Eight books, Southern horticulture:Eight books, Southern horticulture: 19th and 20th century works by Willliam White, Mary Edgeworth, Floyd Bralliar, James Fitz; A.W. Chapman, Flora of the Southern United States, signed "Sidney Lanier"; detailed listing available.
Asa Strong, American Flora, 1848-1850:Asa Strong, American Flora, 1848-1850: Asa B. Strong, The American Flora, or History of Plants and Wildflowers: Containing a Systematic and General Description, Natural History, Chemical and Medicinal Properties of Over Six Thousand Plants , Green & Spencer, New York, four volumes, consecutively 1851-1849-1849-1850, red leather with elaborate gilt lettering and floral devices on covers and spines, complete with 192 hand-colored lithographic prints plus seven frontispiece plates, lacking one, possibly complete otherwise , 10 x 7-3/4 in. Bindings rough, spines with tears and losses, corner and edge wear, interiors with light to moderate foxing throughout, dampstains, several pages separated, several small tears.
8 vols. American Botany - Philadelphia8 vols. American Botany - Philadelphia & Environs: Darlington, William. Florula Cestrica: An Essay Towards A Catalogue of The Phaenogmous Plants,... Chester County, Pennsylvania. West Chester, 1826. 1st ed. Tall 8vo, 1/4 red morocco & marbled bds.; scuffed, spine & extremities rubbed. Some internal spotting & dampstaining. With 3 hand-colored plates. Presentation copy, inscribed & signed by "The Author" on front paste-down. American Imprints 24292. * Another copy of the preceding, contemp. 1/4 red morocco & marbled bds.; scuffed, spine & corners rubbed, lacking front free endpaper, some internal spotting, 3 hand-colored plates. * Another copy of the preceding, contemp. marbled bds., re-backed with modern calf, 3 hand-colored plates, some internal spotting & dampstaining. Presentation slip, inscribed & signed by "The Author" mounted to front paste-down. * _ _. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and Filicoid Plants of Chester County. West Chester, 1837. 1st ed. 12mo, contemp. sheep; rubbed. Color frontis. map. Minor internal foxing. American Imprints 43953. * Another copy of the preceding, contemp. tree sheep; rubbed, color frontis. map; scattered light foxing. * Another copy of the preceding, modern marbled calf, color frontis. map, scattered light foxing. * _ _. Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. blind stamped black cloth, re-backed, most of orig. gilt-lettered spine laid down. Frontis., text illus. Minor internal dampstaining & foxing. Signed by Benj. Bartram on front blank. * Harshberger, John W. The Botanists of Philadelphia and Their Work. Philadelphia, 1899. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. gilt-pictorial blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; light to moderate edge wear. Plate. Newspaper clipping mounted to front paste-down.
Asa Strong, American Flora, 1849:Asa Strong, American Flora, 1849: Asa B. Strong, The American Flora, or History of Plants and Wildflowers , Volume III only, Green & Spencer, New York, 1849, original black leather with gilt highlights, 45 plates present, 10 x 7-3/4 in. Some plates cut but present, light to moderate foxing throughout, some browned borders, dampstains mostly not affecting plates, binding poor.
Books, catalogues, Southern furniture:Books, catalogues, Southern furniture: 15 books and exhibition catalogues relating to the furniture and decorative arts of Georgia, Arkansas, Virginia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, several city and regional works; detailed listing available.
Asa Strong, American Flora, 1848-1850:Asa Strong, American Flora, 1848-1850: Asa B. Strong, The American Flora, or History of Plants and Wildflowers: Containing a Systematic and General Description, Natural History, Chemical and Medicinal Properties of Over Six Thousand Plants , Green & Spencer, New York, four volumes, 1848-1848-1849-1850, original red cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and floral devices, complete with 188 hand-colored lithographic prints, with four additional lithographic frontispieces and four hand-colored lithographic titles, 10 x 7-3/4 in. Most plates with light to moderate foxing and toning, Volume I title loose but present, bindings fair, corners bumped, hinges weak with cracks, Volume II front end pages with stamped shield Biblioteca de Manuel Carvallo .
Group seed catalogues, ephemera:Group seed catalogues, ephemera: most 19th century, many Southern, about 90 periodicals including The Southern Cultivator, 51 issues, 1847-1881; pamphlets, advertisements, Proceedings of Georgia State Horticultural Society, (107 pieces); detailed listing available.
13 books, Southern history and13 books, Southern history and decorative arts: [Georgetown Rice Plantations], [The Mansions of Virginia], [Bluegrass Houses and Their Traditions], [Charleston Gardens], [Charleston Interiors], [Plantations of the Low Country], [Architecture of the Old South: South Carolina], [Architecture of the Old South: North Carolina], [Landmark Homes of Georgia], [Persons, Places and Happenings in Old Walhalla], two [Plantations of the Carolina Low Country], [The Early Architecture of Charleston]. Most with original dust jackets, some with minor chips and losses, most in good condition.
