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Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal; to which is added, upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities [...], London 1815, defective, botanical/ medical interest.

A Royal Worcester Botanical coffee set, comprising thirteen cups, fourteen saucers, transfer printed flowers, hand tinted with gilt rims

Pair of 19th Century gilt framed botanical watercolours

Quantity of miscellaneous decorative engravings, mainly botanical and fashion plate subjects, a pair of box framed prints, profile portraits of Nelson and Wellington and other decorative prints

Mid 19th Century watercolour, study of a seated man holding a barrel, dated 1843, unsigned, 8.5ins x 6.5ins, coloured print ' The Horse Guards, Whitehall ' by Graham Clilverd, signed and a small oval watercolour, botanical study, gilt framed

Indian Company school, gouache painting, botanical study with butterflies, on J. Whatman, 1805 watermarked paper, 12.5ins x 15insPaper is badly discoloured and a little undulating under glass, but ok otherwise12ins x 15ins

A set of three Botanical prints and four landscape prints

A selection of botanical prints in gold frames

19th CENTURY BOTANICAL HAND COLOURED ENGRAVINGS, a set of ten, by Pierre Joseph Redouté, framed and glazed, 52cm x 45cm. (10)

Assorted pictures and prints, to include T. Boyer - Golden eagle lithograph, botanical and still life studies etc

Assorted reproduction prints, to include botanical and ornithological interest

Sidney Ernest Wilson (1869-?) - Maiden in a landscape, mezzotint, pencil signed, 50 x 31cm; together with a pair of contemporary botanical prints (3)

A quantity of blue and white china including botanical meat plate, willow plates, etc.

AN EARLY 19th C. BOTANICAL PART TEA SERVICE EACH PIECE PAINTED WITH FLOWER SPECIMENS, COMPRISING SIX CUPS, SIX SAUCERS, COVERED SUGAR, MILK, TEA POT AND STAND.

TEN 19th.C.HAND COLOURED BOTANICAL PRINTS TOGETHER WITH SIX OF MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES, SIZES VARY. (16)

English School, early 20th Century - A Collection of Botanical and Garden studies, mostly watercolour on paper (Dimensions: 28.5 x 39.5cm and smaller.)(28.5 x 39.5cm and smaller.)Condition report: 10 pieces

Rosemary Mason: six green painted framed and slipped botanical study prints of assorted violets - all fully signed with initials in pencil, some titled - sold with a framed "V" violet sampler

A VICTORIAN ALBUM containing a collection of pressed botanical specimens in gilt tooled green cloth binding (305 x 250mm)

CURTIS, William, English Botanist (1746-1799), The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed Vol 1-20, 1790-1804, with General Indexes to the Plants and advertisement and portrait engraving by Sansom in Vol. 20. Stephen Couchman, Throgmorton St. London. 8vo. (235 x 145mm), multiple fine plates, contemporary marbled boards and tooled leather spines with red titles, binding poor and much foxing throughout (20) Provenance: Synge Family by descent

Graeme Alexander Three framed and glazed botanical studies Mixed media; and another, similar Various sizes, 110cm x 89cm overall and smaller Provenance: Hambrook House, Gloucestershire The Property of Graeme Alexander and Scott Carlton

Books - Auction Sale Catalogues - Books: Sotheby & Co, The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Vaduz Liechtenstein, Collected by the Late Arpad Plesch, three-volume set: Parts 1-3, June 1975-March 1976, colour frontispieces, b/w illustrations, celadon boards, each with loosely inserted prices and buyers' names, 4to, (3); Sotheby's, Catalogue of Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents [...], Volume I: Tuesday, 13th March, 1979, pictorial green card wrappers, 8vo; Sotheby's and Christie's Old Master Pictures and Prints, Impressionist and later Art, various; furniture and works of art; etc

