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Oates (Frank) Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls: A Naturalist`s Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa edited by C.G.Oates second edition half-title mounted engraved portrait 6 chromolithographed plates 14 lithographed natural history plates all but one hand-coloured 4 folding engraved maps with partial hand-colouring plain plates and illustrations 8pp. advertisements at end some marginal staining to final map hinges weak original pictorial cloth gilt small ink stain to top corner of upper cover rubbed at extremities still a very good copy [Wood p.497] 8vo 1889. *** This second edition contains additional material particularly on birds by R.Bowdler Sharpe; with 2 plates of birds (by Keulemans) 2 of snakes 5 of insects and 5 botanical.
(Dr. Robert) Group of 4 plates for The Temple of Flora 4to edition comprising Agave or American Aloe; The Blue Egyptian Water Lily; The Blue Passion Flower; The Persian Cyclamen aquatints part-printed in colours and finished by hand sheet size each c.370 x 290mm. pale even browning passion flower with minor marginal spotting and surface dirt 1812; with 2 original hand-coloured botanical lithographs for Mrs Loudon (6) (Dr. Robert) Group of 4 plates for The Temple of Flora 4to edition comprising Agave or American Aloe; The Blue Egyptian Water Lily; The Blue Passion Flower; The Persian Cyclamen aquatints part-printed in colours and finished by hand sheet size each c.370 x 290mm. pale even browning passion flower with minor marginal spotting and surface dirt 1812; with 2 original hand-coloured botanical lithographs for Mrs Loudon (6)
Botany. WITHERING (W) An Arrangement of British Plants, 6th edition in 4 vols, 1818, 8vo (bindings rubbed); STEBLER and SCHROTER, The Best Forage Plants, London 1889, coloured plates, cloth backed boards; RATTRAY (J) Folding Botanical Chart, in 2 sections, circa 1850, cloth binding; CULPEPER (N) Complete Herbal, new edition London 1848, 4to, coloured plates (somewhat soiled and worn) (7)
A late Victorian mahogany specimen cabinet, containing an exceptional collection of biological microscope slides, the moulded pediment surmounted with a brass carry handle, above a glazed door revealing twenty nine drawers, on a plinth base detailed `R&J Beck, 31 Cornhill London`, height approx 50cm, each drawer containing at least 36 microscope specimen slides, including human and animal embryo samples, insects and spiders, the majority applied with inscribed paper labels including `W. Watson & Sons`, `Thomas Groves`, `E. Wheeler` and `Smith Beck & Beck`, together with a collection of approximately 280 other similar biological and botanical slides, a purchaser invoice from W. Watson & Sons and a memorandum from Ernest Hinton, both dated 1890, and a later specimen cabinet.
A Royal Crown Derby `Old Imari` pattern dessert plate, a Royal Doulton `Gold Concord` pattern part coffee service, a small collection of Royal Worcester `Evesham` pattern dinner wares, an Allertons Ltd `Old English` pattern part tea service, a set of twelve RHS Botanical plates, and a collection of decorative ceramics.
Continental School, late 18th century- "Virginian Perennial Draeocephalon", botanical study; watercolour, signed with monogram CM and dated 1783, 17.3x16.8cm: together with 30 other botanical watercolour studies by the same and similar hands, all framed, not matching, some missing glazing, various sizes, (31)
Bibliography.- The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Siftung Fur Botanik… Collected by the Late Arpad Plesch, 3 vol., price lists loosely inserted, original printed boards, slightly soiled, 1975 ? Lowe (Robert W.), James Fullarton Arnott & John William Robinson. English Theatrical Literature 1559-1900: A Bibliography, dust-jacket browned and with creases and small tears to edges, 1970 ? Coster (Lourens Janszoon) & Linde (Dr. A. van der) The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing, original buckram, slightly soiled, 1871; and 20 others, Bibliography, 8vo & 4to (25). (25)
A G.B. QU E II Stamp Collection in various albums; and 1st Day Covers, Max Cards and Presentation Packs, including `Tenth International Botanical Congress` and` 20th International Geographical Congress` ; together with a selection of Mint G.B. Qu E II definitives ,including Castles; and mid 1960`s material.
Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis; or Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants As Grow Wild in the Environs of London 6 parts in 3 vol. second edition (using the Walpole criteria of the ornamental rules dividing the Latin and English descriptions) titles of vol.1 & 3 with engraved vignette (that in vol.3 duplicate of vol.1 title with number amended in ink) dedications to the Earl of Bute and John Coakley Lettsom list of subscribers preface 16pp. indices 4pp. `General Observations` and 6pp. `Catalogue of..plants...in the Environs of Settle` 435 hand-coloured engraved plates on 432 sheets by Sydenham Edwards Will Kilburn and J.Sowerby bound in systematic order a few heightened with gum arabic title of vol.1 torn across vignette (repaired also rear endpaper) light foxing and browning affecting some plates one plate in vol.3 lightly stained engraved bookplate of the Earl of Stradbroke on front pastedowns contemporary diced russia gilt rebacked with gilt spines a little rubbed edges of boards slightly nibbled by insects folio [Great Flower Books p.88; Nissen BBI 439] for the Author and B.White 1777-1798. *** A good set of Curtis`s exhaustive project to depict initially every plant species growing within ten miles of London and ideally to expand to cover all the flora & fauna of Britain. Despite additional funding from Lord Bute and the attempt to raise funds via his other major work The Botanical Magazine he was unfortunately forced to discontinue publication in 1798; Hooker published an enlarged extended edition between 1817 & 1828.
Curtis (William) The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed... vol.1-184 and Index bound in 167 vol. (vol.1-42 bound two to a vol.) 10 569 plates of which 9 684 are hand-coloured engravings or lithographs the remainder colour-printed 408 folding vol.154-184 with portrait frontispieces and original wrappers bound in some offsetting occasional spotting uniformly bound in half morocco spines gilt early vol. spines rubbed some a little marked [Nissen BBI 2350; Hunt 689] 8vo Stephen Couchman for W. Curtis 1793-1983; sold not subject to return *** “The first and most important botanical magazine made up of `figures` of plants and their descriptions. Provides a storehouse of exotics paralleling the indigenous plants similarly treated in Smith and Sowerby`s English Botany.” Hunt
[Hey (Rebecca)] The Spirit of the Woods first edition 26 hand-coloured engraved plates tissue guards contemporary half morocco gilt t.e.g. spine faded 1837 § Loddiges (Conrad) Botanical Cabinet Part LXVIII 10 hand-coloured engraved plates one folding original wrappers uncut 1822 § Florist Fruitist and Garden Miscellany (The) 11 hand-coloured zincograph plates only (of 12) a little stained cropped contemporary half calf label chipped 1860 § Farrer (Reginald) The English Rock-Garden 2 vol. original cloth 1919 § Miller (Wilhelm) The Charm of English Gardens later cloth n.d. plates and illustrations the first three rubbed and soiled; and 8 others botany v.s. (14)
Auguste Bouquet, French 1810-1846- "Noisetier Cornu", after Pierre Antoine Poiteau, publ by Langlois; hand-coloured stipple engraving, 31x24.5cm: together with eleven other similar hand-coloured stipple engravings of botanical subjects from the same or related suite, in matching silver gilt frames, 31x24.5cm., ea., (12)
A selection of mostly English botanical porcelain, comprising a Chamberlain’s Worcester quatrefoil dish painted with an Amaryllis, a Spode porcelain plate, pattern 2329, a pearlware quatrefoil dish painted with Convolvulus an English porcelain blue ground part-dessert service and other items, various dates, first half 19th Century
REVEREND JOHNS "Flowers of the field", published London 1908, one volume Punch`s Pocketbook 1858-61, a set of four botanical studies, watercolours, AFTER P G MATTHEWS "Portrait study of a gentleman", black and white dry point etching, signed and inscribed in pencil in the margin, a large 19th Century black and white photograph of a gentleman in regal dress by W & D Downey and a large quantity of miscellaneous 18th and 19th Century engravings and a folio of letters and receipts, etc
Crown Derby plate signed W.E.J. Dean, also another Crown Derby plate painted with a landscape, and one decorated with flora together with three Spode botanical plates. Defects damages and restorations have not been mentioned within the catalogue, for condition reports please email auctions@peterwilson.co.uk
SCRAP BOOKS. THREE VICTORIAN ALBUMS one containing many cartoons featuring W E Gladstone and, in particular, Irish Home Rule, many in contemporary colour mounted one to a page or folding, another filled with greetings cards, chromolitho scraps, illustrations from Punch, The Graphic or topographical illustrations from various books, the third filled with wood engraved illustrations from the Illustrated London News and other publications of royal events, the Crystal Palace and exhibits, the American Civil War, fashion, botanical subjects etc, folio, original cloth backed boards worn (3)
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