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Curtis (Samuel and Hooker, Sir William Jackson). Curtis's Botanical Magazine, comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and Other Botanical Establishments in Great Britain, vol. 11 of the Third Series (vol. 81 of the whole work), pub. Lovell Reeve, 1855, 65 fine hand col. eng. plts. (incl. six double-page), contemp. green half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo. The double-page plates in this volume were originally folding plates. During the binding process they were re-folded and re-lined. As a consequence, the original folds are still apparent. (1)

New Naturalist Series, nos. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10-22, 24-29, 38 & 41, 1946-60, all first editions except nos. 1 & 7, num. col. and b & w illusts., all but two in frayed and chipped d.j.s., 8vo. Includes The Art of Botanical Illustration by Wilfred Blunt. (27)

Pratt (Anne). Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants, of our Fields and Woods, pub. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., c. 1860, title and forty-four leaves, each with chromo. botanical illust., with printed text beneath, one leaf torn without loss to lower margin, occn. minor marks, orig. blindstamped dark green with bevelled edges, rubbed and somewhat darkened, slim 8vo (1)

Vaillant (Sebastien). Botanicon Parisiense ou Denombrement Par Ordre Alphabetique des Plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, 1st ed., Leiden & Amsterdam, 1727, half-title, title printed in red and black with eng. vign., fine eng. portrait of the author by Houbraken, folding copper eng. map, thirty-tree fine b&w copper eng. plts. by Wandelaar after Claude Aubriet, contemp. green qtr. calf, with dec. paste-paper covered boards, rubbed and some surface wear, outer corners bumped, folio. Nissen BBI 2033. Hunt 470. Pritzel 9657. An important work on the sexual characteristics of plants, published posthumously by Hermann Boerhaave. Aubriet (1665-1742) was one of the finest botanical artists of his day, and worked for Louis XIV as a painter in the Royal Gardens. (1)

A Dresden Plate painted floral bouquets in colours and gilt, 9 1/2in, a Royal Crown Derby botanical Plate with 'vine' border, and three floral painted pottery Plates,

A SET OF TEN LIMOGES PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES with individual botanical decoration and shape edge, 8 3/4" diameter.

A Derby botanical plate, painted with a specimen of the Wood-Night shade, in gilt rim, 23cm diam, Robert Bloor & Co, painted crown, crossed batons, D, script title and nos 28 and 80 in red, c1810 . Some mild localised discoloration of the finely crazed glaze which could probably be cleaned. The gilding on the rim rather rubbed in places.

A Derby botanical plate, painted with a specimen fruiting orange bough probably by William "Quaker' Pegg in a fluted "Etruscan' red and gilt border of trailing flowers, the rim gilt, 23. 5cm diam, Duesbury & Kean, painted crown, crossed batons, D and script title Orange Tree in blue, c1797-1801. Tiny mis-fired spot on one of the orange fruits which has resulted in a 2mm spot of flaking, very slight signs of stacking wear to the fluted border. No damage nor any restoration.

A Derby botanical shaped square dish, painted with a specimen of the Nasturtium, possibly by William "Quaker' Pegg, in a gilt border of pendulous leaves, 22cm w, Duesbury & Kean, painted crown, crossed batons, D, 115, gilder's numeral 8 (at 3 o'clock) and script title Tropaeolum Magus. Greater Indian-Cress, Or Nasturtium in blue, c1797-1800

A Derby botanical two handled oval sauce tureen-stand, painted with a specimen of the bellflower within a border of roses on a seeded gilt ribbon with entwined gilt handles and dentil rim, 25cm w, painted crown, crossed batons, D, 142 and script title Campanula Trachelius, Nettle Leav'd Bell Flower, c1797-1800 . Restored

A Derby botanical plate, painted with a specimen of the Ranunculus, in a fluted border framed by trailing gilt laurel leaves and a canary yellow band, in scalloped gilt rim, 22. 5cm diam, Duesbury & Kean, painted crown, crossed batons, D 216 and script title "Ranunculus aconitifolius, Mountain Crow-foot', c1795-1800. For a similar plate painted with the Sweet Briar Rose see Twitchett (J), Derby Porcelain, plt 268 . Some even wear and scratches to the enamel decoration and signs of stacking wear on the fluting of the border, but no damage or restoration

