MAUND (BENJAMIN)The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain; With their Classification History, Culture, and Other Interesting Information, 13 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title in each volume, engraved dedication to Queen Victoria in volume 3, 312 hand-coloured engraved plates (each depicting 4 flowers, tissue guards), spotting to engraved titles, contemporary uniform green morocco gilt, sides with 2-line fillet border, roll-tool floral inner border, with central gilt-blocked flower bouquet, spine tooled in 6 compartments within raised bands, g.e. [Nissen BBI 2222], THE PLESCH COPY, small 4to (220 x 180mm.), Simpkin and Marshall [and others], 1825-[1850]Footnotes:Provenance: Arpad Plesch, bookplate in volume 1; Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 18 November 1975, Lot 515.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
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SHAW (GEORGE) AND JOHN FREDERICK MILLERCimelia Physica. Figures of Rare and Curious Quadrupeds, Birds, &c. Together with Several of the Most Elegant Plants, FIRST EDITION, second edition, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates (including frontispiece) by and after Miller, light offsetting (mostly plate to facing text), modern red morocco, sides with gilt roll-tool floral border, gilt lettered spine [Fine Bird Books p.94; Nissen IVB 638; Stafleu and Cowan 6033; Wood p. 465; Zimmer p.585], folio (532 x 354mm.), T. Bensley, for Benjamin and John White, and John Sewell, 1796Footnotes:The fine plates, including 41 ornithological subjects, are 'coloured from the subjects themselves' by John Frederick Miller. He was in the employ of Sir Joseph Banks, and had access to the vast collection of zoological specimens which he accumulated. This copy is without the plate list and Linnaean table found in the very scarce first edition, and on occasion bound in the second edition.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
Zenith pocket watch of type issued to Wehrmacht. Plated case, 51mm diameter, screw back with three indents for case tool. Signed Zenith on inside caseback. Serial 8349779. Dial has significant discolouration, luminous material on dial and hands appears replaced. Zenith signed, gilt finish movement, running condition, dust cover present. GC.
A COLLECTION OF AUTOMATIVE PARTS to include a box containing headlamps, spot lamps, bowls and fittings for Wipac/Lucas/Ford/Classic Mini etc, another box containing Ford/Motorcraft service parts including bearings, track rod ends, clocks, belts, oil filters, seals, etc, together with two plastic tool organisers containing nuts, bolts, washers, etc Condition Report Four plastic and nine metal
OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT to include Petromax Rapid 829/500 CP lantern with soft case, approximate height 40cm, British Military entrenching tool N.S.N. 5120-99-132-1584 with plastic case and cammo cover, camping fire bucket, wooden box containing two 10ltr jerry cans, bag of golf balls, cool bags etc
WW1 Salt Glaze Stoneware Rum Flagon, the top with black “S.R D”, underneath with Pearson & Co makers stamp; Weighted naval sailors cosh; MkII No4 spike bayonet in scabbard; WW2 British Army entrenching tool haft; Target Rubber No9 in original box still wrapped in grease proof paper. (5 items)
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