* Prints & engravings . A mixed collection of fifteen prints, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs including Daniell (William). Black Marble Quarry near Red Wharf Bay, Anglsea [and] Penman-Maux taken from near Aber, N. Wales, 1815, two aquatints with contemporary hand colouring originally published in 'A Voyage round Great Britain...,' slight marginal dust soiling, each approximately 225 x 300 mm, together with an aquatint of Mentz by T. Sutherland with contemporary hand colouring, 250 x 300, with Stadler (J. C.). Court of Chancery, Lincoln's Inn Hall, 1808, aquatint after Rowlandson and Pugin with contemporary hand colouring, originally published in 'The Microcosm of London', 225 x 280 mm, plus three double page botanical engravings published by J. Ridgeway with contemporary hand colouring, circa 1843, each approximately 255 x 205 mm, and Swarbreck (S. D.), Edinburgh Castle [and], High School Wynd Edinburgh, circa 1839, two lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, some marginal spotting and dust soiling, some marginal closed tears and fraying, each approximately 425 x 300 mm, originally published in 'Sketches in Scotland...', together with two lithographs with bright contemporary hand colouring of Pisa after Deroy, each approximately 220 x 280 mm, with Lewis (John Frederick). A Jewish Woman of Gibraltar [and] Interior of a Convent, [1833 - 1834], together two lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, originally published in 'Lewis's Sketches in Spain...,' each trimmed and laid on contemporary card, each approximately 360 x 275 mm, with Stanfield ( Clarkson Frederick). 'Amsterdam from the Ferry', [1838], lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, some spotting and dust soiling, originally published in 'Sketches on the Moselle, the Rhine and the Meuse', 400 x 290 mm, mounted, plus Prout (Samuel). The Porch of Lausanne Cathedral, circa 1840, hand coloured lithograph, trimmed and laid on near contemporary card, 405 x 270 mm (Qty: 15)

* [East India Company]. Printed document signed, 19 January 1687, assigning the wages of Christopher Brewster of the East Indiaman Mary to his nominated attorney ‘Mrs Sarah Barber’, signed by Brewster and [?]Thomas West (later pencil docket: ‘Paymaster, East India House’), contemporary ink dockets verso, slightly marked and frayed, foolscap (30.5 x 19.5 cm), together with: Three autograph documents signed by Thomas Blanchard as chaplain of the Bengal Presidency, Fort William, Calcutta, 17 April 1790, each a true copy of the christening or baptism certificate of a child of Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1809), then acting chief justice, Supreme Court of Judicature, Fort William, each a single bifolium, 4to (22.5 x 18.5 cm), Manuscript note on the composition of British forces at the Siege of Pondicherry, 30 July 1793, headed ‘Head Quarters near Pondicherry, 30 th July 1793. The Army is Brigaded according to the following arrangement’, written on a fragment of a letter by another hand, single sheet (18.5 x 11.5 cm), Printed document signed by Sir Colin Campbell (1792-1863) as commander-in-chief, India, Allahabad, 5 July 1858, commissioning John Hale Smyth major, retaining seal, creased from folding, single sheet (28.5 x 44.5 cm), and 15 other items, including clipped signature of Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809), brief manuscript log headed ‘Route from Agra to Hyderabad’ (watermarked 1806, single bifolium, 4to), manuscript memorandum on army uniform (breeches) dated 1789, and several printed reports on prices for drysaltery goods (Qty: approx. 20)NOTESProvenance (fourth item): Maggs Brothers, July 1966 (purchase note laid in). This may be the Christopher Brewster who was supercargo on the East Indiaman Nassau on its 1697-9 journey to Amoy, bringing back an important collection of botanical watercolours (see Dominic Winter, 7 November 2018, lot 129; Jarvis & Oswald, ‘The collecting activities of James Cuninghame FRS on the voyage of Tuscan to China (Amoy) between 1697 and 1699.’ Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London vol. 69.2 (2015), pp. 135–153). He was also supercargo on the 1703-7 voyage of the Stretham to Canton, which occurred ‘at a pivotal phase in the emergence of the Sino-British tea trade’ (Ellis & others, Empire of Tea , chapter 3, unpaginated).

Boccone (Paolo). Icones et descriptiones rariorum plantarum Sicilae, Melitae, Galliae, et Italia, 1st edition, [Oxford]: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674, engraved title vignette, 52 botanical engravings in the letterpress, title-page (a1) slightly marked from careless edge-sprinkling, a2 verso and a3 recto dust-soiled, both leaves chipped at outer corners, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked and repaired, 4to (23 x 17.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Lord Lilford (engraved bookplate; library label). ESTC R6118; Henrey 14; Nissen BBI 179; Wing B3385. 'In 1674 the Oxford press published Paolo Boccone's Icones ... edited by Morison from a manuscript sent to him by Charles Hatton , whom he had met in Paris during the 1650s. Morison's edition, dedicated to Hatton , demonstrated that his method of classification could be extended to ferns and other plants which had traditionally been thought to be without flowers or seed' (ODNB).

