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Click here to subscribeTwo hand coloured botanical engravings, probably 17th century, taken from an edition of HORTUS EYSTETTENSIS by Basilius Besler (1561-1629), one sheet depicting members of the Ranunculus family, printed text verso, visible plate mark, the plate 49cm x 40cm, the sheet 52.5cm x 42cm, the other depicting members of the Lagopus family, blank verso, visible plate mark, the plate 48cm x 40cm, the sheet 52cm x 41.5cm (2)
Beautiful floral patterns of sequins and beads adorn the botanical fine whale corduroy fabric. Large flower applique of leather, silk ribbon and crystal type beads at the corner. Leather sides with decorative edging. The frame top is a bronze color with a kiss clasp embellished with diamond like rhinestones. Bronze color decorative metal handle. Interior is fuchsia satin with a pocket. Handle drop: 3"L. Bag #869. Comes with dust bag. Issued: 20th c.Dimensions: 12'L x 5.50"W x 6"HManufacturer: Mary FrancesCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.
Edwards (Sydenham Teak) Edward's Botanical Register, 16 various volumes 1833-1855, London: James Ridgeway, 8vo, predominantly full calf with red title blocks, volumes XV and XVI half calf with marbled boards and gilt tooling, hand coloured plates; bound as Vol VI, New Series, 1833 (or Vol XIX of the entire work), Vol VII, New Series, 1835 (or Vol XX of the entire work), Vol VIII New Series, 1836 (or Vol XXI of the entire work), Vol IX, New Series, 1836 (or volume XXII of the entire work), Vol X, New Series, 1837 (or volume XXII of the entire work), Vol XV, 1829, Vol XVI, 1830, Vol XVII, 1831, Vol XVIII, 1832, Vol XXIV, 1838 (or volume XI of the new Series), Vol XXV, 1839 (or volume XII of the new Series), Vol XXVI, 1840 (or volume XIII of the new Series), Vol XXXII, 1846 (or volume XIX of the new series), Vol XXXIII, 1847 (or volume XX of the new Series); together with Curtis's Botanical Magazine, London: Lovell Reeve, 1853-54, volume X and XI of the third series bound as one (or vol 79 and 80 of the whole work) and Curtis's Botanical Magazine, London: Lovell Reeve, 1855, volume XI and XII of the third series bound as one (or vol 81 and 82 of the whole work)Sydenham Edwards, having contributed illustrations to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine for twenty-seven years, started his own publication, the Botanist's Register in 1815. Edwards "was a talented and enthusiastic artist. He obviously possessed knowledge of plant anatomy and... [his work] is considered among the best scientific illustrations of the day". John Bellenden-Ker was the editor, and provided the text for the first 14 volumes, after which John Lindley took over. Each plate is accompanied by a descriptive text, combining botanical scholarship - a 9-page index of "books quoted in the first volume" - with a short notice on the history of the plant's discovery and introduction to Britain, qualities and needs for successful propagation, and a record of where the example depicted was drawn. Mostly samples were provided by professional nurserymen in the London area.Fair condition with scuffs, edgewear and slight losses to head of spines, volumes 10, 24, 26, 32, 79, 80, 81, 82. Volume 79 & 80 and 81 & 82 bound as two volumes in one. Marbled boards worn, Several volume with front hinges cracked or starting, toned pages, endpapers and plates with scattered foxing. Not collated. 19th century owner's name inscribed in ink and dated to several volumes
Botanical interest to include Sowerby (J. E.) British Wild Flowers, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1902, 4to, original gilt stamped publishers cloth, together with Lindley (John) Ladies' Botany, London: James Ridgeway & Sons, 1837, 8vo; Sotheby's Pierre-Jospeh Redoute's Les Liliacees: The Empress Josephine copy, Paris 1985; Butcher (Roger W.) A new Illustrated British Flora, London: Leonard Hill, 1961, 8vo, 2 volumes, publisher's cloth and two others (7)Not collated.
