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Click here to subscribeA Chamberlain's Worcester part botanical dessert service c.1830-40, variously painted with specimens of Major Convolvulus, Broad Leav'd Kalmia, Madagascar Periwinkle, Three Coloured Cranes Bill, Three Ribbed Blakea and Sweet Pea, reserved within dark blue borders and moulded gilt rims, titled in red to the undersides. Comprising: two shell dishes and four plates. (6)
A pair of Derby plates c.1790-1800, finely painted with sprays of flowers within elaborate gilt borders of aquatic birds, mythical creatures and obelisks, a Wedgwood botanical dessert dish painted with a poppy specimen in pattern 724, and a Coalport plate painted with a rose and stock within a cobalt blue border, 23.5cm max. (4) The Wedgwood dish with a paper label for the collection of J D and Louise Trabue.
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 Manufacture with the best Methods of Propagation and the most recent Agricultural Improvements by Thomas Green printed by Henry Fisher at The Caxton Press (c.1820) in 2 volumes with hand-coloured title page volume 1 and printed titles plus engraved plates, many hand-coloured, bound in polished tree calf with leather spines, gilt leather labels and simple gilt tooling
[New Naturalist Series] Wild Flowers of Chalk & Limestone 1950, Mushrooms & Toadstools 1953, Wild Orchids of Britain 1951, Weeds & Aliens 1961, Insect Natural History 1947, The Weald 1953 - all first editions in dust-wrappers, Art of Botanical Illustration by Wilfred Blunt 1951 second edition with copies of Moths and Butterflies by E.B. Ford and 5 other similar (14)
Curtis's Botanical Magazine containing coloured figures, with descriptions and observations on the Botany, History and Culture of New and Rare Plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and others, edited by W.B. Turrill volumes 165-171 (bound in 7 volumes) 1948-1957 plus volumes 173-176 published 1960-1968 in original parts and volume 178 published 1970-1972, each volume with coloured plates (many folding) and other illustrations (total 8 bound volumes and 16 parts)
The Botanical Atlas A Guide to The Practical Study of Plants by D. M’Alpine published Johnston 1883 first edition comprising Phanerogams and Cryptogams in 2 volumes with full-page chromolithographic plates bound in gilt and black decorated cloth, The Florist and Pomologist and Suburban Gardener A Pictorial Monthly Magazine by Thomas Moore 1880 first edition with 24 (of 30) chromolithographic plates & woodcuts in gilt decorated cloth (3)
* Company School. White blossom tree (probably Tree Peony), and Yellow Hypericum, or Saint John's Wort, circa 1800-1820, two fine watercolour and gouache botanical studies, with pen and ink, on thin laid chine paper, the first with closed tear repaired to right blank margin, with very minor loss, each sheet 36 x 28 cm ( 14 1/4 x 11 ins), framed and glazed (one without glass)Qty: (2)NOTESThe paper used for these two delicate botanical watercolours is Chinese, most likely produced in Canton (Guangzhou), where a community of craftsmen catering to Western merchants, including lacquer artists, porcelain enamellers, silversmiths, weavers, embroiderers, and painters, expanded rapidly after an imperial edict of 1756 decreed that all foreign trade with China be conducted at Canton. As the Chinese export market grew ever larger, a wide variety of Asian plants were settled comfortably into English, European and American gardens, including peonies, hydrangeas, camellias, chrysanthemums, azaleas, magnolias, rhododendrons, lilacs, hibiscuses, and lilies, as well as peach, sweet orange, and ginkgo trees.
Paxton (Joseph). Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, 2 volumes (volumes 1 & 3 only, of 16), London: Orr and Smith/W.S. Orr, 1834-37, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates, a few folding, a few plates close-trimmed shaving imprints, some light spotting and offsetting, contemporary non-uniform half calf, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, together with Wright (John). The Flower Grower's Guide, 6 divisions, London: J.S. Virtue [1896-1901], 46 chromolithographed plates, occasional light spotting and slight marginal toning, division 1 front hinge broken, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth, spines a little darkened and rubbed at ends, 4to, plus other botanical including The Fruit Grower's Guide, by John Wright, 3 volumes only (of 6), circa 1896 (with 23 chromolithographed plates), John Lindley's Ladies' Botany, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, circa 1848 (with 47 colour plates only, of 50, lacking volume I title), and F. Edward Hulme's Familiar Wild Flowers, 4 volumes only (of 5), 2nd series, circa 1877Qty: (21)NOTESSold as a collection of plates not subject to return.
