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Half Plate Brass & Mahogany Sanderson Camera Outfit With Provenance, English, c.1900, the camera signed 'The Sanderson H. Ltd, London' and 'Regular Model' of standard Sanderson Field Camera form with double extending base board via rack and pinion, Thornton Pickard roller shutter, along with several lenses including a brass-bound lens engraved WATSON & SONS LONDON, SET No4 HOLOSTIGMATSEIESE COMBINED No.444, with interchangeable lens in a leather case, a lens engraved 7x15 rapid rectilinear, in a leather case, a lens engraved Carl Zeiss, Jena, Anastigmat, a lens engraved Zeiss Convertable Anastigmat, a brass-bound lens engraved Cooke Primoplane 4inch, f/6.5 along with 6 DDs, two tripods and other accessories in a leather suitcase stamped B.E.H. Blanche Elizabeth Edith Henrey (1906–1983) was an English botanical writer and bibliographer, described in her Times obituary as "one of the most eminent among botanical bibliographers", she wrote several books on botany and flowers including Flower Portraits and Trees & Shrubs which are included in this sale, along with a letter from the Royal Horticultural society giving permission to photograph at the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley

A Portmeirion Botanical Garden dinner, tea and coffee service, for six, comprising dinner plates, dessert plates, side plates, soup bowls, dessert bowls, teapot, coffee pot, cups and saucers, mugs, printed marks

Miscellaneous ceramics, including Johnson Brothers chamber jug and bowl, Portmeirion Botanical Garden and other teaware, etc

Elizabeth Cameron - Botanical Studies, lithograph, signed by the artist in pencil, 75 x 54cm and smaller (27)

Great Britain 1964 10th International Botanical Congress SG 655 u/m 3d block of 30, SG 656 u/m 6d block of 30, SG 657 u/m 9d block of 30 and SG 658 u/m 1s3d block of 19. Cat £52.80

Late 19th century A.D. Comprising three sheets joined together, bearing neat and regular lines of red and black inked script, together with associated images; the text including prayers for barya and evil eye, for Shotäläy and magical machination; the images representing two guardian angels at the top and bottom, Archangels Michael and Gabriel, within a geometric frame; at the bottom a picture of a jewelled cross with red triangles inserted within the arms; the owner's name given as Wällättä Maryam Beré. See Heldman, M., Munro-Hay Stuart, C., African Zion, The sacred art of Ethiopia, Yale University Press, 1993, pp.44, 65.56 grams, 1.97 m (77 1/2 in.). Ex Adalberto Frezza, 2006. Ex central London gallery. The sick looked upon such scrolls as it was believed that the images contained in them had healing powers. The scrolls were prepared by unordained clerics, or debatras, employed by Christian families, a practice which continued into the 20th century. Debatras were skilled at diagnosing the causes of illness, and treated them through scrolls such as that offered here, together with herbal and plant-based remedies; the images and prayers were believed to act on the spiritual source of the ailment, whilst the botanical remedies acted upon the physical symptoms. The scrolls covered the length of the afflicted person's body, providing preventative as well as curative protection and were often passed down through generations of the same family. The patients were often illiterate peasants, and the scrolls written in archaic Ge'ez, a liturgical language comprehended only by clerics; the debatras explained the prayers and the images to the sick. The images are designed to be mesmeric, the penetrating gaze of eyes from within the design giving them a sense of power. [No Reserve]

Hill,J.: The British herbal. An history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty. London, Osborne u.a., 1756. Fol. Mit gest. Front., gest. Titelvign. u. 75 Kupfertafeln. 2 Bl., 533 S., 1 Bl. Mod. Hldr. mit Rtit. Nissen, BBI 881. Stafleu-C. 2769. Henrey 798. Hunt 557. - Erste Ausgabe. "The british herbal is interesting for its classification of plants based on the forms of the corolla and the gynoecium, and for its criticisms of Linnaeus ... the plates comprise more than 1500 plant-illustrations" (Hunt). "One of the first publications to appear after (Linnaeus') Species plantarum of 1753, the year internationally accepted as the starting-point for modern botanical nomenclature" (Henrey). - Etw. gebräunt, stellenweise etw. fleckig u. wasserrandig. tls. Randläsuren, einige Bl. mit Einrissen (tls. ausgebessert).