(BOTANY) JONES PAUL Flora Magnifica(BOTANY) JONES PAUL Flora Magnifica [and] Flora Superba. London: Tryon Gallery 1971 1976. 2 vols. Atlas folios original 3/4 vellum over red and blue cloth spines lettered in gilt slipcased. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Limited editions both signed by Jones on the limitation pages. Light soiling to slipcases and boards; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; otherwise fine.
* (NATURAL HISTORY) A group of* (NATURAL HISTORY) A group of four works. Plants of the Chicago Region. By Floyd Swink. Chicago: Morton Arboretum (1969). 4to publisher's linen. First edition. The Floral Kingdom. By Mrs. Cordelia Harris Turner. Chicago: Moses Warren 1877. 4to green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Fleurs de France. By Raymond Hesse. S.l.: La Tradition 1946. Folio contents loose as issued in decorative slipcase and chemise. With numerous color lithographs in-text. Geographie animale. By Jean Lurcat. S.l.: s.n. n.d. 4to contents loose as issued in matching slipcase and chemise. Illustrated with 18 color lithographs and an additional suite of reproductions. Facsimile of the original.
Barton, Flora , 1821: William P.C.Barton, Flora , 1821: William P.C. Barton, A Flora of North America , printed by M. Cary & Sons, Philadelphia, three volumes, 1821, 1822, 1823, half contemporary calf over marbled boards, 106 hand-colored engravings (two folding), 11 x 9 in. Interior very clean, scattered very light toning and foxing, several plates with minor stains, corners bumped, spine wear, hinge cracks, abrasions, table 49 with repaired tear.
FIVE BOOKS REGARDING FLORA & FAUNA,FIVE BOOKS REGARDING FLORA & FAUNA, INCL. AUDUBON Group of five books regarding flora and fauna comprising: John James Audubon, "The Birds Of North America: With An Introduction and Descriptive Text By William Vogt", The Macmillan Company, New York, 1937, with ink inscription, "To/Robert & Nell/We thought this might find/its way to the "Plantation" and be/enjoyed by you and those who/visit there./Elizabeth & Tom Glenn/Dec 25-1937", together with a Kloeppel Florida Hotels Christmas greeting with 1938 credit card; Ren and Helen Davis, "Landscapes For The People: George Alexander Grant First Chief Photographer Of The National Parks Service", The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia and London, England, 2015, ink signature by the authors; Robert C. Balfour, Jr., "This Land I have Loved", Rose Printing Company, Tallahassee, Florida, 1975, ink signature by the author; "Andorra Hand-Book Of Trees & Shrubs", Andorra Nurseries, Inc. Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, 1940; edited by Gilbert Grosvenor and Alexander Wetmore, "The Book Of Birds", Volumes I and II, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1937, with ink inscription, "To the Squire of Ichaway And His Lady", possibly from Archie Lee, creative director on the Coca-Cola account at the advertising agency D?Arcy Co. in St. Louis, Missouri, dated August 5, 1937, and with a bookplate for Robert Winship Woodruff; and Erle Kauffman, "Trees Of Washington: The Man - The City", The Outdoor Press, Washington, D.C., 1932, ink signature by author.
FLORIDA JOURNEY BOOK 1886"PetalsFLORIDA JOURNEY BOOK 1886"Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes", by Silvia Sunshine. Silvia took an extensive trip in the late 1870s from Savannah, Georgia through all parts of Florida, down to Key West and even around Cuba, noting things of interest in nature and mankind. Many detailed stories - great reading! One great color plate, several engravings. Second edition, 1886, 495 pages. Printed for the author by Southern Methodist Publishing House. Nashville, TN. There is a torn remnant of a page added in the front long ago by a library with rules for taking out books. No other library mentions in book. Still tightly bound, with slight yellowing of pages and almost no foxing (some on colored engraving). One page has very old tape repair. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering of title on spine plus a number "19" in ink (probably from library). No lettering on front cover. Spine shows, fading wear and likely insect damage, with slight surface insect damage to outside covers. Inside pages supple and in fine condition. Overall very good condition.
19th century map of the Southeast,19th century map of the Southeast, "Southern Section of the United States including Florida & C.", based on 1816 map by John Melish, showing from the eastern seaboard into Missouri Territory, from Atlas til Friherre Klinckowstromo Bref om de Forente Staterne, by A.L. Klinckowstrom, Sweden, 1824, copper engraving on laid paper with watermarks, 17 x 20-1/2 in. (page). Loose, trimmed including some plate marks, toning, soiling, stains, creases, minor tears and losses at margins, pencil inscriptions lower left, cellophane tape verso.
