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Lot 1013
A very rare set of 24 ebony discs 2 1/2" x 1/2" demonstrating 48 different designs that can be created with an ornamental turning lathe, contained in 6 matching turned hardwood drums. Although these are not named, these are undoubtedly made by Holtzapffel as specimens such as these are listed in their 1844 catalogue p63. F
Lot 534
Rare late 19th century Meissen porcelain group of cats modelled by Julius Heinrich Haehnel, modelled as a cat and four kittens on an oval gilt edged base, incised `J HAEHNEL, Fc`, blue crossed swords mark, incised model number D.175, impressed numbers 70 and 77, 11.5" wide (very small chip to the cat underside ear)
Lot 328
Petiver (James) A Catalogue of Mr. Ray`s English H 2 leaves English text 2 leaves Latin text both describing 50 plates 50 engraved plates each with 12 figures most with a dedication slip pasted on (several just trimmed) contemporary calf neatly repaired ownership inscription of Samuel Mascall Corpus Christi Cambridge 1714 and a considerable amount of annotation probably by him engraved bookplates of Phillip Carteret Webb and the Hon. Booth Grey bought from Quaritch in 1968 (invoice inserted) [Henrey 1210] folio [London 1713]. *** Henrey 1211 has an additional 22 plates; they are not mentioned by ESTC and seem to be very rare; cf Keynes Ray 52-53.
Lot 341
Pratt (Anne) Flowering Plants Grasses Sedges of publisher`s file copy with a note Mr Britten`s Revised Manuscript of Volume 1 with Mrs Peerless` (nee Pratt) Report on the Plates inserted in 3 binding cases (1 2 and 4) the first with dust-jacket (very rare) 8vo 1899-1905.*** Extensive and very interesting alterations both by Britten and by Pratt in the event the editing of this new edition was given to Edward Step and Britten`s alterations seem not to have been used. John Britten was later to write Pratt`s obituary (J. Bot. 1894). A number of letters are inserted and a pencil sketch of the title-page. (3)
Lot 372
Ray (John) Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam first edition first issue title with `qua` and `Anglo`and black rule above imprint with the rare appendix bound at the end a nice copy in contemporary panelled calf RC in blind on covers and Kinnaird bookplate Cambridge 1660; the same first edition second issue title with two text corrections and red rule contemporary calf 18th century bookplate of Beilby Thompson Escrick ib. 1660; the same 2 copies first and second issue titles both present old green boards the HC Watson-JG Baker-JE Lousley copy/ contemporary calf very worn the 1685 appendix bound at the end ib. 1660 [Keynes 1-4] 8vo (4)Condition report:first edition first issue title(with `qua` and `Anglo`and black rule above imprint) with the rare appendix bound at the end a nice copy in contemporary panelled calf RC in blind on covers and Kinnaird bookplate Cambridge 1660; the same first edition second issue title(two text corrections red rule) contemporary calf 18th Cent. bookplate of Beilby Thompson Escrick ib. 1660; the same 2 copies first and second issue titles both present old green boards the HC Watson-JG Baker-JE Lousley copy/ contemporary calf very worn the 1685 appendix bound at the end ib. 1660 8vo [Keynes 1-4](4)
Lot 396
Salmon (William) Botanologia. The English Herbal; engraved title upwards of 1500 text woodcuts (captions cut in the block) minor stains but a good copy with the rare `Index morborum` missing in most copies half calf gilt front joint cracked red booklabel of [Dr.] G.O. M[itchell] on front pastedown (he has pasted in a cutting for the Hodgson sale in 1938 where he bought the book for 3 guineas) [Henrey 1308; her 1309 is the issue with a second title; ESTC muddles the 2 issues and incorrectly calls for `a frontispiece to each volume` as well as the engraved title] folio Dawks 1710.
Lot 411
Smith (Gerard Edwards) A Catalogue of Rare or Rema special copy printed on coloured paper leaf of postscript and text running to p.78 6 hand-coloured plates with a very rare plate of Ophrys Arachnites not in the list of plates extra illustrated with the original drawing for this plate and 12 hand-coloured plates from Sowerby (plates 2 and 4 of the Smith were by James DeCarle Sowerby according to a note on the printed wrapper in another copy) bookplate of C. Webb Smith (?father) half leather worn 1829; and 5 other copies only one other with the O Arachnites plate 8vo (6)(6)
Lot 420
Sowerby (J.) English Botany first edition a collection of c.320 loose plates about a third of which are uncoloured the others hand-coloured and a third are original pattern plates so marked and a number with extensive and interesting directions to the colourists soiling and marks of use including colour samples pencil notes and sketches on some versoes some margins folded in (perhaps to make sending in the post easier) unbound [c.1850-60]. *** Numbered between 2868 and 2990 these belong to the last two volumes of the very rare supplement which was edited by William Salter a Sowerby son-in-law. The instructions give a vivid impression of the to-and-fro between the editor the artists and the colourists: “very carelessly & badly done must be altered”; “Add a bit of dead old stem in the middle where I have put it in pencil”; “Mr Lees wil oblige Mr. Salter by returning this with remarks as to color &c”; “Color 50 first & send home Monday evening.”
