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Four Swansea dishes 19th century, comprising two lobed circular dishes and two square lobed dishes, each painted with botanical specimens including "Narcissus poeticus", "Cistus polifolius", each within gilded rims and titled in black to reverse, circular plates 8.5" diameter, square plates 9.5" wide, impressed "Swansea", enamel loss (4)
Mannering, Eva (editor), Mr. Gould's Tropical Birds, London, The Ariel Press, 1955, folio (405 x 290mm.), title printed in green and black, 24 colour plates, illustrations, original limp boards, illustrated dust-jacket, few marginal tears. With the Ariel press published 'Pierre-Joseph Redoute Roses' (London, 1954), and a colour botanical print of 'Hypericum olympicum'.
A Coalport botanical dessert service, each piece finely painted in coloured enamels with botanical specimen, within orange and gilt scroll borders, comprising: a pair of round two handled sauce tureens, covers and stands, each with fruit knop, an oval deep dish, six shaped dishes and eighteen plates, each piece titled in blue verso, circa 1815 (minor damage)
* Prints & engravings. Wilkinson (Norman), 'Help the Sun to shine on your Future. Buy National Savings Certificates', c.1940s, two copies of a colour poster, approx. 75 x 51 cm, plus another National Savings poster, plus a collection of fifteen early 19th century Hogarth engravings, mostly religious subjects, a late 18th century uncoloured engraving by Sowerby entitled 'Pelargonium Quercisolium', and others incl. botanical, architectural, topographical, etc. (a carton)
Godwin (William). Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Early English Poet, 4 vols., 2nd ed., 1804, running wormhole to lower margin of 4th vol. throughout, contemp. calf, rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with Milton (John), Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books, new ed., with notes of various authors, by Thomas Newton, 2 vols., 1785, contemp. full tree calf, gilt dec. spines with morocco labels, rubbed and a little wear, 8vo, plus Wylie (Rev. J.A.), The History of Protestantism, 3 vols., pub. Cassell, n.d., c. 1870s, num. b & w wood eng. illusts., a little soiling, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and some marks, 4to, and Rhind (William), A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, pub. Blackie & Son, 1862, hand-col. eng. botanical plts., b & w engs. etc., contemp. half morocco, rubbed and some wear, joints cracked, with slight loss at head and foot of spine, large 8vo, plus other various antiquarian interest, mostly 19th c., and some early 20th c., incl. Sinai and Jerusalem; Or, Scenes from Bible Lands, by the Rev. F.W. Holland, pub. SPCK, n.d., c. 1870, with col. litho. plts., The Indian Mutiny of 1857, by Col. G.B. Malleson, 1891, Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea, 5 vols., 2nd ed., 1863-65, etc., mostly leather-bound (some later vols. in orig. dec. cloth), mostly 8vo, but incl. a few 4to and large format (approx. 50)
A Pair of Royal Copenhagen 'Flora Danica' baskets modern painted in the centre with a flowering botanical specimen within characteristic pink and gilt borders on the serrated rim, the botanical identification in black to the bases, the handles each shaped as a branch, the baskets set with encrusted double blossoms blue waves in underglaze -blue, number 20 352.y (?) and 20 3534, painters marks in green enamel and impressed 3534, incised 'm' 9cm., 3.5in. (2)
A pair of Chamberlain's Worcester plates from the service for the Nabob of the Carnatic circa 1820 painted with botanical specimans titled to the reverse, Herons-Bill and St.Bruno's Lily, within a cobalt-blue 'new embossed' border moulded with 'C' scrolls and foliate wreaths heightened in gilt around a reserve incorporting the Islamic date 1236 puce-printed marks and script titles 26cm., 10.25in. diameter wear to gilding (2) His Highness the Nabob of the Carnatic placed the order for this service, of over a thousand pieces, with Griffiths, Cooke & Co. of Madras in 1820. It included dinner wares, dessert wares and a breakfast service and was eventually shipped in 1823. Our year 1820 equates with the Islamic year 1236.
