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Three furnishing pictures to include; botanical study, coloured print, a needlepoint panel depicting birds and animals within foliage, 60 x 44cm approx and watercolour study signed R Pugh, still life study of ceramics and flowers. Framed and glazed. (3)(B.P. 21% + VAT) All in good original condition.
A set of nine 19th Century Copeland botanical dessert plates, all decorated with transfer printed flora and fauna within a moulded wreath border heightened in burgundy, stamped to underside Copeland, 20.5cm diameter Minor chips to edges and fritting^ some staining and crazing to central decoration
China.- Anglo-Chinese School (19th century) Three botanical studies, opaque pigments on handmade Chinese laid paper, each approx. 410 x 330 mm (16 x 13 in), one with brown ink Latin name inscribed in the lower left corner, numerous small nicks and areas of small loss, handling creases, all unframed, [circa 1800-1850] (3)⁂ Fine watercolours executed on thin handmade Chinese paper, showing the distinctive "brush marks" typically found in Chinese paper produced in the early half of the 19th century.
A Case of Microscope Slides, mostly 19th and early 20th century, mostly zoological and botanical specimens including three good whole insects with Watson labels (Colorado Beetle, Water Boatman, Soldier Beetle), three microphotographs (Harriet Harlow , The Chocolate Girl, both by H W; Saturday Night 20 Portraits by A Reeve) two open opaque mahogany slides of Foraminifera inscribed ' From Mr J Chapman South Kensington Museum 1899', (approx 45)
A collection of mainly early 20th century oriental watercolours on paper and silk of botanical subjects, birds, etc, with painted and printed seal marks, 37 x 30cm max approx, together with a wood black type print of a fruit bough, 30.5 x 23cm approx visible sheet size, and a monochrome print of a running horse and a small oriental painting of Mt Fuji, framed and unframed (8)
A collection of nineteen 19th century botanical watercolours including violets and violas, mistletoe, pussy willow, primroses, etc, mostly inscribed with identification of plant and also inscribed Saxlingham Norfolk, 39 x 24cm approx max sheet size, all unframed, in portfolio with painted sepia floral decoration and title to cover Wild Flowers
A set of three early 20th century gouache studies of soldiers from the 17th and 21st Lancers Regiment, dated 1879 - India, 1900 and 1914, signed with initials WGW and inscribed, 26 x 19cm approx, together with a further collection of pictures including a 19th century coloured lithograph of English terriers, 21 x 25.5cm approx in burrwood frame with gilt slip, a pair of early 19th century coloured engravings of botanical subjects published by Henry Fisher of Liverpool, 1818 and 1819, 20 x 26cm, also together with a small coloured engraving after George Wright of a horse - The Master's, 12.5 x 9cm approx, all framed (7)
An early 20th century Satsuma vase with painted and gilded male character detail, 19cm tall approx, together with a collection of decorative plates including a 19th century botanical example, with painted Nasturtium detail and botanical inscription to reverse, 23.5cm approx, a blue and white plate commemorating the coronation of King Edward VII by S Kepple of Bristol, 26cm approx diameter, further blue and white wares including a Copeland Spode Italian pattern rectangular dish, a Spode circular dish, etc (a collection)
VALLET (PIERRE)Le jardin du tres Chrestien Henry IV, Roy de France et de Navarre, FIRST EDITION, etched architectural title-page (including portraits of Carolus Clusius and Matthias de L'Obel), 4 leaves of letterpress , etched portraits of Vallet and Jean Robin, 73 etched and engraved plates (unnumbered) after and by Vallet, English plant name neatly added within platemark to 6 plates (a further 10 in pencil), title just trimmed within fore-edge platemark not touching image, a few light spots but generally clean, strong impressions, modern morocco, covers with blind 3-line fillet border, gilt morocco spine label [Blunt, p.99; Cleveland Collections 154; Dunthorne 253; Hunt 187; Nissen BBI 2039; Pritzel 9671], folio (348 x 215mm.), [Paris], 1608Footnotes:FIRST EDITITION OF 'THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUM... A WORK OF GREAT BEAUTY' (Blunt). Dedicated to Marie de Medici, consort of Henry IV, who 'set the fashion, soon followed by the ladies of the court, for embroidery with floral designs' (ibid.), Vallet's work was at least partially intended to serve as a pattern-book for this purpose, but the plates were however executed with great botanical accuracy. The plants which Vallet depicted were cultivated by Jean Robin, director of the royal gardens at the Louvre Palace, and include several exotic flowers he introduced from Spain and the islands of the coast of Guinea.Provenance: 'From the Roden Library, bought at Hodgkins in the 19 sixties', pencil note inside upper cover.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
KNIGHT (THOMAS ANDREW)A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry, FIRST EDITION, errata leaf at end, uncut in publisher's boards, rebacked [ESTC T92620], Ludlow, H. Procter, 1797--PHILLIPS (HENRY) Pomarium Britannicum: an Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits known in Great Britain, second edition, 3 hand-coloured plates, untrimmed in contemporary boards, rebacked, large 8vo, T. and J. Allman, 1821--BADHAM (CHARLES DAVID) A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, second edition, 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates, old Sherborne Library bookplate, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, Lovell, Reeve, 1863--BARRON (A.F.) British Apples; Descriptive Catalogue of Apples Exhibited at the National Apple Congress..., 2 parts in 1 vol., 5 plates, contemporary red half calf, Macmillan, 1884--SMITH (JOHN) A Treatise on the Growth of Cucumbers and Melons, fourth edition, folding plate, some spotting, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, Ipswich, J.M. Burton, 1839--CREWS (A.W.) The Potato and its Cultivation, publisher's cloth with paper title label, Horace Cox, 1880--PAYEN (ANSELME) and M. CHEVALIER. Traité de la pomme de terre; sa culture, ses divers emplois dans les préparations alimentaires, les arts économiques, la fabrication du sirop, de l'eau de vie, de la potasse, contemporary half calf, spine worn, Paris, Thomine, 1826, 8vo (7)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
A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND EARLY 20TH C CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHED AND OTHER CHILDREN'S BOOKS, INCLUDING CALDECOTT, GREENAWAY, BIBLE PICTURES, THE BROTHERS GOULD (GREAT MEN) AND SEVERAL CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN EXAMPLES BY MCLOUGHLIN BROS, TWO MINIATURE BOOKS - MELLIN'S PEARL ATLAS OF THE WORLD 1894 AND BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE TWENTY-FOUR CLASSES IN THE LINNAEAN SYSTEM OF VEGETABLES, SCARLET MOROCCO, 1813, BEATRIX POTTER (10), ETC, W.A.F.
