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Lot 364
A COPPER JUG WITH ART NOUVEAU DESIGN TO THE FRONT AND BACK 27CM TALL STAMPED J.S & S, AN ARTS AND CRAFTS COPPER JUG WITH SUNFLOWER TO THE FRONT STAMPED THE SAME AS ABOVE 27 CMS TALL. A COPPER AND BRASS THERMOS 22 CMS TALL TOGETHER WITH AN ART NOUVEAU OVAL DISH OF 31 CMS, SMALL COPPER DISH AND ASHTRAY, SET WITH VICTORIAN COINS.
Lot 3
Barrelier (Jacques) Plantae per Galliam engraved title (duplicated as usual) 334 engraved plates mostly of plants but including crabs star fish etc. minor water-stains contemporary English calf gilt spine bit worn and scuffed flyleaf with scribbled inscription that the book was bought for a guinea on 15 Dec. 1774 signed D[uke] of Ancaster and with 18th century Bertie bookplate (3 battering rams; motto “Virtus Arriete Fortior”) bought by MW from Halliday of Leicester in 1965 and original invoice inserted [Hunt 432] folio Paris 1714. ***”Barrelier a Dominican priest who botanized widely in France Spain and Italy collecting many unknown plants was preparing this edition for publication and already had the plates engraved in Rome (by an unknown artist) when he died suddenly in 1673. His manuscripts were later destroyed in a fire. Antoine de Jussieu discovered the plates nearly 40 years later and had them published with his own text” [S. Massey] Hoffman sale lot 187.
Lot 5
Bateman (James) Vignettes from Orchidaceae 27 vignettes by George Cruikshank printed on India paper and laid down original red cloth g.e. bit worn joints repaired inscribed by her brother to Margaret Wathen “Knypersley Hall Dec. 10 1844” bought from Foyles in 1980 for £145 invoice inserted oblong 8vo Cook & Co. 1844. ***The first vignette (arms of Queen Adelaide) is not in the list of plates (but neither is the title) and is perhaps special to this copy. The recipient was Bateman`s daughter who married Obadiah Wathen. The final plate shows the eiphyte house at Knypersley Hall the Batemans moved over the fields to Biddulph Grange c.1840.
![[Bauer (Ferdinand)] Original watercolour drawings each approximately 135 x 190mm. old gilt mounts pencil captions on versos [](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2793382/6-201057135557_468x382.jpg)
Lot 6
[Bauer (Ferdinand)] Original watercolour drawings each approximately 135 x 190mm. old gilt mounts pencil captions on versos [c.1800 ].(2) ***Sibthorp himself died before any of his Flora Graeca was published and the task of seeing it through the press fell on his executors John Hawkins and Thomas Platt. The former died in 1841 and Platt inherited many drawings and working papers. These were purchased in 1923 from Wheldon & Wesley by G.C. Druce (see Bodleian Library Record II 75-76; W.T. Stearn Sibthorp Smith the `Flora Graeca` Taxon 1967) who bequeathed them to the Botany School at Oxford and they form part of the basis of the recent book by Lank The Flora Graeca Story 1999. However in 1930 Druce gave these two drawings to Major General Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill CB CBE MC (1907-90) and he sold them at Sotheby`s on 22nd March 1977 lot 247 when they were purchased by Wheldon & Wesley for Mike Walpole. When I took these in at the book counter at Sotheby`s (it was over thirty years ago) I did ask the General when he had been given them but was too overawed to ask any further. His parents were in Ceylon and then Hong Kong and he was sent to the Magdalen College School in Oxford just round the corner from the Botanic Garden; he and Druce presumably met then. In 1930 he was a recently commissioned captain in the Manchester Regiment shortly to depart for Burma his distinguished career as a Commando in the Eastern Mediterranean lay in the future. The Botany School have only the first 7 vignettes (Lank p.211 says the last 3 “no longer exist”!) and they are in similar style to those present here. Apart from the vignette to vol.10 (still unaccounted for) the present lot is likely to be the only opportunity to buy originals for one of the great botanical masterpieces. Lank misunderstands Druce`s part in the transmission of the Platt papers stating(for instance) that some views of the Mediterranean “were not prepared for Sibthorp as they were acquired in the 1930s after the death of GC Druce and not after the death of Sibthorp “ (p. 108). Bauer visited Mount Athos in 1787 and a drawing survives; the executors used Westall to work up his sketches into watercolours for the titlepages of the Flora. see Lank pp. 210-11 “Westall; designing the last frontispieces” Lank`s suggestion that a third artist - Imrie - was involved seems very unlikely as the published version of Mount Athos is signed in the plate by Westall. .
