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Zannichelli (Giovanni Girolamo). Istoria Delle Piante che Nascono ne'lidi Intorno a Venezia. Opera Postuma Accresciuta da Gian Jacopo Figliuolo dello Stesso, Venezia, 1735, 311 eng. botanical illusts. on seventy eight plts., lacks eng. port., title and all before a2 of Preface, some spotting to upper margins, final leaf creased, contemp. mottled calf, gilt dec. spine, some wear to joints, corners and head & foot of spine, folio Nissen 2192. (1)

* Botanical Watercolours. A collection of 34 finely executed watercolours by J.R.I. after Lillian Snelling (1879 1972), all being exact copies from Arthur Grove's Supplement to Elwes 'Monograph of the Genus Lilium', c.1940s,. each sheet approx. 560 x 385 mm, each with accompanying leaf of text, loosely contained in a portfolio, four separately mounted A fine collection of botanical watercolours faithful to the quality of the work produced by Lillian Snelling, perhaps the finest twentieth century flower painter. (34)

* Prints & engravings. A mixed and varied collection, 18th & 19th century,. including a collection of approx. 50 engravings of quadrupeds by Marc de Bye after Paulus Potter, pulished by Nicolas Visscher in 1664 (but these are later reprints), each approx. 175 x 220 mm, and approx. 60 hand coloured aquatint views of Oxford and other areas published by Ackermann, plus others including numerous habd coloured botanical engravings in broken copies of Charles Lemaire's 'Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe (1848), boundary commission maps, musicians autographs, etc. (a carton)

Price (R. and Griffiths, E.). Y Llysieu lyfr Teuluaidd, yn ddwy ran; y rhan gyntaf, yn Traethu ar Brif Lysiau Cymru, Abertawy, E. & J. Griffiths, 1869,. twenty one col. botanical plts., orig. blue cloth, faded, slightly worn, 12mo (1)

Paxton (J) Botanical Dictionary, revised and corrected by Samuel Hereman, 1868, and other books on plants and gardening

A 19th Century Nast (French) part botanical dessert service with gilt borders of scroll and festoon work comprising five 93/4 inch plates, two 83/4 inch bowls, an oval sauce boat, 61/2 inches, an oval stand, 10 inches, and a similar sauceboat with stand

A Set of Four Botanical Prints (4)

Two Wedgwood creamware botanical plates printed and painted with Tansy and Clematis brown rims 21cm diameter impressed marks circa 1890

Andrew Thomas - A Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Surgery: London Blackie 1846. 8vo hand coloured botanical plates half brown calf over black cloth covered boards shoulders weak spine faded

Set of six small Watercolour Paintings on Rice Paper, Botanical subjects; Together with butterflies and moths, each glazed, 7” x 4 ½”, (6)

A Swansea pearlware shell-shaped dish, painted possibly by Thomas Pardoe, with titled botanical subject 'Scarlet Azalea', impressed mark, early 19th century, 21.5cm. wide, a similar deep plate painted with 'Great Flowered Portlandia', 18.5cm. diameter (both a/f) and a late 18th century pearlware octagonal plate by J. Heath, printed in blue with a Willow pattern design, 20cm. wide. (3)

A group of six Bishop and Stonier pottery plates transfer printed with a view of St. Paul's Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament, a set of eight Wedgwood blue and white creamware plates printed with botanical subjects, two pottery moulds, a set of three Wedgwood creamware oval dishes and a Wedgwood black basalt jar. (20)

Curtis (William). Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vols. 33-34 bound in one, 1811, seventy-five fine hand-col. eng. plts. (of 90), incl. four folding, orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed, binding becoming detached at upper hinge, 8vo (1)

Dunthorne (Gordon). Flowers and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early 19th Centuries, Holland Press, 1970, col. and b&w plts., orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j., 4to, together with Oak Spring Garden Library (pub.), An Oak Spring Sylva, Pomona, and Flora, 3 vols., 1989-97, plts. to each, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus four others natural history bibliography, together with eighteen volumes of Book Auction Records, and forty recent Sotheby's and Christies auction catalogues (mostly natural history and travel), incl. the Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik (3 vols.) and the Rodert de Belder collection of Magnificent Botanical Books (66)

Henrey (Blanche). British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800, 3 vols., OUP, 1975, numerous col. & b & w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in slipcase, 4to, together with Pritzel (G.A.), Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae, Leipzig, 1872, orig. cloth gilt, 4to, plus Nissen (Claus), Tierbüher aus fünf Jabrhunderten, Zürich, 1968, b & w frontis., orig. wrappers, 4to, plus Die Botanische Buchillustration, Stuttgart, 1951, orig. cloth, thick 8vo (6)

Plesch (Arpad). Mille et Un Livres Botaniques de la Collection Arpad Plesch, Brussels, 1973, numerous tipped-in col. plts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to An excellent bibliographical catalogue of the Plesch Collection, the finest private library of botanical books ever assembled. (1)

Quinby (Jane & Stevenson, Allan). Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 2 vols. in 3, Pittsburgh, 1958-61, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, 4to 750 copies printed. (3)

Stafleu (Frans A., and Cowan, Richard S.). Taxonomic Literature, a Selective Guide to Botanical Publications and Collections with Dates, Commentaries and Types, 7 vols., 2nd ed., Utrecht, 1976-88, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with five vols. of Supplements (Konigstein, 1992-98) The most complete and valuable scholarly reference for botanical works. (12)

*Botanical engravings. A good quality collection, 18th & 19th century, including 20 folio format engravings of flowers and fruit after Turpin, Redoute, etc., two 19th century watercolours (one of daffodils), plus other botanical engravings after Smith, Curtis, etc. (approx. 30)

