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Four creamware crescent-shaped Salad Dishes, c.1800, each painted with a named botanical specimen in shades of green and brown, green line borders, titled `Officinal Storax, Deadly Nightshade, Fig Tree and Foxglove` within green rims, one signed `Absolon Yarm N.25`, minor chips, 30cm (4)

Baker, Col. H. A. & Oliver, E. G. H. ERICAS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Cape Town: Purnell, 1967 first (collectors`) edition, limited to 400 copies of which this is No. 350 4to b/w & col. illustrations full leather, signed by the two authors and two artists with original clear plastic dustjacket Comments: and another of botanical interest in South Africa ? HENNESSY, ESMÉ F. & HEDGE, T. A. - The Slipper Orchids, 1989, dustjacket, inscription on front free endpaper. (2)

Rhodesian SocietySILVER JUBILEE PORTFOLIO OF BOTANICAL PRINTSSalisbury: Rhodesian Society, 1978first edition No. 350 of 500 numbered sets52 by 38cmset of six prints in full colour by various artistsLeatherette Portfolio folder with gold lettering encloses the set of loose prints Comments: and ? 6 loose coloured prints by Thomas Baines, 38 by 50cm, published by the National Archives, Salisbury and printed by Marden in January 1981. A few extreme edges of the prints have slight insect damage ? JACK, ALEX D. - Bulawayo`s Changing Skyline 1893-1980, 1979, dustjacket with slight wear. (3)

A set of six reproduction prints of fruit, together with three further botanical prints.(9)

Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei... de medica materia, Venice: Ex Officina Valgrisiana, 1565, woodcut printer`s device on title, full-page woodcut portrait within elaborate border on M6v, and over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, insects, and distillation prcesses, most of them by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, the majority filling three-quarters of the page, some soiling, pinhead wormholes and untidy early manuscript marks to title including ownership signature of Tho. Lewis dated 1663, repaired tears to three preliminaries running close to main text block and affecting some side-notes, last leaves somewhat soiled with final two leaves torn and repaired with significant loss, 17th-century blind-panelled reversed calf with later spine and repairs, thick folio (345 x 240mm) The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech) and the 1563 Neu Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but for this edition the scope was enlarged to include fine zoological cuts and genre scenes. For an account of the history of the woodblocks see Hunt 90. Adams D672; Hunt 92; Nissen 1305. (1)

Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Opera quae extant omnia: hoc est, Commentarii in VI. Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia: adjectis in margine variis Graeci textus lectionibus, ex antiquissimis Codicibus desumptis, qui Dioscoridis depravatam lectionem restituunt: a Casparo Bauhino..., editio altera, Basel: Joannis Konig, 1674, half-title, title within decorative engraved border, leaf a6 with port of Caspar Bauhin, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations throughout, woodcut dec. initials, head & tailpieces, bound without leaf AA1 (blank ?), some browning and spotting, dampstaining at head, ink stamp to half-title, title and few other leaves (mostly lower blank margins), later endpapers, contemporary vellum with blind embossed arabesque to centre of each board, rebacked with later morocco title label, upper joint slightly split at head, dust-soiled, folio (355 x 210mm) Nissen 1309. (1)

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants. Containing I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their species, or various kinds. III. Their descriptions. IV. Their places of growth. V. Their times of flowering and seeding. VI. Their qualities or properties. VII. Their specifications. VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick. IX Their virtues and uses. X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists..., 1st edition, 1st issue, H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, title printed in red & black (with ink stamp to upper blank margin of the Manor House, Knowle), numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, lacks addn. engraved title, short worm trail to title and initial leaves, few other worm holes, first & last few leaves with marginal fraying, two leaves at rear of volume torn to lower outer corners with loss and repaired, seven other leaves at rear of volume strengthened to lower outer corners with archival tissue, some browning & spotting, endpapers renewed, upper pastedown trimmed to reveal earlier endpaper beneath with ownership signature of J.H. Kimbell and also with presentation label to the British Medical Institute from Dr William Watson Newton, manuscript poetry to rear pastedown with the dates 1762 & 1769 and the name John Fry, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, board edges and corners repaired, folio (367 x 220mm) Henrey 1308. This copy includes the additional unnumbered pages consisting of an Index morborum`. (1)

After S. Edwards - Flower Study, early 19th Century colour print, together with a large collection of prints, all Botanical Studies.

