Scrap album. A mid 19th century album, with approx. sixty leaves, containing orig. watercolours, pencil sketches, poems and engs., incl. several hand col. botanical lithos. by Holland and Meyer, a Baxter print of Stolzenfels on the Rhine on orig. stamped mount, a pencil sketch of Edinburgh Castle by J. Ewbank R.S.A., ms. poems, etc., orig. morocco, elaborately embossed, corners showing, and lacking spine, with old tape repair along returns, 4to (1)
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Bateman (James). A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants. Selected from the Subjects Published in 'Curtis' Botanical Magazine' since the Issue of the 'First Century', 1867, 100 fine hand-col. litho. plts. (numbered 101-200), half-title present, library stamp to verso of title, orig. cloth gilt, 4to A good copy. (1)
Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie, Very Much enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, 2nd ed, printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633, eng. title, numerous botanical woodcuts to text, lacks first & last blanks, errata crossed-out with early manuscript ink scouring, lower outer corner of last leaf torn & repaired, slight damp staining mostly to margins, 19th c. calf with earlier leather laid-down to boards, elaborate gilt dec. spine, leather slightly torn at head, upper board detached, folio STC 11751. (1)
Hoffmannstegg (J. C, Comte de, & Link, H. F.). Flore Portugaise, ou Description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal, 2 vols. in four, Berlin, 1809-40, fifty fine col. stipple engs, with hand-col, eight b&w engs, text leaves incomplete (first volume lacks pp. 17-32 and 55-58. inclusive), loosely contained in four modern solander boxes, each with the title printed to upper cover, folio J. C. Hoffmannsegg was Head of the Berlin Botanical Gardens, who with H. F. Link, Professor of Botany at Rostock, planned to publish a definitive flora of Portugal containing 114 illustrations. The first volume is dated 1809 and the second 1820, although it continued in production until 1840. Hoffmannsegg sadly died in the first year of its publication, having completed just one plate. (4)
Botanical watercolours. A group of four 19th c. botanical watercolours, including two studies of camellias, one geranium, and one study of pansies, unsigned, sheet size approx. 195 x 150 mm (8. x 6 ins), together with a 19th c. watercolour study of an exotic bird with a long blue tail, approx. 85 x 140 mm, framed and glazed (5)
Prints & Engravings. A collection of approx. twenty various prints and engravings, mostly 19th c, including an engraved portrait of Henry Duke of Glocester by George Vertue, 1736, five early 19th c. uncol. engs. of the last days of Louis XVI and Mlle. de Lafayette, in Hogarth-style frames, glazed, a pair of silk portraits of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie, by Passerat, St. Etienne, each approx. 170 x 105 mm, mounted, a hand-col. wood eng. view of a funeral at Hong Kong in 1859, four 18th c. engravings of Roman figure sculputres, after Chatillon, twelve hand-col. botanical plates by William Curtis, an engraved architectural design by Jacob Gibb, etc. (approx.20)
A set of ten KPM Berlin porcelain tea plates circa 1870, outside factory decorated with botanical studies beneath gilt scroll rims, underglaze blue marks to bases, a set of eight Berlin porcelain teacups and saucers painted with flowers and a KPM two handled oval dish moulded with leaves and gilt with a floral medallion (some faults).
A pair of Flight Barr and Barr Worcester porcelain two handled vases, circa 1820, of bulbous shape painted with titled botanical subjects against a pink ground beneath gilt gadrooned rims, raised on circular feet and square bases edged in gilt, impressed marks and red script titles, height approx 13.5cm (restoration, lacking covers).