[LAMARCK (JEAN BAPTISTE DE)]: Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des trois Regnes de la Nature; Botanique, incomplete copy, one vol of text and plates, in original wrappers and 13 bundles of botanical engraved plates, mostly stitched as issued, with some repeats, numbered between 1-400 and 700-950, approximately 850 in all, Paris, chez Panckoucke, 1791 et seq (a lot)
Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's Complete Herbal, to which is now added, upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs.., pub. Thomas Kelly, 1822, eng. port. frontis., forty hand-col. eng. plts., some light browning to plts., endpapers renewed, contemp. marbled calf gilt, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, folio, together with another copy, pub. Richard Evans, 1816, eng. port. frontis., foxed and paper-repaired along fore-edge on reverse, forty hand-col. eng. plts., some a little dust-soiled at edges, text lightly browned, endpapers renewed, modern qtr. calf with contemp. floral cloth sides, latter somewhat marked, folio, plus The British Herbal and Family Physician to which is added a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Families, pub. Nicholson & Co., Halifax, [1820?], eng. vign. title-page, fifty-two hand-col. botanical plts., and six anatomical plts., occ. browning and foxing to text, contemp. marbled calf, rebacked, 8vo (3)
Ehret (Georg Dionysius). Eight hand-coloured engraved botanical plates [from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, Phytanthoza Iconographia, Regensburg, 1737-45], together eight fine hand-col. copper engs. of flowers by Johann Jakob Haid, after Ehret, each approx. 320 x 205 mm, together with three mid-19th c. hand-col. litho. botanical plts. entitled Anguloa Clowesii, by W.H. Fitch, Trichopilia crispa marginata, by James Andrews, and Barkeria Skinneri superba, by W.H. Fitch, approx. 420 x 305mm, each framed and glazedNissen 2126, Dunthorne 327 & Hunt 494 for the plates from Weinmann. (11)
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 Citizen and Apothecarye of London, [2nd ed., revised], printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636, [xxxviii] + 1630 + [46] pp., eng. architectural title, some marks and marginal stains, lower outer corner torn with a little loss, and repaired with blank paper, following leaf repairs to upper outer corner and lower margin, minor staining to extrem. upper outer corners at front of vol., num. botanical woodcuts throughout, woodcut dec. initials, head- & tail-pieces, without blank at front and rear, final leaf a little creased and with small repair to head and foot, not affecting text, some minor marks (generally in good condition), contemp. full calf, heavily rubbed and scuffed, rebacked, thick folio STC 11752. The Advertisement to the Readers to verso of final leaf describes this edition as the '2nd Edition of revised Gerard'. (1)
Green (Thomas). The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictonary, 2 vols., c.1830's, addn. hand-col. title to vol. 1, and 107 hand-col plts. of plants and garden designs, correct as list (three plts. in vol. 2 misbound), frontis. to vol. 1 with small tears in blank fore-edge, reinforced with paper on reverse, some occasional spotting or soiling, hinges strengthened with fabric tape, contemp. marbled calf, rebacked, and vol. 1 recornered, vol. 2 with orig. spine relaid, 4to (2)
Redoute (P.J.). Facsimile Prints made from mostly Unpublished Original Paintings by Pierre-Joseph Redouté from the Collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.., text by Dr. André Lawalrée.. and Dr. Günther Buchheim, pub. Switzerland and Pennsylvania, 1972, port. frontis., title-page and twelve text leaves, with b & w and col. illusts., some tipped-in, nineteen col. prints, all contained in orig. portfolio, folio (1)
Veitch (James Herbert). Hortus Veitchii, a History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, together with an account of the botanical collectors and hybridists employed by them, pub. James Veitch & Sons, 1906, numerous b & w plts., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed to extrems., 4to (1)
Carnarvon (Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 1831-1890). One page from the Autograph Journal of the Fourth Earl, dated 1 January 1888, signed on the verso , written in Queensland, Australia, commenting on his journey, his surprise in being there, the weather, the Botanical Gardens and on Brisbane 'the town stretches over a g[reat] extent - mostly small houses with iron roofs: but some good buildings in the principal streets: and the river twists with a very serpentine course amongst them..', the autograph note on the verso concerns the disposition and use of his journals, 2 pages, 4to (1)
AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN POSTCARDS, colour, monochrome and photographic and topography Egypt, North Africa, Palestine, Hong Kong, India, Malaya, Singapore, Australia, Russia, Greece, Japan, France, Italy, Spain and Canaries; The Low Countries; theatre and music hall, greetings, botanical, glamour, approximately 1000 in green cloth backed album, early 20th century and later
Evans (John). Richmond, and its Vicinity; with a Glance at Twickenham, Strawberry Hill, and Hampton Court, 2nd ed., Richmond, [1825], folding eng. map (close trimmed to lower margin), modern cloth gilt, 12mo, together with Dorling (W. Publisher), Some Particulars Relating to the History of Epsom..., Containing a Succint and Interesting Description of the Origin of Horse Racing, and of the Epsom Races..., to which is added, an Appendix, Containing a Botanical Survey of the Neighbourhood, by an Inhabitant, Epsom, 1825, hand-col. aqua. frontis. and five aquatint plts., bound with Swete (C.J.), A Hand-Book of Epsom..., pub. Epsom & London, [1860], double-page litho map, five eng. plts. and few wood eng. illusts., 19th c. half morocco, adhesive tape to spine and joints, worn and lower board detached, 8vo, plus others relating to Surrey, mostly orig. cloth (approx. 65)
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