Lot 7
Bennett (A.W.) The flora of the alps 2 vol. 1896; the same 2 vol. 1900 coloured plates original cloth first a bit loose § Gremli (A.)The Flora of Switzerland cloth J.E. Lousley`s copy with his booklabel [Stafleu 2146 records only an undated title without a London imprint] London Nutt printed at Zurich 1889; and others including a bundle of offprints v.s.(50)
Lot 9
Blunt (Wilfred) and W.T. Stearn. Captain Cook`s Fl original subscriber`s copy number 93 for Mike Walpole (subscribers` list loosely inserted) 30 plates printed from the original copper-plates original half black morocco by Zaehnsdorf cloth case folio Royal College of Art Lion and Unicorn Press 1973. ***Banks directed the preparation of the plates and had 3 sets of proofs pulled. These were used to make lithographic copies for Sir William Hooker`s Flora antarctica 1844-47. and James Britten`s IIlustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770 1900-05. Apart from the proofs the present publication is the only authentic printing of these magnificent copper plates. The full set (apart from 5 lost by the Royal College) were subsequently printed by Editions Alecto as Banks` Florilegium 35 vol. 1980-90; but the nature of the plates makes it clear that the colour printing used in this edition is historically implausible; see Bridson Printmaking 19. The only occurrence of Banks` proofs for sale seems to be William Pamplin`s closing catalogue part III Feb.1863 item 405 a volume of 28 plates lettered “Botany Bay plants by Sir Joseph Banks” pencil notes by Brown. It did not sell at a guinea and was lot 562 in J.C. Stevens` sale of the remaining stock on 13/14 Oct. 1863.
Lot 10
Bonnier (Gaston) Flore complete illustree en coule 13 vol. in 6 721 coloured photogravure plates after Julie Poinsot [Stafleu 123] Neuchatel & Paris [1911-35] § Rouy (Georges) Flore de France 15 vol. (the Conspectus bound as last vol.) portrait the W.A. Shoolbred (1852-1928 surgeon and botanist) -J.E. Lousley (1907-76 botanist) copy with former`s signature and latter`s booklabel and a letter from the author (about Shetland Ranunculus) bound in [Stafleu 9706 9712] Asnieres etc. 1893-1927 texts browned binder`s cloth the first a bit worn 8vo(21)
Lot 11
Book auction catalogues. A collection of French na 16 in one vol. contemporary half leather rubbed a few priced several with the stamp of Albert Foulard 7 Quai Malaquais Paris who presumably collected them the binding suggests an origin in the reference library of Herman of Paris much sold by Pierre Beres in the 1970s (in tea chests in Hodgson`s rooms) 8vo Paris 1879-88. ***Includes some very rare and perhaps unique catalogues; two of them (Beclard Grasset) are not in Bridson & Jackson Naturalists` libraries. The following short title list excludes 4 anonymous sales (one of Coleoptera) and is by collector. Durieu de Maisonneuve dircteur du Jardin botanique de Bordeaux 1879; M.G. Delafosse professeur au Museum d`histoire naturelle 1879; [Alexandre ?] Leymerie 1883; [Francois] Gervais professeur au Museum 1883; R.Tournouer president de la Societe geologique de France 1883; Adolphe Boucard [pt. 1 apparently all published] 1883; Dr. P*** 1887; Maurice Girard 1887; J. Beclard professeur de physiologie 1887; D*** & L*** professeur d`histoire naturelle 1888; Alexandre Perard 1888; Arthur Grasset voyageur-naturaliste 1888.
Lot 12
Braithwaite (Robert) The Sphagnaceae or peat-moss 29 partly hand-coloured lithographs original cloth publisher`s name `Bogue` lettered at base of spine contents loose and some margins a little frayed [Stafleu 701] 1880; the same a plain copy in a remainder binding base of spine lettered `London` 1880 § Welch (Winona) A Monograph of the Fontinalaceae illustrations cloth dust-jacket The Hague 1960 § Schuster (R.M.) Studies on Cephaloziellaceae plates wrappers Lehre 1972 § Sjodin (Ake) Index to Distribution Maps of Bryophytes 2 vol. boards Uppsala 1980 § Engel (John) and others. Bryological contributions presented in celebration of...Rudolf M. Schuster illustrations wrappers Berlin 1988; and others bryology v.s.(c. 50)
Lot 13
Brookshaw (George) A new treatise on flower painti title + pp. 46 (13-20 have 58 colour samples) plain plate of `strokes` 12 engraved plates each in 2 states plain and hand-coloured contemporary diced russia neatly rebacked bought by MW from Francis Edwards in 1963 and the original invoice inserted 4to printed for the author by J. Innes 1812. ***First edition under Brookshaw`s name. What seems to be essentially the same work was first published anonymously in 1797 [Henry 1167] and then under the pseudonym of G. Brown 1799-1803 [Henry 522]. Our edition is Henry 518 citing only Kew and her text collation of this is pp. [ii] 36 [2] ; there is no copy on Copac or World Cat. the earliest being 1816. A printer`s imprint is found on p.30 (but not on p.46) suggesting that this was published in two parts. Brookshaw seems to have started as a cabinet maker and switched to drawing master in mid career; see Lucy Wood`s article in Apollo May 1991.