Culpeper (Nicholas) Culpeper's Complete Herbal, London: Richard Evans, 1815, 4to, part calf and marbled boards, engraved frontis, 40 hand-coloured botanical plates.Not collated. Some clear condition issues, including rubbing to boards, which are also printed faintly with text. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Extensive internal foxing. Plates are collated and complete.
Set of twelve Royal Worcester porcelain botanical cabinet plates designed by AH Williamson, each decorated with colourful floral subjects to the well and a gilt border, titled to the underside 'Poppy', 'Polyanthus', 'Columbine', 'Pansy', 'Daisy', 'Convolvulus', 'Lily of the Valley', 'Tulip', 'Wallflower', 'Pink', 'Lily' and 'Rose', 26cm diameter. (12)
An extensive collection of Spode ‘Stafford Flowers’ dinner and tea wares, printed in colours and gilt, with botanical sprays, comprising; thirty dinner plates (27cm diam); forty cheese or dessert plates (23cm diam); forty side plates (19.5cm); a pair of shaped oval serving dishes (30cm diam); ten tea cups and saucers; and nine coffee cups and saucers, factory printed marks and titled to bases Formerly at Old Enton, Godalming, Surrey, thence by descent.
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (FRENCH 1836-1904) ROSES THÉ Oil on canvas Signed and dated 74 (upper right) 44 x 39.5cm (17¼ x 15½ in.)Provenance: Private Collection, Edwin Edwards, London The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), Glasgow Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner Thence by descentExhibited: Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College Art Gallery (now The Frances Lehmann Loeb Art Center), circa 1977-1980 (loaned by the mother of the present owner)Literature: Madame Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 79, no. 722 (Titled 'Roses') The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Brame & Lorenceau and it will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonne of the artist's paintings and pastels currently being prepared. Exquisite still life paintings such as the present work are synonymous with the work of Fantin-Latour. Initially trained by his father who was also a painter, Fantin-Latour went on to study alongside Edgar Degas and Alphonse Legros at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in the 1850s. The artistic milieu in which he was surrounded comprised Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet amongst many others that would go on to be instrumental in the Impressionist movement. Fantin-Latour's work at this time comprised many group portraits of his contemporaries, but it was his flower compositions that brought him both critical and commercial success. James Abbott McNeil Whistler was instrumental in encouraging Fantin-Latour to visit London where, in 1862, he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time, finding success with a flower composition. He would go on to return and exhibit there almost every year until 1881. Whistler was also pivotal in introducing Fantin to Edwin and Ruth Edwards who would become his most important supporters and patrons, buying many of his still lifes and promoting his work to their friends. Fantin-Latour prioritised simple compositions, focussing his energy on the intricate representation of each element of the flower. The result is almost always a sumptuously rendered harmony of colour imbued with a sublime delicacy and an unparalleled attention to detail. The more complex compositions with both flowers and fruit show him to be the worth successor to Chardin and Courbet, bridging the artistic divide between Realism and Impressionism.Edward Lucie-Smith writes that 'Fantin's flower pieces have a special quality which is well summed up in Jacques-Emile Blanche's description of them: "Fantin studied each flower, its grain, its tissue, as if it were a human face". But this is true with one proviso: he looked at flowers, as he did at faces, with no perceptions. His belief, academic in origin, that technique in painting was separable from the subject to which the artist applied it, enabled him to see the blooms he painted not as botanical specimens, but as things which, though not necessarily significant in themselves, would generate significant art upon the canvas' (Henri Fantin-Latour, New York, 1977, pp. 22-23). Condition Report: Please refer to the department for a condition report on this lot.Condition Report Disclaimer
Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (Lieutenant G. T. Lane) contemporarily engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £70-£90 --- George Thomas Lane appears on the roll for the Delhi Durbar 1911 medal, serving as a Second Lieutenant with the Calcutta Port Defence Volunteers. He is further noted as the Curator at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Sidpur. Sold with copied medal roll extract and copy research.
