Lot 295
  • 295

# - Maund, Sarah, and others.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of nine original watercolour drawings for Maund's Botanist. English, c.1836
Each approximately 246 x 197mm., the drawings loosely inserted or bound into a contemporary morocco album, spine lettered in gilt "Original Drawings of the Botanist. Maund and Henslow. Vol.II"

Provenance

Sarah Maund, presentation inscription in album

Literature

Nissen BBI 2224 (for the printed work)

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

fine original drawings for this important periodical. The album is obviously from a larger series of volumes. Furthermore, a manuscript index lists 50 drawings, of which these nine remain. On the front paste-down there is a presentation inscription from Sarah Maund dated 1899.