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A SET OF SIX ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN "FLORA DANICA" SMALL DISHES, mid 20th century, painted in polychrome enamels with named botanical specimens, "Cardamine faeroeensis Horn", "Erythraea pulchella Fr". "Arbutus Uva ursi L" (x 2), "Potentilla retusa Mull" (x 2), printed and inscribed marks, 5 1/2" diameter
A Chinese export blue and white botanical subject plate, early 18th century, the centre painted with two caterpillars crawling over an iris with a butterfly hovering nearby, the border with leafy strapwork design, highlighted in gilt, 9in.This design is based on elements taken from engraved plates in part 3 of Maria Sybille Merian`s (1647-1717) Caterpillar book published in 1717.
19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "Durham Cathedral from across the River Wear" with two fishermen in foreground, watercolour, unsigned, 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "Still life study of Summer flowers in a vase resting upon a ledge in the 17th century manner, oil on board, unsigned, 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "Group of ducks on a marshy shore line", oil on panel, unsigned, SHARMAN PARTRIDGE (20TH CENTURY) "Mute Swan", pencil study, signed and dated Jan '80, AFTER LOUISE WOOD "Two Terriers and a Lurcher beside a gate in a moonlit landscape" with five remarks, limited edition coloured print No'd 492/500, signed in pencil, and a botanical print
Presentation Packs: Collection in four albums and loose contained in two cartons, issues from 1964 to 2010, incl 1964 Geographical and Botanical Congresses, later with comprehensive ranges of commemoratives, definitives with values to £10, miniature sheets, Regionals etc, also a group of souvenir books and packs, fineCountry: QUEEN ELIZABETH II
TWO WORCESTER PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES, c. 1820-40, one Chamberlain’s, botanical, painted with a floral spray, within a gilt-highlighted apple green rim, painted mark, the other armorial, painted with a bird under the motto, “Industria et Spe”, within a gilt-highlighted green border, unmarked. First 22cm
A Hand-Colored Botanical Lithograph, Late 19th Century, ""A Hand-Colored Botanical Lithograph, Late 19th Century, Depicting Clogyne Gardneriana. Designed by V. Nugent Fitch and published by B.S. Williams. Image dimensions: h: 11.5 x w: 8.75 in. Framed dimensions: h: 22.75 x w: 19.5 in. Starting Price: $100
An early 20th century W Watson dissecting microscope and about 200 slides, the former cased with three lenses and a pair of rests to fit either side of the blackened stage, the three boxes of slides to include: a Milliken and Lawley box containing slides of hemp, jute and sisal, a box of mid 20th century box of slides prepared by the researcher, the third box mainly of botanical slides
Ward (F. Kingdon). A Plant Hunter in Tibet, 1st ed, 1934, b&w plts. after photos, folding map, orig. cloth gilt (with a few light damp spots to fore-edges of both covers), in frayed d.j., together with Plant Hunter’s Paradise, 1st ed., 1937 & The Romance of Gardening, 1st ed., 1935, b&w plts. to each, both orig. cloth in rubbed and frayed d.j.s, second title with several tears to margins, plus Cox (E. H. M.), Plant-hunting in China, A History of Botanical Exploration in China and the Tibetan Marches, 1st ed., 1945, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth, lightly damp marked, in d.j., and Ronaldshay (Earl of), Lands of the Thunderbolt, Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan, 1st ed., 1923, b&w plts. after photos, orig. blue cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, plus a copy of T. Harper Goodspeed’s, Plant Hunters in the Andes, 1st ed., 1941, covers damp marked, all 8vo (6).
