Search Results: Herbariums from Loe Books

1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 40mm x 85mm. No date but the nature of the postcard format suggests Victorian around 1890. 50 sea-weed specimens numbered 5 to 54, each individually carefully pressed and mounted, untitled, but numbered onto uniform display cards (40mm x 85mm). The specimens are generally in a good state of preservation with just a few with light loss. The paper mounts have a single wave, bend to them and lightly toned with very few marks. A very good collection..

Bath, London: Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co., 1846. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (31x 42cm). pp xx 130. 62 specimens of dried British grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Bound in publisher's red leather, a little irregular edge wear, elaborate gilt detail to spine and boards, gilt vignette to the front panel, bound by Astle and Sons. The contents is complete with specimens in good order, no foxing, endpapers clean. Hanham's states in his preface"Dried specimens of plants, when preserved with care as to their natural appearance and character, must always be more interesting and valuable to a Botanist, or a lover of Nature, than engravings; being the real or original object, which drawings are intended only to portray... there is much... that the pencil can never show"..

Bath, London: Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co., 1846. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (31x 42cm). pp xx 130. 62 specimens of dried British grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Bound in publisher's blue moire silk, elaborate gilt detail once to spine, now showing much of the backstrip, silk mainly missing, gilt vignette to the front panel remains intact, bound by Astle and Sons. The contents is complete with specimens in good order (only the first plate has a missing part of the specimen) minimal marks and spots to just a few plates only.{please see images]. Very little internal marking, endpapers clean, first and last blanks with some foxing, all other pages bright. Half title bears a name and date of 1847. This rare item is valued at a sensible price given the condition of the binding, but internally very good..

Norfolk: Not Appropriate, 1851. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. A 19th century album containing pressed flowers circa 1834 -1851 stated as thought to have been compiled by Henry Fanthorpe (1809-1851) Great Grandfather to Theodore Fanthorpe, containing 142 pressed wild flower species all collected in NORFOLK, on 80 plus leaves, each entry captioned and annotated. The first entry of 23rd June 1834 Mare's Tail gathered on meadow at Thorpe near Norwich, final entry was September 1837 - Water Mouse-ear Chickweed, Stowe, Norfolk plus 4 wrapped plant samples gathered from Syracuse and Palermo in Sicily during July and August 1843 plus 1 sample dated 1st February 1851 from - Detenhaugan? Contemporary green morocco spine with card boards, discreet stamp of Theo Fanthorpe Collection to top board and internally throughout. The binding is worn with chipping and cracking to the head/tail of the spine and some general wear, but remains firm. Specimens are well preserved and mounted, the… Read More