Fox, Adam The College of SS Mary and Nicholas Lancing Fox F.S.A., W.H. (illus.), Meyers, Brooks & Company (pub.), Enfield, 1912, Edition Deluxe, no. 9 of 50 copies Sherie, Ernest F. (illus.) The Lancing Sketch Book W.H. Beynon & Co., Cheltenham, no date Du Maurier, George (illus.) "Society" Pictures from "Punch" Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, no date circa-1885 Together with two mounted Rennie Mackintosh botanical prints and two period engineering diagram (7) Condition Report:Available upon request
The Florist's Manual or Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden, by the Authoress of Botanical Dialogs and Sketches of the Physiology of Vegetable Life, illustrated with coloured plates, second edition enlarged, gilt leather and marbled boards, published by Henry Colburn & Co London 1822.
The Hon. Emily Eden (1797-1869) The Voyage to India, 1835-36. An album including eighteen watercolour sketches taken on board the naval frigate Jupiter, with scenery and figure studies taken in Funchal, Madeira (3), Rio de Janeiro (5), Cape Town (3), and India (1), and miscellaneous pencil sketches, several titled, ownership inscription on the front and back pastedowns ‘Edmund T. Drummond, Lyaston, Woodford Green.’Pencil and watercolour on paper sheets (15.8 x 22.8cm.).The subjects include: The town of Funchal; An Indian girl; The bridge of the Jupiter; William Godolphin Osborne reading, ‘Heaving the Lead’; ‘Captain Grey at his usual occupation; Cape Malays at Cape Town; Cape Town December 35’; Aqueduct Rio’; ‘Children Botanical Garden Rio’; ‘Lady & Her Slave at Rio’; ‘…Funchal. Daughter of the Governor’; and Nun at the Convent in Madeira October 1835’Estimate £25,000-35,000The Album - quarter red morocco, lacking backstrip, corners bumped, hinges weak.The watercolours and pencil drawings - some with feint, but legible, pencil inscriptions, 17 completed watercolours, 5 unfinished watercolours, 6 preparatory pencil sketches. The leaves lightly age discoloured. PROVENANCE: Please see end of online cataloguing for this lot.
Tony WEARE (1912-1994) Four portfolios of botanical watercolour studies One hundred and twenty loose pages of watercolour studies containing over one thousand individual illustrations of flora found in America and Canada, each illustration with its own title and dated, many including the place where the flora was located. Each page measures 25cm x 20cm and was created when Weare, the internationally-renowned cartoonist, spent two years driving around the American West, whilst still finding time to send back his cartoons to the London Evening News for their popular and long-running 'Matt Marriott' cartoon, for which he is perhaps best known. A philosopher, humanitarian, conservationist and amateur botanist, Weare lived and incredible life. Spending time sleeping rough in London, determined to succeed as an illustrator in the capital city, his drawings began to grace the pages of various magazines, including 'John Bull' and 'Brittania & Eve'. After some success with other comic strips, it was the creation of 'Matt Marriott, which ran from 1955 to 1977, which gave him his greatest commercial success, with even The Duke of Edinburgh himself said to be a fan. Such success enabled him to buy homes in both Devon and Spain, before the latter was sold to fund his journey around the US. Here he created these magnificent and botanically important drawings and his own personal story took another turn. Somehow, he managed to run himself over with his own car when his handbrake failed. Thankfully, a passer-by stopped and was able to remove the car from off of him, but then drove off in the car, leaving Tony injured and alone for several days before he was able to make it to hospital. Such was the nature of the accident, however, that Weare's insurance company neglected to pay out, leaving Tony with no way to pay for the medical bill. His artistic skills once more came to his aid though, as he painted a mural on the hospital wall as recompense. Even in his own death at 82, Tony created his own story. Not wanting to become a burden as he inevitably slowed, Tony decided to take his own life, having one last pint in a local pub before leaping from Porthleven Pier at high tide, but only after drawing a cartoon of his own death and leaving it for loved ones to find. In it he wrote 'I should hate to be more inactive than I am at the moment, with my children and grand-children feeling like they must sit with this old wreck until his last gasp. So I hope you will understand and give me a cheer and a handclap if I do manage to catch the tide tonight.'