Steven William History of George Heriot's hospital. Edinburgh 1859. New edition 8vo revised by Frederick Bedford inscribed by editor on front free endpaper map folding chart 2 plates contemporary full calf gilt gilt stamps to both boards a.e.g. rubbed at edges and on backstrip foxing to title remainder clean; Adam Alexander A summary of geography and history both ancient and modern... London 1816. Fifth edition 8vo 12 folding maps to rear folding chart contemporary calf red label gilt rubbed lacking front free endpaper occassional spotting; Sweet Robert The hot-house and greenhouse manual or botanical cultivator. London 1831. Fifth edition 8vo contemporary half calf gilt worn occassional foxing; Dickens Charles The life and adventures of Nicolas Nickleby. London 1839. Ist edition in book form later issue ["sister" on p 123] 8vo portrait frontispiece 39 plates by Phiz contemporary half calf black label gilt worn hinges split foxing and offsetting throughout (4)
British school late 20th century- 'Lilium Speciosum, Kraeteri'; watercolour and black ink, signed with initials, 48x36cm: together with seven other watercolours of botanical subjects by the same hand: British school- 'Straw Bales'; watercolour, signed and dated 1972: together with a watercolour of Cow Parsley by the same hand, (10)
A Chamberlains Worcester crested botanical plate made for the Nabob of the Carnatic between 1820-1823 and bearing the Islamic date equivalent of 1820 painted with Cretan Kidney Vetch within a blue rim band with white C-scrolls and gilt flowers printed mark 26cm wide See Godden Chamberlains Worcester page 135 for a discussion on this service
Spode hand painted and transfer printed botanical dinner service with dark green rims, pattern number 7228, the centre of each piece decorated with a large floral specimen, comprising 12 soup bowls, two meat plates, 12 side plates, gravy boat and saucer, two vegetable tureens, six 21cm plates, six 22cm plates, twelve 27cm plates and twelve 16cm plates.
Thornton (Robert John). A Grammar of Botany; Containing an Explanation of the System of Linnæus, and the Terms of Botany, with Botanical Exercises, for the Use of Schools and Students, 2nd ed., 1814, forty-five hand-col. eng. plts., stitching partially broken, orig. roan, spine cracked and worn, 12mo in 6's (1)
A PAIR OF SPODE BOTANICAL PLATES enamelled in polychrome with sprays of flowers within iron red, blue and gilt borders, decorated with feathery leaves and stylised flowerheads, the reverse with painted mark "Spode" and the pattern no. "2789", circa 1810, 93/4" diameter and a pair of bowls ensuite (4). .
CURTIS (WILLIAM) Curtis's Botanical Magazine, a complete run of Vols 1-66, 1793-1840, bound in 38, 3,794 hand-coloured plates, Vols 1-53 contemporary sprinkled calf gilt with red and black labels, some vols rebacked, some spines rubbed, 1 spine detached, 4 with portions missing, Vols 54-66 contemporary green half calf gilt with marbled boards, red labels (1 missing), spines faded and 1 detached--plus Volume CLXV, 1948, 4 parts in original wrappers, 33 col. plates--plus CHITTENDEN (F.J.) Curtis's Botanical Magazine Index, buckram, front f.e.p. missing, R.H.S., 1956 (68) LOCATION B
{JACKSON (MARIA ELIZABETH)} Botanical Lectures By a Lady, 1st ed, 11 plates (1 hand-coloured), contemp. tree calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, label missing, occas. browning and light foxing, contemporary Ms. notes on some of the blanks, J. Johnson, 1804--MILLER (WILLIAM) A Dictionary of English Names of Plants, 1st ed, orig. cl., 1884 LOCATION M
A quantity of assorted pictures and prints, Including pears prints, a pair of circular relief panels depicting night and day, botanical subjects, cherubs and others. (qty) Best Bid 823 Arnold Fawcus after William Blake 'The Ancient of Days; Page from a sketchbook Each hand printed by 'pochoir' method for the William Blake Trust The first 28cm x 21.5cm The second s. 24.5cm x 18.5cm (see illustration on our website)
Meehan (Thomas). The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States, in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects, 1st & 2nd series, 4 vols., Boston, 1878-80, 192 chromolithographed plates (occasional light offsetting), some splitting to hinges, 20th c. brown half morocco, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, spines a little faded, some rubbing to joints and extrems., and second vol. of series 2 with lower cover detached, large 8vo Nissen 1331. (4)
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