Group of antique prints, including a set of four framed prints of London wards from Noorthouck's History of London 1772, other prints of London, botanical prints

Carl von Hügel Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek. 4 Bände in 5. Stuttgart, Hallberger 1840-1848. Umfassendes Werk über Geographie, Geschichte, Kultur, Sprache und Naturgeschichte von Nordindien und Kaschmir. Erste Ausgabe, selten. - Von Hügel (1796-1870) bereiste ab 1831 Asien und 1835-36 speziell die Kaschmirregion. Die botanischen und zoologischen Abschnitte seiner Beschreibung, verfaßt u. a. durch seine Kollegen V. Kollar und L. Redtenbacher und mit den 31 lithographierten Tafeln illustriert, basieren u. a. auf der umfangreichen Sammlung von mehr als 32.000 naturwissenschaftlichen Objekten, die er von der Reise mitnahm, und liefern die frühesten detaillierten Beschreibungen der Flora und Fauna der Region. - 'Sein berühmtes Werk ist heute noch spannend zu lesen, lebendig geschrieben, faktenreich zum damaligen Leben, zu Ethnographischem, Geographischem, mit mannigfachen persönlichen Erlebnissen angereichert. Hervorzuheben sind noch die botanischen und zoologischen Beiträge von Hügels Mitarbeitern.' (Aschhoff) EINBAND: Marmorierte Pappbände der Zeit mit farbigem Rückenschild. 22,5 : 15 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit gestochenem Porträt, gestochener Faltkarte und 33 Tafeln (2 gestochen, 31 lithographiert) sowie zahlr. Textholzschnitten. LITERATUR: Aschhoff 924. - Henze II, 648. - Nissen, Zool. 2042. - Horn/Schenkling 12181. (unter Kollar). - Pritzel 4312. - First edition. Important account of the geography, history, culture and language, zoology and botany of Northern India and the Cashmere region. With engr. portrait, engr. folding map and 33 mainly zoological and botanical plates (2 engr., 31 lith.) as well as a number of wood engravings in the text. 4 volumes in 5. Contemp. cardboard with label on spine. - Slightly tanned, vol. IV/2 containing most of the plates partly slightly foxed and with waterstains in the lower margin. Title pages and plates (on verso) with stamp, not distracting, pastedowns with old library stamp. Edges rubbed, labels with small defects. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Leonhart Rauwolff Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam .. selbs volbracht. 4 Teile in 1 Band. Lauingen, L. Reinmichel für G. Miller 1583. - Frühe wissenschaftliche Beschreibung des vorderen Orients - Erstmals mit dem vierten Teil, der mit schönen botanischen Holzschnitten illustriert ist - Exemplar aus der Bibliothek des Polarforschers und Botanikers Thorild Wulff. -  Die erste Ausgabe erschien 1582 in 3 Teilen und ohne die Pflanzenholzschnitte. Der Augsburger Arzt Leonhart Rauwolff (1535-1596) war ein ambitionierter Botaniker, der zur Vervollständigung seiner Sammlung Frankreich, Italien und zuletzt die Länder der Levante bereiste. Seine botanische Sammlung befindet sich heute im Rijksherbarium in Leiden. Rauwolfs Beschreibung gilt als eine der ersten wissenschaftlichen Darstellungen der bereisten Gegenden. Vor allem mit seinen Beobachtungen über die Pflanzenwelt 'leistete er auf diesem Gebiet Pionierarbeit schon zweihundert Jahre vor dem eigentlichen Beginn botanischer Forschung.' (Henze) EINBAND: Halblederband der Zeit mit 2 farbigen Rückenschildern. 20 : 16,5 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 2 Titel-Holzschnittvignetten und 42 ganzseitigen Pflanzenholzschnitten. - KOLLATION: 8 Bll., 487 S., 27 Bll. - PROVENIENZ: Mit dem Exlibris und handschriftlichen Besitzvermerk (datiert 1908) des schwedischen Polarforschers und Botanikers Thorild Wulff (1877-1917), der während der zweiten Thule-Expedition unter der Leitung von Knud Rassmussen auf Grönland ums Leben kam. LITERATUR: VD 16, R 431. - Nissen 1587. - Pritzel 7430. - Hunt I, 146. - Henze III, 550. - Second edition of Rauwolff's description of the Levante, but first edition with four parts and the botanical woodcut illustrations. With 2 engr. woodcuts on title and 42 fullpage woodcut illustrations of plants, herbs and shrubs. Contemp. half calf with 2 labels on spine. - Partly somewhat (water-)stained. Binding scraped, edges rubbed, spine with longer repaired tear. - Copy from the library of Thorild Wulff (1877-1917), Swedish botanist and arctic explorer, with his bookplate and signature. Wulff took part in the second Thule expedition to Greenland, led by Knud Rasmussen, and died on the return trip. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten.