Lot 15
Bruch (Philipp) and others. Bryologia Europaea 6 vol. 640 lithograph plates contemporary German binding of half roan bit worn marbled paper sides inscription on first pastedown by V.V. M.C. who records the cost of the book and the binding in code (first cmh; 2nd a) later a Linnean Society duplicate with discrete stamp on one title and duplicate notes in pencil their sale at Christie`s 28.1.74 lot 160 £350 W&W for MW [Stafleu 844] Stuttgart 1836-55 § Schimper (W.P.) Musci Europaei novi vel Bryologiae europeae supplementum 4 fascicules in 2 vol. 40 lithograph plates original printed wrappers rebacked [Stafleu 10.688] Stuttgart 1860 4to(8) ***”Das Fundamentalbuch fur die Kenntnis der Europaeischen Laubermoose” (Junk Rara 132-3 but “quarum 112 tabulae photographicae”); “a master piece” (Margadant p. 70); “probably the most outstanding bryological publication of the 19th Century” (Stafleu Taxon May 1972). A number of sets have early photographic copies of some plates as the publisher tried to make up his overs; this set has original lithographs throughout.
Lot 16
Brunfels (Otto) Herbarum vivae eicones first edition of the first part title within allegorical border Strasburg coat of arms both printed in red and black 5 part woodcut border to 3 leaves 86 full-page woodcuts by Hans Weiditz with the blank B4 but without the final blank minor repair to blank margin of first four leaves some minor water-stains generally a nice unsophisticated copy 17th(?) century signature of Miguel Bunillo on title (trimmed) bookplate of William Borrer (1781-1862 Sussex botanist) is possibly added old vellum bit worn ties partly defective invoice from Hammond (1976; £1400) inserted [Adams B2923] folio Strasburg Schott 1530. ***The bibliography of this great book seems somewhat unexplored. The Plesch copy for instance had the misprint Eiconeb on title and index printed in red; this copy has Eicones and index in red; the copy reproduced in Grolier 33a has Eicones and index in black. The second edition of 1532 is completely reset the most noticeable feature being the smaller gothic type used for the captions; why this was introduced is an interesting question. Stevenson in his cataloguing of the 1532 edition [Hunt 30] compared it with the 1530 edition in NY Academy of Medicine ; from which it is clear that there are text variants in the1530 since this copy does not entirely agree with the New York copy. He remarks that the book is “full of bibliographical puzzles which would take many months of research and comparing of copies to solve”. “Hans Weitz was a brilliant and original artist who set new standards of truth and beauty for the printed herbal...these vigorous well-observed drawings...remind us of Durer and much of Weiditz`s work has in fact been falsely attributed at one time or another to that great master or to Burgkmaier. “ -Blunt p. 62. .
Lot 19
Burdet (Herve) Ouvrages botaniques anciens. Geneve one of 30 copies specially bound in full pigskin the gilt block on the front cover (gilt in ordinary copies) blocked in black and the spine lettering different numerous plates Geneva 1985 § Hatton (R.G.) The Craftsman`s Plant-Book original edition coloured frontispiece numerous illustrations original cloth bit faded 1909 § Stevenson (J.A.) An Acccount of fungus exsiccati wrappers Lehre 1971; and 15 others similar v.s(18) ***The specials of the Burdet were announced in the prospectus but are not detailed in the book itself.
Lot 24
Chaumeton (Francois Pierre) Abrege de la flore med 100 colour printed plates mostly by P.J.F. Turpin irregularly numbered as in the full scale Flore medicale (Stafleu 1091) edges a bit browned recent calf the prospectus bound in name Geo. S. Elliot on title 8vo [Paris] Panckoucke 1821. ***The prospectus calls for 100 plates and explains “Les numeros des figures et du texte etant ceux de la grande edition”. The work seems to be scarce (only the University of Georgia copy located dated 1826) but probably is often catalogued with the Dictionnaire.
Lot 27
Coste (H.) Flore descriptive et illustree de la Fr 10 vol. text-illustrations main work in binder`s cloth the 7 parts of the supplement in wrappers Paris 1901-90 § Nodier (Charles) Promenade de Dieppe aux montagnes d`Ecosse first edition folding map 3 hand-coloured plates (one of a chef du clan the other 2 botany by Bory de St. Vincent) contemporary prize calf gilt joints repaired arms of Institution Hallays-Dabot [Paris] on covers Paris 1821; and others v.s.(20)
Lot 28
Cotton (A.D.) Cryptogams from the Falkland islands 1915 § Dixon (H.N.) A Contribution to the Moss Flora of Borneo 1935 § Arnell (S.) Hepatics from Tristan da Cunha Oslo 1958 § Chopra (R.) Taxonomy of Indian Mosses New Delhi 1975 § Whittier (H.) Mosses of the Society islands Gainesville 1976 illustrations first 3 wrappers bit worn other 2 original cloth; and others similar mostly offprints 8vo(c. 30)
Lot 29
Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis 6 parts in 3 vol. 435 hand-coloured plates on 432 sheets bound in systematic order second edition (using the Walpole criteria of the ornamental rules dividing the Latin and English descriptions) bound without some of the fasicule indices dedication to the Earl of Bute and the optional extras of subscribers` lists and the catalogue of Settle plants 1777-89; the same new edition edited by W.J. Hooker vol.IV 159 hand-coloured plates on 150 sheets (the last 6 are from vol.4) 1821 582 hand-coloured plates in total a few browned but generally in good condition the text in some places a bit worn used or repaired one leaf with portion torn away small holes and dust-soiling bound in four vol. mid 20th century half green morocco partly uncut probably a made up set bought from W&W in 1961 for £120 with two letters inserted folio ***The fourth volume supplies most (but not all) of the additional plates proper to the new edition. Mike Walpole`s paper Notes on Flora Londinensis (J. Soc. Bib. Nat Hist 1976) distinguishes for the first time a contemporary reprint of Curtis. “The copy at Sothebys this week fetched £200...a good deal more than we expected but we did in fact consider that the book was due for a rise. However the copy we are selling you was purchased from another bookseller at his price which was a good deal lower than we should have paid if it was up to us to name the price.” - HK Swann in one of the W&W letters.
