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A JAPANESE EFU NO DATCHI PRESENTATION MARSHAL TYPE SWORD. With an 80cm blade, the tang inscribed 'Sa Yukihide saku kore (made this) Kaei 6th year (1853). With a horimo of a prunus branch to one side and bamboo to the other, with hamon visible along much of the length,. Tsuka and saya covered in samegawa. With full length copper fukurin embellished with repousse scale decoration. Silvered fittings with gilt accents cast in heavy relief with cherry blossom and other botanical themes and crouching samurai. Leather obitori with nanatsu-gane. Ref: Yukihide of Chikuzen and Tosa, Hawley YUK 33. Hawley's Japanese Swordsmiths. Koan Nagayama, The Connoisseurs Book of Japanese Swords page 282 and 184.

A pair of early 19th Century bone china cabinet plates decorated with hand painted botanical sprays and gilt highlighting - hairline crack to one and minor staining to both

Two botanical coloured prints taken from The Floricultural Cabinet Magazine; to include, D. Hayes, Seeding Ranunculus's, June 1st 1840, 21 x 13cm; J & J Parks, Plate II Vol II, 21 x 13cm (2)

TAYLOR (Isaac) Collection of loose folio engraved illustrations, late 18th century, of natural history, botanical subjects and scientific instruments, some time staining

Monica Barry "Mermaid" watercolour floral study, framed and glazed and a Monica Barry botanical watercolour study, framed and glazed

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1808-1882), British naturalist, a collection of four hand written letters from 1868, one written and autographed by Charles Darwin and three written by Emma Darwin and believed signed by Charles Darwin. The four letters are written to Charles Caster Tait, a British naturalist and author of ‘The Birds of Portugal’, published by Witherby in 1924. The letter written by Charles is dated Feb 24th 1869 on Down, Bromley Kent headed paper, a letter dated Feb 2 is written by Emma, signed by Charles and includes a post script in Charles hand, the other two letters are dated April 18th and June 1st, are crossed out for Bromley and named for Beckenham and are written by Emma and believed signed by Charles. All four letters discuss Tait acquiring specimens of Drosophyllum Lusitanicum from Portugal for Darin and their delivery to him, the Feb 2nd letter includes notes on tailless dogs, the Feb 24th and April 18th letters also include notes on the horns of Merinos sheep. The April 18th letter opens with Darwin explaining that he is not very well following a fall from his horse and Darwin mentions his paper on climbing plants and a book which is has ordered. For a transcript of the letters please see below in the condition report. (4)PROVENANCE:William Caster Tait is one of four generations of the Tait family to have connections in Portugal. A nephew Mortimer C Tait translated sections of Luis Cameos 1572 work ‘Lusidas’ and another nephew, Alfred W Tait,  for recognition of his botanical work, was crated a Baron by King Carlos and has an iris named after him. His grandson Alan Tait, lived and worked in Oporto and ran the family shipping and travel company.  The letters are being sold by descendants of William Caster Tait. NOTES:It is thought that the interest in tailless dogs from William came from Darwins publication of ‘The Variations of Animals and Plants Under Domestication’ in 1868, a year before his correspondence with Darwin. It is plausible that Williams acquisition of a specimen of Drossophyllum Lusitanicum (flycatching plant) may have helped I his research for ‘Insectivorous Plants’ in 1875. 19th century copies of these four letters can be found in the larger collection of Charles Darwin correspondence at Cambridge University Library.  

Eight 19th century hand coloured botanical prints, framed and glazed as four pairs, each 22 x 14cm, frames 39 x 49cm.Additional InformationAll of the plates with some toning and a few light specks of dirt and marks here and there but essentially ok.

CURTIS; eight early 19th century hand coloured botanical prints, framed as four pairs, 21 x 13cm, overall 40 x 52cm, (4).Additional InformationAll of the engraved plates are original from Curtis's Gazette, all with general toning and browning to the edges of the paper, one with an old crease.

A set of four late 20th century botanical watercolours, each initialled RKM and dated 81, 15 x 12.5cm, framed and glazed. Additional InformationAll with light turning to the paper, and the frames with genera scuffs and marks.

THE HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION; a cast iron stationery press, length 17.5cm.

BESARANI: a vintage 1990s silk blend velvet Botanical scarf with fringes to each end, 174 x 51cm.

