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[BERKELEY, Robert Valentine (1853-1940), artist, and Miles Joseph BERKELEY (1803-1889), editor and compiler]

Lot 146
11.12.2024 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 7 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 146 | [BERKELEY, Robert Valentine (1853-1940), artist, and Miles Joseph BERKELEY (1803-1889), editor and compiler]
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
[BERKELEY, Robert Valentine (1853-1940), artist, and Miles Joseph BERKELEY (1803-1889), editor and compiler]
Lancashire fungi [thus titled on spine]. [Sibbertoft: unpublished manuscript, 1872-1885]
Magnificent collection of watercolours of British mushrooms and fungi collected in Lancashire. A postcard, mounted on the first leaf, signed M.J. Berkeley, with postmark of Market Harborough, 24 September 1883, is addressed to a relative, R. Berkeley of Spetchley Park, Worcester. It states: ‘Dear Sir, the drawings arrived in perfect order and are excellent. There are very few that I shall not be able to name. Those which are correctly named I mark with a note of admiration!’.

Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1889), vicar of Sibbertoft, described over six thousand species of fungi and is considered the father of modern British mycology. He produced an herbarium of nearly ten thousand species of fungi, now preserved in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Robert Valentine Berkeley also had a keen interest in natural history. The house at Spetchley Park contained a 'museum room', filled with natural history specimens. Localities noted include Hodder, presumably the river), and Leagram. The specimens are numbered that seems to refer to Berkeley’s own catalogue.

Folio (330 x 255mm). 61 leaves, each with one or more – up to five – original watercolours – several heightened with gum arabic – mounted on rectos, and several additional ones on versos (occasional very faint insignificant spotting). Contemporary calf, spine with five gilt-bordered raised bands, red morocco gilt lettering piece, marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles and edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Jack Raleigh Henchman Nash-Wortham (1916-1971; bookplate) – Jacques and Hélène Bon (bibliophiles; small mycological-culinary bookplate).
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