Lot 31
Darwin (Charles) On the various contrivances by wh first edition 33 text-woodcuts by G.B. Sowerby II inner blank margin of title slightly damaged by adhesion contemporary half plum calf marbled sides and edges rubbed [Freeman 800] 8vo 1862. ***”His first botanical book...The orchids were well chosen to illustrate Darwin`s insistence on the adaptive nature of floral morphology and they also served to emphasize additional points made by Darwin in the Origin” - R. Ornduff Darwin`s botany Taxon 1984.
Lot 34
Dodoens (R.) Trium priorum de stirpium historia; P 2 vol. in 1 439 + 272 woodcuts without text except for brief descriptive note beside each plant device on titles and enlarged version at the end of the first part portrait of the author on first title verso the second part without the 8 leaves of appendix (added later as the anomalous signature EE8 makes clear) with the blank leaf at the end of the first part contemporary ms. notes in an English hand extensive note on the last blank page (which has thus clearly always been the last) starts with motto Adultaire q[ua?]tre marriage Roupre followed by notes on heliotrope and chicory (one paragraph crossed out but recoverable) 19th century vellum the Chetham`s library copy with gilt coat-of-arms of Humphrey Chetham on front cover and Manchester Library bookplate bought by MW from Junk with their description inserted [Hunt 608 (first part only); Adams D723] 8vo Antwerp Joannes Loes 1553-54. ***”First edition of Dodoens` second botanical book. It contains only the illustrations(and very brief notes) taken from...his Cruydeboeck...these two small books were practical for those who could not afford the more elaborate Cruydeboeck” - Hunt. The woodblocks recur in later Dodoens books; in April 1581 Plantin brought about 1000 of them from Loes` widow. Trium was particularly aimed at medical students and other annotated copies are British Library and de Belder .The annotations in this copy are in a strictly contemporary English hand. They start with the English name of the plant and then (in a very difficult hand with some admixture of Latin among the English)give medical uses; see for instance p.1 with a long list of what Southernwood is “good for”.
Lot 37
Dumont d`Urville. Corvette l`Astrolabe. Atlas bound in 5 vol. vignette title (7 copies) printed list of plates (omits the entomology) double engraved “Tableau synoptique” portrait 580 lithographed plates and maps 173 coloured or partly coloured the total including 3 plates in two states faint blind-stamp (signed with the publisher`s initials) which guarantees the paper in most lower margins (found in several of the great French voyages about this date) a trifle of foxing but a very nice copy in contemporary full French scarlet leather spine gilt with contents and small tool of the Astrolabe minor wear to joints the J.W. Six copy with his booklabel in the hydrography bought from Lawson in 1973 for £1300 with invoice inserted folio Paris 1833. ***Lacking the 8vo text but a complete set of the magnificent folio plates ; conforming to the BM (NH) cat. II 603. As well as the bis plates called for in the table des planches this copy has three plates (176 177 & 189) in the Histoire du Voyage in two states lithographed by Lermercier or (probably the cancels) one by A. Belin & two by Richebois aine. J.W. Six van Vromade had a library of natural history distinguished by its fine condition; it was sold in two sales The Hague 1932 & Amsterdam 1936.
![[Ehret (Georg Dionysius) or Simon Taylor] Rivina c bodycolour on vellum c.340 x 500mm. mounted on thin card within painted gr](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2793382/40-201057135147_468x382.jpg)
Lot 40
[Ehret (Georg Dionysius) or Simon Taylor] Rivina c bodycolour on vellum c.340 x 500mm. mounted on thin card within painted green frame unsigned caption with reference to Linnaeus Species Plantarum p.177 the drawing numbered 134 auction cutting (1960-70s; probably Sotheby`s; attributed firmly to Ehret) partly pasted to verso [c. 1800]. ***We cannot trace the sale; verso of the cutting is lot 204 a Gould pencil sketch for Birds of Australia of Honey-*** dated 10th Feb. 1849 which may provide a clue. Pencilled beneath the Ehret is what looks like a hammer price of £280. The lettering the numbering and the mount agree with other drawings in an album at Knowlsey; vol.VIII plants by Ehret & Taylor. Calman p.114 gives the provenance of Lord Derby`s vellums and it seems likely that our Rivina came from Sir Ashton Lever or Lord Bute. Simon Taylor 1742-90 his drawings “are a painstaking imitation of Ehret`s style often deceptively close to the manner of the original” - Calman. We should like to thank Dr. John Edmondson and Kirstin Waibel for help with the cataloguing of this lot.