A Derby botanical heart shaped dish, finely painted with a specimen of Henbane, probably by William "Quaker' Pegg, in a gilt border of grasses and the broad gilt rim, Duesbury & Kean, 25cm wide, painted crown, crossed batons, D, 392 and script title Golden Flower'd Henbane, c1797-1801. 'Plants and gold border by J Lead'

A Derby botanical sauce tureen of navette shape, painted with specimens of the Snowflake and Iris bordered by pendulous leaves and flowers, on flared foot, 13cm h, Duesbury & Kean, painted crown, crossed batons, D 115 and script titles, Iris Bulbocodium, Crocus Leav'd Iris and Leucofum Vernum, Spring Snow Flake, c1797-1800 . One handle rebuilt and discolored; in otherwise good condition free from scratches or rubbing of the gilding.

A Derby botanical fluted dish, painted with a specimen of the convolvulus in a gilt laurel leaf ribbon and gilt rim, 22cm diam, Duesbury & Kean, painted crown, crossed batons, D, 141 and script title Convolvulus Tricolor, Small Convolvulus or Bindweed in blue, c1797-1800. The enamel slightly scratched and with minor stacking wear to the gilt decoration on the fluting (See lot 204 for illustration).

A Derby botanical plate, painted with a specimen of the Sweet William in a fluted gilt laurel leaf border and scalloped gilt rim, 22cm diam, Duesbury & Kean, painted crown, crossed batons, D, 141 and script title Dianthus Barbatus, Bearded Pink or Sweet William in blue, c1797-1800. A few minor scratches to the enamel which are hardly noticeable and do not detract. Large flat chip to the underside of the rim not visible from the front of the plate, no other damage nor is there any restoration

A Derby botanical plate, painted by William "Quaker' Pegg, with three flowering plants, the rim gilt, 22. 5cm diam, painted crown, crossed batons, D and script title "Tawny Day Lily, Resthaurous, & Cluster'd Bell-flower', in red, c1815. Very mild even discoloration of the glaze, which does not detract from the overall appearance and could probably be easily cleaned, no flaking, cracks, chips, damage or restoration.

A group of six botanical prints and engravings (6).

A 19th Century Mintons part Dessert Service each piece painted with botanical studies, viz: high Comport, low Comport and six Dessert Plates

F P NODDER. A set of five framed hand coloured botanical prints, 8 x 5in, N SPENCER, Engraving: "Bridge Wharf, Blackfriars", 9 x 11in and two unframed engravings

A Victorian Staffordshire porcelain part desert service, circa 1860, painted in colours with botanical specimens within cerise and gilt scroll borders, comprising: a high tazza, a pair of comports, a pair of comports and sixteen plates.

Dorothy M. Symington- Botanical study; pencil, signed, 32.5x20.5cm: John Harwood- Birds perched on a rocky outcrop; gouache, signed: together with a mixed folio of drawings watercolours and prints, a quantity by Dorothy Symington, various sizes, (a lot), (unframed)

E. Margaret Stones- Botanical study; watercolour, signed, 32x23.4cm: together with a quantity of flower and botanical studies in watercolour by different hands, mostly 19th century, various sizes, (a lot), (unframed)

Edwards (W. H.). Four fine botanical watercolours, including two flower groups, early 19th-c., each signed signed in ink to lower margin, three with additional signature in ink to verso, and one bearing the address '15 Southampton Row, Russell Square, London', approx. 47 x 34cms, together with an early 19th-c. pen, ink & wash chiaroscuro study of fruit, unsigned, sheet size approx. 24 x 36.5cms. The studies include one spray of flowers loosely tied with a blue ribbon, another similar flower group, a study of Convolvulus, and a study of a large Poppy. (5)

Brown (Thomas). The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths, 3 vols, 1832-1834, numerous hand-col. plts., orig. green cloth, sl. cracked to outer joints, sl. marked, small 8vo, together with Spratt (G.). The Medico-Botanical Pocket-Book, Comprising a Compendium of Vegetable Toxicology. Botanical Descriptions, Poisonous Effects, Treatment, Etc, Etc., n.d., c.1830, numerous hand col. plts., one loose, sl. foxed, orig. stippled blue cloth, small 8vo (4)