Collins (Anthony). A Discourse of Free-Thinking, Occasion’d by the Rise and Growth of a Sect Call’d Free-Thinkers, 1713, some browning and marginal worming to lower margins throughout (not affecting text), ink lib. stamps to title and contents leaf, modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, (ESTCT 31966), together with another London edition of the same year, small woodcut botanical device to title, a few marginal pencil notes, modern quarter morocco gilt preserving older boards, small 8vo, (ESTCT 15358), plus Priestcraft Imperfection, or, A Detection of the Fraud of Inserting and Continuing this Clause... , 1710, 50 pp., heavy marginal spotting throughout, uncut, modern cloth, 8vo, plus two further anonymous works by Collins (5).
Green (Thomas). The Universal Herbal; or Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary, 2 vols., 2nd ed. Revised and Improved, [1824], engraved frontispiece to each (small repair to vol. I verso), additional engraved title to vol. I, 105 hand-coloured engraved plates, one or two close-trimmed, vol. I final leaf with marginal repair, occasional offsetting and spotting, presentation inscription, endpapers renewed, contemporary tan straight-grained morocco, neat reback, water stain to vol. I lower cover, 4to. (2).
Rheede tot Draakestein (Hendrik Adriaan van). Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens Regni Malabarici apud Indos celeberrimi omnis generis Plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, & Bramanum Characteribus nominibusque expressas, una cum Floribus, Fructibus & seminibus, naturali magnitudine a peritissimis pictoribus delineatas, & ad vivum exhibitas, 12 vols., Amsterdam, Joannis van Someren and Joannes van Dyck, 1678-1703, additional engraved allegorical title to vols. 1 & 3 only, 793 (of 794) fine eng. botanical plts. on 792 sheets (plts. 16 & 17 in vol. 11 on one sheet), mostly double-page, lacking only plt. 15 from vol. 9 (Watta-Kakacodi), text and plates all mounted on guards, light waterstain to vols. 4 & 5 (mostly throughout), occ. minor damp marking to extreme fore-edges of a few vols., contemp. mottled full calf, heavily rubbed and some wear, several vols. with some damp marking, morocco title and volume labels missing to several vols., together with Commelin (Caspar), Flora Malabarica sive Horti Malabarici catalogus, Leiden, Frederic Haaringh, 1696, [viii] + 71 pp., with errata to verso of final leaf, interleaved with blanks throughout, with extensive annotations in ink to final few leaves and rear endpaper by Peter Collinson and Michael Collinson, c. 1750-75, including several mounted dried specimens, some minor marks to extreme fore-margins, large engraved bookplate of Robert Lumley Lloyd of Cheam, Surrey to front pastedown of each vol., contemp. mottled full calf, gilt spine, heavily rubbed and some wear, folio (39 x 27cm)Nissen BBI 1625. Pritzel 7585. Stafleu TL2 9123. Macclesfield Library Part I: Natural History, Sotheby’s, 16 March 2004, A complete set of this lavishly illustrated work, being the first comprehensive flora of the East Indies. Many of the plants are here illustrated for the first time. The botanist Rheede tot Draakestein was governor of the Dutch colony of Malabar on the South West Coast of India from 1669 to 1676, and Chief Representative of the Dutch East India Company in India from 1684. The work was completed with the help of several colleagues in the field, including the Italian missionary Father Mattheus a St. Joseph, who produced many of the drawings. Their work was sent back to Holland, where the botanical scholars Jan Commelin and Arnold Steyn added notes and assisted in its publication. Each plate is inscribed with the plant name in Latin, Malabarese, Arabic and ancient Brahmin. Provenance: Bookplate of Robert Lumley Lloyd (1666-1729) of Cheam, Surrey, Rector of St. Paul’s, Convent Garden, and Chaplain to the Duke and Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and a keen botanist whose gardens at Cheam were highly regarded. Extensive annotations to first and last few leaves of the first and thirteenth volumes, by Peter Collinson FRS, with some additional notes by Michael Collinson, and several mounted botanical samples (with captions) of exotic plants and trees. Peter Collinson (1694-1768) was a gardener and natural scientist, particularly known for his correspondence with Benjamin Franklin concerning electricity.Collinson provides a