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Botany.- Fern specimens.- Craig (Eric) New Zealand Ferns, c.100 specimens on 30 ff., each with letterpress or manuscript label, ink stamp "New Zealand Ferns mounted by Eric Craig, Princes St., Auckland" to first and final leaf, a few specimens becoming loose and one or two lacking, spotting, original cloth, lacking spine and lower board, upper board detached, rubbed and worn, folio, Auckland, [c.1880]. ⁂ A professionally-produced fern album from the emporium of one of New Zealand's best known fern collectors and retailers. Eric Craig was a dealer in tribal artefacts, curios and natural history specimens.