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OCKHAM PARK [SURREY] - ORIGINAL GRASS SPECIMENS
"OCKHAM GRASSES - NO. 1" (AS LETTERED ON COVER0
£625
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Large folio (48.5 x 35cm.) Manuscript leaf dedicated to the Rt Hon. the Earl of Lovelace, manuscript index leaf listing 34 pages of specimens of grasses, each captioned and with facing ms. description "drawn from Sinclair’s ‘Hortus Graminus Woburnensis’, contemporary half calf, red morocco label on upper cover, head and tail of spine worn
Footnote
Provenance: Ockham Park, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Lovelace, was largely rebuilt by Lord Chancellor King, who died in 1734, and more completely altered by the late Lord King, ancestor to the Earl of Lovelace, who died in 1833. The house was gutted by fire in 1948.