Two gilt framed botanical prints

Didi Ritherford (20th century) watercolour botanical study'Hibiscus Belvidere', signed and dated 1991 lower right, mounted framed and glazed, 30cm x 23cm & 46 x 39cm overall

BOTANICAL PRINTS, a set of four, framed, 50cm x 35cm. (4)

CIRCLE OF MARY DELANY (1700-1788), 'Botanical studies' watercolour on cut paper, 25cm x 30cm. (4)

Spode botanical pattern tableware, to include a teapot, cream jug, sugar bowl and two serving dishes with covers (5)

Late 19th century English school - Pair; Botanical studies, watercolours, painted as ovals, each 43 x 35cm, in probably associated birds-eye maple frames

Botanical and Ornithological Interest - Gloucestershire bird Report/Observers Book, Wild Flowers, Trees, etc

A small quantity of china including, two Portmeirion Botanical Garden plates, a Masons vegetable tureen with staple repair, and a pair of 'PFVA' bottle vases, in blue, red, yellow pink and black with some gilding, etc.

ST. JOHN SPENSER.  Life in the Forests of the Far East. 2 vols. 3 fldg. maps (some tape reps.), litho frontis, litho plates & hand col. botanical plates (as called for). Rebound qtr. leather. 1862.

A pair of botanical species studies by R. Pilsbury, an early 20th century artist at Mintons pottery

A small collection of later 20th Century Caithness glass vases of varying shape and colour, each decorated with various botanical and bird studies, tallest 23cm. (4)

Two late 19th to early 20th Century framed hand painted panels each decorated with a botanical study, one with a tulip, the other a rose, and foliage against the milk white ground, framed 28.5cm x 24cm, damage.

Medical Poster (i) The Digestive System 34x41", 86x104cm (ii) Untitled illustrating the Kidneys 38x50", 96x127cm (iii) The Human Ear 32x44", 82x112cm all by Adam, Rouilly & Co; together with a similar botanical poster and assorted anatomical and other prints Posters generally in good to excellent condition with some creasing and a few tears  to edges; Digestive: loose from lower frame; Botanical - cracking across images; around 100 prints

Ceylon. A scrap album containing a small selection of sketches, watercolours and prints relating to Ceylon, plus varied other miscellaneous prints, 19th-century, laid or tipped onto approximately 110 leaves, including a watercolour courtroom scene in Ceylon, 27.5 x 40 cm, pen and ink sketch of a Ceylonese family with the family members captioned to lower margin including Mohamad Meydy..., and also captioned 'Ceylon Petition presented to E[dmund]. R[awdon]. Power', 16.5 x 28 cm, 10 large pencil sketches of various views at Scegiri dated 1853, approximately 41.5 x 26 cm (landscape & portrait formats), watercolour of a Ceylonese single mast ship by F. Caley, June 1855, with slightly torn central fold, 31 x 48.5 cm, together with other mounted/tipped-in prints relating to Ceylon including lithograph view of Mawanella Bridge by W. Purser after J. Braybrooke, engraved view of The Cinnamon Gardens near Columbo, plus a Mulready letter sheet addressed to David Power Esq., Sloane St, Knightsbridge, bearing postmark Maidstone May 24 1840, and with numerous other lithographs, engravings, etchings, and few drawings, watercolours, botanical prints, caricatures and humorous prints etc., numerous Victorian scraps and cuttings including many from Punch etc., including 'Birds Eye View of Brighton from the New Church, at the Entrance of the Town. Including the Marine Palace of Her Majesty Victoria the First, drawn, engraved and published by Jno. Bruce, Brighton, Novr. 1839', with contemporary hand-colouring, torn to lower blank margin, 29.5 x 42.5 cm, two humorous etchings by William Heath depicting the Duke of Wellington 'A Sketch of the Row in Parliament Street' and 'Termination of the Row in Parliament Street Plate 2', first plate with slight loss to lower right, both with original hand-colouring, approx. 24 x 35 cm, 19th-century half sheep, worn, large folio (52 x 32 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Edmund Rawdon Power (1837-1860) edited one of the earliest literary periodicals in Ceylon. He originally arrived in Ceylon as Private Secretary to Sir Robert Wilmot Horton and was the first to introduce shorthand to Ceylon. He was also instrumental in starting a quarterly magazine 'The Ceylon Miscellany' which included a series of 'Letters on Colonial Policy' written by the Governor under the nom de plume of 'Philalethes'. Power succeeded Charles Reginald Buller as Government Agent of Kandy, where he proved very popular. He married into a literary family, his wife being the daughter of William Jerdan, Editor of the London Literary Gazette. Power is also known for taking a wager that he would walk from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya, a distance of approximately 50 miles, in 16 consecutive hours. The odds were against him, but he was successful, with an hour and twenty minutes remaining.

