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MELBOURNECOGNÉ (FRANCOIS) Swanston Street; Sandridge; Botanical Gardens, from Charles Troedel's 'The Melbourne Album', tinted lithographs by and after Cogné, captioned in margins, 322 x 410mm., [Published at the Melbourne Album Office, c.1863] (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

INDIA AND SRI LANKA - PHOTOGRAPHYCollection of 23 views, portraits and 'types' of India (and 3 identified as Ceylon/Sri Lanka), photographers including William Baker (2), and Samuel Bourne (1), the majority albumen prints (one possible salt print, one woodbury type, 3 gelatin silver), 16 mounted (one to a sheet, recto only, excepting 2 small female portraits on one sheet) various sizes (largest 245 x 295mm.; smallest 140 x 103mm.), [late nineteenth century] (collection)Footnotes:Images include: Baldeo Singh's Palace at Gobardhan; Fatehpur Sikri (both by W.H. Baker, nos. 1001 and 961); Carved Pillars in the Panch Mehal, Fatehpur Sikri (by Samuel Bourne, no. 1275); a bird's-eye view of a lavish 'Hindu Marriage'; Red Fort, Delhi; Agra Canal and Manora Breakwater; Ghats at Varanasi; 'The Bathing ghats' (captioned in pencil on image, a salt print); 5 smaller portraits of women (one a series, captioned in image 'Vathum', 'Thayar', and 'Rajamanikkum'); Botanical Gardens in Peradinya, Ceylon; 'Hindu God. No. 225' [Ceylon]; 'Giant Bamboos, Verediniya Gardens [Ceylon]'; Street barber; Young couple against a studio backdrop.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A set of three 19th century watercolour studies, tropical birds and insects, 7 1/4" x 9 1/2", in later burr walnut frames, and three similar watercolour botanical studies, unframed

THREE VICTORIAN BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS 19TH CENTURY mounted in gilt frames(55cm high, 37cm wide)

PAIR OF HELENE WOLFSOHN LARGE PORCELAIN COVERED VASES 19TH CENTURY decorated with alternating panels of equestrian scenes after Wouwerman, and botanical studies against a wine-red ground, underglaze blue AR mark(51cm high)

A SMALL TRAY OF CERAMICS TO INCLUDE PORTMERION BOTANICAL GARDEN, WEDGWOOD JASPERWARE ETC

BOX OF BOOKS, SOME BOTANICAL INTEREST

A group of assorted paintings and prints including a Victorian botanical watercolour of Primulas, 38 x 28cm

Six assorted 19th century French fashion plates, largest 31 x 45cm and a set of four modern botanical prints, 28 x 21cm

Oil on Board, Botanical Still Life of a display of Purple and White Pansies, signed N.M

Sidney Edwards, hand coloured engraving, "Cyclamen Hederaefolium", 21 x 12 cm, number 1001 titled in ink (and incorrectly spelt) in wood frame and glazed, and one other Botanical study. CONDITION REPORT: The cyclamen study has very fine foxing. the work is quite interesting in the fact that it has been incorrectly spelt and then amended. The other Botanical picture is a print and in good order.

J Blake, colour print, annotated Botanical study, 62 x 50 cm in wood frame and glazed and six other decorative pictures. CONDITION REPORT: All these pictures are in good overall condition.

Colour print Botanical orchid study and nine other decorative pictures. CONDITION REPORT: All in good overall condition.

A modern polychrome botanical print, each specimen entitled in Latin within a gilt card mount and modern light wood frame, 41 cm x 37 cm. CONDITION REPORT: Some minor marks to frame but generally good throughout.

A pair of Georgian black and white botanical prints,later gold frames

A modern table lamp, of globe form and reverse printed on glass with botanical studies.