*Botanical engravings. 'Papaia Orientalis' and 'Rosa Sinensis', 18th century, a pair of hand coloured engravings, plate dimensions of each approx. 390 x 270 mm, framed and glazed (2)

Botany. Hooker (William J.). Five plates from The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya, ed. William J. Hooker, 1849, together five hand-col. litho. plts., entitled Rhododendron Campbelliae, Rhododendron Aeruginosum, Rhododendron Salignum & Elaeagnoides, Rhododendron Camelliaeflorum & Rhododendron Candelabrum, plates numbered VI, XXII, XXIII, XXVIII & XXIX, some minor marks to margins, sheet size approx. 510 x 375 mm (20 x 14.75 ins), together with a small quantity of various coloured and uncoloured engraved plates, including two 19th c. watercolours of flowers, three hand-col. litho. botanical plts., a few b&w views and ports., etc., and a copy of the Art Journal for 1867, with eng. plts., bound in contemp. half black morocco gilt, rubbed and marked, large 4to (24)

*Prints & drawings. A varied collection, mostly 19th century, including good quality watercolours of birds and flowers, botanical engravings and lithos., pencil drawings including two good oval portraits in the manner of John Downman, plus other including topographical engravings, portraits, etc. (approx. 80)

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)

Three volumes of assorted botanical prints

A collection of Great Britain stamps; on album leaves including 1924 and 1925 Wembley 1948 Wedding £1 1953 Coronation and many scarce Phosphor issues including NPY Freedom from Hunger Lifeboat Compac Cable and Botanical with some in sets

Minton Hand Painted Gothic Style Plate With Lush Botanical Design To Central Panel Along With A Fine Dresden Hand Painted Tea Cup And Saucer Also Floral Design Guide Price

*An archive of late Victorian and Edwardian correspondence, botanical notes,n receipts and other ephemera relating to Miss Eva Ducat. a/f

M G Miles, English school 19th century- Botanical study of lilies; watercolour, signed and dated Aug 26 1877, 39.5x29cm: Else von Scmiedeberg-Blume b.1876- Floral study; linocut in colours, signed and inscribed, 25.3x16.7cm., (2)

19th Century Derby Botanical Plate, painted with a titled floral design “Auricula Wisa” probably by William Quaker Pegg (rim chip), marked in iron red with crown, cross battens and D, 8¾“ diam (photograph Inside Front Cover)

19th Century Derby Botanical plate decorated with a titled pattern “Great Sun-flower”, probably by William Quaker Pegg, marked in iron red with crown, cross batterns and D, 8½” diam

WILLIAM CURTIS: THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, 1888-89, vols 114-15, 120 hand col’d plts some fdg, orig bl stpd cl, (2)

A botanical study and four other works.

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)

*Natural history. A large collection of prints and engravings, 19th and 20th century, including bird chromos. after Gronvold, butterflies and moths chromos, botanical prints, etc, many mounted (approx. 800)

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)

Eight assorted hand coloured botanical specimen bookplate engravings, 10" x 14.5" , each mounted on card.

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).

A Minton porcelain dessert service, circa 1846, painted with botanical studies within a gilt foliate border, comprising two comports, two tazze, four stands and seventeen plates, impressed diamond registration lozenges and script pattern No. A1361.

A Swansea Botanical plate 'One-flowered Diosma' with chocolate brown rim, impressed mark and inscribed verso, 22 cms diameter.

Patience Arnold (20th century), Cottage scenes, A pair, watercolour and pen and ink, Both signed, Each 23cm x 31cm.; Together with a French engraving "Beaumont Le Roger" and a botanical print. (4) Best Bid

Late Victorian pencil and watercolour, a pair, botanical studies with butterflies, the ovals with ebonised mounts and gilt frames. (6.50in x 5in) (2)

A Fentimans stoneware botanic beverage bottle made by Pearsons of Chesterfield; a similar Calverley & Son stoneware botanical bottle; a stoneware hot water bottle; and a ceramic Staffordshire meat pot, the lid decorated with shooting scene after Alken. (4)

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)

After Henri Matisse- Reclining nudes in an interior; reproduction print, 27x48.5cm: European School 19th century- Botanical study of lemons; pencil, inscribed, 31.5x25.5cm., (2)

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)

Royal Faience Gourd Shaped Vase, 22cm, Hand Painted Botanical Decoration over Blue Ground

SCRAPBOOK, mainly late 19th c., folio, cont. half brown morocco gilt (some wear), containing numerous coloured scraps, greetings cards, botanical illustrations, postcards etc.

CURTIS, WILLIAM. The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vols. 1 - 7, 1793-88-94. 8vo., cont. calf gilt (one cover detached, rubbed). 738 hand coloured engraved plates (one with dust soiled upper margin) and one uncoloured. (7)

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

An early 19th Century watercolour, Botanical Study of Dog Roses and other Summer Flowers, approx 18cm x 14cm, within a gilt frame, together with two similar botanical studies, one signed and dated Fanny Wyatt, 1829.

Early 19th Century British School - Botanical Study of a Dog Rose, watercolour, approx 20cm x 15cm, within a wood frame.

An early 19th Century Wedgwood creamware Plate with botanical scene, impressed mark, three pierced Plates painted birds including canary and one painted fruit

A quantity of small quality of botanical pencil and watercolour sketches and a paintings, three oil on board portraits, a portrait pencil sketch and a watercolour of a budgie.

After Horto van Houtteano, A set of fourteen botanical prints, framed and glazed, 21.5cm x 14.5cm.

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.

Eight modern bird prints, plus quantity of other bird prints and two prints on fabric of tropical birds plus four hand coloured botanical illustrations, three colour printed botanical prints and watercolour of flowers by Winifred Walker