Botany - British Mosses, two-volume set of 19th century Vict...

Hammer

£280

Botany - British Mosses, two-volume set of 19th century Victorian herbariums, [n.d, c. 1860], each album comprising 25pp and 15pp numbered pages respectively, both of which combined are illustrated with approximately 560 numbered natural history specimens (a trifling handful of small losses), annotated with their Linnaean taxonomy and numbered in ink manuscript, mounted within card leaves, contemporary black morocco gilt (rubbed), the card leaves with red-stained edges, moiré endpapers, 4to, [2]