BOX OF PICTURES INCLUDING BOTANICAL PRINTS IN LIGHT OAK FRAMES

Assorted pictures and prints, to include topographical engravings and Suffolk interest, portrait mezzotint, three J. Gould and H.C. Richter botanical studies etc

A quantity of books including geographical, botanical and other reference works, novels including Waverley, Aesop's fables etc (in three boxes)

After Neil Simone, Cottages in a landscape, a coloured print, together with a collection of engravings, oil and prints to include architectural examples after MC Robinson, botanical studies, reproductions after McWhirter, watercolours of an ornithological subject matter signed JR Brunton, a needlework etc...(17)

Book - Dr Lindley's Botanical Register, New Series Vol XII, hand coloured engravings by Miss Drake, pbl J. Ridgway. 169 Piccadilly, Jan 1 1839, 68 plates approx, printed by Norman and Skeen, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, within green cloth bindings with gilt tooled spine (cover coming away from book and many sheets loose).

1964 Botanical (ordinary) GPO FDC with Tenth International Botanical Congress Edinburgh special H/S. Handwritten address, opened at top. Cat £300

1964 Botanical (phosphor) Newlands Road Philatelic Society FDC with London WC FDI H/S. Very scarce cover design. Typed address label, slight creasing at top right of cover.

Creamware dish, c.1810, of shaped oval form, painted with a botanical specimen, the rim painted brown, inscribed title to reverse, 24.5cm lengthCondition report: There is some restoration but the dish displays very well.

Royal Copenhagen porcelain botanical decorated dish, inscribed 'Anemone Pulsatilla L' to reverse, stamped marks, 25.5cm diameterCondition report: Very good condition. Just a couple of very minor scratches.

Group of mostly 19th century English School watercolours to include: Margaret Wedderburn, five rural views, Lucy Griffith, three Welsh landscapes, botanical study, two mid-19th century church drawings, birds on a branch signed F.B.B, together with two bird studies signed Brant, each in glazed gilt frame (14)Condition report: Generally good condition, some slight fading to the Brant bird watercolours but mostly the colours are good. Some chips to gilding and slight losses to some of the frames.

Various prints and pictures to include botanical studies of insects, etc (1 box) 

Assorted prints, mirrors to include print of Peter Rabbit, botanical studies, etc (1 box) 

Prints and watercolours, botanical scenes, landscapes, etc (6) 

Quantity of assorted prints and pictures to include modern oils, botanical studies (1 box) 

BOX OF MIXED BOOKS, NOVELS BY JACKIE COLLINS AND BOTANICAL BOOKS, SOME GERMAN LITERATURE

BOTANICAL DISHES COMMISSIONED BY THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR THE 1986 CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW, PLATE ENTITLED "CHELSEA GLORY", FURTHER PLATES COMMISSIONED FOR VARIOUS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOWS

A pair of botanical prints; and another pair depicting fruit

A pair of Chinese botanical prints

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

A set of ten botanical prints, 42 x 30cmCondition report: Each picture is framed and glazed. All of the frames do have knocks to corners and edges, which would need to be coloured over to improve the appearance.

Martine Collings, a botanical subject watercolour, together with other paintings.

Botanical subjects, two engravings.

Portmeirion botanical jug, Aynsley cake stand, and quantity of Poole pottery items

Album. An album of flower collages, circa 1830s-1840s, 39 leaves, each with a flower collage to recto, carefully composed of cut-out pieces of painted pith and coloured paper layered to form identifiable flowers, including fuchsias, sweetpeas, pelargoniums, wisteria, primroses, pansies, forget-me-nots, lily-of-the-valley, narcissi, snowflakes, cornflowers, dog roses, anemones, etc., occasional fox spots and very minor damage to some collages in places, sheet size 19.3 x 16.3cm, engraved bookplate 'Friederici Nicolai et Amicorum' to front pastedown, original half calf, rubbed, slight loss to head of spine, 4toQty: (1)NOTESAn unusual album, with artwork imitating pressed flower specimens, perhaps inspired by the floral collages of Mary Delany (1700-1788) who was known for her realistic botanical 'paper-mosaicks'.

Study of a boy with a guitar pastels 38cm x 27cm and a botanical study, watercolour 23cm x 17.5cm (2)

Charles Bourne Decorated Porcelain Botanical Plate, with a raised moulded floral border, picked out in gilt work. Marked to the verso CB/60. Diameter 8.5''. Circa 1815-20. Together with another Charles Bourne moulded floral dish/bowl. Marked to verso CB/340. Circa 1815-20.