A pair of Staffordshire pottery figure groups, late 19th Century, modelled as children seated on the backs of goats, on oval gilt lined bases (faults), a Staffordshire porcelain part dessert service, circa 1868-1870, decorated with botanical studies within turquoise and gilt borders, comprising two tazze and five plates (faults), two ribbon border plates, a Royal Doulton `Rochester Castle` plate and a collection of other various plates (some faults).

A GROUP OF VICTORIAN MINTON HAND-DECORATED BOTANICAL DESSERT WARES comprising a comport and eight plates, the comport of dished circular form, the pierced interlaced design border interspersed with oval reserves of insects and a lion head crest all enclosing a well painted botanical study, all raised on three down-sweeping scrolling and gilt enriched supports with swag ornaments, finishing with a pierced circular foot, the plates of conforming design and decoration, each having a printed puce Minton mark for Phillips 359 Oxford Street, 155 New Bond Street London. 16cm(h) x 26cm(d) & 23.5cm(d)

A large collection of stamps in albums and stock books, including Great Britain from Queen Victoria, first day covers from 1937, presentation packs, including 1964 botanical, booklets, including two £1 Wedgwood, Channel Islands, Canada and the world.

An important folio of botanical paintings by Miss Eliza Blyth (1820-1894) Bearing Inter-colonial exhibition label, Tasmania 1866 no. 560 exhibited by Miss Blyth, residence Hobart Town Comprising; 1. Epactis Impressa, initialed EB Sept, 24 x 14.5cm 2. Caterpillar of Saturnia, initialed EB dated Feb 18/64, 27 x 18cm 3. Kenmedya Peostrata no. 2. Euphscaria Multi sculras. 3. Pleurandia paseriflora, initialed E B Oct ’65, 27 x 18cm 4. Gosieperma, volubiles 2. Sieria lanceolata, initialed EB Oct 65, 27 x 18cm 5. 1. Corea bitens 2. Daviesia latifolia 3. Casia corgsoxbosa, initialed EB, 26.5 x 18cm 6. Beysia biscosa soriguel, initialed EB, Sept 65, 26.5 x 18cm 7. 1. duplasshesia moraea 2. Caladenia patersonia 3. Craespodia bichea 8. Solamerne, initialed EB, Nov 65, 26.5 x 18cm 9. 1. Goodernia 2. Robclea pluviatilia, initialed EB Nov 24, 65, 26.5 x 18cm 10. 1. Leacia vesticillata 2. Bauesa subioides 3. Dellwynia gloribunda 4. Thelymitra ixioides 5. Epacris impressa, initialed EB Nov 65, 27 x 18cm 11. 1. Billasdiesa longiflora 2. Eurybia gunseii, initialed EB Dec 65, 27 x 18cm 12. 1. Geranium pelasgorium australa 2. Hibbestia procumbens 3. Helioterponia, Initialled EB Dec 65, 27 x 18cm 13. Eucalyptus, initialed EB Jan 66, 26.5 x 18cm 14. 1. cyathodes glaucies 2. Parstanthesa cavianthas, initialed EB Feb 65, 27 x 18cm 15. 1. hibbestia visgata 2. Tetrathica glasidulosa, dated Oct 28 ’62, 24.5 x 17cm 16. Delspeatum, 26.5 x 18cm 17. Eucalyptus globulus, 27 x 18cm 18. Anspterus glandedosus fraturelauret, initialed EB Dec ’66, 26 x 18cm 19. Blanfordia masgentata, initialed EB Dec ’67, 26.5 x 18cm 20. Illegibly titled lower left in pencil, 27 x 18cm 21. Untitled - gum branch and moth, 27 x 18cm Together with an unsigned and untitled floral study on card, 19 x 15cm

A miscellaneous quantity of items, 19th century and later, to include a Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee glass and painted plate, a Chinese porcelain famille verte bowl, a botanical plate and a collection of teapots, (a lot), (a/f).

