Beschreibung:

Botany. An album containing approximately 285 watercolour drawings, circa 1850, 285 watercolours on 120 sheets, with manuscript Latin titles and source of each specimen, each drawing tipped onto an album sheet, some sheets with multiple images, mounted back-to-back, mid 20th century ownership signature to the front endpaper, hinges and joints weak, some ink staining to the foredge, contemporary half morocco gilt, spine partially detached, worn and rubbed, folio (Quantity: 1) The watercolours each have a date and place of discovery, including Bantry Bay, Lyme Regis, Canterbury, Jersey, Deal, Ragland Castle, Hamstead Heath and Dinton (Wiltshire).