Lot 421
Sowerby (J.) English Botany 42 vol. first edition 2998 hand-coloured plates 41 vol. in uniform half green morocco gilt some scuffing to spines the unfinished 5th volume of the supplement in 8 parts all published original wrappers a very nice clean set 1790-1866.*** The unfinished fifth volume is extremely rare and lacking in most sets.(42)
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Lot 438
Strickland (Charlotte and Juliana Sabina of Apperley Court Deerhurst Gloucestershire c. 1759-1833 and c. 1765-1849) [Select] Specimens of British plants vol. 5 from a series of 12 53 fine botanical watercolours on `papier-velin` manuscript captions at head of watercolours tissue guards autograph manuscript 50pp. and 2pp. index very slight browning and offsetting original blue morocco gilt Greek key pattern border slightly rubbed and faded lettered as “British Botany vol. 5” on spine folio [c. 1797-1809]. *** “Select specimens of British plants is a large folio sized work dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. The editor Strickland Freeman intended that it should be issued in periodical numbers each to contain five plates accompanied by descriptive letterpress. Only two numbers appear to have been published. All the plates are by the editor`s sisters-in-law Charlotte and Juliana Sabina Strickland.Regarding these illustrations Freeman tells us that some beautiful drawings of British plants executed by these two ladies had frequently attracted his attention. Strickland Freeman (1754-1821) lived at Fawley Court Hambledon Buckinghamshire and was the author of several books on horses and horsemanship. In 1781 he married his cousin Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Sir George Strickland Bart. of Boynton Yorkshire. His sisters-in-law Charlotte and Juliana Sabina Strickland never married.At the beginning of the nineteenth century they left Boynton and established themselves at Apperley Court Gloucester where they remained until Charlotte died on 2 June 1833 and Juliana Sabina on 21 September 1849 at the ages of seventy-four and eighty-four respectively. The work of these two talented sisters was highly praised by Sir J.E. Smith who referred to `those exquisite elaborate plates published by Strickland Freeman Esq. and said to be the performances of two ladies who certainly rank as artists in the first line.`“ - Henrey.Another vol. located at The University of Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
![[Turner(Dawson)] Specimen of a Lichengraphia Brita 2 copies original hard grained dark green cloth different gilt blocking on](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2800085/458-20109295925_468x382.jpg)
Lot 458
[Turner(Dawson)] Specimen of a Lichengraphia Brita 2 copies original hard grained dark green cloth different gilt blocking one copy inscribed to Miss Currer and with her bookplate later in the Boothstown [Manchester] Botanical Society Library the other to Charles Hampden Turner (1773-1856 F.R.S.) later in the library of Lindsay Fleming (sold at Hodgsons) [Freeman 3765; Turner 40 `about 30 copies...very rare`] Yarmouth private circulation 1839 (7)
Lot 461
Turner (William) The First and Seconde Partes of t lately oversene and enlarged with the Thirde Parte...joyned also a bookke of the bath of Baeth in England; [Brunschwig (Hieronymus)] A most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Aopthecarye...translated out the Almaine speche into English by Jhon Hollybush 5 parts in 1 vol. first complete edition black letter numerous woodcuts of plants without all but one of the blank leaves or the pasted-in errata slip with the early errata no. 2 rather than the three leaves A1-2 & *1 which superseded them with the 2 leaves of errata GG2 which were perhaps printed in England a sophisticated copy with minor repairs in places the worst leaf is 2D5 (last of the herbal) where half a dozen words seem to have been made good in skilfull facsimile title to Apothecary with old stain partly washed out and tear repaired bought from Hammond in 1973 (invoice enclosed) calf antique g.e. folio [STC 24367 & 13433; Henrey 368] Cologne [heirs of] Arnold Birckman 1568-61. *** Rare in complete state; of the 12 copies sold at auction in the last 35 years only 2 were complete (Plesch 1976 parts. This was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Turner died in July of the same year in his home in Crutched Friars...” Chapman & Tweddle p.12. The sheets of the second part seem to be the original 1562 edition with new prelims.
