James E. Smith Paintings & Artwork for Sale | James E. Smith Art Value Price Guide

Aug. 19, 2015
Hand-Colored Aquatint, James Edward Smith
Est: $150 - $250
Titled "Hafod House." Together with a aquatint, titled "Ben Venus," by George Genell Robson. RDA#70310 and 71357. Bin#25. Sight sizes: 11-1/2"h x 18"w and 15-3/4"h x 21-1/2"w
Nye & Company
Sep. 14, 2006
1 vol. Abbot, John; Smith, James Edward.The Natural History of the Rare Lepidopterous Insects [of Georgia]... London, 1797. Vol. 2 (...
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
1 vol. Abbot, John; Smith, James Edward.The Natural History of the Rare Lepidopterous Insects [of Georgia]... London, 1797. Vol. 2 (of 2) only. Folio, mid 19th-century roan & cloth; scuffed, occasionally rubbed. With 54 hand-colored plates. With additional French title, text in English & French. Cello-tape repair on English title, moderate browning to title pages, offsetting & moderate browning to text; moderate (occasionally light) browning to plates, occasional small tears to margins of plates. "Georgia" on title page largely effaced. Dunthorne 287; Sabin 25 Estimate $3,000-5,000
Freeman's
Jun. 15, 2006
(BOTANICAL.) Sowerby, James; and Smith, James Edward. English Botany.
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
(BOTANICAL.) Sowerby, James; and Smith, James Edward. English Botany. 2592 hand-colored plates. 36 volumes. 8vo, contemporary uniform 1/2 morocco, backstrips darkened, several covers loose, a few spine ends frayed; scattered minor offsetting from text to plates, but generally bright and clean. London, 1790-1814
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 13, 2006
[SMITH, James Edward (1759-1828). Icones pictae plantarum rariorum, descriptionibus et
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
[SMITH, James Edward (1759-1828). Icones pictae plantarum rariorum, descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae, or Coloured Figures of Rare Plants. London: 1790-93]. 2° (470 x 285mm). Dedication leaves to the Marchioness of Rockingham in Latin and English, 18 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Sowerby, one double-page (lacks title, a few isolated spots, a few plates cropped into plate mark but not affecting image or letters). Contemporary half reversed calf (rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: J. E. Smith (early signature on first dedication leaf, possibly that of the author) -- J. Forster (two early signatures on front free endpaper and first dedication leaf) -- Forster library stamp on first dedication leaf. Nissen BBI 1859; Pritzel 8736; Sitwell Great Flower Books p.140. Together with Pierre Corneille van Geel's Sertum Botanicum (Brussels, 1827, one livraison only containing just 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates). (2)
Christie's
Apr. 20, 2005
After James Edward Smith
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
A Tour to Hafod: Hafod House; River above the first bridge; Cascade above the Mossy Seat; Meadow below the Flower Garden; Pyran Cascade entire; Upper part of the Pyran Cascade; Cavern Cascade; Tyloge Bridge; Great fall of the Fynach; Bed of Rhydol; Fall of the Rhydol; View in Cwm Rydol; View in Cwm Rydol; Lower part of the great fall of the Fynnach; and The Parson's Bridge (Abbey Scenery 533 pls. 1-15) handcoloured aquatints, published by J. White, London, 1809 S. 15 x 21in. (38.1 x 53.3cm.) (15)
Christie's
Feb. 01, 2005
SOWERBY James & SMITH James Edward
Est: -
English botany, or coloured figures of British plants ... 3rd edition, 11 of 13 volumes, 1840 hand coloured plates (including some double page), contemporary half calf, cloth boards, occasional light spotting, short tear to the upper margin of text p. 51 in vol. 1 (no loss), short tears to plates 934 & 964 in vol. 6 (no loss), 8vo., London: Hardwicke, 1863-1872 [11] Note: Nissen 2227
Lyon & Turnbull
Nov. 18, 2004
[SMITH, JAMES EDWARD.