Lot 43
Fourcade (Charles) Herbier printed title 2 leaves of index 120 leaves most with 2 dried specimens and printed text pasted in contemporary cloth worn Luchon Champol 1872. ***Not in Sayre though it does contain a few cryptogams. All Fourcade`s collections are very rare. Copac has only the Kew copy of Herbier; plantes des Pyrenees (there was another copy of this in our sale 20.8.09 lot 265) and the Bib. Nat. & a library in Lyons have a Herbier agricole 1874 His Traite de botanique 1884 of which some copies have specimens as additional illustrations seems to be just as rare. The specimens in this example are generally in very nice state.
Lot 44
Frye (Theodore C.) and Lois Clark. Hepaticae of No 5 vol. in 2 illustrations binder`s cloth Seattle 1937-47 § Lawton (Elva) Moss Flora of the Pacific Northwest plates cloth dust-jacket Nichinan 1971 § Ireland (Robert) Moss Flora of the Maritime Provinces cloth Ottawa 1982 illustrations; and others similar v.s.(c. 50)
Lot 48
Fuchs (L.) Plantarum effigies. device on title portrait on verso 516 woodcuts by Clement Bussy with the two blank leaves contemporary brown morocco sides with central diamond filled with conventional ornament was perhaps once gilt blue edges head of spine renewed leaf at end with few notes in elegant 16th century French hand 18th century name on title: Joannis Nep[omucene] Raffay the Kenneth Mackenzie-New York Hort. Soc.-Quaritch copy with their collation note at the end (not in the Rick Watson catalogue or the Christie`s sale in 1997) bought from Quaritch with invoice inserted [Adams F1126] 12mo Lyons Balthazar Arnoullet 1552.
Lot 49
Gesner (C.) Historia plantarum. Faksimileausgabe. 8 vol. limited to 550 copies high quality reproduction of watercolours in Erlangen University Library original half vellum slip-cases part invoice from Quaritch inserted folio Zurich Urs Graf 1972-80. ***”Gessner`s illustrations were at last published in eight volumes ...the woodcut illustrations of Gessner`s time could not do justice to these delicate and beautiful drawings” - Blunt p . 86.
Lot 52
Hahn (Gotthold) Moos-Herbarium 90 original specimens mounted on 10 leaves loose in original printed portfolio (which has a printed key to the specimens pasted inside front and back board) ties and one flap missing [Sayre p. 210] 4to Gera 1882. ***Hahn`s Die Lebermoose Deutchlands 1885 (Stafleu 2265) has 12 plates keyed to these specimens.
Lot 54
hedwig Theoria 1784 first edition 37 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.S. Capieux bound without the errata leaf at the end contemporary mottled calf worn and repaired bookplate removed [Stafleu 2526] 4to St. Petersburg 1784. ***Beneath the imprint Capieux sculp. 1783 on the first plate is added in ms et nativ; coloirib; express: . The same inscription in the same hand is found on plate 1 of the Plesch copy of Hedwig`s Fundamentum 1782 (sale 1975 lot 329); as I wrote then “it is difficult not to believe that this is Capieux himself”.
Lot 55
hedwig Theoria 1784 first edition 37 uncoloured engraved plates by J.S. Capieux title backed and motto on verso penned onto backing sheet original boards uncut spine very worn inscribed to [Richard] Pulteney by [Charles] Hatchett (1765-1847 chemist) on Feb. 22 1792 and with considerable annotation by Pulteney (his books sold by Sotheby`s in 1802) later in the Sion College collection sold in 1938 with release stamp [Stafleu 2526] 4to St. Petersburg 1784. ***The book was probably given to Pulteney during the West Country tour undertaken by Hatchett Thomas Rackett and Tiberio Cavallo in 1792; see R.H. Jeffers Richard Pulteney and his correspondence Proc. Linn Soc. 1960 p. 25.
Lot 56
Hedwig Descriptio muscorum frondosorum 4 vol. in 2 vignette title 160 hand-coloured plates a large copy in contemporary half sheep rather worn but sound contemporary flyleaf inscription “cet exemplaire en papier fort et tres grand a coute trois cent quarante francs” bookplate of “Museo Mouton-Fontenille Academiae Lugdunensis” (Marie Jacques Mouton-Fontenille 1769-1837 “director of the natural history cabinet at Lyon; pensioned off in 1830 because of his ultra-royalist attitude” Stafleu III 610) later in a Sotheby`s sale of the 1970s with a lot ticket in the hand of John Collins [Stafleu 2527] folio Leipzig 1787-92. ***”Distinguished above all for exact and patiently repeated observations Hedwig`s work depended on the skillful use of dissection and the compound microscope...He recorded his observations in accurate drawings...the figures in his Descriptio are among the most accurate and beautiful illustrations of mosses of his own or any other period.” - P.W. Richards DSB VI 219-20.