Lot 467
Walcott (John) Flora Britannica Indigena frontispiece of Linnaeus 165 (of 168) engraved plates of which 124 are coloured by a contemporary hand minor stains title backed lacks the last two leaves of the English index recent half cloth [Henrey 1472] Bath printed for the author 1778; another copy 168 uncoloured plates frontispiece of Walcott (not Linnaeus) lacking all the leaves of index etc. at the end Victorian half calf broken and defective [Henrey 1471 the variant imprint; Freeman 3851 “A few copies have a plate 169”] Bath Hazard 1778 8vo (2) *** Very rare; the only copy at auction in the last 35 years was Erasmus Darwin`s copy in 2003; that had 155 uncoloured plates only. Walcott`s Synopsis of British Birds 1789 is not quite so rare but there are auction records of only 2 coloured copies - Bradley Martin (imperfect) and Fattorini.(2)
Lot 474
[Warner (Richard)] Plantae Woodfordienses first issue without the Latin index which was added later minor worming in first few leaves original wrappers uncut printed for the author 1771; another copy with the rare Latin index added later to a few copies (see Dryander quoted by Henrey 1477) bookplate removed contemporary calf gilt spine joints cracked ib. 1771 8vo (2)(2)
Lot 561
Swayne (G.) Gramina Pascua: or ...The Common Pastu 6 ff. containing 19 actual samples of grasses each with printed titles in Latin and English tissue guards errata slip original boards some water-staining folio Bristol for the author by S. Bonner 1790.*** An excellent copy of a rare provincally printed specimen book.
Lot 93
Curtis (William) An Abridgement of the Flora Londi 6 parts all published engraved title 36 hand-coloured plates original printed wrappers uncut `for Charlotte Curtis` on the first cloth case (bought by MW from Viner & Hart this copy cited by Henrey 598) 8vo 1792-93. *** Very rare; no copy on ABPC (which means the last 35 years) though there was a copy at Phillips in Bristol about 5 years ago bound with something else.
Lot 112
Don (George) Herbarium Britannicum consisting of 9 vol. all published 225 original specimens attached “by cross slips of filligree-paper touched with isinglass” (advertisement in vol.1) each with a facing printed label original boards printed labels on front covers a number of the sides detached but contents in good state last title an earlier title altered (as Beltsville) bookplate of Earl of Wharncliffe (1st Earl 1827-99; perhaps inherited from his grandfather the1st Baron) bought of W&W in 1971 (invoice inserted) folio Edinburgh 1804-06[-12]. *** Very rare; only a Birmingham record on Copac (and that seems to be fasc.1 only); World cat. also has a single record the National Agricultural Library Beltsville MD. Not in Stafleu; Jackson has an index entry (p. 407) but no record; Simpson p. 42 records 9 fasc. 1804-12 but the work was not seen and he did not have a copy. There is however a complete copy at RBG Edinburgh and this forms the basis of a paper by W.E. Evans (Notes RBG 1934 167-72).”Few sets it would seem were called for and it is now the case that hardly any exist in their original format. It is possible indeed that the only quite complete and well-preserved example still extant is...one obtained in 1929 by the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh..” - Evans 168.
Lot 135
Freeman (Strickland) Select Specimens of British P part 1-2 all published 10 plates printed in colours and finished by hand after drawings by Charlotte and Juliana Strickland from the library at Knowsley bookplate of Lord Derby with the Stanley crest bought from Bow Windows in 1977 (invoice enclosed) contemporary quarter red morocco joints worn Bulmer 1797[-1809]; and a copy of the first part only in original boards uncut printed label on front cover large folio (3) *** Freeman successfully published Observation on the Mechanism of the Horse`s Foot in 1796 which has 16 plates in 2 states plain and coloured the latter presumably being partly colour-printed as these botanical plates. It is a very unusual technique in England and judging by the preface to part 2 it was very difficult to find workmen to carry it out. The book is very rare; there are only 2 copies on Copac British Library (complete) and NHM (pt.1 only). World Cat. adds the Fisher Library in Toronto and the BSB in Munich; it is not clear if these are the first part only or are complete. The only complete copy at auction since 1975 was sold 20 years ago for (2)
Lot 159
Graves (G.) A Monograph of the British Grasses 6 parts in 1 vol. all published 48 hand-coloured plates several leaves with unsightly repairs but printed surface not seriously affected later half morocco wrappers to the original parts bound in loosely inserted a disbound part 1 with 12 uncoloured plates 8vo 1822[-23]. *** The wrappers are rare; nos. 3-4 have answers to correspondents on them (shades of Mayhew).