Collection of Portmeirion Ceramics 'Botanical Garden'. This comprehensive collection includes twelve large dinner plates, eight 18.5 cms plates, seven large bowls, six circular bowls, ten circular bowls 16.5 cms, rectangular oven dish, heart-shaped dish, nine cups and saucers, six d-handled mugs, two larger mugs, set of placemats, set of coasters, two vegetable serving dishes 28 cms, oval serving dish 28 cms, oval serving platter 34 cms, 5 various plastic serving trays, fabric hot plate rest, deep vegetable dish 20 x 10 cms, 3 graduated milk jugs, miniature teapot, three storage jars and covers, large biscuit barrel, toast rack, kitchen clock, large tea pot, two flower vases, nine side plates, six oval plates, salad bowl, tureen and cover, large tea tray, salt and pepper, gravy boat and saucer. (in good condition)

An alabaster based column oil lamp, a bronzed plaster cast of a sleeping lion, pewter table lamp, alabaster table centre, gilt wall bracket, toilet jug and bowl, framed and glazed botanical study by M. BROTHERHOOD 1958

A pair of white hanging 'Botanical' chandeliers, each powder-coated and mounted with twelve lights, 120cm diameter 45cm high (2)

TWO BOXES OF VINTAGE BOTTLES, STONEWARE FLAGON etc, to include ink wells, 'G L Trickett Botanical Brewery', two 'ESSO Lubricant' bottles, 'Woodward Chemist' bottle, Nicholson & Skeltons Wine Store Carlisle, etc

An unusual Stergene stoneware flagon, along with two W M Shaw Botanical brewer stoneware flagons.

PORTUGUESE CARPET, 230cm x 165cm, stylised botanical and bird field.

A Chamberlain botanical plate, Royal Worcester bowl and associated plate (3)

Attributed to Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987), Botanical study, pencil drawing, 18 x 11cm unframed together with an Exhibition Catalogue for Hodgkin from Thomas Agnew & Sons, 43 Old Bond Street, London, November 21 - December 17 1966 (2)

A Pair of Chinese Watercolours on Silk, botanical subjects, together with a collection of similar pictures

James Herbert Veitch: 'A Traveller's Notes; or, Notes of a Tour Through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand During the Years 1891-1893', Chelsea, Veitch & Sons, 1896, 1st edition, “for private circulation only”, folding double hemisphere map frontis + 9 photogravure plates depicting exotic trees and plants from various Botanical gardens in Asia + illustrations in text from photographs as called for, large 4to, original bevelled green-grey cloth with paper onlay (rubbed, inner joints weak)

Noboru Isogai, 'Pineapple Orchid', watercolour, 48 x 67cm ; together with three smaller studies and three botanical drawings (7)

A pair of Flight Barr & Barr Worcester tureens and covers, circa 1820, hand painted botanical studies with gilded decoration, impress marks under base with hand painted titles, height 17cm, diameter including handles 15.5cm, one has 2 tiny chips on the base, the other is in perfect condition with no restoration

Helen ReedFlower studieswatercoloursdated June 1872and four other frames of botanical studies in various hands

Three Chamberlain Worcester porcelain trios: comprising two cups with 'griffin head' handles and a saucer with a broad yellow band enamelled with botanical specimens, pattern no. 806; two cups and a saucer decorated in the 'Independence pattern' in blue and gold with a displaying eagle on a ground of polychrome flowers and foliage; a cup teabowl and saucer of wrythen fluted form decorated with a chain and gold swags, pattern no. 45.

A pair of early 19th century English pearlware vases: of compressed baluster form with scroll handles, each painted on one side with a large arrangement of flowers in a basket, a botanical specimen to the other, on black faux marble bases, 26 cm high [covers lacking, some restoration].

Nine early 19th century hand coloured botanical prints, 20 x 13cm

BOTANICAL PRINTS, a pair, shrubs silhouetted in mirror panelled frames, 64cm H x 53cm. (2)

Set of three George Jones Aesthetic Movement botanical decorated cabinet plates with sepia landscape panels, another George Jones plate and other Aesthetic Movement ceramics including fluted trio, similar jug with pewter lid, biscuit barrel & stand and blue and white ceramic teapot stand with pewter mount and (11) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

John Berney Ladbrooke (1803-1879)^ Botanical studies^ two watercolours^ one initialled^ 15 x 15cm and 12 x 10cm^ both mounted but unframed (2)

AMERICAN ATELIER; a large quantity of 20th century dinner plates with botanical decoration, (qty).

A mid-19th century lady's commonplace book-herbarium, compiled by Ellen French and commencing in February 1847, ff: 20 pages of ink MS typically comprising selected passages, maxims and verse from contemporary and earlier belles-lettres, and loosely-inserted botanical dried specimens, some annotated with sentiment and dated, the pages faintly blue-lined, contemporary black roan binding gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo (23cm x 18.5cm)

Nineteenth-Century Thought - Natural History and Anthropology - Darwin (Charles), The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Popular Impression [...], Issued with the Approval of the Author's Executors, London: John Murray, 1902, contemporary green cloth, 8vo; Haeckel (Ernst): The History of Creation [...], Translation Revised by E. Ray Lankester [...], fourth edition, second impression, two-volume set, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1899, lithograph frontispiece, fold-out map and full-page plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2), &, The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy [...], Translated by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co., 1910, original wrappers, 8vo; Ripley (William Z), The Races of Europe [...], London: Kegan Paul, Trunch, Trübner & Co., 1900, 20th century institutional red cloth, University of Manchester presentation plate, 8vo; Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume III, 1865; Volume V, 1867; Volume VI, 1868; Volume XXIII, 1894; &, Volume XXIV, 1895, harlequin bindings, 8vo, (5); Magenta, [Mahon (Maurice Hartland)], The Treatment of Our Domesticated Dogs, second edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868, contemporary pictorial purple cloth gilt, 12mo; Forrest (Col. Chris.), The Complete American Farrier, and Horse Doctor [...], London: W. Nicholson & Sons, [n.d., c. 1870], pictorial cloth, 12mo; Botany, Culpepper's British Herbal and Family Physician, London: Milner & Company Ltd., [n.d., c. 1860], colour plates, green cloth, 8vo; Politics and Philosophy - Mill (John Stuart), Three Essays on Religion [...], first edition, London: Longmans [...], 1874, contemporary green cloth, 19th century pasted botanical specimen to flyleaf inscribed in ink MS: Leaf of French Honeysuckle from J.S. Mill's Grave, Avignon, 8vo; The Philosophical Works of David Hume [...], four-volume set, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards (some disbound, loose), 8vo, (4); Whately (Richard, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin), Elements of Rhetoric [...], seventh edition, London: B. Fellowes, 1846, contemporary polished calf gilt, crested ownership stamp to title-page, later 19th century Welsh lady's book label: Sarah Atkinson, Bangor, 8vo; Richard Cobden; etc

An early 20th century prize winning herbarium, Wild Flowers & Grasses, compiled by Miss Cissie Butcher, 1914, 22 pages applied with botanical specimens in novelty arrangements, including a kangaroo, annotated in ink MS, loosely inserted prize certificate: Greenmount [Bury, Manchester] Horticultural and Industrial Show, Saturday, April 4, 1914, First Prize, Awarded to Miss C Butchers, For Book Pressed Wildflowers and Grasses, pastedown with presentation inscription in ink MS dated 1915, pictorial binding, 4to

Chinese School (Canton 19th century)A pair, Botanical and Entomological Studieswatercolour on pith paper, 18.5cm x 28cmProvenance: Label to verso for Grosvenor Antiques Ltd, Collection of Sir T Phillips, from an album in the library of Phillip Robinson with bookplate of William Hobson