(Caroline Fox and Davies Gilbert) Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. A granderised collection of the first reports thought to be Caroline Fox's own. First annual report 1833 to the fifth annual report 1837, in one volume, with extra bound in letters, original sketches, plans, architectural drawings, etc, full pebbled red calf, rubbed to extremities and joints, 4to, gilt edge, vg, Jane Trathan, Falmouth, 1833-1837.First bound letter (MS) with the title "First Prospectus of the Falmouth Polytechnic Society, in the Spring of 1832" detailing the society's aims and objectives, with a list of lead members; this appears to be in the hand of Davies Gilbert himself, using examples from the Science Museum, the close top of the capital 'I' for instance, and the angularity of the lower case letters firmly suggest it is, without it being signed; Followed by (as a frontis) an original ink and wash portrait of Davies Gilbert and indeed flat signed by Gilbert.'Report of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1833,' List of Members, Laws of the Society, proceedings of the General Meeting, bound in watercolour sketch of a Cornish mine, an ink and wash sketch of 'Loss of the Prince of Wales, 1804', ink sketch 'Park of Whitby Abbey', prizes awarded, watercolour still life of flowers initialled RJ 1833, list of subscribers, watercolour plan of a greenhouse, Chart of Gothic Architecture, ink and wash sketch titled 'A Method of Ventilating Mines'.'The Second Annual Report of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1834,' watercolour portrait of a bearded man with a large ruby on his hat, 'A Mineralogical Sketch of the Island of Banca' (Bangka Island, Indonesia), a ground plan of Ashfield estate, engraving of a Dipping Needle Deflector, ink sketch of a Hydrostatic Lock, ink and watercolour chart on Cornwall, engravings of the 'Cheese Wring' in Bodmin, engraving of The Royal Academy Medal 1837.'The Third Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1835,' ink sketch of the Polytechnic medal, ink sketch of Laocoon and Sons, watercolour Jack Knife, , engraving of a ruined abbey, engraved portrait, watercolour coastal scene, ink sketch of capital punishment in a schoolroom, 'Lines of equal magnetic inclination' map of the Uk and Ireland, 'Two Treaties on the Natural History of the Pilchard' by Jonathan Couch, meteorological diagrams (x2) with a fold out engraved '...Register Kept at Ashfield near Falmouth...1835', a fold out engraved chart titled 'A Chronological Chart of the Wars of the British Empire, From the Revolution in 1688-9 to 1855', four architectural plans for The Royal Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth.'The Fourth Annual Report of the Royal Polytechnic Society 1836,' newspaper clipping of a general meeting, watercolour of seaweed specimens, still life of flowers x2, engraving of Queen Victoria.'The Fifth Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society,' hand drawn magnetic chart of the UK and Ireland by Robert W. Fox, hand drawn magnetic chart of the Atlantic, ink sketch of crows, ink sketch of knights, an original hand drawn map signed by Edwin Fox and titled 'Recent discoveries in the Artic Regions by Parry, Franklin, Ross and Buck', graphite sketches of models of Trewethey Stone and Dungerthis Monument, a linear map between Falmouth and Truro with detailed key, watercolor botanical sketch.The work concludes with a letter written in the same hand as the first, detailing the rise of three other 'Polytechnics' since the inception of the Falmouth Society; and a printed announcement for the 'Sunderland Polytechnic Society', 1838.This is a work of huge historical significance concerning the development of science and art, which propagated from the inception of the Falmouth Polytechnic Society and was indeed granted Royal patronage from King William IV in 1835. A singular and important work. John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Coming from London, he trained as an architect in the meticulous modernist aesthetics of the mid-century Architectural Association. He found Cornwall, moved there and never left. Active in the early years of the Trevithick Society, he was primarily responsible for the introduction of the Society’s Journal in 1973. He left mainstream architecture in the County Architects's department to pursue academic research at the newly-established, Institute of Cornish Studies, establishing himself as a generous, but authoritative lecturer on Cornish industrial archaeology along the way. He used his architectural skills to design Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum, then becoming its first Director in 1975. He moved to the National Maritime Museum in charge of their outstation at Cotehele, with the Tamar sailing barge Shamrock. During his period as President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1984-1986, he had a major hand in the acquisition of the adjacent premises enabling the Royal Cornwall Museum to expand. He co-founded Twelveheads Press in 1978 to publish well-researched books on Cornish and other industrial history. Always generous with both skills and information, he was active in the Cornish Buildings Group for fifty years where he made a substantial contribution to the quality and protection of the built environment of his beloved Cornwall. Latterly he returned to his love of modern design, in the form of research into twentieth century Cornish architecture and architects, and produced as a last collaborative project, a visionary, affordable development in Hayle with impeccable eco credentials, where he made his home.