Lot 178
Hedwig (Johann) Species muscorum frondosorum...opu first edition folding table 77 hand-coloured plates after drawings by the author without the additional leaf p.353 “not available at the time of the original publication of the book” (Margadant) recent half cloth uncut [Stafleu 2532] Leipzig & Paris 1801; Supplementum primum (-quartum) 4 vol. in 3 326 hand-coloured plates (I- XXXV + III*) some minor stains the part issue titles not preserved (as was intended) several plates with cancel captions pasted on and one (plate 259) changed in ms. (see Margadant p. 222) binder`s cloth spines faded 2nd title with contemporary inscription “zu Turnero auctor” (? Dawson Turner 1775-1858; he wrote a commentary on Hedwig) 4th title with what seems to be a paper duty stamp “Vertrag vom 13 Mai 1848” later stamp and release stamp of Royal Microscopical Society on titles but nowhere else [Stafleu 11.427; Margadant pp. 217-23] Paris 1811-42 4to (5) *** The starting point for the nomenclature of mosses (except Sphagnaceae). “Hedwig has often been called the Linnaeus of Bryology”; P.A. Florschutz in the introduction to the 1960 reprint (a copy of which is included with the lot). Complete copies are very rare outside the old botanical libraries; auction records over the last 35 years show a copy with the first supplement only (in 1976) and the Horticultural Society of New York-de Belder copy which made (5)
Lot 186
(Sir John) The Vegetable System vol.1-8 in 3 all (Sir John) The Vegetable System vol.1-8 in 3 all published of the very rare quarto edition upwards of 440 engraved plates contemporary half calf minor wear but a nice unsophisticated set 4to at the expense of the author 1759-65; due to uncertainty of collation sold not subject to return *** The folio edition is well known but Hill`s attempts to come down market with the book are very much rarer. Not in Dryander not in Henrey. The first 4 vol. of the quarto are found at CUL (the only one on ESTC) and there is a second similar set at EUL. The only other we can trace is at RBG Edinburgh; and this has the full 8 volumes. It is described in M.V. Matthew The History of the Royal Botanic Garden Library Edinburgh 1987 pp.125-26 and pl.8 illustrates the first title-page. It is clear from Matthew`s collation of his set and that at EUL that the plates vary from copy to copy.(3)
Lot 187
(Sir John) The Vegetable System vol.1-4 only (of (Sir John) The Vegetable System vol.1-4 only (of 6) in 5 the very rare octavo edition 207 engraved plates printed on thick paper possibly lacking a leaf of prelims in vol.2 (nothing obviously missing) contemporary calf rather worn joints cracking inscriptions of William Moss of Mansfield (must have had a large library; this is his no. 1307) and Francis Howgill 1797 Antonia Howgill 1913-17 bought from Maggs with their description inserted 8vo at the expence of the author 1762-61-61-62. *** Henrey 833 gives a collation for the 6 volumes and comments “The compiler has only seen one set” (Kew + vol. 1 only in BL). ESTC adds two sets in the USA both like this one comprising only 4 volumes and Dryander mentions this 8vo edition in passing but gives no details.
Lot 254
Lovell (Robert) Panbotanologia [Greek] sive Enchir first edition title border just trimmed at head corner torn from pp. 333/4 with loss of several words next leaf repaired with slight loss minor stains contemporary sheep rebacked bookplate of Robert Drummon of Megginch Castle [Henrey 234] Oxford 1659; the same second edition margin of first two leaves frayed and just touching a few letters a slightly soiled and used copy with the 3 leaves advertisements at the end which are sometimes missing but without the longitudinal title leaf (rare; not called for by ESTC but see Henrey 235) contemporary calf vellum(?) title label on front cover worn spine concaved contemporary inscription “my loving friend” on pastedown and signature erased from title bought from Phelps in 1987 (invoice inserted) ib 1665 8vo (2)(2)
Lot 276
McIvor (William Graham) Hepaticae Britannicae; or title leaf of index 18 leaves with printed captions (room for 136 specimens; this copy has 126; but Òthe numbers in different copies vary according to whether the rare specimens were available. Herbarium in 1911 offered a set with 135 numbers the highest I have seenÓ - Sayre) contemporary black roan g.e. covers off backstrip defective [Sayre p.228; Freeman 2408] 8vo New Brentford 1847.
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