Decorative prints and watercolours, including floral, botanical and insect subjects, a modern 'Fort George' reprint, a 'juggling clown' gouache, a pencil drawing of a bridge, and two portfolios of student artwork, etc

A assortment of ceramics to include Botanical Garden five piece tin set, Wedgwood pottery and other pieces

Nine original pastel drawings, landscapes, botanical and a portrait. Average image size:W:35cm x H:25cm

Warner (Robert). Select Orchidaceous Plants. The Notes on Culture by B. S. Williams ... assisted by some of the Best Growers [First Series], 10 original parts, 1st edition, London: Lovell, Reeve, & Co., 1862-5, 40 hand-coloured lithographic plates by W. H. Fitch or James Andrews, each plate with 2 pp. text, part 1 with additional iv pp. (temporary title-page and introduction) and laid-in publisher's prospectus, part 10 with additional x pp. (half-title, title-page, introduction, contents, dedication leaf), plate 36 toned, browned along edges and with old adhesive-marks verso, plates otherwise in excellent condition, each part loose in original printed wrappers (torn and finger-marked but largely intact), folio (47 x 33.5 cm), together with a partial set of the second series (1865-76), with plates 1-12 of 39 (hand-coloured lithographs) and relevant text-leaves, loose in 4 sets of original wrappers apparently supplied from other parts (the dates incorrect), plate 10 toned and with browning and adhesive-staining along edges, plates otherwise excellentQty: (14)NOTESNissen BBI 2108; Stafleu & Cowan VII p. 82. This work contains some of the finest examples of Fitch's 'superb botanical lithographs' (ODNB). The second series appeared in 1865-76, and a third in 1877-91.

* Nicholson (George, 1795?-1838). Views in the vicinity of Liverpool, 1832, a sketchbook comprising 17 pencil drawings of buildings and landscapes, mostly full-page on rectos, with a number of blank leaves, the first signed to lower right, some titled, e.g. 'Ancient Hall of the Ireland family, situated behind the Gatehouse called the Old Hut, Halewood. Property of John Blackburn Esqr. Weds. July 18th 1832', 'Pemberton nr. Wigan, July 21st', 'Woodchurch Church, May 28', 'West Dingle', 'Raby', sheet size 17.7 x 26.6cm (7 x 10.5ins), all edges gilt, original burgundy morocco gilt, rubbed, oblong 4toQty: (1)NOTESGeorge Nicholson was from a family of artists, and following his father's premature death in 1814, hastened by anxieties over debt, the whole family engaged in artistic work. Mr. Nicholson, who had been a school master in Manchester and a typographer in Liverpool, was a self-taught wood engraver, and had given both George and his brother, Samuel, instruction in drawing and engraving. Their mother executed skilful copies of well-known pictures hand-embroidered on silk, and their sister, Isabella, exhibited botanical watercolours and landscapes at the Liverpool Academy of Art between 1829 and 1845. George himself also exhibited there some 50 drawings between 1827 and 1838, mostly landscapes in watercolour or pencil. In 1821 he was awarded the silver Isis medal of the Society of Arts for a drawing of Stirling Castle. In 1821 and 1824 respectively he published Twenty-Six Lithographic Drawings in the Vicinity of Liverpool and Plas Newydd and Valle Crucis Abbey, as well as a volume entitled Eight Select Views, in the County of Carnaervon, published around 1827 under the patronage of the renowned Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby.

Botany. Two volumes containing 137 British botanical watercolour studies, late 18th & early 19th century, pen & ink and watercolour studies, each captioned, some dated and numbered (few bearing watermark date 1796, studies possibly copied from engravings by Curtis & Sowerby in the Botanical Magazine, with date ranges from Oct 1796-Sep 1806, and numbered relating to the issue from which the original appeared), each accompanied with a leaf of manuscript information (watermarked 'Allee 1819'), bound with 10 hand-coloured engravings by Curtis & Sowerby etc. (one folding), each leaf guarded, front blank to one volume inscribed 'Dearest June, A remembrance of one who loved her, June 15th 1858', early 19th century half calf, gilt decorated spine with the title 'Botany', joints cracked and spine to second volume torn, 8voQty: (2)