An 18th century Coalport soft paste botanical part dessert service each piece painted with a named specimen within a Cambridge blue band edged with gilding, comprising an oval footed dish with 'Orange tree', 12 3/8in. (31.5cm.) long, four square dishes with Carnations, Tulips, Rose-Bay and Apple Blossom, two oval dishes with Hen-Bane and Iris, five plates with Madagascar Periwinkle, Violet-coloured Rose-Bay, Capella Pulchella, China Hollyhock and Coxcombe. (12) * Provenance: Partridge (Fine Arts) Ltd receipt dated 16th August 1982. *A little rubbing to gilt trim, Orange Tree with small scratch to image; Hen-Bane with spotting to centre & gilt over run from rim; Carnation with paint bubbling to one corner of blue band; China Hollyhocks with crackle glaze, overall good.
British School (late 19th-early 20th Century) Collection of 47 Botanical Watercolours of British Garden Flowers, Plants and Orchids, each titled with common and latin identifications in ink, watercolour on Reynolds Bristol Board, 23.4 x 18.5 cm (SH) (total 47)Plants include Anemone nemorosa, myosotis arvensis, chrystanthemum leucanthemum, tussilago farfara, equisetum fluviatile, orchis mascula, cardus marianus, menziesia polifolia, antirrhinum linaria, lythrum salicaria, clematis vitalba, lamium album, scabiosa arvensis, symphytum officinale, borago officinalis, neottia spiralis, heracleum sphyondylium, eupherbia amygdaloides, geranium robertianum, polygonum persicaria, onaris arvensis, digitalis purpurea, veronica agrestis, ophrys apifera, conyza squarrosa, chlora perfoliata, vinca major, epilobium montanum, veronica chamcedrys, allium ursinum, geum urbanum, scrophularia nodosa, galeobdolon luteum, pedicularis sylvatica, ophrys muscifera, orchis albida, senecio jacobea, agrimonia eupatoria, valeriana rubra, betonica officinalis, narcissus, lathyrus sylvestris, viola odorata, epilobium hirsutum, calluna vulgaris, scabiosa succisa, pulmonaria officinalis Condition:The sheets are individually covered with a translucent sheet of acid free paper attached with tape. The sheets show evidence of having been previously stuck in some form of scrapbook- the four corners show evidence of adhesive to the verso of the sheet. The sheets appear in good overall condition- no obvious losses, tears or issues- a few have minor creases to the corners but not extending into the paintings. There is some general ageing (yellowing) to the sheets in some cases, usually concentrated around the edges- likely from handling. A few examples have some minor and sparsely distributed foxing. The colours are well preserved and bright, no obvious fading or paint loss. The surfaces appear to be stable.
Andrews (Henry). Botanist's Repository, comprising colour'd engravings of New and Rare Plants only, with Botanical Descriptions, volume 10 only (of 10), [London: T. Bensley for the author, 1803-04], engraved title, 56 engraved plates (including 16 folding) all with contemporary hand-colouring, each plate with a sheet of contemporary descriptive text, slight offsetting, very slight spotting, contemporary calf gilt, spine frayed and partially lacking, upper board detached, heavily worn and frayed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Dunthorne 8; Great Flower Books, p.155; Nissen BBI 2382; Pritzel 174.
