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Alfred Chandler and William Beattie Booth

Alfred Chandler and William Beattie Booth Illustrations and Descriptions of the Plants which compose the natural order Camellieae, and of the varieties of Camellia Japonica, cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain. London: John and Arthur Arch, 1831 4to (358 x 249 mm.), 44 hand-coloured engraved plates by S. Watts and Weddell after Chandler, heightened with gum arabic, orange morocco gilt, tooled border including trailing flowers, sprays, stars and dots, spine gilt with raised bands in 6 compartments, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, minor paint loss to some plates, some offsetting, occasional foxing, rebacked retaining most of the original spine A COPY OF THE MOST DESIRABLE ISSUE OF ONE OF FINEST WORKS ON CAMELLIAS, WITH THE FOUR EXTRA PLATES. The "very fine large plates, beautifully coloured, with opaque pigments" (Dunthorne), were made after drawings by Alfred Chandler (1804-1896), based on specimens from his father's nursery at Vauxhall, and with extensive commentary by William Beatie Booth (1804?-1874). Booth was a leading expert on Camellias and a member of the Horticultural Society. The text includes physical description of camellias, their cultivation, and when the plant first appeared in England. Preparations for a second volume were begun but unfinished. However, this copy is one of a small number that were issued with 4 additional plates, numbered 41-44. LITERATURE: Dunthorne 77; Nissen BBI 209; Great Flower Books, p. 51; Stafleu TL2 651 PROVENANCE: Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, armorial bookplate and Knowsley Hall shelfmark in ink to front free endpaper; Sir Giles Loder armorial bookplate;

View 1 of Lot 8: Alfred Chandler and William Beattie Booth | Camellieae. London, 1831, orange morocco gilt

alfred chandler and william beattie booth | camellieae. london, 1831, orange morocco gilt

a boy gardening outside a cottage

a pair of figures of robert the bruce and william wallace

British and Continental Pictures including Marine pictures

the falls of bruar; on the findhorn

a perthshire river view

william beattie brown, r.s.a. (british 1831-1909), dunotter castle, signed, oil...

william beattie brown, r.s.a. (british 1831-1909), on ben ledi burn, signed, oil...

william beattie brown, r.s.a. 1831-1909, on the esk, signed and dated l.l.: w.beattie...

william beattie brown, r.s.a. 1831-1909, on the river tay, perthshire, signed l.l.:...

william beattie brown, r.s.a. 1831-1909, spate upon the afric, signed l.l.: beattie...

the highland burn

sweet auburn, loveliest village of the plain

on the river tay, perthshire

bartlett, w.h. and william beattie, la suisse pittoresque..., london and paris: georges...

beattie, william. scotland illustrated, george virtue, 1838, 2 vol., 2 engraved...

finden, william and william beattie. the ports, harbours, watering-places and coast...

william beattie brown, r.s.a. 1831-1909, on ben ledi burn, signed l.l.: w beattie...

william beattie brown, r.s.a. 1831-1909, near struan, signed l.r.: w beattie brown...

booth, william beattie and alfred chandler. illustrations and descriptions of the...

2 volumes, 4to (266 x 202mm.), 2 engraved frontispiece portraits (of the author and the artist), engraved additional title to each volume printed in sepia and with HAND-COLOURED vignette, 106 sepia printed plates FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, many heightened with gum arabic, engraved folding map (dated 1844), twentieth-century blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spines in compartments with raised bands gilt, gilt edges, gilt turn-ins, occasional light spotting or browning

switzerland. illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by w.h. bartlett, esq. london: george virtue, [c.1844]

signed l.l.: W Beattie Brown; inscribed with the title on an old label pasted to the reverse

signed l.l.: W Beattie Brown; inscribed with the title on an old label pasted to the reverseoil on canvas

william beattie brown r.s.a.1831-1909

on the river tummel, perthshire

12mo (160 x 95mm.), engraved frontispiece, contemporary maroon morocco by Hayday, gilt edges, FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF ?LOCH LOMOND with mountain, loch, figures and boats, extremities very slightly rubbed This lot contains 1 item(s).

fore-edge painting--beattie, james. the poetical works. london: william pickering, 1831

Contemporary Art

bathing beauties

wood, william. zoography; or, the beauties of nature displayed, in select descriptions...

meyrick, william. the beauties of english flora, or coloured figures of the most...

follower of william beatie brown (british 1831-1909), wooded landscape with a...

Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie  Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

4to (8 x 6 1/4 in.; 203 x 158 mm, uncut). Woodcut printer's device on title [McKerrow 368], typographic and woodcut headpieces, decorative woodcut initials, mostly gothic type; title soiled, elsewhere light marginal soiling, blank corner torn from leaf F4. Stitched as issued, in a green cloth folding-case.

ciceronis amor, tullies love: wherein is discoursed, the prime of cicero'es youth, setting out in lively portraitures, how yong gentlemen, that ayme at honour, should level the end of their affections, holding the love of countrey and friends in more esteeme, then those fading blossoms of beautie, that only feed the curious jurney of the eye. london: printed by william stansby for john smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in s. dunstanes church-yard, under the dyall, 1628

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