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BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED
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PHYCOLOGY. VICTORIAN ALBUM OF PRESSED SEAWEED SPECIMENS FROM TORQUAY 1858
Natural history & phycology interest. A mid 19th century Victorian 1850s album containing approx. eighty specimens of pressed seaweed & algae, all identified and many from Torquay, some from Exmouth, a handful dated 1858. All mounted on paper & pasted into the album, a handful loosely inserted into the back, manuscript botanical Linnean names. Handwritten titles in various hands, some believed by Amelia Warren Griffiths (1768-1858), one of the most important British collectors of seaweeds and marine plant speciments; Griffiths was active in Torquay & worked with Mary Wyatt and Ellen Hutchins, as well as prominent male botanists of the time such as William Henry Harvey. Griffithsia was named in her honour by Carl Adolph Agardh. Three albums of her collection are in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, a large number of her specimens in the British Museum, as well as Kew Garden Herbarium. Bound in half morocco, gilt Sea Weed lettering to front board, extremities a little rubbed & bumped, orig. string ties to each edge with loss to the top & bottom tie, some offsetting to paper mounts commensurate with age.
Comprising Cystoseira barbata, Polyides rotundas, Himanthalia lorea, Puntaria plantaginea, Laminaria saccharina, Dictyota dichotoma, Padina pavonia, Delesseria sanguinea, Delepia sanguinea, Delesseria sinuosa, Delesseria Hypoglossum, Delesseria alata, Rhodymenia laciniata, Rhodomenia ciliata, Rhodomenia palmata, Rhodomenia jubata, Plocamium coccineum, Laurencia pinnatifida, Chylocladia ovalis, Chylocladia articulata, Chylocladia kaliformis, Gigartina purpurescens, Iridea edulis, Porphyra laciniata, Ellua lactuca, Sphacelaria scoparia, Sphacelaria plumosa, Ceramum ciliatum (question mark in contemp. manuscript alongside), Polyphonia, Polyphona urcolata, Ceramium ciliatum (also with question mark), Daysa coccinea, Ceranium rubeum, Ceranium diaphanum, Griffithsia multifida, Griffithsia equisetifolia, Griffithsia setacea & Dumontia filiformis.
An exceptional collection of pressed seaweed and algae specimens. Folio.
Sold for £570
Auction: BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER - BATH - TIMEDCLOSED, ending 13th Nov, 2024
Our final specialist Books & Works on Paper sale of the year includes a remarkable fourth edition of Paradise Lost from the library of Master of Revels Charles Killigrew, a beautiful mid 19th century collection of pressed seaweed, an exceptionally scarce first edition of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, and beyond that an impressive, smart and diverse collection of modern first editions, antiquarian titles, ephemera, and a specialist map section.
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