An early 19th Century Chinese Bencharong tazza made for the Thai market during the Rama II period (1809-1824. The porcelain tazza decorated in the Thai taste with enamel decoration depicting floral motifs and lotus set panels. The tazza with Famille Verte ground and Famille Rose detailing. The tazza having a scalloped / serpentine edge with central botanical motif to the recess of the bowl. The bowl raised on footed pedestal base. Some visible chips to rim. A near identical example can be found in the Art Gallery NSW. Measures approx; 12cm x 5cm.

A Turkish flintlock blunderbuss pistol, two-stage barrel 10 in., flaring muzzle and struck marks at the breech; lock engraved with botanical sprays, 'waterproof' type pan; full stock with characteristic truncated butt and brass furniture.

Pierre-Joseph Redoute (Beligan, 1759-1840). Botanical lithograph depicting a red tulip or "Tulipa Oculus-Solis/Tulipe oeil de Soleil" flower. Signed in plate along the lower left; titled in plate along the lower center; "de Gouy sculp." along the lower right. This flower is also called a Tulipa agenensis or a sun's eye tulip. With a large sheet of text in a sleeve affixed to the verso.Sight; height: 20 in x width: 13 1/4 in. Framed; height: 29 in x width: 22 in.Condition: There are no visible rips, losses, or restorations. The sheet is lightly toned. There are areas of uneven foxing/toning throughout that fluoresce under UV light. Slight undulation to the sheet. Light wear to the frame; framed under plexiglass; not inspected out of frame. The sheet of text is slightly toned; there is undulation to the sheet throughout; wear along the edges.

Pierre-Joseph Redoute (Beligan, 1759-1840). Botanical lithograph depicting a white daffodil or "Narcissus Poeticus/Narcisse des Poetes" flower. Signed in plate along the lower left; titled in plate along the lower center; "Langlois sculp." along the lower right. The flower has many alternate names including the poet's daffodil, poet's narcissus, nargis, pheasant's eye, findern flower or pinkster lily. With a large sheet of text in a sleeve affixed to the verso.Sight; height: 20 in x width: 13 1/4 in. Framed; height: 29 in x width: 22 in.Condition: There are no visible rips, losses, or restorations. The sheet is lightly toned and there is undulation to the sheet. Slight handling marks visible throughout. A few small spots of soiling - most visible along the upper right corner and the lower left quadrant. Light wear to the frame; framed under plexiglass; not inspected out of frame. The sheet of text is toned; wear along the edges; areas of soiling throughout.

Pierre-Joseph Redoute (Beligan, 1759-1840). Botanical lithograph depicting a white iris or "Iris Swertii/Iris de Swert" flower. Signed in plate along the lower left; titled in plate along the lower center; "Langlois sculp." along the lower right.Sight; height: 20 in x width: 13 1/4 in. Framed; height: 29 in x width: 22 in.Condition: No visible rips, tears, or restorations. The print is slightly toned. There appears to be slight handling marks throughout. Light wear to the frame; framed under plexiglass; not inspected out of frame.