Curtis (W.). The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed..., volume 1, 1787, printed title with near-contemporary manuscript ownership signature, with later presentation annotation to the verso, dedication and preface, 81 engraved plates, all with bright contemporary hand-colouring, each with a sheet of contemporary text, slight spotting and offsetting, title page to volume 2 and index bound at rear, later endpapers, bookplate of Frank A. Bazley to front pastedown, 20th century half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine a little faded, 8voQTY: (1)
[Gerard, John]. [The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes..., 1st edition, Imprinted at London by John Norton, 1597], 1392, [66] pp., lacking title, portrait and all preliminary leaves, with initial gathering (A1) from another copy (reduced margins and repair to fore-margin of A1), with numerous woodcut botanical illustrations throughout, page 61 misnumbered 63 (corrected in manuscript), index incomplete at rear lacking final 3 leaves after Iiiii1, few index leaves torn with occasional loss and some repairs, occasional spotting and few marks, light damp-staining at rear of volume, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, maroon skiver title label to spine, boards lightly rubbed, folio (32.3 x 22 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Frederick Alkmund Roach OBE (1909-2004).Henrey 154; Hunt 174; Nissen 698; STC 11750.The first edition includes the first recorded illustration of a potato, p.781.
Parkinson (John). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an herball of a large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange plants from all parts of the world, with sundry gummes and other physicall materials, that hath beene hitherto published by any before; and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640, additional engraved title by W. Marshall, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, frontispiece frayed to outer margin and laid down, letterpress title and all leaves up to p. 74 repaired, mostly to outer margins, last few leaves from 'The Table of the English Names' to the errata leaf at end with some fraying to the outer margins and old reinforcements, leaf 2I2 with short closed tear,, a few other small repairs, occasional light damp stains and soiling, mainly front and rear, modern dark brown calf, red morocco label to spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S121875; Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490.
Moggridge (John Traherne). Contributions to the Flora of Mentone and to a Winter Flora of the Riviera including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1871, 99 hand-coloured lithographic plates, booksellers ticket to front pastedown, previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some pencil marginalia, some spotting to first and last few gatherings, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco with gilt lettering to spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with:Davies (Hugh). Welsh Botanology…, Systematic Catalogue of the Isle of Anglesey in Latin, English and Welsh…, 2 parts bound in 1, London: W. Merchant, 1813, one engraved plate with a little hand colouring, light spotting and dust soiling, untrimmed, previous ownership inscriptions to title page, light spotting throughout, 20th-century half-calf, a little rubbed and worn with small areas of loss to spine and joints, title label detached, 8vo,Walcott (John). Flora Britannica Indigena: or Plates of the indigenous Plant of Great Britain: with their Descriptions taken from Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae, Bath: S. Hazard, 1778, engraved frontispiece plus 169 engraved botanical plates (some with contemporary ink manuscript corrections to a few leaves with original titles lightly struck through), previous ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemporary manuscript annotations to title, modern quarter calf with gilt lettering to spine, small 4to (220 x 130 mm),Abbot (Charles). Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending such Plants as grow wild in the County of Bedford, arranged according to the system of Linnaeus, with occasional remarks…, 1st edition Bedford: W. Smith, 1798, 6 hand-coloured engraved plates, errata bound to rear, pink stain to lower margin from Cc to end (affecting 3 plates), water stain to leaves Oo to end, contemporary diced calf sympathetically re-backed with title label to spine, slightly rubbed, 4to (215 x 130 mm), and Hurtley (Thomas). A Concise Account of some Natural Curiosities, in the Environs of Malham, in Craven, Yorkshire, London: The Logographic Press, 1786, 3 engraved plates including folding frontispiece (tears to title where folded, some ink marginalia, modern grey paper covered boards with paper title label, 8vo, The Berries and Heaths of Rannoch by a Snowdrop, London: George Bell and Sons, 1881, 13 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, original red cloth binding, large 8vo, plus two othersQTY: (8)NOTE:Rees 1549 for Davies (Hugh). Welsh Botanology.Henrey II, p.73 for Abbot (Charles). Flora Bedfordiensis.
Curtis (William). Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 3 volumes, volumes 30-32, 3rd series, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1874-76, 192 hand-coloured lithograph plates, one folding plate in 1874 partially split along fold, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, 3 covers detached, rubbed with some wear to spines, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Nissen BBI 2350; Great Flower Books p. 156.