HERMÈS; a 100% cotton grey, pink and pastel coloured bedding set, the duvet cover 200 x 245cm, buttoned at the top, and two Oxford style pillow cases, decorated with animals and botanical plants with Latin names, all dry cleaned (3).Additional InformationThe bedding is in excellent condition and has recently been dry cleaned. There are no snags or stains.

Ɵ SITWELL, Edith. 1887 - 1964). The Canticle of the Rose Poems: 1917-1949, inscribed by Sacheverell Sitwell, The Vanguard Press, Inc. New York, 1949, with Two Related Autograph Letters, 1981, and four other vols., 1909-1973. comprises: SITWELL, Edith. 1887 - 1964). The Canticle of the Rose Poems: 1917-1949, inscribed by Sacheverell Sitwell, The Vanguard Press, Inc. New York, 1949. first US. edition, 8vo., (240 x 163mm), publisher's black cloth, pink rose and gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, inscribed and dated by the author's youngest brother in black ink to half-title, 'To Philip Collins / this copy of my sister's poems / 'The Canticle of the Rose'/ 1917-1949 / Sacheverell Sitwell / 3rd December / 1981'; with two Autograph letters loosely inserted, the first letter - 2pp., 22 lines, from Philip N.H. Collins, written to Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, dated 16.12.81, 'Dear Sir Sacheverell / Please could / you tell me why I can't get / a copy of your sisters poems / for love nor money? I consider / her to be one of the most brilliant poets this country has / produced and I think it is an / outrage that paperback volumes / are not available when / trash by so called 'poets' not / worth the paper they're printed on / flood the books shops. / Do you know if / any publications are contemplated / which will make available / at prices we can afford, / her wonderful work? . . .', the second letter - a response to Philip N.H. Collins, from Sacheverell, 1pp., 7 lines, written in black ink to Weston Hall printed headed paper, dated 30 December, 1981, 'Dear Mr. Collins, / I have your letter - and at once / went down to the old kitchen, which / contains my sister's library - and at / once found this book of poems - which / I hope you will approve and enjoy. I do not know / who it / belonged to! / Yours sincerely, Sacheverell Sitwell'; GRIGSON, Geoffrey. (1905 - 1985). Thornton's Temple of Flora with bibliographical notes by Handasyde Buchanan. London, Collins, 1951. folio, (435 x 312mm), original cloth-backed boards, printed title label to front, gilt lettered labels to spine, 12 colour plates, 24 monochrome collotype plates, all with tissue guards, text by Grigson, bibliographical notes by Buchanan and botanical notes by William T. Stearn. This edition was designed by George Rainbird and Ruari McLean, set and printed in Amsterdam from the original volume at the Eton College Library, bound at W. H. Smith and Sons, London; The wrapper design and label based on the original parts. The label and calligraphic title-page drawn by John Brinkley; SITWELL, George Sir, Baronet. (1860 - 1943). An Essay on the Making of Gardens being a Study of Old Italian Gardens, of the Nature of Beauty, and the Principals involved in Garden Design. London: John Murray, 1909. first edition, 8vo., (225 x 147mm), publisher's grey cloth, colour blocked Italianate garden scene to front boards with black short title, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, dustwrapper unclipped, 110pp. and 2pp. adverts at end; together with SITWELL, Sacheverell. Old Fashioned Flowers, Illustrated by John Farleigh, London: Country Life Limited, 1939, with a handmade gift card loosely inserted, ink manuscript inscription, 'To be passed on to William one day, Mary'; SITWELL, Edith. A Book of Flowers, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1952; MITCHELL, Peter. European Flower Painters. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1973.Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library(Qty. 8).Condition Report: 1. The Canticle of the Rose - clean boards, corners a little scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper unclipped, worn and chipped (with loss), and tape repair to inside top of spine, e/ps. a little marked, some toning internally o/w. clean.2. 3. The two Autograph letters, with fold creases, and clean.4. Thornton's Temple of Flora - minor marks to boards, spine bumped at tail and labels on spine slightly detaching at corners, e/ps., with light marks, front e/ps., o/w. text and plates bright and clean.5. An Essay on the Making of Gardens . . - clean bright cloth boards, corners very slightly scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper worn and marked, front flap present but hanging on, lacks lower flap and torn (with loss) top and centre of spine, bright gilt, foxing to edges and further light foxing throughout.6. Old Fashioned Flowers - cloth marked, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper has price neatly cut out, with edge nicks and foxing, within glassine wrapper, foxing to edges affecting leaf edges, and further foxing internally to some pages of text, plates clean.7. A Book of Flowers - clean bright cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine bright, spine slightly bumped head/tail, dustwrapper unclipped, a little worn and marked, e/ps. marked, toning internally o/w. clean.8. European Flower Painters - clean bright red gilt cloth, green top, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy.Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ PRINTS and DRAWINGS: 15 volumes. CARRACCI, Annibale. Imagines farnesiani cubiculi. engraved title and 7 (of 11) plates by Petrus Aquila after Carracci, lacks dedication and 4 plates, contemporary calf gilt, worn, large oblong folio, Rome, Rubeis, [c.1690]. - Album containing 21 sheets with watercolour drawings of insects (mainly butterflies and moths), often more than one to a sheet, mounted in a half calf album, oblong folio, inscribed on end leaf, 'Richard Wilson R[oyal] A[rtillery] Gibralter, 1833': and 7 parts of Osterly Menagery (affected by damp), 5 parts of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, and part 3 of De Fer's Les Forces de L'Europe.

