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Click here to subscribeQuantity of 19th century cabinet plates, two painted with central shell motif, 4 painted with central floral spray on a turquoise blue border, 2 similar plates painted with exotic birds, 1 pierced plate in the style of Chelsea, 1 painted with a swallow, Also a Sucrier and cover and a Meissen style saucer, (12), (minor damages and staining).
Spenser (Edmond) The Shepheardes Calendar, fo., quarter-parchment and silk boards, illus. by John Nash, edition limited to 350 numbered copies, with d.w., Cresset Press, 1930; and Scott (Charles Kennedy) The Chelsea Song Book, 4to, original printed boards, illus. by Juliet Wigan and Margaret Shipton, Cresset Press, n.d. (2)
Ballooning.- Charles Green's Great Nassau Balloon, a group of 6 letterpress handbills advertising ascents from Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea, each c. 245 x 115mm., all but one with wood-engraved illustration of the balloon, a few minor defects at edges, 1845-46; with a small playbill for the Theatre Royal, Hull, featuring Green's balloon and a handbill for the Royal Cremorne Balloon, Lieut.Gale, aeronaut (8).
A pair of Chelsea Derby canted rectangular deep dishes, each painted in coloured enamels with flowers and leaves, within a canted blue ground cartouche, decorated in gilt with flowers and scales, within a broad garland of flowers and leaves, and blue and gilt rim, 22.2 cm wide (8 3/4"), circa 1770-75.
Veitch (James Herbert) Hortus Veitchii, 50 plates, hinges cracked, Chelsea, 1906 § Guenther (Konrad) A Naturalist in Brazil, plates and text illustrations, 1931 § Farrer (Reginald) The Dolomites, colour plates by E. Harrison Compton, 1913 § Ward (F. Kingdon) Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World, plates, 1974 § Lyte (Charles) Frank Kingdon-Ward. The Last of the Great Plant Hunters, maps and plates, 1989, third mentioned modern half morocco, rest original cloth, fourth and fifth mentioned dust-jackets; and 63 others, Plant Hunting, some duplicates including 10 other copies of the fifth mentioned, 4to & 8vo (68).