Wakefield (Priscilla). An Introduction to Botany, in a series of Familiar Letters..., to which is added, The Pleasures of Botanical Pursuits. A Poem, by Sarah Hoare, 9th edition, London: Harvey and Darton [et al], 1823, 9 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece, folding table, some offsetting and toning, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, red morocco title label to spine, 12mo, together with:[Newton, James]. [A Compleat Herbal of the late James Newton, M.D. containing the prints and the English names of several thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, &c. all curiously engraved on cooper-plates, London: E. Cave [et al.], 1752], engraved portrait frontispiece and 175 plates, bound without text leaves (title, dedication, preface, 3 leaves of table of authors and 3 leaves of index), index at rear provided in 5 folding leaves of manuscript written in a neat hand, plates from 165 onwards incorrectly numbered and corrected in a contemporary hand, contemporary diced calf, gilt decorated spine with green morocco title label, joint and head of spine rubbed, 8vo,Smith (James Edward). A Grammar of Botany, illustrative of Artificial, as well as Natural, Classification, with an explanation of Jussieu's System, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826, 21 hand-coloured engraved plates, spotting mostly to title and final leaf, light offsetting from plates, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, joints and foot of spine strengthened, 8vo,Miller (Phillip). The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are necessary to be performed every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery..., 14th edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1765, engraved frontispiece, five folding engraved plates, Eardiston armorial bookplate to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, worn at head and foot of spine, 8vo,Lindley (John). Ladies' Botany: or a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, 2 volumes, London: James Ridgway and Sons, 1837, 50 hand-coloured engraved plates, top edge gilt, later 19th-century green morocco-backed cloth by Birdsall & Son of Northampton, some cracking and wear to joints and extremities, 8vo, plus other 18th-early 20th century natural history and botany relatedQTY: (15)
Dodoens (Rembert). Florum, et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia, 2nd edition, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1569, title with woodcut Plantin device (with small repair & 'Reading Library' in vertical later manuscript to the right of device), 109 full-page woodcut botanical illustrations by Gerard van Kampen after Pieter van der Borcht, some with contemporary hand-colouring, a few identified in early manuscript, occasional early marginalia, occasional light toning and dust-soiling, small paint splashes to pp.11-12, later calf, rebacked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams D 715; Hunt 104; Nissen BBI 514; Pritzel 2347.Second edition revised, first published in Antwerp in 1568. One of the earliest treatises on ornamental and fragrant garden plants, and includes recent introductions from Asia, He describes plants such as the rose, violet, lily, iris, narcissus, anemone, and carnation and herbs marjoram, lavender and thyme
Green (Thomas). The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of all the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean system. Specifying the uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as Food, as Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufactures, with the best methods of Propagation, and the most recent Agricultural Improvements, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, revised and improved, London: Printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, [1824], additional engraved title to volume 1, 109 engraved plates (including frontispiece to volume 2 which is laid-down to front free endpaper), three plates completely or partially neatly hand-coloured (majority uncoloured), occasional light spotting and offsetting, 20th-century half calf, 4to, together with:Thornton (Robert John). A Family Herbal: or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants..., 2nd edition, considerably enlarged and improved, London: R. and R. Crosby and Co., 1814, wood engraved illustrations by Bewick, light toning, edges untrimmed, modern cloth-backed boards, large 8vo, plus others related including Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind..., London: Printed for the author, and sold at the British Directory-Office; and by Champante and Whitrow, [1795?]; and Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's Complete Herbal..., to which are now first annexed his English Physician Enlarged..., London: Thomas Kelly, 1819QTY: (5)
Sole (William). Menthae Britannicae: Being a new botanical arrangement of the British mints hitherto discovered, 1st edition, Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1798, half-title, 24 uncoloured engraved plates, (plate 6 supplied in facsimile), some light offsetting to text, front endpaper a little chipped with dust-soiling, modern boards, spine a little faded, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Dunthorne 289; Hunt II, 752; Nissen BBI 1869. With a 2 pp, autograph letter from the author, dated July 1799 to a Mr Archer in Dublin regarding the distribution of the book, 'I did not send my Menthae Britannicae to Dublin until this time on account of the commotions in your city...'
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