Lot 302
Seaweed
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Cocks, J. The sea-weed collector's guide... London: John van Voorst, 1853. 8vo., coloured frontispiece, original green cloth, slight fading to spine, neat inscription by previous owner on front free-endpaper; [Landsborough, David] Treasures of the deep; or, specimens of Scottish sea-weeds... Glasgow: David Bryce, 1847. 4to., printed title page and 46 specimens of seaweed, neatly mounted with accompanying printed labels giving Latin name and site of collection (mostly off the coast of Ayrshire, the Island of Arran and Saltcoats), tissue guards, black cloth gilt, upper hinge slightly cracked, small amount of damp-staining to endpapers, page margins a little faded; Album containing 39 neatly mounted specimens of seaweed with manuscript labels of types and collection sites, 4to., contemporary red cloth gilt, 'bound at the Operative Jewish Converts' Institution, Palatine Place, Bethnal Green, London' (3)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire