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* Album. An attractive album of watercolours and drawings, and several prints compiled by Susan M. A. Sheppard, 1824-1830, with ink manuscript inscription at front 'Susan M. A. Sheppard from her dear friend Miss Leather, Lowestoft Repository, 1827', containing: 18 watercolours comprising: 7 botanical watercolours; 5 of butterflies; 2 of brightly coloured feathers; 4 more including 2 portraits (one after Rubens) and a grisaille harbour scene, 5 pencil sketches, comprising 4 views and one portrait of a girl playing a drum, one gouache and watercolour portrait of a saint, 3 pen & black ink sketches (1 view, 2 of birds), 1 pen & brown ink view of Bath, plus 2 Baxter prints: Victoria, and the Crucifixion, many mounted onto album leaves, several loosely inserted, many signed or initialled and dated, front free endpaper and attached first leaf (with mounted watercolour) detached, all edges gilt, original maroon morocco gilt, rubbed, front cover stained around edges, and with mounted watercolour scene of two ladies in a garden (slightly marked), 4toQTY: (1)
Royal Worcester porcelain botanical cabinet plate, signed W Hale, c. early 20th century, with hand-painted Erica Cerinthordes (fire heath), signed, shaped gilt border, titled to the underside, 23cm diameter, and another Royal Worcester porcelain plate, signed C Hale, decorated with fish, 23rd diameter, both with puce backstamp to the underside. (2)
A large extensive Portmeirion Botanical Gardens pattern china porcelain kitchenware service set. Comprising of large lidded cauldron soup pot, egg cups, pair of egg cups, plates, mugs, lidded containers, storage, hot water rolling pins, handled jugs, biscuit barrel, various size plates, with three plates of birds of Britain pattern plates. Some hair line cracks, wear commensurate with age.
A vintage 20th century UK unfranked decimal stamps album to include Olympic Games 1948, Festival of Britain 1851-1951, National Productivity Year, International Botanical Congress, Red Cross Centenary Congress, Battle of Britain 1940, Battle of Hastings 1066, World Cup 1966, EFTA, Charles Dickens, Inigo Jones, Churchill Centenary, Turner's Paintings, Silver Jubilee, 25th Anniversary of the Coronation, Medieval Mummers, British Textiles, Greenwich, Europa, Flying Scotsman, Her Majesty the Queen, Industry Year 1986, World Hockey Cup 1986, Dinosaurs, John Harrison, Roman Emperors, Sherlock Holmes, D-Day, The National Trust, Christmas, Royal family, Millenium 1999. Total face value of approximately £220.00.
Curtis, William. Flora Londinensis: Or Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, first edition, in three volumes, London: Sold by the Author, 1777 [1777-1798]. Folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt with marbled boards. Contents very well-preserved, clean and bright. Exquisitely illustrated as follows: Vol.I: vignette title, engraved portrait of the author, 103 beautifully hand-coloured plates, and 81 uncoloured plates; Vol. II: 118 hand-coloured plates, 73 uncoloured plates; Vol. III: 116 hand-coloured plates, 91 uncoloured plates. A total of 582 botanical plates. Each volume has corresponding pages of text for each plant being illustrated. Vol. I includes a dedication the Earl of Bute, 2pp. list of subscribers, 2pp. preface, 4pp. index, 3pp. manuscript appendix to the index, 6pp. catalogue of plants. Each volume bears a small engraved ownership plate for Richard Knight on the front pastedown. An important and exceptionally illustrated work in very good condition, the plates retaining their vibrant colours, only a few plates have small paper repairs, only a few pale spots in places, expertly rebacked & cornered in dark green morocco, the original marbled boards with some rubbing (3)
PHILLIPS, Henry: 'The History of Cultivated Vegetables Comprising their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualitiesl; Natural History and Relation to Art, Science and Commerce'. Second Edition in two vols. London, Henry Colourn, 1822. The text blocks are complete. Both front and rear boards are present but detached. Spines will need restoration.
A set of six 19th century English botanical porcelain dessert plates, hand-painted with central floral design in a turquoise border jewelled with interlaced gilt embellishment, 24 cm diameter, together with two other Victorian plated jewelled with turquoise interlaced border, with registration mark to underside, 23 cm diameterProvenance: Contents of the Estate of Sir Frank Williams CBE and Lady Virginia Williams.
A collection of early 19th century Crown Derby porcelain, to include three pairs of shell-shaped serving dishes, a petal-rimmed serving dish, a botanical cachepot, and egg cup, a teacup, and a pair of coffee cans, together with two 19th century Royal Worcester coffee cans Provenance: Contents of the Estate of Sir Frank Williams CBE and Lady Virginia Williams.Condition report: Overall some pieces with gilt loss, paint loss/chips, few areas of pitting and stains.Shell dishes: with garland rim: one with crack to borderwith blue and red sprigs: one with hairline crack to rim, both have crazing and stains throughoutwith central floral spray: one completely restored, the other with large chip to handle edge, and two firings cracks to the rimOne Derby cup with re-glued handleCachepot: one crack to each handle
A set of four KPM porcelain twin-handled cups and saucers, together with four matching plates, each with botanical design, 'Au Vase Etrusque' collection, with woven embossed border, centred with a floral or fruit arrangement, the plates 22.5 cm diameter, the saucers 16 cm diameterProvenance: Contents of the Estate of Sir Frank Williams CBE and Lady Virginia Williams.
* Botanical watercolours and prints. A collection of 28 botanical watercolours, late 19th & early 20th-century, including two watercolour studies on ricepaper (both torn), approximately 19 x 27 cm, plus approximately 250 botanical engravings, including many by W., S. and T. Curtis, some with contemporary hand-colouring, some with manuscript captions to margins written in an early hand, sheet size mostly 25.5 x 16 cmQTY: (approx. 278)
* Burbidge (Vicki, 20th century). Botanical Studies, 1971-95, 5 watercolour and pencil drawings on wove paper, 2 signed and 3 dated, sheet sizes 55 x 40 cm, together with other watercolour and pencil botanical studies, identified artists include Jane Wright (framed and glazed), Kathy Pickles (x2), Rex Pertwee, Marilyn Cox, Jean Morrison-Low and C.F. King, sheet sizes 28 x 23 cm and largerQTY: (15)NOTE:Vicki Burbidge is the married name of Vicki Matthews.
* Ehret (Georg Dionysus, 1708-1770). Sherardia, lilio-narcissus & arachidna, [from Plantae et papilliones rariores... , 1748-59], hand-coloured engraved plate (no. 5), plate impression 41 x 27 cm, together with plate 12 (baruce fructis e pluribus) and no. 14 (amomum scapo nudo) from the same work, the latter trimmed to plate impression and tipped on to a paper mount, plus other hand-coloured engravings and chromolithographs of flowers from 18th and 19th-century botanical works, artists include C.F. Rosenberg, Arentine H. Arendsen, Ferdinand Bauer, G. Spratt, etc.QTY: (28)
* Evans (Harry, 1918-1990). Trillium, 1980, colour linocut, signed, dated and numbered 375/420, mount aperture 44 x 25 cm, framed and glazed, together withMcHale (Bridget, 20th century). Botanical Study, 1978, hand finished colour screenprint, signed, dated and numbered '10/25', mount aperture 37 x 26 cm, framed and glazed, plusWilson (Grey, C, 20th century). Yellow Flags, gouache and watercolour, signed and titled, mount aperture 22.5 x 34 cm, framed and glazed, and 7 other similar modern botanical and natural history printsQTY: (10)
* Goaman (Victoria, 20th century). Botanical studies, 1983, a group of 4 botanical watercolours on thin card, all signed in pencil and dated to lower margins, some other pencil annotations to blank margins and versos, sheet sizes 38 x 24 cm, 2 of the sheets framed and glazed, together with 6 other watercolour and pencil composite botanical studies on wove paper or card, 2 identified as used in Mountain Flowers of Europe by A. Huxley and 2 possibly by Mary Grierson, 44 x 34 cm and smaller, plus a group of 10 watercolour and pencil botanical studies on various coloured paper, all initialled LS and mostly dated 1919/1920, sheet sizes 37 x 28 cm and similar sizesQTY: (20)NOTE:The four watercolours by Victoria Goaman (born 1951) may all be for the book Gardening on Walls by C. Grey-Wilson and Vicki Matthews.
* Van Niekerk (Sarah, 1934-2018 ). September, 1993, wood engraving, printed in an edition of 100 impressions, signed and dated, titled and numbered 23/100, image size 200 x 150 mm (8 x 6 ins), with margins, framed and glazed, together with eleven other wood engravings, almost all of botanical subjects, by Yvonne Skargan, Peter Reddick, Geri Waddington, Barry Woodcock, Marcus Brean, Hilary Paynter (Good Morning Lemmings), Anne Hayward, D. L. Setford, and Geraldo Abraham, Brender a Brandis (1878-1971), all except three framed and glazedQTY: (12)
* Pickles (Kathy). Cowslips, May 1992, watercolour on wove, signed in pencil and dated lower right, image size 23.5 x 15 cm, framed and glazed, together with:Sellars (Pandora, 1936-2017), Lilum Bellingham hybrid, 1994, watercolour on wove, signed and captioned to lower margin, 15.5 x 16 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed, Coombs (J. M.), Nasturtiums, circa 1980s, watercolour on wove, signed in pencil lower left, image size 16 x 20 cm, framed and glazed, plus five others similar, mostly botanical studiesQTY: (8)
* Stitt (Charles Hewitt, 20th Century). Lily, 1993, watercolour and body colour, signed and dated in pencil, 27 x 24.5 cm mount aperture, together with Rosenberg (Kristin, 20th Century). Study of a snail by a log with ivy and brambles, 1972, watercolour, signed lower right, 14 x 20 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed, plus Mendum (Mary, 1945-2004, born Caroline Mary Bates). Dendrobium hellwigianum, watercolour, 15 x 14 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed, provenance to verso, with three other botanical illustrations including one signed by Mary Bates and another on vellumQTY: (6)
* Yokota (Hisao A., 20th century). Stylomecon heterophylla, 1982, & E. californica, 1983, & Allium dichlamydeum, 1987, together three colour screen prints, each signed, titled, dated, and numbered, the second and third works additionally numbered 180/250 and 12/120 respectively, the first work 37 x 42.5 cm mount aperture, all framed and glazed, together with other various botanical prints, framed and unframed, including Bryan Poole (Calla Lily), Jenny K. Phillips (from The HIghgrove Florilegium), Libby Carreck (Cornflower), Mary Grierson, signed reproduction print, and a quantity of other reproduction botanical prints, including Samuel Curtis Monograph, Honour Genus Camilia, republished by Charles Traylen [1965], etc.QTY: (approx. 30)
* Granville (J. J.). A collection of 49 botanical engravings, originally published in "Les Fleurs Animées", Garnier Freres, Paris [1867], engravings by Charles Geoffroy, contemporary hand-colouring, some spotting, occasional duplicates, each approximately 245 x 165 mmQTY: (49)NOTE:Anamorphic engravings depicting flowers and shrubs in the form of pretty girls, often surrounded by anthropomorphised insects and birds that pay homage to their floral host.
Sprunger (Samuel, editor). Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Cambridge: University Press, 1986, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned & marked, large 8vo, together with other modern botany & gardening reference, including The Dapuri Drawings, Alexander Gibson & The Bombay Botanic Gardens, by H. J. Noltie, 1st edition, London: The Antique Collectors' Club, 2002, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, & a large run of Proceedings of The Geologists' Association, all original wrappers, 8vo, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8voQTY: (4 shelves & 2 cartons)
Two boxes of stoneware bottles and jars: two stoppered Stanton's (Bolton Ltd.) Botanical Brewers stone jars, small J C Nicholls stone Ginger Beer stone bottle, J A S Eckersley stone bottle, James Simpson mineral waters and hop ale Hebdon Bridge, possibly ash tray, stipple effect Carlton ware pot etc. (2) (B.P. 21% + VAT) The bottle is un-named. Additional images added.
