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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BOTANICAL--SPECIMENS.) Fine 19th-century album of pressed flowers and botanical specimens, on 37 small 4to leaves, with each leaf bearing multiple specimens, the specimens neatly stitched to the page with thread, many identified in brown ink next to the specimen, and with the site where collected in ink at the bottom of the page (principally alpine Switzerland); some specimen pieces broken off and lost, but still in quite good condition; inked notes on the bottom of several leaves indicating that the specimens were collected in 1869. Album is small 4to format in gilt morocco. Switzerland and Europe, circa 1869
