G. Horrer | "Ligna patriae collecta et depicta", album of 95 botanical watercolours, Saxony, 19th century

Album of 102 botanical watercolours

"Ligna patriae collecta et depicta a Georgio Horrer", nineteenth century

Folio album (325 x 275mm.), containing 102 watercolours (mostly c.302 x 200mm. each), mounted on blue paper, most with manuscript numbering and binomial nomenclature and additionally captioned in Latin at outer margins of paper mounts, including 7 (later?) watercolours signed "Theodora Haynell, Callnberg" and dated 1880-1881, nineteenth-century green morocco gilt album, embroidered decorations to covers, some light spotting, extremities rubbed