hand-coloured plates, half calf, 8vo, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1830; Martyn, Thomas. Elements of Natural History, contemporary calf, Cambridge, 1775; Smith, Annie Lorrain. A Monograph of the British Lichens, 2 volumes, original cloth, London: Longmans, et al., 1918; Davis, P.H., editor. Flora of Turkey, 9 volumes, original cloth, 8vo, Edinburgh: University Press, 1965-85; Flora Mediterranea, volumes 1-17, original wrappers, Palermo: Optima, 1991-2007.

Early 19th century album of poems including a botanical illustration dated 1818

Five postcard and scrap albums of various subjects and a book of military marching music CONDITION REPORT: 1) Lumen Christi Stamps Alphabet prints Comic prints Oddities A few large scrapes 2) Album Pour Carte Postales Postcards Edwardian/ Pre War Romantic Photographic Comic 3) Small brown leather and card covered Sketches Valentines Pasted in 19th century prints Bookplates 4) Large pink ground album 35 pages of scraps Fish, Birds and animals Circus and hunting scenes Early railway and fire brigade scraps Maritime scenes and lighthouses Botanical and sports 5) Album collections 31 sides with scraps and 7 sides with large singles Collection adverts Lot scraps, figures, animals and birds 6) Henry Keeler The May Day Quadrilles

THE BOTANICAL REGISTER: ..., L, 1823, vol 9, 94 plts (92 col'd of which 4 dbl pge), old hf cf worn, top bd detchd

Pictures - prints, Botanical, ornithological; contemporary unframed, landscape, floral ; etc

Two Wedgwood pearlware foliate pattern square dishes and a Swansea botanical pearlware plate with decoration by Pardoe Condition Report: Botanical plate - Light crazing throughout. One faint hairline crack to rim (1” long). Impressed mark S beneath and titled in red 'Alpine, Aster' Wedgwood plates both imressed WEDGWOOD '7' and with No219 in blue underneath. One has hairlines, crazing and restoration to the corner, the other is good with just light scratches.

after the 18th Century/named specimens: Six Botanical Prints/hand coloured and framed, 44cm x 32cm

Group of assorted furnishing prints including cricketing and botanical. (8)

Two framed botanical prints; and a quantity of framed and unframed topographical prints.

Five framed coloured botanical prints; together with three coloured prints of river scenes.

After John Gould FRS, British 1804-1881 and Elizabeth Gould, British 1804-1841- "Trogon Teminurus", ""Trogon Collaris", "Trogon Ambigutus" and "Haematospiza Sipahi"; colour reproduction prints, mounted in matching glazed gilt frames, 38.5x26.5cm: together with two botanical prints, (6)