Botany.- Album of botanical ink and watercolours accompanying handwritten descriptions, Europe, [?1870s].

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Botany.- Album of botanical ink and watercolours, 22 botanical watercolours, calligraphic text in French in double ruled border, sheet bearing ink notes on flowers loosely inserted, front endpaper with pencil sketch, some surface soiling and a few stains, else a very clean and bright copy, green morocco-backed boards, lower joint starting to crack, extremities rubbed and bumped, oblong folio, Europe, [?1870s]. *** A remarkably well-preserved album, likely compiled by a student, featuring flowers such as colchique, belle a nuit, and capucine.

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