Lot 58
hedwig Theoria 1798 second edition plain plate of lens investigation of a moss 42 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.S. Capieux contemporary half calf worn and backstrip missing contemporary inscription “Fraulein Julia par Dr. Shlund London” on front pastedown at some time catalogued for Sotheby`s by Dr. Feisenburger with lot ticket (174) author name in his hand [Stafleu 2526] 4to St. Petersburg 1798.
![[Henderson (Claude W.)] [Some butterflies of New G manuscript title 8 leaves of thin card (265 x 420mm. ) with 23 watercolour](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2793382/61-201057135613_468x382.jpg)
Lot 61
[Henderson (Claude W.)] [Some butterflies of New G manuscript title 8 leaves of thin card (265 x 420mm. ) with 23 watercolour figures unbound [Loughborough] c.1963. ***Exhibited: Natural history illustration 1485-1968...from the collection of Michael Walpole Loughborough School of Librarianship 1969 item 51 part of one sheet illustrated. This exhibition with a 16pp catalogue was the only public showing of MW`s remarkable collection (and he told me he regretted even that).
Lot 74
Husnot (Pierre Tranquille) Sphagnologia europaea 4 lithographed plates E.D. Marquand`s copy (1848-1918 Guernsey botanist) with his signature and a 4pp. ms. key inserted [Stafleu 3153] Caen & Paris 1882; Flore Analytique et Descriptive des Mousses du Nord-Ouest 2 lithographed plates [Stafleu 3150] Caen & Paris [1873] original printed wrappers bit soiled worn; and 4 others by the same 8vo(6)
Lot 78
Kleinhans (Rodolphe) Album des mousses des environ 30 plates each with a leaf of text lithographed after the author`s handwriting minor soiling later cloth [Stafleu 3720] Paris 1869 § Balsamo[-Crivelli] (G.G.) and J. de Notaris. Prodromus bryologicae mediolanensis original printed wrappers uncut spine worn [Stafleu 292] Milan 1834; and 4 others 8vo and folio(6)
![Langhorne (Joanna Asquith. b. 1945) Fine watercolo on board c.330 x 570mm. signed in pencil and dated 14.8. [19]84. ***J.A.La](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2793382/82-201057135926_468x382.jpg)
Lot 82
Langhorne (Joanna Asquith. b. 1945) Fine watercolo on board c.330 x 570mm. signed in pencil and dated 14.8. [19]84. ***J.A.Langhorne was tutored by John Nash and Mary Grierson; she was an official artist at Kew 1973-80 and produced over 80 plates for Curtis see S. Sherwood Contemporary Botanical Artists 120-121.The invoice from Watch House rare books which accompanies the drawing states that the plant was from the Rothschild collection.
Lot 83
Law (Joy) Captain Cook`s florilegium number 93 of 175 copies plates quarter morocco Lion & Unicorn Press 1976 § Grieve (M.) A Modern Herbal 2 vol. plates original cloth 1931 § Lisney (A.A.) A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera plates original cloth 1960 § Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 2 vol. 500 copies printed according to the SO code both interleaved the supplement clearly an internal copy annotated with press marks and subject notes half morocco and very worn boards 1899-1919; and others similar v.s.(38)
Lot 88
Linnaeus (C.) Bibliotheca botanica..fundamentorum 2 parts in 1 vol. first edition nice copy in contemporary calf gilt spine a bit worn emblematic ex-libris of [Joannes Baptiste Verdussen] with motto “Virtus pietas homini tutissima” on both pastedowns [Soulsby 250; Stafleu 4710-11] 8vo Amsterdam Schouten 1736 [1735]. ***”The Bibliotheca is a concise history of botany in a dry enumerative but very efficient style. Linnaeus describes the development of botanical science by subdividing botanical authors in various categories...the often englightening and amusing names for the various categories of botanists show not only a good knowledge of the literature but also an awareness of the fact that botanical history is human history” - Stafleu Linnaeus p. 35 This first edition is rare. There is no auction record for the last 35 years but the de Belder copy was in lot 473 in the von Hoffman sale at Christie`s (New York 5 June 1997) amongst other Linnean items and Rick Watson had a copy in his Cat.9 (1998; £1550). One might assume that this was the same copy but the bindings don`t agree.
Lot 89
Linnaeus (C.) Hortus Cliffortianus engraved title and 36 engraved plates mostly after drawings by Ehret a very nice clean copy in contemporary Scandinavian half calf marbled sides edges and endpapers minor wear to joints and corners furbished bought from Wheldon`s with their cost code John Heller`s paper on the book inserted (includes inter alia a learned discussion of the catalogue of Clifford`s botanical library which occupies 17pp. of preliminaries) folio Amsterdam 1737. ***”Marks the beginning of a new era in botanical illustration and foreshadows the golden century of great flower-book production..” Stearn introduction to Species Plant. facsimile 1957 p. 44. Later he quotes a letter from Gronovius to Richardson “I assure you it is one of the most curious books ever printed. But it is strange that Mr. Cliffort who is at the whole expense will not sell a single copy being resolved only to make presents of the book or to exchange it for other curiosities. Almost all my new plants from Virginia are curiously described there...” (p. 49).
