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Sheldrake (T.) Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of letterpress title 111 (of 118) engraved leaves each with hand-coloured floral roundel with text beneath according to Henrey the plates numbers are partly engraved partly in manuscript but there are none at all here (an inserted list suggests the missing plates are nos.4-6 87 89 95 & 105) also lacking the folding table half calf repaired folio [Henrey 1312] folio J. Millan [1759]. *** A work very prone to imperfection; of the copies sold at auction in the last 35 years only one was complete (Christies 2001 $30 000) the plate roster of the 6 others is 104 109 and 111 (4 copies). The work was issued in parts and 400 plates were advertised; perhaps the last 2 parts were not properly distributed as the work came to a premature end.
[Simples] The Poor Man`s Herbal: or a Table in Alphabetical Order exhibiting at a glance to the sight A Catalogue of Medicinal English Herbs folio broadside folded in four London printed: and sold by J. Deighton No. 274 opposite Red-Lion Holborn [c.1800?] *** The second copy known. ESTC t95200 dates it 1790?; Copac cites a second example dated 1830? but this in an entertaining excursion into looking glass country turns out to be the same copy differently catalogued.
(John Stuart Earl of)] The Tabular Distribution o (John Stuart Earl of)] The Tabular Distribution of British Plants. Part I containing the Genera pp. 11(12) folding leaf `General plan of the tables` tables I-XXVII (VIII omitted as it contains no British plant) mostly folding 11 leaves of index contemporary half russia spine lettered “Genera” perhaps lacking a second part of species bought from Maggs with their partial description inserted oblong 8vo printed by J. Davies 1787. *** The preface is unsigned but is clearly by Lord Bute “The following distribution is the same followed in the former edition without any abridgment though reduced into a small compass...for the convenience of those who have the work in quarto and who may wish to carry it with them into the field...”. By “the former edition” is meant Bute`s celebrated Botanical tables 9 vol. 1785 printed in 12 or possibly 14 copies and a well known botanical rarity; Henrey 1398 collates the first volume of this and comments “Table VIII is omitted as it contains no British plant” just as here. Henrey 1419 records Bute`s A tabular distribution of Biritsh plants 1780 from a single copy in NHM and this is all that is found on ESTC. However Cambridge and Kew have copies of our edition perhaps with a second part though the collations do not make this clear (the Cambridge copy is mis-attributed to Sir John Hill). We have been able to trace no other copies anywhere. If as Bute`s introduction suggests our book was intended to accompany copies of the Botanical tables then its exteme rarity is explained.
Gerard (John) --- 16th century English School John full length portrait of the herbalist in Elizabethan costume standing before a curtain his right hand holding three flowers and resting on a table upon which lies an open volume of a manuscript herbal next to a quill and inkwell titled as given upper left with Gerard`s arms and the date at upper right oil on wood panel 350 x 235mm. (13
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)
Milne (C.) A Botanical Dictionary first edition 9 engraved plates folding table contemporary calf worn 1770; the same second edition 9 engraved plates 2 folding tables (just trimmed) calf rebacked 1778; the same third edition 3 folding tables 25 engraved plates modern half calf uncut 1805; Indigenous Botany; or Habitations of English Plants vol.1 all published old cloth leather label without the leaf of ads at the end 1793 (12)
A Swiss satinwood folding table, the circular top inlaid a cockerel within a circular border with the inscription `Je Chante Clair, 1917`, the underside inscribed `A notre Bienfaitrice Mme Milner, Les Travailleurs reconnaissants, Juin 1917`, `Souvenir de l`Atelier des Internes, de Loeche les Bains`, 46cm (18") diameter
A George III satinwood Pembroke table, circa 1780, the oval two-flap top inlaid with central panel of leaf paterae on ebonised ground within matching banding, the square tapering legs inlaid with leaf drops and topped with stiff leaves, on castors, 79cm (31") wide/see illustration
A George IV Kings pattern part table service, 1822, crested, comprising:/6 table spoons, /11 forks,/6 dessert spoons, /6 dessert forks, /6 teaspoons, /2 salts, /sauce ladle, /gravy spoon somewhat similar, 1826, 6 table spoons matching but monogrammed, , 1831/3 table forks similar 1831 and 1832, /total weight approximately 4058.5gm/and six plated dessert spoons and teaspoons to match/see illustration
A late Victorian fiddle and shell pattern part table service, various dates 1874-1882 comprising:/6 table spoons,/12 table forks,/12 dessert spoons,/11 dessert forks, /22 teaspoons, /6 egg spoons with silver gilt bowls, /6 salt spoons,/butter knife, sugar spoon and caddy spoon, /sugar ladle,/4 sauce ladles, /soup ladle, /pair of gravy spoons,/pair of fish servers, /pair of sugar tongs, /and 12 dessert knives and 12 cheese knives to match/total weight approximately 3794gm/contained in a fitted oak canteen chest by George Adams/see illustration
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