A COMPOSITE BLUE AND WHITE STONE CHINA AND PEARLWARE PART DINNER SERVICE PRINTED WITH THE 'WATER-LILY' PATTERNWEDGWOOD, VARIOUS DATES 19TH CENTURYComprising: an oval soup tureen, cover and stand; a pair of shaped rectangular soup tureens, covers and stands; a pair of shaped rectangular vegetable tureens; a shaped rectangular meat dish with gravy well; three various shaped rectangular serving dished in various sizes; an oval vegetable tureen and stand; three oval serving dishes in various sizes; an oval dish and divider; three various vegetable tureens and covers; four assorted covers for vegetable tureens without base; four various covers for sauce tureens; a pair of sauce tureens, ladles, covers and stands; fourteen custard cups and thirteen covers; eight small assorted serving dishes or sauce tureen stands; twenty-seven various soup plates; twenty-two dinner plates; four breakfast plates; and a large punch bowl, 55.5cm diameter; assorted marksProvenance:By family repute in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks (1748-1820)Gifted to Mary Heber and thence by descent at Weston HallLiterature:F. Bamford, 'Weston Hall, Northamptonshire - II: The Home of Sir Sacheverell and Lady Sitwell', Country Life, 29 January 1976, p. 235.F. Sitwell, Weston Hall, Towchester, Northamptonshire: A Brief Guide, Northampton, 1993, p. 7.Catalogue Note:The Water Lily (or Nelumbium Nucifera) pattern from the 'Darwin Service' was designed in 1806, and the 'Brown Water Lily' earthenware service was made during a three year period from 1808-1811 by Wedgwood. It was probably the first time that the Wedgwood factories had employed the technique of under glaze printing and used specific botanical images derived from prints in the Botanist's Repository and the Botanical Magazine (1803-1806). The original brown print pattern was made for the naturalist Charles Darwin's parents, Robert and Susannah Darwin of Shrewsbury. This service, which Susannah purchased from her brother, Josiah Wedgwood II (1769-1843), was a wedding gift to Charles (1809-82), and his wife (and cousin), Emma (née Wedgwood). A large part of this dinner service is at Darwin's former home, Down House, Kent; a single dinner plate is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (C.3-1988). The blue printed design, as found on the present dinner service, was conceived in 1806, introduced in 1811 and manufactured in quantity between 1811 and 1845.It is perhaps due to the friendship that existed between , Mary Heber (d. 1809), at Weston Hall, and the eminent naturalist and botanist Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1830), and his wife, that the Water Lily dinner service was acquired and kept at Weston. Sir Joseph sailed with Captain Cook on the Endeavour in 1768 and visited Tahiti, Australia, New Guinea and the Malay States. The specimens collected by Banks and the Swedish botanist, Daniel Charles Solander, were studied on the Endeavour by the botanical illustrator Sydney Parkinson. When the expedition returned to London in 1771, Banks employed five artists to create watercolours of all of Parkinson's drawings, and 18 engravers to create 743 copperplate line engravings from the completed watercolours at a considerable cost. It is said that the design for the water lilies on the service was taken from one growing in a pond in Lord Greville's garden in Paddington- upon seeing the flower Banks is said to have proclaimed that he 'had never seen a better water lily, even in the wild'.Banks, President of the Royal Society, who was friendly with Wedgwood, made regular visits to Weston Hall; in the expectation of one such visit, Mary noted that she must buy some Barbados ginger, 'to be had in powder at Apothecaries' Hall at 2s 4d per pound. Sir J. Banks takes a quarter of an ounce every morning at Breakfast' (F. Bamford, 'Weston Hall, Northamptonshire - II: The Home of Sir Sacheverell and Lady Sitwell', Country Life, 29 January 1976, p. 235). It is thus possible that the present lot was gifted to Mary Heber prior to her death in 1809 and later added to or some items bought as replacements.Condition Report: An oval soup tureen, cover and stand: the tureen is crackedA pair of shaped rectangular soup tureens, covers and stands: both stands are cracked and one tureen is cracked and gluedA pair of shaped rectangular vegetable tureens: One cracked, both missing coversA shaped rectangular meat dish with gravy well: one of the feet is chipped offAn oval vegetable tureen and stand: one handle has been often gluedThree oval serving dishes in various sizes: The smallest with a rim chipAn oval dish and divider: the vegetable divider is heavily stained and the dish is cracked and rivettedThree various vegetable tureens and covers: One tureen is cracked and rivetted and one is cracked and stainedFour assorted covers for vegetable tureens without base: One crackedFour various covers for sauce tureens: one crackedA pair of sauce tureens, ladles, covers and stands: One tureen is stained, one ladle is restoredFourteen custard cups and thirteen covers: several are stained, two have had the handles broken offEight small assorted serving dishes or sauce tureen stands: Two are cracked and one chippedTwenty-seven various soup plates: Four are cracked and chipped, some staining from age and useTwenty-two dinner plates: only two are undamagedfour breakfast plates: two are damageslarge punch bowl, 55.5cm diameter: cracked and scratchedGeneral condition: The service has been extensively used Condition Report Disclaimer