English School, 20th century,- Basket of flowers on marble table; watercolours on paper, four, initialled AEB, in matching ebonised and hand painted frames, ea. 27x37cm: After Emanual Sweert, German 1552-1612- `Dracunicul del Serpentaria Maier` and three other botanical studies from `Florilegium`; restrikes with later hand colouring, max. 33x22cm: together with nine other botanical prints; collaptype, printed in colours, eight in matching hand gilded frames by Trowbridge, according to label attached verso, ea. 33x22.5cm (17) (a lot)

A set of four framed and glazed botanical prints.

An oval gilt framed wall mirror; a pair of botanical prints; etc (5)

Stone ware flagons - F.W. & J.V. Dakin, Botanical Brewers, Beeston; etc; a set of scales; other stoneware etc

Edwards (Sydenham). Insects by Sydenham Edwards, a late 18th or early 19th century manuscript notebook by Sydenham Edwards, containing 130 leaves of handwritten notes in dark brown ink, with find hand-coloured illustrations, almost certainly drawn from life, with later handwritten title at front ‘Insects by Sydenham Edwards, Given me by Mrs Edwards Sept. 1833. Edwd. E. Antrobus’, a.e.g., early 19th c. plum full morocco, titled in gilt to spine Insects, and with Sydenham Edwards lettered in gilt to foot of spine, rubbed to joints and extreme corners, 8vo (18.5 x 12 cm). Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) was born in Usk, Monmouthshire, and when only eleven years old displayed his prodigious skills in draughtsmanship by copying plates from the Flora Londinensis. He was quickly apprenticed to William Curtis in London, and for twenty-seven years produced many of the drawings published in Curtis’ monthly Botanical Magazine. Edmund Edward Antrobus, of Bath Lodge, Trafalgar Square, was the son of a director of Coutts Bank, and a dealer in tea, with premises at 446 The Strand. (1)

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants. Containing I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their species, or various kinds. III. Their descriptions. IV. Their places of growth. V. Their times of flowering and seeding. VI. Their qualities or properties. VII. Their specifications. VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick. IX Their virtues and uses. X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists..., 1st ed., 1st issue, London: Printed by I. Dawks, for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, addn. eng. title, letterpress title printed in red & black and with ink ownership of Robert Montgomery, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, leaf 5K1 slightly torn to upper margin (slightly affecting running title), occasional spotting to few leaves (mostly light), some dampstaining mostly to margins, final leaf lined to verso, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, new spine and returns, leather patch to upper board, folio. Henrey 1308. This copy includes the additional unnumbered pages consisting of an ‘Index morborum’. Armorial bookplate of Robert Montgomery, Convoy, Co. Donegal. (1)

Sowerby (John E. and Johnson, C. Pierpoint). British Wild Flowers, Re-Issue to which is now Added a Supplement, 1882, 90 hand-coloured lithographed plates, two uncoloured plates, a few light spots front and rear, a.e.g., original green cloth gilt, edges a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary. Comprising the Names, History and Culture of all Plants Known in Britain, Revised and Corrected by Samuel Hereman, c. 1868, partly unopened, some spotting, original green cloth gilt, 8vo. Provenence: first work inscribed: “Laura Bradbury, Tenby, August 22nd 1887”. Laura Bradbury was the wife of William Bradbury, of London publishers Bradbury and Evans (later Bradbury and Agnew) and sister of Thomas Agnew of publishers Thomas Agnew & Sons. (2)

Thornton (Robert John). Temple of Flora, Or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher, 1st ed., 1812, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, two engraved titles, 28 hand-finished colour mixed media plates, two uncoloured plates, mostly after Peter Henderson and Philip Reinagle, Stapelias plate with repaired marginal tear, one or two other leaves with repaired tear, occasional light spotting and stains, contemporary maroon morocco-backed boards, edges lightly rubbed, 4to. One of the greatest botanical books and the first separate quarto edition. Originally published as part of Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus (1799-1807). Although few of the plates are of scientific interest, the stylised depictions with accompanying romantic, historical and allegorical text by Thornton achieved his aim of producing an unsurpassed botanical work, although financially ruinious due to the cost of the plates. Dunthorne 302; Great Flower Book p.77. (1)

