Bonhams : BRITISH MOSSES WOOD (J.B.) Bryologia Britannica. Practically Illustrated [title on spine]

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BRITISH MOSSES

WOOD (J.B.) Bryologia Britannica. Practically Illustrated [title on spine]

Sold for £ 399 (US$ 491) inc. premium

The Library of the late Eric Quayle (Part Two)

4 Apr 2006, 12:00 BST

Oxford

BRITISH MOSSES

WOOD (J.B.) Bryologia Britannica. Practically Illustrated [title on spine], manuscript in ink, 99 pages, each with actual samples mounted on recto only, contemporary green calf gilt, rubbed, morocco spine label frayed, folio (315 x 220mm.), [c.1860-1870]

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A fine album of actual mounted samples of mosses. The compiler, presumably inspired by William Wilson's printed Bryologia Britannica, gives details of the date and place where each sample was found; "willow tress, nr. Selby, Isle of Man, July 1857, "In an old gravel pit, Ashton-under-Lyme, June 1865", "marshy places in the 'Paps of Leny' nr. Callender, 15 June, 1861".

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