A Victorian botanical album 'Seaweeds', the brown leather and gilt album opening to reveal twenty five pressed seaweed samples and seven very well executed pen and ink illustrations with captions.

Botanical interest - Oxlade, Diana (illust.), A Tropical Glen, A Florilegium of Belfast Botanic Gardens, text by Reg Maxwell and Robert Scott, pub. Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2000, 1st ed., signed and numbered 63/500, 46 coloured plates, quarter green morocco and green cloth gilt, folio, with signed and numbered Subscriber's List.

A collection of Great British commemorative presentation packs: in nine albums with issues to 2006 including 1964 Botanical, 1997 Diana Welsh pack, etc.

Two oil on canvas still lives, three botanical watercolours and prints and a Japanese Shibayama panel, some framed, largest 39cm wide

An early 20th century circa 1920s Chinese Oriental vase of cylindrical form having botanical decoration throughout. Measures 21cm x 21cm. Signs of wear and tear commensurate with its age.

A collection of two sets of four still life and insect studies walnut framed prints The Kew Botanical Flower Illustrations and a set copies of the Reeves Collection with certificates. (8) - NO RESERVE

Early 19th century English School, oil on panel, Botanical study of an orchid cactus, 31 x 24cm

Rhinestone Brooch Assortment (81) items including botanical, insect and animal motifs as well as (2) sets including brooch and matching earrings, a pendant and a single pair of earrings; makers include Monet, Emmons, JNY, Coro, Chicos, Pago, Wendy Gel, Trifari and Disney Width: 3 1/4 inches (widest) Condition: Very Good to Good, overall light wear consistent with normal use; occasional missing rhinestones and tarnish; one missing back pin noted Category: Silver & Costume Jewelry > Costume Estimated Sale Time: 5:55 pm (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Sales Tax (United States Only): Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%) Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1Photograph #2

Victorian Silverplate Beverage Servers (2) items including c.1882 Meriden Britanni Company 2-piece server including flagon pot having ceramic liner, serving cradle and a matching cup, all having incised botanical decoration; and a Reed and Barton server having ceramic liner and floral relief decorated banding; all having maker mark on underside; together with (2) hand decorated Asian platters with stands including an Imari style platter having figural, dragon, bird and botanical decoration with a table style wood stand having brass-tipped feet; and a platter having an ivory-tone field with images of birds, botanicals and a guardian lion in tones of burnt red, green, blue and gold gilt with a carved wood platter stand Property from: a New York City, New York estate Height: 21 1/2 inches, Width: 9 1/4 inches, Depth: 9 1/4 inches (cradle) Condition: Very Good to Good, Meriden Britanni cup missing foot, pot having dent on lower left side; Reed and Barton pot having very slight dent in center of right side, crazing to ceramic liner; Imari style platter having staining and hairline cracks in center, 1-inch circular chip to edge, wood bracket glued to the back to facilitate wall display, all legs of table stand having cracks at bottom center; burnt red and ivory platter having 0.5-inch hairline crack at right center, scuffs with glaze loss on bumpy production flaws, occasional areas of paint wear with loss, multiple small cracks to backside of well, seemingly production flaws, wire affixed to facilitate wall display, light scuffs and scratches to wood stand; light dirt accumulation overall Category: Silver & Metalware > Silverplate Hollowware Estimated Sale Time: 6:12 pm (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Sales Tax (United States Only): Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%) Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1Photograph #2Photograph #3Photograph #4Photograph #5Photograph #6Photograph #7Photograph #8Photograph #9Photograph #10Photograph #11Photograph #12Photograph #13