lengthy biographical notice of his friend Lumley Lloyd to the front endpapers of the first volume, ‘These books of the Hortus Malabaricus was the Legacy of my Dear Friend Docr. Lumley Lloyd D.D. of Cheam in Surry ... he was from his youth a great Lover of Flowers & Rare Plants, he told mee when he was a young studient at Cambridge about the year 1686 that he purchased from Holland three or four seeds of the Narsturtium Indicum ... at half a crown each, being then a great rarity for it came from India but two years before, he was so impatient to see it flower that he would not stirr out of Doors least it should Blow in his Absence. He well remembered and could name all the striped flowers Auriculas that was to purchased when he was a Lad att the 12 or 14th year of his age ... He told mee a long detail of the Gardners he purchased them off & that he valued no brick for a new flower - he told mee the original or mother of all the fine Auriculas that was then in being was Raised from the Seed of an Auricula named Blinds: Cream after the name of a Gardner at Mortlack that first produced it from seed, it was a flower that had good properties and was in request in my memory, but now anno 1746 I question if it is allowed a place in the pott or is to be found; Mr. Potter, Gardner at Micham had the greatest success in raising surprising fine Flowers from Seed with whome the Docr. laid out considerably every year notwithstanding he raised great many every year ... He with Mr. Potter’s assistance raised annually an infinite variety of most charming flowers & tulips he had almost without number produced from seed & breeders. So great was his love for this flower, of which he had the finest I ever saw in any collection - that he had two long and high iron frames which inclosed Two Beds Each, with a Walk in the Middle, this was all Coverd with Canvas to screen the Tulips from the Sun, it was very agreeable viewing them in the Heat of the day under this shade. These Two Iron Frames cost Eighty Pounds - all the Ranunculas & Anemony Beds had Lower Wood Frames & Canvas coverings. He spared No Expence to prolong His Favourite Flowers… My Valuable Friend was for greatest part of his Life sadly affected with the Gout, but when he could no longer bear being wheeld about his Garden in a Little Coach, so great was his Love for his darling amusement, he had his plants & flowers brought into his Library which was finely ornamented with them’. (13).
LAET, Johannes de (1593-1649). De Imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera commentarius. Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1631. Tall 24mo (109 x 56mm). Engraved title, full-page woodcut botanical illustration (skilfully laminated throughout, some worming with occasional loss). Modern brown morocco with remnants of old calf binding, modern cloth box with velvet interior. Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate; "Central Archaeological Library, Pakistan" (stamp and numbers on verso of title, and typed note regarding the book`s restoration laid down at the front). Willems 354
A late 19th/early 20th Century Royal Worcester twelve part botanical dessert service comprising two tazzas with circular base and scrolled splayed tripod supports all decorated with gilt swag and star decoration on blue border ground and with central floral sprigs of various types, 9 ins (23 cms) diameter (catalogue illustrated)
BOITARD, CAMUZET and others. Journal et Flore des Jardins, Paris 1832, 8vo, 36 good hand coloured engraved botanical plates with tissue guards, spotting to title, quarter morocco; TOURNEFORT. Compleat Herbal, 1730, volume II only, lacking a plate, damaged binding; 3 others (sold as a collection of plates and not subject to return)
PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; peformed in the years 1819-20 in His Majesty`s Ships Hecla and Griper; Journal of Second Voyage...performed in the years 1821-22-23 in His Majesty`s Ships Fury and Hecla; Journal of a Third Voyage....performed in the years 1824-25 in His Majesty`s Ships Hecla andf Fury, 3 volumes, illustrated [Vol 1: All plates, maps and charts present as listed, pllus 6 botanical plates, Vol 2: All plates maps and charts present as listed (except lacking 1 one chart), plus 2 botanical Vol 3: 11 plates, charts and maps], cf. gt (lacking one cover, one cover detached). 4to, 1821, 1824 & 1826.
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