Natural History - Botany, Hulme (F. Edward), Familiar Wild Flowers, with Coloured Plates, five-volume set, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [n.d., 1875 & onwards], 20th century brown buckram enclosing contemporary marbled endpapers, edges marbled en suite, 8vo, (5); Robinson (W., F.L.S.), Alpine Flowers for English Gardens, with Numerous Illustrations, London: John Murray, 1870, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo; Russell (T.H.), Mosses and Liverworts [...], London: Sampson Low [...], 1910, contemporary green cloth gilt, 8vo; Knight (A.E.) & Step (Edward), Hutchinson's Popular Botany [...], two-volume set, London: [n.d., c. 1890], 351 b/w illustrations and 9 coloured plates, green calf gilt over buckram boards, 8vo, (2); Ross-Craig (Stella), Drawings of British Palnts, Parts I to XXXI, London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1948-1973, contemporary pictorial wrappers as issued but for disbound XIX, 8vo, (31); Watsonia: Journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles, 1949-2010, harlequin cloth, 4to and 8vo, (26); Botanical Society of the British Isles: Proceedings, Volumes 1 to 7, 1954-1969, red cloth, 8vo, (7); Botanical Society of the British Isles News, No. 1, January 1972, to No. 110, January 2009, green cloth, 8vo, (8); Zoology & Ornithology, Lankester (E. Ray), Extinct Animals, with 218 Illustrations, London: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1905, contemporary red cloth, 8vo; Kirby (W. Egmont), Butterflies & Moths of the United Kingdom [...], London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [n.d., c. 1900], 70 colour plates, contemporary green cloth, pictorial gilt, 8vo; Finn (Frank) & Robinson (E. Kay), Birds of Our Country: Their Eggs, Nests, Life, Haunts and Identification, two-volume set, London: Hutchinson & Co., [n.d., c. 1920], 800 b/w illustrations, 30 colour plates, green cloth, gilt lettered and blind pictorials, 4to, (2); Harris (J.R.), The New Naturalist: An Angler's Entomology, London: Collins, 1952, green cloth only, 8vo; further fishing; etc, [

Microscopy - a collection of glass microscope slides, prepared by Flatters & Garnet, Manchester, mostly botanical subjects, various specimens, each inscribed with their vernacular names, some also with their Linnaean taxonomy, arranged in two boxes, (2)

A 19th century Spode porcelain vase, decorated with panels of fancy birds and botanical studies, height 8.25insCondition Report: Stress crack in her body, horizontally near the base - comes through - lacks cover, very minor gilt loss

A 19th century Arts & Crafts copper and brass botanical style table gong, with flower finial, in the manner of Benham & Froud

After Augusta Innes Withers (1792-1877), a set of six botanical studies, Camellias, Roses, Orchids, Country Flowers and others [London: ?1859], hand-coloured lithographs, 21.5cm x 15cm, [6]

A John Ridgway part dessert service, early 19th century, each piece painted with a botanical spray against a claret border with moulded scrolls heightened with gilding, comprising tall comport, rectangular dish and eight plates, puce printed mark, pattern number 7328, the plates 23.5 cm diameter (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: One handle on the pedestal bowl has been broken off and glued. There are signs of six rivet repairs, the holes of which are now vacant, otherwise it is in nice decorative order. The rectangular dish is in good order and free from any obvious chips, cracks or restorations and rings out nicely when lightly tapped. There are small amounts of gilt rubbing to the border decoration. One plate has a small fingernail white patch within the claret border and varying degrees of surface scratches within the claret border, it also has a small chip om the foot rim, but still rings out nicely. A second plate has white patches within the claret ground but is free from any further obvious faults. A further plate has a rim to foot rim very fine hairline crack but still rings out when lightly tapped and is free from any rim chips. Other than the faults mentioned all items appear to be free from any major defects. All have varying degrees of gilt rubbing but nothing too significant.

A BOX OF ASSORTED PICTURES AND PRINTS TO INCLUDE BOTANICAL INTEREST

A Royal Copenhagen Botanical plate, by Eva Pederson, 25cm diameter; another, smaller (2)

Collection of books, to include The Botanical Garden, Phillips and Rix, together with Modern Farming 1950, three volumes, Britain's Birds and their nests, British Birds, Manual of Injurious Insects and methods of prevention and further books, (qty)

An impressive collection antique and similar earthen ware transfer printed ginger beer and botanical temperance bottles 50 bottles in totalTowns included: darlington, Norwich, St helens, Newport, Ipwich, Gloucester, Comer, Yamouth, Colchester, Consett, Dumfries, Clitheroe

An impressive collection antique and similar earthen ware transfer printed ginger beer and botanical temperance bottles 50 bottles in total

An impressive collection antique and similar earthen ware transfer printed ginger beer and botanical temperance bottles 50 bottles in total