Wool Area Rug Woven rug having a red field with a geometric botanical motif in shades of blue, green and ivory; short fringe Length: 66 inches, Width: 45 1/2 inches (without fringe) Condition: Very Good, overall light wear consistent with normal use; light dirt accumulation Category: Decorative Arts > Rugs & Textiles Estimated Sale Time: 11:16 am (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Sales Tax (United States Only): Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%) Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1Photograph #2

Asian Decorative Stone Object Assortment (3) items including (2) stone plaques decorated with a botanical motif of carved stone including rose quartz, lapis lazuli, agate, turquoise and malachite with carved wood stands; and a Shoushan figural group including (5) deity figures and stand Property from: an Evanston, Illinois estate Diameter: 11 1/2 inches (plaque) Condition: Very Good to Fair, a plaque having a 4.5-inch vertical crack on back side near the bottom with 0.25-inch section visible on the front; the other plaque having a repaired break that horizontally bisects the circle; a stand having detached corbel (included); overall light to moderate wear consistent with normal use Category: Decorative Arts > Asian Estimated Sale Time: 11:34 am (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Sales Tax (United States Only): Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%) Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1Photograph #2Photograph #3Photograph #4Photograph #5Photograph #6Photograph #7

BOTANICAL PRINTS, a set of four, 70cm x 50cm each, framed and glazed (4).

Ceramics to include Portmeirion Botanical Gardens

Two lever arch files of modern British stamps in Presentation Packs including high values, Forth Road Bridge, Botanical Congress etc. IMPORTANT: Online viewing and bidding only. Collection by appointment via our website or arrange with Mailboxes Etc couriers ONLY. Restrictions apply to ensure social distancing.

Botanical print, framed and glazed. 38 x 17.5 cm.

A set of 7 OKA botanical prints, each 52x41cm (7)

7x F E Hulme Botanical Prints 1880 Matching Mounts

7x Anne Pratt Botanical Prints 1880 Matching Mounts

Four framed and glazed botanical prints. (Collect only)

Continental School - Landscape with Cattle, Tavern and Figures, late 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas laid onto board, 23cm x 33cm, within a gilt frame, together with two botanical oils by a different hand.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Elizabeth II, Fifty Pence 2009 ‘Kew Gardens’ commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the Royal Botanical Gardens; obv. Queen’s portrait by Rank-Broadley, rev. Kew Gardens Pagoda encircled by a vine & dates 1759 – 2009, in a Royal Mint presentation pack BU

A SELECTION OF LARGE STONEWARE ITEMS TO INCLUDE A BREAD BIN, A WHITE BROS BOTANICAL BREWERS BOTTLE

AFTER T H MAGUIRE "The Champion of England The Challenge.... from the original picture in the collection of J L Thackeray Esq.....", study of a sailor on flag pole with Union flag in background, engraved by J.S. Shury, 72 cm x 54 cm, together with AFTER C BURTON BARBER "A scratch pack", coloured engraving, 56 cm x 80 cm, AFTER VERNON WARD "Study of poppies in a bowl", limited edition colour print, No'd. 3/500 and signed in pencil lower right, 35 cm x 43.5 cm, together with a botanical watercolour study, bearing label verso, AFTER DOUGLAS GRAHAM "The edge of Loch Awe", etching and AFTER J GOULD "Spathura Solstitialis, Gould", study of Humming birds, colour print, together with five others

Various photograph albums showing 1930s West Indies scenes and various others, Panama Canal, France to include figures in boats, German Submarine sunk by the English in 1917 taken 1923, botanical gardens, horses, Windermere, Morecambe, other French and GB scenes, other black and white photographs of varying sizes, 4cm x 6cm etc., various other scenes of Africa, and a Harrods leather writing case, etc. (6)

Besler (Basilius). Flos Solis prolifer, Nuremburg, 1613 - 1713, hand-coloured print, engraved by Heinrich Ulrich, one small vertical crease, small stitch holes to the right-hand margin, very slight text show-through, small repaired marginal closed tears, one very small hole affecting the image, 490 x 400 mm, Latin text on versoQty: (1)Footnote: Published in the 3rd edition of the 'Hortus Eystettensis' or 'The Garden of Eichstatt'. One of the most desirable images from one of the most remarkable botanical books of the 17th century.