Dried specimens. Souvenir of the Rockies, Rocky Mountain Wild Flowers, 1895, album of 15 card leaves in the shape of a Maltese cross, comprising front cover, with inset circular colour illustration, lettered in silver above and below, a printed leaf 'Merry Xmas 1895 and Happy New Year 1896, RH', 12 leaves of pressed botanical specimens captioned in contemporary manuscript, and blank rear cover, tied with original twisted silk cord, occasional minor toning and 1 or 2 specimens with slight loss, front cover slightly dust-soiled and with a faint stain, 21.7 x 21.7cm (8.5 x 8.5ins)Qty: (1)NOTESExtremely rare; we have been unable to locate another copy. The botanical specimens are as follows: Columbine; Fern and Oenothera; Mertensia; Evening Star; Gentian; Fern and Tiger Lily; Indian Pink; Zygadine; Gailardie; Mariflora; Clematis and Penstemon; Thermopsis; and Aconite.
A Davenport botanical porcelain dessert service, circa 1820s, pattern 951, centrally painted with individual specimens within broad apple green and leaf moulded borders, the service comprising four low comports and six dessert plates, printed factory mark in underglaze blue; together with a further English porcelain dessert service, mid-19th century, of lobed form, decorated with roses, turquoise and gilt ribbon swags, comprising four oval low comports and twelve dessert platesCondition report: There is some general light rubbing the the green borders on each piece of the service. One dessert plate has a small foot rim chip.Beyond that, condition is generally good with no obvious rubbing to the gilding or any wear to the flowers. Some light signs of use in the form of scratches throughout.
Collection of prints, pictures and photographs, to include M Howard, Still life of flowers, oil on board, signed and dated 1989, 60 x 50cm, botanical print, 44 x 38cm, a hand-coloured engraved map of Yorkshire by J Cary, 22 x 26.5cm, a vintage photograph of a high street, 43.5 x 54cm, pastel of a rural street, signed John Lewis and dated 1935, 26 x 22cm, a map of Sussex, print of a bridge at Rydal, print of Henry VIII, coloured engraving of children playing boules, engraving of buildings of Horse Guards, London, hand-coloured engraving of mountainous landscape, print of girl with goats and ducks, a vintage photograph of a gentleman and a vintage photograph of a school football team (14)
Lot No: 26 - Ref No: 004 Seemoor and Ginger by Helen Meyer ''I have lived on Dartmoor with my family for 15 years. Trained as a botanical artist, I am blessed with being able to turn my left hand to many forms of artwork including printing, paper cutting and embroidery. Originally from the north, Dartmoor is my home and my inspiration every day, not to mention my place of work. My inspiration for Seemoor and Ginger was easy. My job! I work at Haytor Visitor Centre for Dartmoor National Park as an information advisor, a job I am passionate about. Every day we use Enjoy Dartmoor to guide and inspire our many visitors to the National Park. There's a map in the middle of the magazine and that became the inspiration for Seemoor. Ginger just had to be a ranger as they are so important in looking after the moor. If you look carefully you can even see the van that belongs to one of our most valued members of staff as he travels every day across the moor.''
Lot No: 32 - Ref No: 014 MayFlower By Sarah Poat My otter mum and baby are called 'May' and 'Flower' and are inspired by the celebrations of 400 years since the ship: 'the Mayflower' set sail, both from Dartmouth and Plymouth in Devon, to head for pastures new in America. Mayflowers are the flowers of the hawthorn trees that adorn Dartmoor. Historically the blossoms symbolised death, however, the red berries of the tree symbolised life and both are included in my otter sculpture to represent the life and death struggle that the pilgrims and other travellers faced on their perilous voyage on the Mayflower. Portraying these natural specimens reflect my own work as a botanical artist. I researched 17th century writing and found a colonial handwriting sample that was used on the east coast of America at around that time. I used the style of these letters to write the names: May and Flower. The back of the otter is illustrated with a depiction of the Mayflower ship sailing for America with the dates 1620 - 2020. I have added the Devon flag so that the Mayflower will take a bit of Devon with her to America! Today the otters on Dartmoor live and play in the waters of the Rivers Dart and Plym that flow down to Dartmouth and Plymouth- both places visited by the Mayflower in 1620!
Three early 20th Century botanical manuscript students exercise books by Joyce Hawkes, Nature Note Book, with 16 pages of manuscript entries including some pencil and coloured pencil sketches; Spring/Summer Term 1919 Botany with 31 pages of manuscript entries including good quantity pen & ink and pen, ink & watercolour sketches including Amaryllidaceae, stems, shoots, Cowslip, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae etc; Winter term 1919 Botany, with 24 pages of manuscript entries including good quantity pen & ink and pen, ink & watercolour sketches including fruits, stems, roots, shoots, flowers etc, each original marbled paper/limp cloth covers (3)
John Hill: 'The British Herbal: an history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty.', London, T. Osborne & J. Shipton et al, 1756, 1st edition, engraved vignette title, engraved allegorical frontispiece + 75 engraved plates as called for, folio (42.5 x 28cm), rebound (not recent) blind stamped calf gilt, oxblood morocco gilt title label to spine. A handsome copy of an important work by the botanist and polymath "Sir" John Hill, being one of the first publications to appear after the Species plantarum of 1753, the year internationally accepted as the starting-point for modern botanical nomenclature.
