Anonymous Bavarian botanist

Herbarium. "Souvenir".

Germany, Bavaria, ca. 1848. One cardboard "Title" with printed, and finely hand-coloured pictorial vignette, with a rectangular gilt paper border (verso pink), and 39 cards with dried (flowering) plants mounted (16.0 x 10.5 cm). Loose in a contemporary cardboard box (17.4 x 12.0 x 3.6 cm) resembling a book with the "spine" and "boards" covered in blue, white and silver patterned paper, and the "edges" full gilt. Front (top) board with diamond shaped vignette titled souvenir. Interior covered with iridescent pink paper. Preserved in a contemporary iridescent green wrapper and green paper covered slipcase with gilt edges (17.7 x 12.3 x 4.0 cm).

€680.00

A very rare, large format, dried fern album with wooden panels

Cranwell, T.

New Zealand ferns. Prepared and mounted by T. Cranwell.

Auckland (Parnell), T. Cranwell, no date [before 1877]. Small folio (27.8 x 22.3 cm). 30 sheets with mounted ferns, each with a small, mounted label with the Latin name. Original green leather spine and carved rimu wood-panels. Marbled endpapers. Contained in recent clamshell box (30.6 x 24.7 x 4.9 cm) of black cloth with black morocco label with gilt ornamental bands and title on the 'spine'.

€1,750.00

A rare, early herbarium with well-preserved alpine plants