Curtis (William & others). A collection of approximately 110 botanical engravings, late 18th & early 19th century, botanical engravings originally published in 'The Botanical Magazine', all with contemporary hand-colouring, each approximately 205 x 130 mmQty: (approx. 110)

Paxton (Sir Joseph). A collection of approximately 105 botanical engravings [1834 - 49], engravings with contemporary hand-colouring, originally published in 'Paxton's Magazine of Botany', each approximately 220 x 150 mmQty: (approx. 105)

Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 175 prints, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs of topographical views, portraits, costume, historical scenes, genre, botanical, natural history, sporting and religion, various sizes and condition, including 16 framed and glazedQty: (approx. 175)

Set of pictures, to include pair of botanical studies, watercolour, framed and glazed, image size 39 x 23cm each, with a framed Impressionist print, image size 41.5 x 53cm. (3)

ANTIQUE HAND-COLOURED BOTANICAL PRINT PUBLISHED JUNE 1836

GEORGIAN COLOURED BOTANICAL ENGRAVING OF BITTER VETCH, PUBLISHED JULY 1801 TOGETHER WITH ANOTHER OLD COLOUR PRINT OF IRIS.

3 BOTANICAL PAINTINGS; ONE A WATERCOLOUR STUDY OF APPLE BLOSSOM IN GOOD OAK FRAME, ANOTHER OF ROSES IN A VASE, INDISTINCTLY SIGNED, AND AN OIL PAINTING ON BOARD OF FLOWERS

A Royal Botanical Gardens Kew crackle glazed planter and a distressed Classical style planter. H.35 W.40cm (largest)