A large early 20th Century leatherbound album compiled from a round the world journey, 1909-1910, much Australia content of which a good deal horse racing interest, and good quantity New Zealand interest, approx. 285 mounted photographs of mainly Australia, New Zealand & Japan, plus others Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Canada etc, many captioned to card leaves beneath, plus pressed flower and plant specimens, cruise line menu cards and other items of ephemera (several signed, including one signed by Dame Nellie Melba), postcards, original sketches, relevant cuttings, programmes and ephemera, much of this content also relating to Australia. The album compiled by Ethel Mary Harker (1870-1938), of Harefield House, Pateley Bridge, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, member of the Harker family, who acquired wealth from the wool trade and became involved in banking and government. Content of album begins with journey on P & O line SS "Marmora", with mounted items including dance programme, some headed paper signed by other passengers, menu card from hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, various postcards Colombo & Port Said, 8 mounted photos Egypt, Aden, Sri Lanka, followed by Australia content, forming good quantity of content of album, approx 114 mounted photos of Australia, including several photos at Whernside mansion, Toorak, Melbourne, the property of Ethel Harker's aunt and uncle, Mary Miller, nee Harker (1848-1932), and her husband Mr Albert Miller (1845-1915), prominent members of Melbourne society, Albert Miller being a businessman, pastoralist, racehorse breeder and prominent supporter of the turf in Victoria, photos include Albert Miller horseriding, plus others horses, carriages, dogs, and the substantial two storey mansion property "Whernside", overleaf some mounted ephemera including signatures of Sir Henry Alan Currie (1868-1942), pastoralist, prominent member of Melbourne society who had a lifelong association with the Australian turf, racehorse trainer, breeder and member of the Victoria Racing Club, plus Colonel Arthur John Staughton and other signatures, other photographs, postcards and ephemera of australia including Warburton, Victoria; Bacchus Marsh; Melbourne botanical gardens; contemporary newspaper cuttings re a ballroom dance dinner hosted by Mrs Albert Miller at "Whernside"; a mounted folding menu card with original watercolour sketch, plus several signature including Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931), Australian soprano; large panoramic photo of Mount Elephant, Derrinallum; Langi Willi station, Linton, Victoria, of George Russell (1857-1914), esteemed member of Victorian society and the turf, with his signature and some other sigs; photo and sketches of Currandooley estate, Bungendore; photos and watercolour sketch menu card Yaralla mansion and Estate, Concord, Sydney, signature of Edith Walker and some other sigs; plus other photos, skecthes etc Camden Park, Menangle; Brisbane; Coochin Coochin, Boonah, Queensland; Neotsfield, Whittingham, G.N.R.; Widgeongully, Jugiong, N.S.W.; Trawalla, Victoria etc; approx 59 photos of New Zealand, including Bluff, South Island, River Oreti, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Dart valley, Otago harbour, Manapauri, "Maoris at a railway station, NZ", expedition to Mt. Cook, cage river crossing, Waikato river, , Geyser at Wairaki, Maori children at Rotorua, Whakarewarewa Village, several pressed plant specimens of NZ throughout this section; approx 13 photos Hong Kong & China, including "City of the Dead", Canton, pagoda, city walls, river, temple, Canton; approx 7 photos Philippines; approx 47 photos Japan, including Kyoto, Nara, Nikko, Tokyo etc; approx 37 photos Canada, including Victoria BC, nountains, glaciers, Banff, Niagara etc, several pressed plant specimens throughout this section; the album approx 20 x 40cm, titled in gilt "Round the World 1909-1910" and monogrammed "E.M.H." to upper cover, together with another album containing mounted photographs circa 1899 of Harker family home Harefield House, Pateley Bridge, plus others Arelen Court, Embley Park, etc, also with several family and friends signatures including Ethel Harker, William Harker etc, this album approx 31 x 44cm, old half calf gilt (worn) (2)
Botany.- Theophrastus. De Historia plantarum libri decem, first edition edited by Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel, double column, text in parallel Greek and Latin, fine engraved pictorial title, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations in text, woodcut decorative initials, small worm trace at foot of first few ff., diminishing in size as proceeds, last half or so with a couple of small wormholes to upper margins, turning into a trace to last few ff., 3H5 short tear within text with minor loss, 5N3 short tear to lower corner, just touching 1 letter, occasional spotting and light staining or water-staining, contemporary vellum, spine in compartments and with later gilt filets, small black floral motifs and a green morocco label, covers with blind-stamped arabesque centre-pieces, lacking ties, piece of vellum missing from spine, a few small nicks, little stained and marked, [Hunt 240], folio, Amsterdam, Hendrick Laurensz, 1644.⁂ One of the best editions of Theophrastus.'It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work.' (H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, quoted by Hunt).