SEVEN SOUTHERN REGIONAL COFFEESEVEN SOUTHERN REGIONAL COFFEE TABLE BOOKScomprising: Transfer of Grace: Images of the Lowcountry by Teresa Bruce, photographs by Gary Geboy, Charleston, South Carolina: Joggling Board Press, 2007, signed on title page "Gary Geboy"; South Carolina's Plantations & Historic Homes by Paul M. Franklin and Nancy Mikula, St. Paul, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 2006; May We All Remember Well Volume 1: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina edited by Robert S. Brunk, Asheville, North Carolina: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc., 1997; South Carolina's Wetland Wilderness: The Ace Basin by Tom Blagden, Jr., Englewood, Colorado: Westcliffe Publishers, Inc., 1992; Plantations of the Carolina Low Country by Samuel Gaillard Stoney, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1989; Plantations of St. Bartholomew's Parish South Carolina by Nina Burke, photographs by Ron Anton Rocz, Kentucky, Turner Publishing Company, 2005; Lowcountry: The Natural Landscape by Jane Lareau and Richard Porcher, photographs by Tom Blagden, Jr., North Carolina: Legacy Publications, 1988, signed and inscribed by Tom Blagden, Jr.
Provenance: Private Collection
Condition:
all with light wear to extremities, Stoney example with bumped top left corner on spine
4 vols. Meehan, Thomas. The Native4 vols. Meehan, Thomas. The Native Flowers and Ferns of The United States. Boston: L. Prang, 1879; Philadelphia: Am. Nat. His. Pub.; Chas. Robson, 1880. Vols. I & II, Series II, Vols. I & II. 4to, orig. gilt-lettered & decorated brown cloth, a.e.g.; slightly scuffed, spine ends slightly frayed. With 192 chromolithographic plates. A few plates sprung. Internally clean.
BOOK: 1883 PETALS PLUCKED FROMBOOK: 1883 PETALS PLUCKED FROM SUNNY CLIMESPetals Plucked from Sunny Climes, by Sylvia Sunshine, Published by Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, 1883. Frontispiece shows the founding of St. Augustine, Florida. Includes fold-out map. Solid binding and very little wear to cover decorations in black and gilt. Bumped corners and minor soiling. Some fraying at spine ends.
Rare early map: Southeastern UnitedRare early map: Southeastern United States coast by Willem Blaeu Amsterdam circa 1641 to 1676 VIRGINIAE PARTIS AUSTRALIS ET FLORIDAE PARTIS ORIENTALIS INTERJACENTIUMQUS REGIONUM NOVA DESCRIPTIO. Matted framed and handcolored. plate size: H15 1/4'' W20'' overall: H25 3/4'' W30'' Provenance: South Carolina private collection. With center crease; appears to be in very good original condition; not examined out of frame. Back   Inquiry    Previous Item  Next Item © Charlton Hall Auctions. Images descriptions and condition reports used on this site are original copyright material and are not to be reproduced without permission. For further information telephone 803.779.5678   © 2012 CHARLTON HALL GALLERIES INC.
(BOTANY AMERICAN) MEEHAN THOMAS(BOTANY AMERICAN) MEEHAN THOMAS The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States. Boston: L. Prang 1879. 2 vols. 4to 3/4 brown morocco gilt-stamped vignette to upper cover both volumes. Complete with 96 chromolithograph plates. Light rubbing to boards; some minor toning to plates; otherwise interior is in very good condition.
TWELVE BOOKS MOSTLY ON SOUTHERNTWELVE BOOKS MOSTLY ON SOUTHERN PEOPLE, PLACES, AND PASTIMES Largest 4to (over 9 in. spine), to include: The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barret Browning (1897);Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian (1943); Parker: America's Finest Shotgun (1961); Pennsy Power (1962); Architecture of the Old South: South Carolina (1984); L.L. Bean (1987), a company history; Slavery Time When I was Chillun Down on Marster's Plantation (1990); Architecture of the Old South: Maryland (1991); The Sporting Life (1992); Through the Heart of the South: The Seaboard Airline Railroad Story (1995); Confederate Faces in Color (2013);
4 vols. Meehan, Thomas. The Native4 vols. Meehan, Thomas. The Native Flowers and Ferns of The United States. Boston: L. Prang, 1878-1879; Philadelphia: Amer. Nat. History Pub., 1880. Series I-II. 4to, orig. full morocco, gilt, gilt-lettered spines, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g.; occasionally scuffed, very occasionally rubbed. With 192 chromolithographic plates. Offsetting, otherwise internally bright & clean. Mixed issue, Series I, Boston, 1878-79, black morocco with gilt-lettered & pictorial covers; Series II: Philadelphia, 1880, brown morocco, plain covers. Mixed, but bright & attractive.