Lot 95
Linnaeus (C.) Genera plantarum...editio sexta without the portrait sometimes found contemporary calf rebacked front cover off the Duke of Buccleugh copy with contemporary bookplate and gilt cypher on covers later bookplate of Ashton Allis [Soulsby 305; Stafleu 4823] Stockholm 1764; Classes plantarum first edition some browning later half calf gilt front cover off contemporary name F.M. Shelund (?) on title and Linnaeus` Cryptogamia (col. 483-4) and Scheuzer`s grasses (col. 561-72) with much annotation presumably in his hand [Soulsby 332; Stafleu 4720] 8vo Leiden 1738.(2) ***One of the notes in the Classes reads “Illus: Linne propria manu scriptsit GB (?)”.
Lot 96
Linnaeus (C.) Genera plantarum...editio sexta without the portrait sometimes found later half green calf title creased [Soulsby 305; Stafleu 4823] Stockholm 1764; Supplementum plantarum systematic vegetabilium...generum plantarum editionis sextae contemporary English calf gilt spine the Burton Constable copy with William Constable`s bookplate [Soulsby 574; Stafleu 4854] Braunschweig 1781 [1782].(2)
Lot 102
Meymott (Jane Carolina) An attractive album of wat 57 very attractive watercolours mostly of butterflies and flowers (34 comprising the first two divisions; each of these has a lettered title in black) the remaining plates comprise flowers (12) and animals (11) one illustration signed ECM and dated 1831 the early drawings with elaborate ms. captions some suggesting a West Indian or other exotic provenance contemporary pink calf tooled in gilt and blind g.e. gilt green leather label with artist`s name and date on front pastedown quotation from Traylen (£105; 1965) inserted 4to 1834. ***Following the first title are two watercolours; the first perhaps an unfinished presentation plate initials I.F. surmounting trompe l`oeil drawings and flowers the second a coat-of-arms presumably that of the Meymott family. There is a possible connection with Charles Meymott 1813-67 homeopathic doctor and cricketer; in 1855 a Miss Meymott attended a fund raising Bazaar at the London Homeopathic Hospital.
Lot 103
Micheli ( Pietro ) Nova plantarum genera 108 engraved plates each with engraved dedication to a patron (we illustrate 2 of the English ones) recent vellum signature of J.S. Albrecht (?) on title and a few notes on plate margins perhaps in his hand invoice from W&W inserted [Stafleu 5974] folio Florence 1729.(2) ***”Micheli was the first author to employ a microscope in the study of cryptogams...the vast number of new fungi lichens and liverworts described and the accuracy of his illustrations testify to the author`s patient and critical observations. In this work which has been termed epoch-making by bryologists lichenologists and mycologists alike we see the start of a system for cryptogam classification many facets of which are still being built on today “ - Hawkesworth in the introduction to the 1976 reprint (a copy of which is included with the lot).
Lot 111
Nissen (Claus) Herbals of five centuries number 99 of 100 copies with English text (there were another 200 in German) 50 original leaves from herbals and later botanical works (includes 12 incunables and a coloured plate from Jacquin`s Hortus botanicus vindobonensis 1770) mounted and with printed captions original canvas portfolio 92pp. text in wrappers strapped inside front cover as published bought from Marlborough in 1963 for £75 (invoice inserted) folio Zurich etc. 1958.
Lot 112
Nissen (Claus) Tierbucher aus funf Jahrhunderten number 42 of 200 copies 60 original leaves ranging from incunables (2) to Meyer`s British Birds many coloured mounted and with captions original canvas portfolio printed labels 110pp. text in pocket inside front cover folio Munich etc. 1968. ***No English edition appeared so there were 100 fewer copies of the animals as opposed to the plants.
Lot 117
Pass (Crispin van de) Hortus floridus 5 parts in 1 vol. Latin text issue engraved title 2 other printed titles (summer & autumn) 5 frontispieces and 220 plates of flowers on 161 leaves texts on facing versos exceptions are all accounted for except for last plate of summer: cariophylus a few figures lightly coloured a nice if probably made up copy title mounted and a couple of tiny marginal defects some other margins renewed early 20th century dark green morocco gilt g.e. by Riviere bought from W&W cat.110 item 2266 for £180 in 1967 the original invoice (which lists much else) inserted oblong 8vo Arnheim Jansson 1614. ***Comprises; [spring] plate of garden with points of compass plates 1-41; Aestas printed title with Utrecht & Arnheim imprint garden plate plates 1-20; Autumnus printed title with Utrecht & Arnehim imprint engraved leaf Epigramma. Flora naturae. signed A.B. garden plate plates 1-25 + 25bis (the narcissus bulb) + Radix utriusque cyclamini (unumbered); [winter] garden plate plates 1-12 [altera pars] title “Cognoscite lilia agri” plates 1-120 all but 53 & 120 two to a leaf. Spencer Savage`s paper in The Library 1923 starts to attack the issue points of this complex work; however it can only really be applied to undisturbed copies in contemporary bindings otherwise brain fever ensues. “The most striking feature of the figures is the degree of atmosphere that has been achieved with so difficult and mechanical an instrument as the burin...In many of de Passe`s plates the plants are shown growing in the soil the artist`s eye-level being chosen so low that the flat Dutch landscape gives place to a plain sky against which the flower and leaves are firmly patterened. The book like Camerarius...thus anticipates Thornton`s Temple of Flora. Delightful touches of humour enliven de Passe`s work: bees and butterflies hover about the flowers; insects crawl among the leaves; a little mouse gnaws contentedly at an uprooted corn...” Blunt p. 109.