VEITCH, James Herbert (1868-1907). Hortus Veitchii A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together with an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by them and a List of the Most Remarkable of Their Introductions. London: James Veitch & Sons Limited, 1906.  4to (285 x 198 mm). Photogravure frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 50 photogravure plates. (A few light spots, some occasional creasing.) Contemporary half black morocco gilt, marbled paper, tan metal-tipped cornerpieces, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine sunned, some browning).    LIMITED EDITION, one of an unstated number "for Private Circulation only." The Veitch family comprised several generations of distinguished horticulturalists, owned the largest group of family-run plant nurseries in the 19th century, and may have been the first to employ "plant-hunters" for their nurseries. James Veitch was a fellow of both the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Through the Veitch family 's work "a mass of interest and beauty has been added to the gardens of Great Britain!" (Introduction, p. 10), and the work includes 1500 plants the business introduced to the market.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[PENNYROYAL PRESS BROADSIDES, ETC.].   A group of 27 printed   exhibition, performance or publication broadside announcements, checklists, invitations and other ephemera printed by Moser at the Pennyroyal Press, mostly for events surrounding Pennyroyal Press publications or lectures and exhibitions presented by Moser. 1971-1982.  Includes: Where 's Charley? Announcement for a performance of a play at the Williston Theatre. Easthampton, MA, 1970. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]12. "” On Prints and Printmaking. Announcement for a lecture and exhibit by Barry Moser at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA. [Easthampton, 1971]. Illustrated with a pentagonal etching. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist[B]14. "” A proof copy for previous without etching, signed by Moser. "” Edward Hill. Announcement for an exhibition announcement of drawings and collages at Williston-Northampton School. [Easthampton, 1971]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]15. "” Open House & Exhibition. Announcement card for an art exhibition held at the Williston-Northampton School, Easthampton, MA. [Easthampton, MA], 1972. Signed by Moser. See Pennyroyal Checklist [B]18. "” Richard Hendel on Books. Announcement for a lecture at Williston-Northampton School. [East Hampton, 1972]. Signed by Moser. Not in Pennyroyal Checklist. "” Barry Moser. Etchings and Woodengravings. Announcement for an exhibition at Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA. [Easthampton, MA, 1973]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]24. "” Barry Moser Botanical Drawings. Announcement for an exhibition at the Spectrum, West Main Street, Brewster, MA. [Easthampton, MA, 1975]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]29. "” Barry Moser. Prints & Drawings. Announcement for an exhibition at the Adams Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. [Easthampton, MA, 1975]. Signed by Moser. Not in Pennyroyal Checklist. "” Pennyroyal Press. Announcement of four available books from the Pennyroyal Press. Easthampton, MA, [1976]. One of 155, signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]41. "” An Exhibit of Prints & Drawings by Barry Moser at Beardsley 's Cafe-Restaurant. Checklist for an exhibition at Beardsley 's Cafe-Restaurant, Northampton, MA. [Northampton, MA], 1977. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]48. "” Barry Moser. An exhibit of forty-five wood engravings. Checklist for an exhibition at the Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA. [Northampton, MA], 1977. Signed by Moser.   Pennyroyal Checklist [B]50. "” Moser at Dwyer 's. Announcement for an exhibition at Dwyer 's Gallery, Northampton, MA. [Northampton, MA, 1978]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]56. "” And 8 others (a few duplicates), all signed by Moser.  Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[SPECIMEN ALBUM - ALGAE]. HUSSON, Anne Henry (1814-1855). Algae from the Red Sea. Collected ca 1844-1845.  Album of 18 algae specimens mounted on 18 sheets (each approximately 330 x 155 mm), each captioned with the Latin name, and details of the location and date the specimen was collected in manuscript in French on the mounts.   Loosely laid in to folding portfolio, folding case."The Red sea has been a region of natural history exploration by European scientists...The first record of marine algae in the Red Sea was by Strand (a pupil of Linnaeus's), who in his thesis on the flora of Palestine listed three species. The first person to collect marine algae from the Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast was the Danish botanist and explorer Forsskal in the 18th century who, in the month of November 1762, made a collection of seaweeds from the Sea of Jeddah...In the early years of the 19th century a British admiral Viscount Valentia made collections of algae form the Red Sea...several other workers, including medical doctors and amateurs collected marine algae from the Red Sea during the rest of the 19th century" (Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3/4, Dec. 2014, pp.278-285).  Anne Henry Husson was a French botanist from Nancy, and a pioneer of early photography. He lived in Egypt where he worked as the director of the botanical garden and conservator for the museum of natural history for the Kasr el Ain. [Laid-in:] Photocopy of an article about Husson: "L'album photographique d'Anne-Henry Husson...Regards d'un colon nanceien dur l'Egypte moderne." From: Annales de l'Est, 1985, no. 4, pp.261-199. The sheets stab-sewn in wrappers.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MATTSON, Morris (1809?-1885). The American Vegetable Practice, Or a New and Improved Guide to Health, Designed for the Use of Families. Boston: Daniel L. Hale, 1841.  2 volumes in one, 8vo (225 x 135 mm). 24 chromolithographs, one folding engraving, 9 in-text woodcuts. (Spotting throughout.) Contemporary reverse calf, green morocco lettering-piece gilt (worn). Provenance: R.H. Crosby (early signature).  FIRST EDITION of both volumes of Mattson's work, a major advance in practical medicine. Mattson was a Physician to the Reformed Boston Dispensary, a Lecturer on Physiology, and the Practice of Medicine. In this work, he broke with Thomsonian medicine, popular in the 19th-century, which focused on ridding the body of toxins through natural herbal remedies, instead presenting a more accurate and well-researched treatise, considered superior to previous publications regarding botanical approaches to medicine. Of the many illustrations throughout are chromolithographs depicting plants or plant parts, and a folding double plate engraving of the human skeleton, and woodcuts of various parts of human anatomy. [Laid in:] Several leaves of manuscript notes, comprising formulas for cures using plant material.    Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

SEGUIER, Francois (1703-1784). Bibliotheca Botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica...tractant. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1740.4to (260 x 210 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut device. (Some minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary wrappers (a few small holes).  FIRST EDITION of Seguier's botanical bibliography in Latin.   The work is divided into three sections on flora, medical botany, and horticulture. "The coverage of the book is excellent, due to the fact that Seguier saw an unusual number of libraries on his European tour. He furthermore consulted as many catalogues of private libraries as possible. With the major Paris and London libraries accounted for, with the information obtained from Gronovious in Holland, and with his careful scanning of the literature, Seguier achieved a very high degree of coverage" (Stafleu & Cowan 11.624).Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