or Margaretha Dietzsch (1726-1795)A botanical study of a cockscomb (Celosia argentea var. cristata)gouache on vellum, unframed35.7 x 27.4cmFootnote: The Dietzsch family of artists flourished in 18th century Nuremberg, which was then one of the foremost centres of botanical art in Europe thanks to the patronage of the botanist Dr Christoph Jakob Trew (1695-1769). Johann Israel Dietzsch (1681-1754) had seven children who became artists, amongst whom Barbara Regina (1706-1783), Johann Christoph (1710-1769) and Margaretha (1726-1795) were employed by the Nuremberg court, specialising in botanical studies of flowers, fruit and insects in watercolour and gouache.The work of the Dietzsch family was highly sought after by collectors in both the Netherlands and England. Since they all treated similar subject matter on a dark prepared ground and their studies are rarely signed, it is difficult to distinguish with certainty the hand of the various family members. Today, fine examples of their work can be found in distinguished private and institutional collections worldwide, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.Barbara, the eldest daughter of Johann Israel, is considered the most gifted and productive member of the family. The present study could be attributed to her on stylistic grounds by comparison with a nearly identical composition of the same subject by her, dated to circa 1740, which is held at the Yale Centre for British Art, no. B2012.33.6.
or Margaretha Dietzsch (1726-1795)A botanical study of an Indian shot (Canna indica)gouache on vellum, unframed36 x 27.2cmFootnote: The Dietzsch family of artists flourished in 18th century Nuremberg, which was then one of the foremost centres of botanical art in Europe thanks to the patronage of the botanist Dr Christoph Jakob Trew (1695-1769). Johann Israel Dietzsch (1681-1754) had seven children who became artists, amongst whom Barbara Regina (1706-1783), Johann Christoph (1710-1769) and Margaretha (1726-1795) were employed by the Nuremberg court, specialising in botanical studies of flowers, fruit and insects in watercolour and gouache.The work of the Dietzsch family was highly sought after by collectors in both the Netherlands and England. Since they all treated similar subject matter on a dark prepared ground and their studies are rarely signed, it is difficult to distinguish with certainty the hand of the various family members. Today, fine examples of their work can be found in distinguished private and institutional collections worldwide, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
An early 19th century Spode creamware 9¾” diam. plate painted with exotic flowers in bright enamels, pattern No. 3422; a Copeland Ironstone 10½” plate with oriental garden scene; a Copeland & Garrett porcelain claret-ground dessert plate painted with a coastal view of Southampton, 9½” diam.; & another with turquoise & gilt border & botanical subject titled: “Salvia Involucrata”, 9¼” diam.
DURANTE, Castore.- HERBARIO | NOVO | DI CARTORE DVRANTE | MEDICO, ET CITTADINO ROMANO. | Con Figure, che rappresentanole viue Piante, che nascono in tutte Europa, | & nell’Indie Orientali, & Occidentali. | Con Verse Latini, que comprendono le facoltà dei simplici medicamento. | [...] | [gravura xilográfica com a marca da casa impressora].- In Venetia: Apresso li Sessa. MDCXVII, [1617].- [12], 492 [i. é 480], [52] p.: il.; 30 cm.- E., Castor Durante (1529-1590), Italian physician, botanist and poet of the Renaissance, born in Gualdo Tadino (Perugia), was chief physician at the court of Pope Sixtus V. Fourth edition of his masterpiece, originally published in 1585, illustrated with the portraits (medallions) of the 56-year-old author and botanist Giacomo Antonio Cortuso (1513-1603), on the back of the title page; disseminated throughout the text, 933 xilographies (only five non-botanical ones). On the front page, the mark of the Sessas, a prestigious Venetian printing house from the 16th and 17th centuries, featuring a cat with a mouse in its mouth, with the motto "Dissimiliem in fidas sotieas". At the end there is an addendum with "Figvre aggivnte senza discorsi", with 52 engravings on 10 sheets. On the back of the last page, a register and a colophon: "In Trevigia Apresso Angelo Reghettini. Per li Sessa. MDCXVII". Edition with numerous pagination errors, the most important of which are: p. 108 to 119; p. 286 to 289. The copy, slightly handled, has section I bound after section K, but it is complete. Slight browning and marginal imperfections in the last 12 leaves.; occasional minor tears, but with support; some uncontemporary annotations. Full sheepskin contemporary binding slightly worn and lacking the flyleaves. The collation corresponds exactly to that given in "The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collection" (The Kent State University Press, 1992), 165. Pritzel, 2552.
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