LATE C19TH-C20TH HERBARIUM/ COLLECTION OF PRESSED WILD FLOWERS IN OLD CASH BOOK

The first botanical specimen is on the first page.  It is unnamed but looks like a seaweed. The next few pages were used as a ledger to record book sales, binding costs and customer names. There seems to be a connection with Manchester.

Further on it seems to have been used as a commonplace book with handwritten entries relating to photography, cuttings relating to gardening and then the botanical specimens, mostly wild flowers and nearly all of which are named.  Approximately 20 pages of pressed flowers, sometimes more than one to a page, some of these are loose. All in all over 100 used pages. There is also a record around 1901 of the costs of photographic chemicals and a record of customers names and the cost of their orders for cdvs. A fascinating mixture of material.

13.5  BY 5 BY 1.3 INCHES APPROX. This is a heavy book weighing over 1kg unpacked.

Please look at images and condition description in listing and e-mail if more information required.  Some of specimens are loose and some are missing. As the album has been used for so many purposes sometimes newspaper cuttings are stuck over photography notes or other older material.  Most of the spine has gone but binding still holds well.

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