Bauhin (Caspar). Theatri Botanici sive Index in Theophrasti Dioscoridis Plinii et Botanicorum qui ˆ seculo scripserunt, Opera Plantarum circiter sex millium ab ipsis exhibitarum nomina cum earundem synonymiis & differentiis methodice secundum genera & species proponens, Basel, 1671, two parts in one vol., first title printed in red and black, both titles with printers woodcut device, woodcut head and tail-pieces, second part with num. woodcut illusts. of plants to text, front free endpaper with portion to lower outer corner excised, contemp. full mottled calf, gilt spine, some soiling and slight wear, mostly to head and foot of spine and outer corners, 4to. Nissen 104; Hunt 319; Printing and the Mind of Man, 121 (for the first edition of 1623). A fore-runner of Linnaeus, Bauhin was the first to establish a scientific system of botanical nomenclature. (1)

STONES, Margaret. THE ENDEMIC FLORA OF TASMANIA. Painted by Margaret Stones. Botanical and Ecological Text by Winifred Curtis Ph. D., F.L.S. The Ariel Press London. 1967-1978. Six volumes, folio; original cloth with dust-wrappers, some tears to extremities. (6)

An early 19th century album, containing a large quantity of botanical watercolours, studies of seashells, designs for borders etc., inscribed 'Edward Hamilton' and 'Elizabeth Hamilton', and with a later inscription 'M.A. Lascelles, 1887'

A Ridgeway porcelain dessert service, c. 1835, each piece painted with a coloured botanical specimen within a pierced and gilt scrolled border, comprising eight comports and seventeen plates, some discolouration, one plate pinned, printed marks for John Millar, China Warehouse, Edinburgh, in puce

A Bloor Derby part dinner service, the centre panels painted botanical subjects with gilt foliated scroll borders on grey ground comprising; two soup bowls; two dinner plates; two dessert plates; two meat plates; and a sauce tureen (no cover, miscellaneous cracks and chips), red crown and 'D' mark.

Blunt (Wilfrid) The Art Of Botanical Illustration, 8vo, cloth, illus., from the New Naturalist Library, volume 14, 1971; Cook (Edward T.) Handbook To The National Gallery, 8vo, quarter-morocco, 1888; Stechow (Wolfgang) Dutch Landscape Painting Of The 17th Century, lge. 8vo, cloth, illus., 1968; and sundry other volumes on art, design and music. (22)

A Flight Barr and Barr and Royal Worcester Botanical Part Dessert Service, painted flowers within a green border (damages) (22).

A 19th century Spode botanical decorated centre dish of oval form, painted to the centre with 'Lavatera', with gilt rim and handles, decorated to the underside with 'Day Smelling Coronillia' and 'Bristley - leav'd Aster', 37 cms wide.

A Vienna botanical cabinet plate, circa 1818, the centre finely painted with two named botanical specimens reserved on a dark brown ground within a gilt band, titled in black on the reverse `Narcissus poeticus fl.pl. Antirrhinum alpinum', the gilt-edged rim with a chamois ground, shield mark in underglaze-blue, impressed date code 818 and 32, script title in black, painter's mark in purple, 24.3cm., 9.625in., restored flat chip to rim.

A Royal Copenhagen `Flora Danica' part table service, late 19th-early 20th century, each piece finely painted with a named botanical specimen below pink-ground pearl borders within gilt-edged serrated rims, comprising: a large oval bowl and domed cover, the entwined branch handle with flower terminals, Cytisus Laburnum.L., 40cm., 15.75 in., a circular bowl and domed cover, Leontoden autumnalis.L., 23.7cm., 9.25 in., a large oval dish, Trapa nalans.L., 52.2cm., 20.5 in., a circular dish, Corydalis cava.L., 35.5cm., 14in., a medium oval dish, Solanum miniatum Bernh., 37.5cm., 14.75 in., a shaped rectangular dish, Papaver Argemone.L., 29.8cm., 11.75 in., a shaped triangular dish, Oxalis Stricta.L., 28.3cm., 11.125 in., two small shaped triangular dishes, Cirsium acaule.All. and Oxalis corniculata.L., 21.3., 8.375 in., an oval dish with entwined branch handle, Viola Silvatica.Fr., 24.2cm., 9.5 in., two leaf-shaped dishes with handles, Pingvicola vulgaris.L. and Primula farinosa.L., 21.2cm., 8.375 in. and four later circular individual butter dishes, 7.7cm., 3in., wave marks in blue, script titles in black, some with Royal Copenhagen and crown marks printed in green, various numerals and painter's mark in green enamel, impressed numerals, a few minor rim chips, (18).