Lot 118
Poiret (Jean L.M.) Lecons de flore 3 vol. 2 engraved tables (one very large) 64 plates printed in colours and finished by hand mostly after drawings by Turpin the text to the 2nd vol. runs to p.158 (159) as called for by Stalfeu in the 4to issue (he says there should be 174pp. in this 8vo but the last page describes the last plate so it is hard to think anything is missing) contemporary half calf gilt head of last spine a bit defective [Stafleu 8115] 8vo Paris Pancoucke 1819-20. ***”Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest natural genius of all the French botanical painters of his day...in particular his drawings of botanical details have rarely been surpassed. The Lindley library possesses the originals of Poiret and Turpin`s Lecons de Flore (1819-20)...his work shows great indebtedness to the tradition of van Spaendonck and Redoute; Goethe much admired it and regretted that the artist was not at hand to make illustrations for the Metamorphose der Pflanzen..” Blunt pp. 205 208-9.
Lot 120
Redoute (Pierre Joseph) Les Liliacees 8 vol. first edition engraved portrait plain plate of Amaryllis bulb 486 plates printed in colours and finished by hand with the half-titles (except vol.2) and the rare dedication to Chaptal first state of plate 95 and both states of plate 428 (see Plesch sale lot 626) some minor offset or foxing but a very nice large copy uncut and the plate marks visible (they are usually trimmed away as in Hunt copy) half orange morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe a printed livraison wrapper (mounted with slight loss) bound at the end of each vol. the Major Albert Pam copy (OBE 1875-1955 banker and collector) with his bookplate featuring the orchid Pamianthe sold Sotheby`s May 7th 1956 lot 83 to Sawyer for £900 (lot 84 was a Les Roses with plates in 2 states bought by Traylen for £1400) then item 394 in their catalogue (? 183) (cutting inserted; £5000) bought by MW from Traylen in 1972 for £9 500 with the original invoice inserted [Stafleu 8747 “280 copies”] folio (c.545 by 355mm.) Paris chez l`auteur 1802-16. ***When Major Pam`s books were sold the catalogue justly stated that his books were all selected copies in fine condition. He published an autobiography Adventures and Recollections in 1945 but it has only a disappointing half paragraph on his book collecting; it was perhaps one of those things that a gentleman did not discuss. The Jardin de la Malmaison and the Liliacees “constitute the highest peak of Redouté`s artistic and botanical achievment; both books are among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be published...This magnificent publication brings Redouté to the top of his artistic career and amply justifys his fame as one of the most eminent botanical illustrators of all time.” - A catalogue of Redouteana exhibited at the Hunt Botanical Library 1963 p. 21.
Lot 131
Sillen (Olof Leopold) Musci frondosi Scandinaviae 2 vol. titles list of contents 506 specimens mounted on 80 leaves with printed captions a little dusty but in very good state original leather-backed cloth title blocked in gilt first vol. with presentation slip pasted to title (from the author to Count A.G. Oxenstierna and with the latter`s heraldic label in blue on white) folio Gavle 1875-84. ***Sayre pp.254-5 records only 2 copies NY Botanic Garden & Uppsala; no copy on Copac and no copy at Kew.
Lot 132
Sims (T.R.) Checklist (Handbook) of the Bryophyta 2 vol. hectographed from the author`s handwriting boards spines faded both inscribed to Miss Owen and 2 letters from Sims to her inserted together with several lists of mosses [Stafleu 11.993-94] 8vo Maritzberg 1915-16. ***Enthusiastic letters ; “your present sending - which is one of the best that has ever come out of the Little Berg..”.
Lot 138
Stephani (Franz) Species Hepaticarum 6 vol. contemporary black leather bit worn last vol. stained on covers W.H. Pearson`s copy (1849-1923 cryptogamic botanist) with his signature and a few inserted notes [Stafleu 13.000] Geneva 1900-24 § Wijk (R. van der) Index muscorum 5 vol. original cloth faded Utrecht 1959-69 § Husnot (Pierre editor) Revue bryologique vol.1-20 in 4 text a bit browned lithographed plates first 17 vol. in 2 half calf neat the other 3 (with a lot of duplication) in 2 vol. binder`s cloth Caen 1874-93 § British Bryological Society. Transactions vol.1-11 plates binder`s cloth Cambridge & Oxford 1951-80 4to and 8vo; sold not subject to return(26) ***The Stephani is “of great importance to all hepaticologists because it gives a monographic enumeration of all liverworts known at the time” - P. Geissler Taxon vol.39 p. 254.
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