Fine Southern DFine Southern D
North Carolina Botany Volume, 1867North Carolina Botany Volume, 1867 Geological and Natural History Survey of North Carolina, Part III. Botany: Containing a Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants of the State, by Rev. M.A. Curtis, D.D., F.A.A.A.S., &c., &c. published by the "N.C. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind", Raleigh, 1867, soft cover, 155 pp., 9-1/2 x 6 in.,
BRENDA STANLEY. FLORA, PRINT ColoredBRENDA STANLEY. FLORA, PRINT Colored print, framed.
17th Century Map of the Southeast17th Century Map of the Southeast "Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae partis orientalis...," by Willem Blaeu, after Mercator and Hondius, from Blaeu's Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas, Amsterdam, 1640, showing the coastline and interior from Chesapeake Bay to Northern Florida with coats-of-arms in interior representing English and French regional claims, elaborate hand-colored title cartouche with six Native Americans, scale vignette with two cherubs, Latin text verso, hand colored, on laid paper, 15-1/4 x 19-1/2 in.; in modern painted wood frame,
1 vol. Thornton, (Robert John).1 vol. Thornton, (Robert John). The Temple of Flora. London: Collins, 1951. Edited by Geoffrey Grigson & Handasyde Buchanan. Folio, orig. 1/2 calf & green bds., printed pink paper cover label, orange morocco spine labels; minor edge wear, d/j with cover label (some wear to joints & edges of d/j, repairs & discoloration to verso). With 36 plates (12 colored), tissue guards. Some discoloration to endpapers, minor spotting to fore-edges. Internally clean. Includes commentary & bibliographic notes.
Southern bird and tulip embroidery,Southern bird and tulip embroidery, two pairs of birds on a tulip, pineapple motifs, silk on linen, unfinished, 19th century, 20-1/2 x 18-1/2 in. (sight); wood veneer frame. Fading, browning to linen ground, some loose threads, mounted to cardboard. Label verso "Found in one of the oldest homes in Jonesboro Tenn between 1800-1830"; Private Collection, Kentucky
Very Fine Southern DVery Fine Southern D
Southern law, four works: imprintsSouthern law, four works: imprints from Milledgeville, Athens, Charleston, 1814-1837; detailed listing available.
Elliott, Sketch of Botany : StephenElliott, Sketch of Botany : Stephen Elliott, A Sketch of Bontany of South-Carolina and Georgia , two volumes, J.R. Schenck, Charleston, South Carolina, 1821, Vol. I, 606 pp. with plates 1-4, Vol. II 743 pp. with plates 7-12, photocopies of plates 5-6 tipped in, rebound black cloth, 9 x 5-1/2 in. Light to moderate foxing, browning throughout, Vol. II title page with 1 x 3-1/2 in. clipped corner.
FLORA DANICA COVERED SUGAR BOWLFLORA DANICA COVERED SUGAR BOWL #20/3582Flora Danica Covered Sugar Bowl #20/3582 Potentilla Vahliana Lehm Royal Copenhagen. Measures 6"L x 5.5"H x 5"W.
6 vols. Pratt, Anne. The Flowering6 vols. Pratt, Anne. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain. London: F. Warne, n.d. [ca. 1880]. 8vo, modern green buckram; moderately dusty. With 32 color litho plates. Very occasional light foxing.
Southern art pottery urns GeorgiaSouthern art pottery urns Georgia circa 1920 alkaline glaze interior painted exterior sculpted floral motif on bulbous flared body. H10 7/8'' D8 1/2'' (2pcs) Provenance: South Carolina private collection. Back   Inquiry    Previous Item  Next Item © Charlton Hall Auctions. Images descriptions and condition reports used on this site are original copyright material and are not to be reproduced without permission. For further information telephone 803.779.5678   © 2012 CHARLTON HALL GALLERIES INC.
Books, catalogues, Southern furnitureBooks, catalogues, Southern furniture and decorative arts: works relating to Charleston, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, (24 pieces); detailed listing available.
A Victorian Fern Book containingA Victorian Fern Book containing examples from the South Sea Islands, inscribed to Elizabeth Anne Foljambe from Cecil G Foljambe, October 17th 1865, many of the specimens named and with place of origin, a smaller book of pressed ferns and mosses marked St Helena
Map of the Southeast After JohnMap of the Southeast After John White 17th century, "Viriginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nove Descriptio," by Jodocus Hondius, after maps by John White and Jacques Le Moyne, published in Mercator's Atlas Novus, Sive Descriptio Geographic..., Amsterdam, circa 1630, showing the southeastern United States to northern Florida, elaborate title cartouche depicting Native American villages, other representations of Native Americans, wildlife, sea monsters and sailing ships, Latin text verso, strong dark impression, on laid paper, 13-1/2 x 19-1/4 in. (plate),