A Minton porcelain part dessert service, circa 1850, painted with botanical studies beneath a cobalt blue and scroll moulded border picked out in gilding, comprising: a sauce tureen, cover and stand, four tazze and twelve plates, painted pattern A120, impressed year cyphers, repair to stem of tureen, very minor wear, (19).

Gardening and Ballet. Gertrude Jekyll a Memoir, 1934 reprint; Blunt, W. The Art of Botanical Illustration, first edition 1950 (lacks jacket), and fourteen others on ballet (23).

Victorian School ten watercolours, Botanical studies of native and exotic flora, 12.5 x 9.5 ins.

A set of ten early 19th century Bloor Derby botanical dessert plates, with two oval dishes and two kidney shaped dishes painted with flowers and green gilt scrolling borders, early Bloor period mark and flower name to base, 9ins

Bowles (E.A.). My Garden in Spring / My Garden in Summer / Garden in Autumn and Winter, 1914-15, b&w frontis., num. col. and b&w plts., untrimmed, orig. pict. cloth, sl. worn, 8vo, plus Liechtenstein (Vaduz). The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, n.d., c.1975-76, col. frontis., num. b&w illusts., orig. boards, 4to, and three others (8).

Burmannus (Johannes). Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum, ad vivum delineatarum, iconibus ac descriptionibus illustratarum, Amsterdam, 1738-39, fine eng. port. of the author by Houbraken, after Quinkhard, title printed in red and black, with eng. vign., 100 fine b & w copper eng. botanical plts., a few marks, several plts. with early neat ink inscription or name, minor marginal foxing to text leaves, eng. port. with pin hole mark to author's forehead, contemp. vellum, with maroon morocco label to spine, rubbed and slight wear, 4to (1).

Jekyll (Gertrude). Wall and Water Gardens, 3rd ed., pub. Country Life, [1905], b & w plts. from photos, orig. cloth, faded, 8vo, together with Wood and Garden..., 9th imp., 1901, b & w plts., orig. cloth, spine faded, 8vo, and with a 10th impression of the same work, with Shafer (Sara Andrew), A White-Paper Garden, 1st ed., 1910, col. frontis. and b & w plts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine faded, 8vo, with Chittenden (Fred J.), The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 4vols., Oxford, 1951, b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, 4to, and New Naturalist Series, The Art of Botanical Illustration by Wilfrid Blunt, 1950,orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus one other (10).

L'Obel (Matthias de, 1538-1616 ). Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia Matthiae de Lobel Insulani. Cui Annexum est Adversariorum volumen, Reliqua Sequens Pagina Indicabit, 2 vols. in 1, ex Officina Christophori Plantini Architypographi, Antwerp, 1576, title within woodcut border and with printers' woodcut device (close trimmed & some loss to lower margin, repaired to verso), title of vol. 2 also with woodcut border, numerous botanical woodcut illusts. throughout, corrected woodcuts pasted over the originals on leaves R3 & R4, some damp soiling to initial leaves of vol. 1 with consequent fraying and marginal loss, small worm holes to last few leaves of vol. 2, near contemp. calf, old reback and corner repairs, boards detached, folio Volume 2 has title "Nova Stirpium Adversaria, Perfacilis Vestigatio... Auctoribus Petro Pena et Matthia de Lobel..., Christophorum Plantinum, Antwerp, 1576". (1).