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
Pictae plantarum rariorum]. London, 1790-[93] Condition Note: first edition, large paper copy, 3 parts (all issued) in 1 volume, folio (590 x 445mm.), 18 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by James Sowerby, contemporary boards, vellum corners, uncut, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, without title (as issued), lacking Latin text, occasional spotting and soiling (plates generally clean), a couple slightly creased, binding lacking backstrip
Sotheby's
Jul. 15, 2004
Abbot (John) and James Edward Smith The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, 2 volumes, titles and text in English and
Est: £9,000 - £12,000
Abbot (John) and James Edward Smith The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, 2 volumes, titles and text in English and French, 104 hand-coloured engraved plates by John Harris after drawings by Abbot, watermarked 1794-1822, slight browning and offsetting, plates 10 and 69 trimmed, contemporary dark green straight-grained morocco, panelled in gilt and blind, rubbed, gilt edges, folio (403 by 300mm.), London, T. Bensley, for J. Edwards, [etc.], 1797
Bonhams
Jul. 15, 2004
Smith (James Edward) Exotic Botany, consisting of coloured figures, and scientific descriptions, of such new, beautiful, or rare plants as are
Est: £2,000 - £2,500
Smith (James Edward) Exotic Botany, consisting of coloured figures, and scientific descriptions, of such new, beautiful, or rare plants as are worthy of cultivation in the gardens of Britain, 2 volumes in one, 120 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after James Sowerby, slight spotting and offsetting affecting text and plates, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked preserving orignal spine, 4to (286 by 219mm.), London, R. Taylor, 1804-1805 [-1808]
Bonhams
May. 13, 2004
SMITH, JAMES EDWARD.
Est: £2,500 - £3,000
"Letters on Botany delivered to the theatre, Guy's Hospital. Taken by James Peppard Turner. MDCCXCVI", original illustrated manuscript, [London], 1803
Sotheby's
Apr. 07, 2004
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759-1828). A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, by James Edward
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759-1828). A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, by James Edward Smith... President of the Linnean Society. The figures by James Sowerby. London: printed by J. Davis, published by J. Sowerby, to be had at no.42, Paternoster Row, and of the town and country booksellers, 1793[-1795]. Volume I (all published) in four original parts, 4° (310 x 235mm). Uncut, half-title. 16 hand-coloured engraved plates by James Sowerby, extra-illustrated with a loosely inserted 3pp. letter from Smith to Thomas Pennant, dated 17 May 1795. Original purple (parts I-II) or blue/grey (parts III-IV) paper wrappers, part I with small paper letterpress title label on upper cover, parts III and IV with letterpress title printed on upper wrappers (stitching of part I lacking). Modern purple cloth portfolio, titled in gilt on upper cover. A FINE LARGE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS RARE WORK: THE FIRST TO CONTAIN COLOURED PLATES OF AUSTRALIAN FLORA, with an autograph letter from the author to Thomas Pennant, the foremost British zoologist of his day. As is clear from the title on the wrapper to the first part, this work was originally planned with George Shaw's Zoology of New Holland (see lot 609), but the works soon split into two separate publications. The first part includes a dedication to Thomas Wilson, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, who made the work possible by making his collections of original botanical drawings and dried specimens available to Smith and Sowerby. As Smith notes in the preface, Sowerby's plates were engraved from 'coloured drawings, made on the spot, and communicated to Mr. [Thomas] Wilson by John White Esq. Surgeon General to the Colony, along with a most copious and finely-preserved collection of dried specimens, with which the drawings have in every case been carefully compared'. How much of Sowerby's work was from specimens and how much from drawings sent back by Wilson is not known, but "some drawings by Thomas Watling at the Natural History Museum [in London] can be identified as probably assisting Sowerby in his interpretation of the plants' colour and form" (Helen Hewson Australia. 300 years of botanical illustration, 1999, p. 36). The Scottish-born Watling (1762-c.1814) trained as a professional artist but was sentenced to 14 years for forgery and was in Australia from October 1792 until receiving a pardon in 1797 when he left the colony. The autograph letter starts with Smith in his capacity as Honorary Member of the Linnean Society, inviting Pennant to an anniversary dinner. Smith continues with comments on his poor health, Lord Macartney's natural history acquisitions in China and Java, and ending with a plea for copies of Pennant's work 'I had liked to have forgotten another part of my business as a member of the Linn. Soc. - which is, to signify to you & our other grandees that We have a Library all raised by our own contributions hitherto - Ld. Gainsborough gave us Flora Danica col'd. - I need not say whose works as a British Zoologist are most wanted.' BM(NH) IV, p.1946; Ferguson I, 170; Henrey III, 1356; Nissen BBI 1861; Stafleu & Cowan V, 12.229. (4)
Christie's
Nov. 18, 2003
SMITH (JAMES EDWARD)
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Exotic Botany: consisting of Coloured Figures and Scientific Descriptions of New, Beautiful, or Rare Plants as are Worthy of Cultivation in the Gardens of Britain... the Figures by James Sowerby, 2 vol. in one, 120 hand-coloured engraved plates by Sowerby, occasional light spotting and soiling, plate 116 cropped, modern green straight-grain morocco, triple gilt ruled borders on sides, gilt panelled spines with floral motifs, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., preserved in felt-lined solander case [Nissen BBI 1858; Great Flower Books, p.140], 4to, R. Taylor, 1804-05[-08]
Bonhams