* Turpin (Francois Rene & Poiteau Pierre-Antoine). Melastoma mucronata, Melastoma nivea, Melastoma octona, Melastoma coccinea, Melastoma ciliata [and] Melastoma caudata, Paris [1816 - 23], set of six botanical engravings by E.Bouquet with contemp. printed colours and finished by hand, occ. slight spotting, each approx. 435 x 280 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. Originally published in ‘Monographie des Melastomacees Rhexies’ by Aime Bonpland and Friedrich Wilkelm Humbolt, part 2 of the monumental six section work ‘Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent’. (6)

* Wallpaper Designs. A collection of sixteen Art Deco wall paper samples, n.d., c.1925, pochoir printed, several heightened with gold, each approx. 270 x 180 mm, mounted, together with a small collection of seven printed textile designs, each heightened with gouache, each approx. 170 x 160 mm, mounted, with approx. forty colour printed chromolitho. plts. of design and architecture, each approx. 320 x 210 mm, plus Davids (Arlette), Twenty-five botanical prints, Paris, c.1950, colour prints, each approx, 350 x 250 mm, mounted, with Piranesi (J.B.), Oeuvres Choisies, pub. Auguste Vincent, Paris, 1913, approx. sixty (only) b & w prints, each approx. 340 x 250 mm, contained in pubs. orig. cloth portfolio, stained and worn, and Gailhabaud (Jules), L’Architecture du Vme. au XVIIme. Siecle et les Arts qui en Dépendent, vol. 1 (only), Paris, 1854, approx. eighty-five b & w eng. plts. and occ. col. chromolitho. plts., later cloth boards, lacking spine, rear board detached, 4to. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (approx.220)

Nine framed Fish prints, in three frames, and two Botanical prints

The New Naturalist, The Common Lands of England and Wales, British Mammals, The Art of Botanical Illustration, The Weald, all with d.w., some damaged, and Britain`s Structure and Scenery, all 1st edit (5)

Buxton R: Botanical Guide to the Flowering Plants . . . . . within 16 miles of Manchester 1849; Grindon L H: Manchester Walks asnd Wild Flowers, n.d. and The Manchester Flora, 1859; The Flora of Ashton-under-Lyne and District, 1888

A set of 19thC botanical microscope slides and zoological microscope slides, approximately seventy two slides, makers include Flaters, Milbourne and Mckechnie Ltd, E Hinton, Smith Beck and Beck, C M Topin etc.

POSTAGE STAMPS. GB PRESENTATION PACKS, AN EXTENSIVE POSSIBLY COMPLETE COLLECTION FROM BETTER EARLIER ISSUES ONWARDS INCLUDING- FOURTH ROAD BRIDGE, GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS AND BOTANICAL CONGRESS ALL 1964, CHURCHILL, PARLIAMENT AND BURNS IN THREE BINDERS

PHILLIPS, Roger & Rix, Martyn. The Botanical Garden, 2 vols, illustrated, cloth in d/w in slipcase, 4to, 2002. With 2 boxes of general books.

Nine botanical colour prints in gilt frames

A mid-19th Century English porcelain part-dessert service, decorated in colours with botanical subjects, within gilded borders, comprising; six comports in sizes and ten plates, some damage, c1860, (16).

An early 20th Century lithographic print "See Winter Comes... Sullen and Sad....."; a lithographic botanical print The Cherokee Rose and another (3)

A Small Collection of Ceramics, to include botanical 19th Century plates and other items

A Collection of Pictures and Prints, depicting exotic birds and botanical together with a small collection of table linen

Early 20th century Japanese school, two simulated bamboo framed and glazed watercolour botanical studies.

Three framed and glazed botanical watercolour studies, tulip, pansy and lily (British late 20th century).

Ten framed and glazed pictures and prints, including: a gilt framed print of a Roman chariot race, four botanical prints, a photograph of an allied bomber over the desert and three framed prints of Montevideo.

A framed and glazed set of three Edwardian postcards after Barham, together with various other pictures and prints, including: an Edwardian watercolour study of cats making Christmas pudding, two botanical watercolours and other items.