Churchill Babington: 'Catalogue of the Birds of Suffolk', Bury st Edmunds, 1884-1886, 1st edition, 2 original printed parts, first part top wrap with inscribed presentation to a Charles Bunbury, and with ownership signature of Bunbury beneath, each original printed wraps (worn), housed together in card box; Charles C. Babington: 'Primitiae florae sarnicae : or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Serk', London, 1839, 1st edition, old cloth backed boards (worn), printed label to spine; Charles Cardale Babington: 'Memorials Journal and Botanical Correspondence of Charles Cardale Babington', Cambridge, 1897, 1st edition, pencil ALS from Babington to W.H. Beeby, 1894, loosely inserted with typed transcript and rlevant typed material, J.E. Lousley's copy with his signature and address to front pastedown, original cloth gilt (3)
Five Natural History and Ornithology titles relating to or with association to Norfolk/Suffolk, including 'Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society 1869-70', 1870, signed by owner T.E. Gunn (1844-1923), taxidermist of Norwich, contemporary cloth gilt; an early 20th Century composite bound volume of Eighteen Miscellaneous Botanical Papers, manuscript index at front by W.A. Nicholson and with his bookplate to front paste down, the papers by various author's including C.E. Salmon, Arthur Bennett, Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock etc, several of the parts with original wraps and signed and inscribed to Nicholson from the various authors, contemporary half cloth; Edward Newman (edited): 'Letters of Rusticus on Natural History', London, Van Voorst, [nd], from library of W.H. Tuck with his signature to FFEP and bookplate to front paste down, original cloth gilt; Henry Seebohm: The Birds of Siberia', 1901, 1st edition, worn and soiled copy with ownership signature of B.B. Riviere; R. Sheppard and W. Whitear: 'A Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds', 61pp + table, from 'Transactions of the Linnean Society', 1824-1825, ownership signature of Ornithologist O.V. Aplin (1858-1940), 4to, rebound cloth gilt with "O.V.A." gilt monogram to top board (5)
A collection of 27 assorted Collins New Naturalists, all in dust wrappers, ranging from number 2 to number 67 in the series, 18 of which UK 1st editions comprising 'Natural History in the Highlands and Islands' (#6); 'Insect Natural History' (#8); 'British Plant Life' (#10); 'Snowdonia' (#13); 'The Art of Botanical Illustration' (#14); 'Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone' (#16); 'Birds and Men' (#17); 'A Natural History of Man in Britain' (#18); 'Wild Orchids of Britain' (#19); 'The Weald' (#26); 'Sea-Birds' (#28); 'Grass & Grasslands' (#48); 'Ants' (#59); 'Inheritance and Natural History' (#61); 'British Thrushes' (#63, 2 copies); 'Waders' (#65); 'Farming and Wildlife' (#67), plus US 1st edition of 'British Seals' (#57) and 8 reprints, some dust wrappers with degrees of fading/browning/chipping (27)
John Hill: 'The Family Herbal', Bungay, 1812, 54 hand coloured botanical plates as called for, contemporary calf gilt (worn), top board detached but present; plus William Withering: 'An Arrangement of British Plants', Birmingham and London, 1796, 3rd edition, volumes 2 & 3 (of four volumes), 12 engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt (worn), (3)
A fine pair of pearlware botanical sauce tureens and covers, circa 1810, probably Swansea, titled on bases and inside covers, 15cm wide x 19.5cm high - exhibited in the Royal Horticultural Society Loan Exhibition 'The Glory of the Garden' Sotheby's January 1987, number 111Condition report: Both with some minor enamel wear and rim fritting. One has a larger rim chip. Both covers have small chips on the inside rim, and one cover shows some restoration.
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