Parkinson (John). Paradisi in Sole Paradisius Terrestris, or, A Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers... with a Kitchin Garden... and Orchard of all Sorte of Fruitbearing Trees..., 1st ed., 1629, woodcut title and port. illust. of author, numerous woodcut botanical illusts., lacking leaf Rr4 and last two leaves (Index), old waterstain throughout and slight soiling, later half morocco with cloth spine strip, folio (1).

Tabernaemontanus (Jacobus Theodorus). Neu Vollkommen Kruuter-Buch..., 2 vols., Johann Ludwig Kenigs, Basel, 1731, addn. eng. title to vol. 1, title page of vol. 1 printed in red & black, woodcut botanical illusts. throughout, vol. 2 leaves 6H4 & 6H5 (pp.1307-1310) trimmed to fore-edge margins, contemp. panelled calf, slight wear to upper joints, old repair to upper spine panel of vol. 1, folio (2).

Botany. Approx. 230 hand coloured engravings from Curtis' Botanical Magazine, late 18th century, each approx. 230 x 140 mm (approx. 230).

Botany. Approx. sixty 19th c. botanical engs., incl. Curtis, G.Maw, Anne Pratt, etc., some hand coloured (approx. 60).

Prints & engravings, 17th-19th century, incl. twenty-three c.1810 engravings of heraldic arms by F.Chesham after C.Cotton, hand coloured engravings of mammals published by E.Donavan, botanical subjects, large folio hand coloured engravings of sealife, classical art and architecture, etc. (approx. 120).

Honeyman Collection The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts, 7 vols., Sotherby's, 1978-81, num. b&w plts. etc., several col. plts., each vol. with prices realised loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, together with The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung furs Botanik, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, collected by the late Arpad Plesch, 3 vols., Sotherby's, 1975-76, num. col. and b&w plts. and illusts., prices realised loosely inserted, orig. boards, all 4to (10).

Davey (Richard). A History of Mourning, [1889], num. wood engs., lacks fep, light waterstain to lower margins of final few leaves, a.e.g., orig. decorative boards with linen backstrip, rubbed, 4to, together with The Christian Parlor Magazine, edited Rev. Darius Mead, New York, 1845, thirteen steel engs. and twelve hand-col. botanical plts. (correct as list), minor marginal dampstains, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. morocco, backstrip def., 8vo, with other illustrated works, literature, pocket eds., etc. (3 shelves).

A SET OF THREE 20TH CENTURY ROYAL COPENHAGEN FLORA DANICA PORCELAIN PLATES with individual botanical decoration and Latin inscriptions verso, 10" diameter.

Grace D Bratton. Oil on canvas. 'Botanical Gardens, Bath'. Signed and dated (19)76. 53cm x 70cm. Framed.

A Royal Worcester plate, painted with a colourful botanical spray, signed 'Austin', puce mark, c.1912, 23cm.

An oval creamware botanical dish, with a blue border and painted with a specimen titled 'Cape-Aitonia', c.1800-10, 27cm. A 4cm. hairline.

An English porcelain botanical scallop shaped dish, painted with a pansy and a peach within a green border, no mark, probably Derby, c. 1820, 23cm.

A Swansea pearlware botanical dish, painted with a 'Superb hibiscus' and a 'C C' monogram, a brown line rim, Swansea impressed, c.1820, 21cm. Restoration to the rim.

Four blue-printed dinner plates: a "Chinese Marine" series plate, diameter 26.0cm, usual printed "Opaque China" title mark but with initial G replacing Minton's cursive initial M; an Elkin & Newbon "Botanical Beauties" series plate, diameter 27.0cm, printed mark with maker's initials; a Village Church pattern plate, diameter 24.8cm, unmarked; and a plate with a transitional period chinoiserie scene featuring a curved footbridge, diameter 24.3cm (rim chips); various 19th century dates

White And Gilt Dish Approx. 12" Dia.With Botanical Raised Design Bearing Crossed Blue Sword Mark

A Copeland part tea service comprising 9 plates, 2 short footed tazza's and a high footed tazza. All decorated with floral botanical panels within a light blue border with gilt decoration. Ironstone red mark D1720 to base and inside SP. Damage to one tazza. 9"diameter.

Framed and glazed botanical print.

Gilt framed and glazed botanical print.