Late 19th Century School - `Cupid`s Mirror`, `Fame` and `Cupid`s P*`, three prints on silk, 4.5" x 6", 2.5" x 3" and 2.5" x 3" respectively, framed; 19th Century School - pair of romantic scenes, highlighted prints, tondo, both framed, both 3" diameter; together with pair of biblical studies and pair of botanical prints (7)

Charles McIntosh, Flora and Pomona or The British Fruit and Flower Garden, published London 1829 containing descriptions of the most valuable and interesting flowers and fruits cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, with figures drawn and coloured from nature; accompanied by a concise analysis of their botanical and pomonological character, their nature and mode of culture, including a definition of the technical terms used in the science of botany, with familiar instructions for the drawing and colouring of the fruits and flowers, 57 coloured plates

Circle of George Engleheart, Portrait of `William Aiton Esqre. author of Hortus Kewensis`, shoulder length, 6.4cm x 5.3cm, oval. Titled verso. In a verre ŽglomisŽ slip and a black papier mache rectangular frame. From the portrait by George Engleheart in the collection of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew (accession no. LO 001) William Aiton (1731-1793) was born near Hamilton in Scotland. Having been trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established botanical garden at Kew, where he remained until his death. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of the plants cultivated there.

A leather and cloth bound accounts ledger, a Shaw & Sons Ltd accounts ledger, two further red Morocco and brass mounted account ledgers by Waterlow Bros & Leyton, a large red and black cloth bound visitor`s book (unused), seven volumes "Elizabeth II Public General Acts" cloth and velum bound, three leather ledger spines, B H Smart "A New Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language", published London 1836, one volume "The Quiver - an illustrated magazine for Sunday and general reading", published Cassell & Company 1884 and various other hardback titles, together with two botanical coloured prints

Two boxes of assorted prints to include a set of six 19th Century French fashion prints, various botanical prints, a set of three hunting prints, a reproduction Tombleson`s "Panoramic Map of the Thames and Medway, circa 1973" and a giltwood wall mirror

A SCHLOSS "Fifth Avenue", artist`s proof print, signed in pencil, five Japanese coloured prints depicting figures in landscapes, six similar prints, six botanical prints, etc

A Collection of Four Reproduced Botanical Lithographs, Engravings by Joseph Mulder (1658-ca.1728) and Jan Pieter Sluyter from Maria Sybilla Merian`s series `Insects of Surinam` (Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium). Note condition: good condition overall, small stain in lower right corner of one.

A similar collection, mostly botanical - see illustration

Two Derby botanical twin handled tureens with covers, 19th century, of shaped oval form, the handles terminating in lion masks, overall decorated with wild rose and anemone respectively and stylised gilded design, terminating in paw feet, bearing Derby marks and botanical names under base, width 17 cm (damaged), (a/f); a Derby shell shaped bon bon dish with scalloped edge, early 19th century, overall decorated with flowers and gilding, bearing Derby mark, width 24 cm (a/f); a pair of dishes, of shaped oval form, 19th century, overall decorated with wild flowers, bearing indistinct makers mark, width 29 cm; together with a quantity of Derby and Derby style items, to include bon bon dishes, tureens with covers, and a cabinet cup and saucer, (a/f) (a lot)

British School, mid 19th century- Watering horses in a village pond; pencil and watercolour, 11x17.5cm: British School, early 19th century- Figures by a river with a bridge and dwelling in an Italianate landscape; pencil and brown watercolour wash, mounted in a 19th century gilt gesso empire style frame, 10x17cm: British School, early-mid 19th century- View of fortified village; pen and grey/black ink and wash, pencil and watercolour, 8x14cm: Circle of Charles West Cope, British 1811-1890- A mountain track; pencil and watercolour, 8.2x10.7cm: Circle of Myles Birket Foster RWS, British 1825-1899- An old fence; black and coloured chalk on grey/brown paper, bears initials, 8.5x9.5cm: Attributed to Lowis James Steele, British 1843-1919- "Notting Hill, 1871"; pen and black ink and watercolour, 4x7cm. Provenance: with The Little Gallery, London according to label attached to the reverse of the frame: British School, 19th century- Figures in an alpine landscape; watercolour, 9.5x7.4cm: British School, 19th century- Botanical study; watercolour, 19x12.5cm: Circle of Paul Sandby RA, British 1730-1809- Sleeping dog; pen and black and brown ink and wash over pencil, 5.5x10.2cm Provenance: with J S Maas & Co Ltd, London, according to label attached to the reverse (9)