Flo Perkins (American, b. 1951). Hand blown glass sculpture titled "Chicago's Cactus," depicting a black vase with green and yellow spots supporting a bouquet of pink flower blossoms and yellow-green spines, possibly depicting cacti, attached with silicone, 1993.Provenance: Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition at Navy Pier; Private Arizona Collection; Private Minnesota Collection.Lot Essay:Flo Perkins is an American glass artist currently working and residing in the Pojoaque Valley north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art (1974), Master of Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles (1981), and she studied under renowned Italian master glass blower Lino Tagliapietra. Her work can be found in several museum collections including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Albuquerque Museum and the Racine Art Museum as well as numerous public and private collections.In the 1970s Perkins was one of a small group of female artisan glassblowers. In the 1980s Perkins built her own glass studio in Pojoaque, New Mexico where she worked on learning Venetian glassblowing techniques. She further refined her glass making technique while studying with the Murano glass master Lino Tagliapietra.While living in New Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s she studied botanical forms including cacti, flower buds, and bouquets, and began incorporating those forms into her work as seen in the work offered here. In the 1990s she began incorporating bronze, steel bars, and iron into her glass work to create larger works including lattices, wreaths, swags, and bouquets.By the early 21st century Perkins had mastered her glassblowing technique and become known for her creation of brightly colored botanical sculptures created using Italian techniques including murrina, reticello and granulare. She also built her fourth hot shop on her estate located 20 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.In addition to her glass work, Perkins has taught at the Pilchuck Glass School, California State University at San Jose, Penland School, and the University of California in San Diego. Additionally, she has taught workshops for students at the GlassRoots hot shop in Newark, New Jersey.Height: 22 in x width: 13 in x depth: 14 in.Condition: The sculpture is in very good condition with no visible chips, cracks, or restorations. There are a few areas with surface bubbles, most likely original to the work. As expected from age, dust collected to the surface, particularly in between spines. Some of the thin spines have broken or are missing, as expected from age. Very light wear to the underside. When inspected under UV light, there is no visible sign of restoration.

Pierre-Joseph Redoute (Beligan, 1759-1840). Botanical lithograph depicting a lily or "Amaryllis Broussonetia/Amaryllis de Broussonet" flower. Signed in plate along the lower left; titled in plate along the lower center; "Phelippeaux sculp." along the lower right.Sight; height: 20 in x width: 13 1/4 in. Framed; height: 29 in x width: 22 in.Condition: There are no visible rips, losses, or restorations. The sheet is lightly toned and there is a slight undulation. There are slight handling creases throughout. Small areas of foxing and soiling throughout. Light wear to the frame; framed under plexiglass; not inspected out of frame.

Pierre-Joseph Redoute (Beligan, 1759-1840). Botanical lithograph depicting a yellow tulip or "Tulipa Gesneriana/Tulipe des Jardins. Var. Jaune-rouge" flower. Signed in plate along the lower left; titled in plate along the lower center; "Lemaire sculp." along the lower right. This flower is also called a Didier's tulip or garden tulip.Sight; height: 20 in x width: 13 1/4 in. Framed; height: 29 in x width: 22 in.Condition: There are no visible rips, losses, or restorations. The sheet is lightly toned and there is a slight undulation throughout. Small areas of foxing throughout. There are horizontal lines of toning along the upper half of the work, only slightly visible. Light wear to the frame; framed under plexiglass; not inspected out of frame.

A collection of assorted prints, maps and life drawings including black and white engravings, map of Islands in the Atlantic, West Indies, ten Vanity Fair Spy prints, botanical, cock fighting, a sketchy oil on board, etc.

(Botany, Flora), a collection of 12 assorted titles, including Harold R. Fletcher: 'A Quest of Flowers. The Plant Explorations of Frank Ludlow and George Sherriff', Edinburgh University Press, 1975, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper. Story told from the diaries of Ludlow and Sherriff on their travels to the Himalaya of Bhutan and south eastern Tibet in their quest of flowers; 'The Journals of Hipolito Ruiz, Spanish Botanist in Peru and Chile 1777-1788', Portland Oregon, Timber Press, 1998, original cloth, d/w; plus others 'Flora of Louisiana', 'The Genus Iris', 'Pierre Joseph Redouté - The Lilies', Nikulinsky 'Banksia menziesii', Reveal 'Gentle Conquest. The Botanical Discovery of North America', Cox 'Plant-Hunting in China', 1945, 1st edition in wrapper, etc etc (12)

A late Georgian commonplace album circa 1830 containing a number of attractive hand coloured, black & white engravings and pen, ink & watercolour illustrations, plus good quantity of leaves of manuscript extracts of prose, poetry etc, leaves watermarked 1830, later m/s list of b/w and colour illustrations loosely inserted, contemporary calf (very worn), approx size 24 x 19cm; together with two late 19th Century well executed botanical pen, ink & watercolour sketches, each with m/s pen & ink captions, including "Corn Cockle Agrostemma Githago. Class Decandria Order Pentagynia...Pink Tribe found at Earls Colne in a Corn Field July 21. 1882", each paper size approx 36.5 x 27cm, housed together in 20th Century half cloth portfolio (2)

