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Phillips (Henry). History of Cultivated Vegetables; Comprising their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities; Natural History; and Relation to Art, Science and Commerce, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1822, bound without half titles, one or two spots, bookplates, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (2)
*Botany. A collection of 33 good quality original prints of botanical specimens from some of the premier botanical books of the peiod, 18th/early 19th century, many hand coloured, including engravings, etchings and lithographs from Duhamel du Monceau’s ‘Traite des Arbes et Arbustes’, Wallich’s ‘Plantae Asiaticae’, Bonelli’s ‘Hortus Romanus’, Trew’s ‘Plantae Selectae’, Thornton’s ‘Temple of Flora’, Miller’s ‘Figures of the most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants’, etc., all folio format (approx. 33)
A George III oval silkwork floral picture, 10.25 x 8.5in (26 x 21.5cm) in a verre eglomise mount and giltwood frame, together with a pair of George III botanical silkwork pictures similarly framed and glazed and another floral silkwork picture. (4) Old splits and staining. Provenance: the pair of pictures bought from Witney Antiques, Witney, Oxfordshire in 1997.
Benjamin Fawcett 1808-1893- Four Ducks; hand-coloured wood engravings, four, in a shared mount, 11x18.9cm., ea: H Church, British School, 20th century- River landscape with figures resting on the banks; oil on board, signed, 38.4x51.5cm: English Provincial School, early 20th century- Lady walking down a country lane by a cottage; watercolour, signed with monogram and dated 08, 14.5x21.7cm: English School, 19th/20th century- Dog grooming; chromolithograph, in a 19th century maple veneered frame, 36.4x34.2cm: together with four 19th century chromolithographs of botanical subjects, all mounted in matching late 20th century maple veneered frames, (a/f) 29.2x23.8cm., ea., (8)
A Derby plate painted with pink roses by William Billingsley, reserved on a green ground, 24.5cm diameter, puce script marks, pattern no. 185, circa 1790; A Derby botanical yellow-ground quatrefoil dish, painted with a Persian Cyclamen, 24.5cm wide, blue title and script mark, pattern no. 216, circa 1790; and three other items of English porcelain. See John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, (1980), plate 212 for examples of pattern no. 185.
Phillips (Henry) Pomarium Britannicum... 3 hand-coloured plates bookplate of the Earl of Jersey Middleton Park contemporary half calf backstrip detached 1820 § Phelps (Rev. William) Calendarium Botanicum or a Botanical Calendar 5 engraved plates advertisement leaf at end browned contemporary straight-grained morocco gilt stained 1810 § Smith (J.E.) The English Flora 4 vol. original boards uncut some spines defective 1824-28 all a little foxed and/or browned rubbed or worn; and vol.1 only of Jardine`s Gallinaceous Birds 8vo et infra (7)(7)
Scrap Album.- Victorian Lady`s Scrap Album manuscript verse a few cut signatures (including Queen Victoria) engravings and some original watercolours (botanical and one of a moonlit scene on pith paper) and pencil drawings mounted or neatly presented in blind- and gilt-stamped blue morocco album g.e. fine condition 4to [c.1860]. *** Inscription at beginning reads “Annie Smith From a Friend 1856.”
* Four Meissen cups and saucers, one painted in monochrome with figures in landscapes within elaborate cartouches, one in purpurmalerei with courting couples, one with figures at work, the other with botanical flower specimens, blue crossed swords marks, 18th century, some damages, 15cm max. (8) Provenance: from a distinguished private European collection.
Dapper (Olfert) Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie 2 parts in 1 vol. first edition additional engraved title and 15 double-page or folding plates and maps without the botanical plate at p.78 in part 2 (not called for in the list of plates but mentioned by Atabey) many half-page illustrations small tear in F3 part 2 general title (printed in red and black) foxed occasional other browning but generally clean and crisp contemporary blind-stamped vellum slightly bowed and joints just starting to crack later red morocco spine label preserved in box with red morocco label [Atabey 322; this edition not in Blackmer] folio Amsterdam Jakob van Meurs 1680.
Singapore.- G.R.Lambert & Co. An album including a good group of 11 subjects entitled Singapore Fruits (two numbered 102 and 104) H H the Sultan of Selangor (471 illustrated) Campong Callang (90) Europier? (illegible numbered 97) Botanical Garden (50) Traveller`s Tree (109) Boat-Quai (222) Sago Palms (113) Tanjong Katong (377) and A look in the Jungle (491) silver gelatin prints each c.27 x 21.5 cm. or the reverse the photographer`s blindstamp at bottom right corner titled and numbered in the negative unmounted corners inserted in slots of album leaves a few minor tears and creases but generally in very good condition 1880s-1890s with a group of 42 hand-coloured albumen prints of Japan contemporary limp covers oblong 4to c.1885-1895
Curtis (William, and others). The Botanical Magazine, or, Flower-Garden Displayed [continued as Curtis’s Botanical Magazine... ], vols. 1-74, 1790-1848, a near complete run lacking only vol. 71 (plates 4132-4202), a total of approx. 4300 hand-col. plates including some folding, lib. blind stamp to upper corner of every plate within the plate impression and some blind stamps to text leaves, some spotting and occ. offsetting, scattered light and occasionally heavier browning, lib. labels to pastedowns, together with General Indexes to the Plants contained in the first Fifty-Three Volumes (or old series complete) of The Botanical Magazine, by Samuel Curtis, 1828, eng. port. frontis., some damp staining and browning at front, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown and several blind stamps to upper outer corners of text leaves and frontis., near-uniform contemp. quarter or half calf gilt over marbled boards, vols. 1-42 bound in 21 vols., worn with some leather loss and many covers detached, 8vo (53)
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