MOSER, Barry. Twelve Woodengravings of Cirsia & Various Thistles with sundry notes gathered, engraved & privately printed for Gray Parrot by Barry Moser. West Hatfield, MA: Privately Printed at the Pennyroyal Press for Gray Parrot, 1978.109 x 162 mm. UNFOLDED SHEETS UNBOUND. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose in board folder with Moser 's note "Cirsia in sheets, unfolded complete."    CIRSIA IN SHEETS, UNFOLDED.  LIMITED EDITION, one of 35 copies, WITH EACH ENGRAVING SIGNED BY MOSER. This copy not signed by artist and binder as bound copies appear to be. This rare privately printed edition could be ordered bound or in sheets. Accompanied by the original printed announcement for the publication illustrated with a wood engraving of a thistle, signed by Moser.   Also with an illustrated invitation to a lecture by Moser entitled "Eryngium & the White Knight: Botanical Motifs in Illustration," on 13 May 1983 at the Yale Law School Auditorium; and 2 copies of a botanical proof printed by for private use by Moser reproducing a plate from The Flowering Plants of Massachusetts, each signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [M]6.Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry MoserFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629.Folio (334 x 204 mm). Woodcut title with a Garden of Eden scene signed "A Switzer" (remargined with minor losses); woodcut portrait; one full-page garden design woodcut; 109 full-page woodcuts, one small orchard plan woodcut; one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting. (Index leaves laid in at end, a few leaves supplied, a few leaves remargined or repaired, some browning or soiling). Contemporary blind-tooled calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some light wear).  FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT ENGLISH TREATISE ON HORTICULTURE, PRESUMABLY SIGNED BY JOHN PARKINSONParkinson was apothecary to James I, and later Royal Botanist to Charles I. He was a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617. One of the most eminent gardeners of the day, he kept a botanical garden at Long Acre in Covent Garden, close to present-day Trafalgar Square.   The presumed signatures of Parkinson occur on the verso of the engraved title (along with the note "Natury Secretarie"), and on the dedication leaf.   Parkinson commissioned specially cut woodblocks copied from drawings in other Latin herbals for his work, rather than rely on specialist printers who owned a set of illustrations to be used in multiple works.   "Since each block was the size of a full page and contained images of up to ten plants, the entire block had to be cut again if there were any mistakes...His books of plants would be the last to appear with wooden cuts, soon to be replaced by copperplate engravings...Yet the illustrations in the Paradisus are part of its charms" (A. Parkinson Nature's Alchemist, p.105). his work remains one of the best single sources of information on early 17th-century gardening practices and styles in England, "in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day" (Hunt).   Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489; Pritzel 6933.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

[MANUSCRIPT - BOTANICAL] -- [VAILLANT, Sebastien (1662-1759)]. MERAT, Laurent Germain (1712-1790). "Botanicum parisiense, operis majoris prodituri prodromus." [France]: n.p., n.d.8vo (240 x 138 mm). 200ll. Manuscript in French, ink, 2 with diagrams showing Tournefort or Linnaeus's systems of classification. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (spine ends neatly repaired, some very light rubbing). A manuscript copy in a legible hand by Merat of Vaillant's Botanicon parisiense, operis majoris prodituri prodromus, an inventory of plants in the environs of Paris published 1723. Tipped in on thick paper at the beginning is a facsimile of a note from Linneaus to Bernard Jussieu.   Laurent Germain Merat was a pharmacist in Auxerre, and a member of the Literary Society there. He was friends with both Bernard de Jussieu and Linnaeus.  Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

JUSSIEU, Antoine Laurent (1748-1836). Genera Plantarum Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita. Paris: Veuve Herissant and Theophile Barrois, 1789.8vo (201 x 126 mm). Errata leaf at end. (Some browning, worm hole to upper margin of last ca 45 leaves not affecting text.)   Contemporary sheep gilt (old repairs to joints, some wear). FIRST EDITION of Jussieu's fundamental work on the classification of plants, the first to arrange "plant genera in a natural system based on the correlation of a great number of characteristics...Some of the elements of Genera plantarum...remain a part of the present-day system of botanical classification" (Norman). Hunt 703; Norman 1194; Stafleu & Cowan 589.Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

Pair of 18th century German hand coloured botanical engravings,275cm x 20.5cm, together with another pair of botanical engravings, each framed (4)Provenance: The Lady Elizabeth Shakerley CollectionCondition report: The smaller pair with bamboo frames are generally good for their age and the frames are decorative. One of the larger pair is torn and damaged with various holes and small tears, the other is good.

A set of three 19th century coloured botanical prints including Potentilla, Rhododendron, 22 x 15cm approx, framed (3)

Simple pine framed mirror, 120 x 90cm, together with a botanical print (2)