Curtis (William). Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volumes 43, 44, 45 & 46 (of 3rd series), London: L. Reeve & Co., 1887-90, 240 hand-coloured lithograph plates (including 48 folding), few plates slightly close trimmed at fore-edge, occasional minor spotting, near contemporary half calf, red morocco title label, spines a little faded, 8voQty: (4)

A Portmeirion Botanical pattern soup tureen with twin handles and ladle; a jug and basin set; a 27 piece dinner service other similar items

AFTER FRANZ ANDREAS BAUER 'Flowers Illustrations from the Kew Botanical Gardens', a set of four prints in colours, 56cm x 44cm, framed and glazed. (4)

Natural History - a folio of 18th century and later prints, principally botany, various media, most of the 19th century botanical sheets hand-coloured or chromolithographs, various sizes; etc., [31]

A 19th century common place book/scrap album, compiled by Louisa Llewelyn, from c.1850, with various paintings, sketches, verse, cuttings and ephemera, a Chinese watercolour of a figure with a fan, a botanical study, poetry, etc

A pair of 19th century ornithological feather pictures, each depicting a colourful bird on a watercolour ground of leafy branches,24.5cm x 18cm; English School (early 19th century), a botanical study, watercolour, 16cm x 13cm; another, oval (4)

AN ENGLISH BONE CHINA BOTANICAL DESSERT SERVICE, STAFFORDSHIRE, C1870, PAINTED WITH LILY OF THE VALLEY, FOXGLOVE, FUCHSIA, HEATHS, A ROSE AND OTHER SPECIMENS IN GREEN AND GILT BORDER AND LOBED RIM, THE SERVICE INCLUDING TWO STANDS, 22.5CM DIAM, PATTERN 2992 (13) One or two minor scratches on the ground colour and some light wear to the gilding on the rims

BOOKS - 'Mrs Beaton's Household Management', 'The Botanical Atlas, Volume I', 'A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants' by Johnston, Edinburgh 1883, 'Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes', illustrations by Charles Robinson, 'The Story Box, a Fund of Amusement for Boys and Girls' with illustrations by Harry Rountree, an early 'Giles' annual circa 1952, and a rare 'English and Welsh Dictionary by William Richards MA, Member of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery etc MDCCXCVIII' (care in very delicate condition)

Liz Rigder, Three botanical studies, watercolour, framed

A Chelsea Porcelain Botanical Fluted Saucer, circa 1755, painted with a sprays of pinks within a gilt border, painted mark in red, 15cm diameter. Surface staining and some typical minor scratching.

A Coalport Porcelain Botanical Dessert Service, circa 1810, painted with named botanical specimens within gilt borders, titled in puce, comprising: an oval pedestal dish a pair of sauce tureens, covers and stands a pair of shell shaped dishes a pair of square dishes a pair of navette shaped dishes six plates. One plate with flat rim chip. All plates, shell shaped dishes and navette dishes with extensive wear to gilding. Other minor wear to gilding and some wear to painted decoration.

NO RESERVE Natural History.- Quinby (Jane) & Allan Stevenson. Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 3 parts in 2, one of 400 facsimile reprints, New York, [1995] § Fussell (G.E.) Old English Farming Books 1523-1793, 2 parts in 1, one of 500 facsimile reprints, Collieston, 1978 § Southampton University Library. Catalogue of the Walter Frank Perkins Agricultural Library, Southampton, 1961 § Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. Library Catalogue of Printed Books and Pamphlets on Agriculture published between 1471 and 1840, second edition, with 1949 supplement loosely inserted, 1940, some foxing, original cloth, the last with nick to head of spine, the second with dust-jacket (foxed); and c.30 others on natural history, agriculture and field sports, mostly catalogues including the Bibliothèque Cynégétique du Verne and the Jean Berger, Kurt Lindner, Sir Joceyln Stevens, and Jeffrey Norton hunting and fishing collections, 8vo & 4to (c.35)⁂ The Rothamsted agricultural library listed in the last item was sold by Forum Auctions on 10th & 11th July 2018 for a total of £1,747,200 hammer, with every lot sold.