A selection of six Aynsley and Royal Worcester incl. Bud Vase, Ashtray, Knife and Plates; and a framed Ltd. edition. Wedgwood Tile ``yellow botanical``

"*Contemporary hand-made wool rug by Claire Murray, botanical decoration on a black background, 37" x 58" (Lot subject to VAT)"

Two framed botanical prints and four other similar.(6)

*Botany. A collection of approx. 500 botanical prints, c.1870s/80s, mostly chromos. from J. Linden`s ÒL`Illustration HorticoleÓ, many plates double-page and with accompanying text leaves, mostly contained in modern folders, together with other similar chromos. from different publications incl. Garten-Zeitung, etc. (approx. 500)

Rowlands (Henry). Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, the Antient Seat of the British Druids. In Two Essays. With an appendix..., 1st ed., Dublin, 1723, title printed in red & black, ten eng. plts., some dampstaining and browning, contemp. calf (lower board only), later brown paper covered upper board and spine, 4to, together with Evans (Rev. J.), A Tour through Part of North Wales, in the Year 1798, and at other Times; Principally undertaken with a view to Botanical Researches in that Alpine Country..., 1800, slight dampstaining and marginal browning, modern half calf gilt, spine slightly faded, 8vo, and Pennant (Thomas), Tours in Wales..., 3 vols., new ed., Caernarvon, 1883, b & w plts., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus other Wales related, mostly 20th c. publications (15)

Lindley (John). Rosarum Monographia; or A Botanical History of Roses, to which is added, An Appendix, for the Use of Cultivators, in which the most remarkable garden varieties are systematically arranged, 1st ed., 1820, eighteen fine hand-col. eng. plts and one uncol. (complete), plts. lightly toned and some close-trimmed with loss of platemark, ex. lib., with ink stamp on verso of title-page and reverse of plts., recto of title with ms. shelfmark numbers, first and final leaves foxed, floral endpapers, lib. bookplate on front pastedown, early 20th c. blue calf, soiled, spine faded, lib. blind stamp on covers, 8vo. Nissen 1204. (1)

Thornton (Robert John). Elementary Botanical Plates, Illustrative of the Science of Botany, [and] A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 vols., 1810, vol. I with engraved dedication, 26 engraved portraits and 75 mixed media plates including three double-page; vol. II with engraved frontispiece, three engraved titles, four tables and 89 engraved plates, including two double-page, a few close-trimmed affecting imprint, a few light spots, contemporary calf gilt, lightly rubbed, folio. (2)

*Botany. A mixed collection of approx. fifty engravings and lithographs, mostly 18th & 19th century, including sixteen chromolithographs from Florilegium Harlemense, twenty-seven uncoloured botanical engravings from John Hill`s ÔThe Vegetable System` and seven hand coloured engravings from a similar work, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.50)

*Curtis (William). A collection of approx. 250 engravings, originally published in ÔThe Botanical Magazine`, c.1787 - 1820, engravings with original hand colouring, occ. spotting and offsetting, each approx. 210 x 125 mm (approx.250)

*Hill (John). A collection of approx. forty-five botanical engravings, c.1760, hand coloured engravings, occ. slight spotting and dust soiling, each approx. 380 x 240 mm (approx.45)

*Verneuil (M.P.). Encyclopedie Artistique et Documentaire de la Plante, vols. 1 - 3 (of 4), pub. Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, c.1910, 221 (only) litho. and photographic monotone botanical prints contained loose in three contemp. card portfolios (as published), each approx. 330 x 250 mm, together with another eighteen examples mounted. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (239)

A quantity of framed prints and engravings on paper, 19th/20th Century mainly hunting scenes and botanical studies (31), smallest 4" x6", largest 13 3/4" x 9 3/4".