Herbariums from Loe Books

1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 40mm x 85mm. No date but the nature of the postcard format suggests Victorian around 1890. 50 sea-weed specimens numbered 5 to 54, each individually carefully pressed and mounted, untitled, but numbered onto uniform display cards (40mm x 85mm). The specimens are generally in a good state of preservation with just… Read more about this item

Bath, London: Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co., 1846. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (31x 42cm). pp xx 130. 62 specimens of dried British grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Bound in publisher's red leather, a little irregular edge wear, elaborate gilt detail to spine and boards, gilt vignette to the… Read more about this item

Bath, London: Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co., 1846. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (31x 42cm). pp xx 130. 62 specimens of dried British grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Bound in publisher's blue moire silk, elaborate gilt detail once to spine, now showing much of the backstrip, silk mainly missing, gilt… Read more about this item

Norfolk: Not Appropriate, 1851. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. A 19th century album containing pressed flowers circa 1834 -1851 stated as thought to have been compiled by Henry Fanthorpe (1809-1851) Great Grandfather to Theodore Fanthorpe, containing 142 pressed wild flower species all collected in NORFOLK, on 80 plus leaves, each entry captioned and annotated. The first entry of… Read more about this item