* Jessica Tcherepnine [b.1938]-Foxgloves. Digitalis purpurea,:-signed and dated 2000watercolour, 54 x 24cm.Provenance. Harris Lindsay Works of Art, Jermyn Street, London, 2005.Exhibited. Botanical Watercolours by Jessica Tcherepnine, Carol Woodin, Gillian Barlow, Newhouse Galleries, New York, December 2002.
Mungo Park: 'Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797', London, G. & W. Nicol, 1810, 6th edition, engraved portrait frontis, large engraved folding map of Mungo Park's route through West Africa exploring the Upper Niger river + 5 engraved plates as called for (of which 2 botanical, 3 folding views), contemporary calf gilt (slightly worn), spine gilt in compartments
(New Naturalists), a collection of 26 assorted Collins New Naturalist series titles, of which 22 1st editions, all original green cloth gilt, all in dust wrappers, comprising B. Vesey-Fitzgerald: 'British Game', No.2, 1946, 1st edition; L. Dudley Stamp: 'Britain's Structure & Scenery', No.4, 1946, 1st edition, Autograph Letter Signed by Sir Laurence Dudley Stamp (1898-1966), geographer and naturalist, dated February 1959 on his headed paper loosely inserted, ownership signature of the geologist and glaciologist Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1923-2012) on FFEP; F. Fraser Darling & J. Morton Boyd: 'The Highlands & Islands', No.6, 1964, 1st edition; J. Ramsbottom: 'Mushrooms & Toadstools', No.7, 1953, 1st edition; A.D. Imms: 'Insect Natural History', No.8, 1947, 1st edition; W.B. Turrill: 'British Plant Life', No.10, 1971 reprint; C.M. Yonge: 'The Sea Shore', No.12, 1961 reprint; 'Snowdonie', No.13, 1949, 1st edition (2 copies); W. Blunt: 'The Art of Botanical Illustration', No.14, 1950, 1st edition; J.E. Lousley: 'Wild Flowers', No.16, 1971 reprint; H.J. Fleure: 'A Natural History of Man in Britain', No.18, 1951, 1st edition; V.S. Summerhayes: 'Wild Orchids of Britain', No.19, 1951, 1st edition; L.A. Harvey & D. St Leger-Gordon: 'Dartmoor', No.27, 1953, 1st edition; H.L. Edlin: 'Trees, Woods and Man', No.32, 1956, 1st edition; C.B. Williams: 'Insect Migration', No.36, 1958, 1st edition; E.A. Armstrong: 'The Folklore of Birds', No.39, 1958, 1st edition; J.B. Free & C.G. Butler: 'Bumblebees', No.40, 1959, 1st edition; K.C. Edwards: 'The Peak District', No.44, 1962, 1st edition (2 copies); L. Dudley Stamp & W.G. Hoskins: 'The Common Lands of England & Wales', No.45, 1963, 1st edition (2 copies); L. Dudley Stamp: 'Nature Conservation in Britain', No.49, 1969, 1st edition; M. Proctor & P. Yeo: 'The Pollination of Flowers', No.54, 1975 reprint; S. Potter & L. Sargent: 'Pedigree: Words from Nature', No.56, 1973, 1st edition; Christopher Perrins: 'British Tits', No.62, 1979, 1st edition (26)
Martin MacKeown (Irish, 1931 - 2003) "Nerine and Nasturtium Leaves", a bold, chiaroscuro botanical still life, oil on board, signed, dated 1991 verso, in slip and gilt frame under glass, 70 cm x 59 cm overall [Born in Ireland, MacKeown studied at Belfast College of Art and the Edinburgh College of Art. He has exhibited across London and Belfast.]
The Royal Mint 2009 UK Proof Coin Set. The Royal Mint 2009 UK Proof Coin Set, 12 coins from £5 to 1p, including a 2009 Kew Gardens Fifty Pence, 250th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. R. A design showing the pagoda, a building associated with the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, encircled by a vine and accompanied by the dates '1759' and '2009', with the word 'KEW' at the base of the pagoda, reverse design by Christopher Le Brun, in original black leatherette case of issue with certificate of authenticity, PS97.
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