AUSTRALIA, a circa late 19th Century photograph album containing 40+ albumen print and other photographs of Australia, all captioned in pencil to card leaves beneath, images include Collins Street, Melbourne; Fitzroy Gardens; Government House, Melbourne; River Yarra, Melbourne; Yarra at Simpson's Road punt; Yarra at Abbotsford; Brighton Beach on Boxing Day; Victoria Mountains; views of Sydney including from point; Sydney town hall; Hyde Park, Sydney; Botanical Gardens; King Street from George Street; 2 views coast at Coogee bay & environs; Woolloomooloo bay, Sydney; Double Bay; Government House; Cliffs South Head; various views of Hobart (8); small number slightly lately photos sailing in Brisbane River (3), and Nerang township, small number postcards also included in album, photos mainly loosely corner mounted in card leaves of album, images various sizes, approx 6 x 10cm to approx 13 x 19cm, contemporary half calf gilt album, lacks lower part of backstrip

Betty Long (Local 20th century) a group of four acrylic botanical studies, each within moulded mahogany frame

Botanical oil on canvas unsigned- Approx image size: 28cm x 33cm

Assorted pictures and prints to include topographical views, botanical study etc

A box of assorted pictures and prints to include botanical studies, fashion prints, framed majolica glazed wall tiles etc

A collection of miscellaneous items to include mid 20th century sketch book containing various botanical studies, albums of postcards being mainly architectural examples, silver and enamel lapel badge for West Ham High School etc

Collection of 5 botanical oil paintings signed H G Davis

Olwen Jones RWS, RE (b.1945) - 'Fern House, Botanical Gardens, Cambridge', watercolour, signed, provenance: with Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, 44 x 57 cm

A Spode Felspar Porcelain Part Dessert Service, circa 1822-33, with pale ecru and gilt borders framing botanical specimens, comprising:2 sauce tureens and covers4 oval serving dishes4 smaller serving dishes11 plates (23)Sauce tureens, 18cm high, oval dishes 27.75cm wide, serving dishes 22cm, plates 23.25cm wideOne sauce tureen with the knop having a staple repair.No other damage tpo note, free from chips, cracks and repair.Glaze and enamels mainly in very good order, some slight pitting and minor wear and scratches.

A group of 14 cooper engravings in colour, printing of Remond, Lejeune and Chazal del., Ambroise Tardieu sculp. Plates taken from the "Voyage de la Coquille", circa 1826, voyage around the world executed by the order of the king, on his Majesty's corvette, La Coquille, during the years 1822-1825, under the ministry and in accordance at the instructions of HE Marquis of Clermont-Tonnerre, and published under the auspices of his Excellency Mgr the Cte de Chambro, Minister of the Navy and the colonies by Louis Isidore Duperrey. This trip took Duperrey, accompanied by his second Dumont d'Urville, to South America (Chile, Peru), then to the Touamotou, in the Society Islands (Tahiti, Bora Bora) then in New Ireland, and finally in New Zealand and Australia from 1822 to 1825. The expedition provided scientific work on terrestrial magnetism and ethnographic studies, botanical and zoological. Plates include "Naturels De L'ile Waigiou" (No.28); "Maisons Des Habitants De L'lile Oualan" (No.53); "Tombeau Pres De Doreri, Nouvelle - Guinee (No.33); Nouvelle-Zelande" (No.107); "Femms De L'ile Oualan" (No.52); "Novelle- Zelande" (No.41); "Etoffes Des Habitants Des Iles Caroline" (No.56), varyting plate tones with small marginal tears to sheet edges. Varying plate dimenstions - 9x12.5ins and 13.5x20ins (full sheet size). (14)

A set of seven early 19th century miniature botanical, historical and educational books covering Botany, Geography and Astronomy, British Heroism, The History of England From the Conquest to the Death of George II, A Knowledge of British Grammar, Old & New Testament and A Compendium of Simple Arithmetic, printed for J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, by J. Cundee Ivy Lane, 1800 (7).Condition ReportThe books are in poor condition, the pages are loose on the spines and have browned with age. The covers are in poor condition with bumps, knocks, looses spines etc.

After Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau - Pomona Galissa - hand coloured engraving; together with four botanical prints after Pierre Joseph Redoute, all framed & glazed, the largest 35 by 49cms (5)

A collection of assorted pictures & prints, some framed & glazed. To include signed watercolour of trees at South Wylam, W. Curtis botanical print and watercolour of moths & caterpillars. Largest approx. 34cm x 40cm.

Botanical prints lithograph on paper 38 x 24.5cm

A collection of early to mid 19th century prints, to include: Drawing for The Magnet Book, 1950. Measures 30cm x 36cm. The County Of Gloucester, George Philip & Son. Measures 35cm x 29cm.Sandweavers, Peter Scott, 1974, 31cm x 24cm. Offshore boat scene, 22cm x 28cm. The Four Seasons Of Love, 40cm x 31cm. The Lump of Innocence, 27cm x 36cm. Each framed and glazedAlong with 6 x Botanical Prints published by W.Curtis, Botanical Gardens, Lambeth Marsh, mounted but unframed. Measures 24cm x 36 cm.

A set of four botanical prints of apples and pears, 32 x 25cm

A large collection of botanical coloured prints, butterfly studies etc (boxful)

Georgian botanical card game. The Science of Botany according to the system of Linnaeus, by Mad'lle de Cély, complete with all 54 hand-coloured playing cards and 32pp. instruction booklet in publisher's yellow paper covers, second edition, London: E. Wallis, 1829, housed in a sliding wooden case bearing hand-coloured label. The cards are very well-preserved, clean & bright, the instruction booklet has some faint spotting but is otherwise very good, the wooden case is good with surface wear. Scarce

A Victorian blue and white and gilt decorated tea set comprising teapot, sucrier, milk jug, slop bowl, two rectangular plates, twelve large cups, twelve small cups, twelve saucers, six small plates and teapot stand, bearing old auction labels "Sotheby's 6 Mar 1990 312/51", together with two sets of four 19th Century Continental green and gilt banded dessert plates, each decorated with a floral spray / botanical study CONDITION REPORTS Teapot very cracked throughout - see images. Slop bowl, cream jug and sucrier appear basically sound as do the rectangular platters. Saucers appear basically sound. Large cups basically sound with the exception of one with large hairline crack vertically - see image. Small cups basically sound. Six sandwich plates or side plates slightly different in colour i.e. slightly darker owing to the fact that they are later versions of the same pattern by Aynsley with green underglazed printed mark stamped "England" though in good condition - see images for further detail. Otherwise the set has some signs of surface wear and tear and scratching conducive with age and use - see images for further detail

An album containing a selection of WWI silk postcards, Royal Engineers, A Kiss From France, I Think of You, 1914 - 1917 Souvenir From France; Royal Artillery, RGA, 1918; three albums of cigarette card silks, flags, botanical, heraldic; A Character from Girl, Lettice Leefe, Penny Wise, Wendy and Jinx; Eagle Dan Dare; qty

[Parkinson, John]. [Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629], lacking woodcut title (photographic facsimile supplied), lacking 8 further text leaves (Hh3-4, Rr2-5, Vv3-4, including 3 botanical illustrations), woodcut portrait of Parkinson to **6 verso, full-page woodcut of garden design, 106 full-page botanical woodcuts, a few smaller woodcut illustrations to text, early ownership inscription 'J.t. Smyth' to A1, some spotting & old damp-staining (heaviest at front and rear), some damp-mottling and marginal damp-fraying to final leaves, some marginal paper loss to final leaf of text and index, repairs with loss to final 3 leaves, closed tear to 3A1 & 2Z6, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners restored, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, rubbed, folio (32 x 20 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen 1489; STC 19300.First edition of "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey).Provenance: Ownership inscription possibly of Jaritt Smyth of Ashton Court, 1st Baronet and Tory Member of Parliament for Bristol (1756-68).

Philately. Various loose stamp album sheets, to include a set of six penny blacks on facsimile sheet, botanical, Royal Wedding first day covers, unframed etchings, etc. (1 box)

A good collection of modern Portmeirion Botanical Garden pattern ceramics including planter, vases, storage jars and serving dishes.

EDWARDS BOTANICAL REGISTER, ' Botanical Studies including Dendrobium Moniliforme' lithographs, 25cm x 20cm, set of ten framed.

BOTANICAL PRINTS, a pair, 86cm x 74cm. (2)