"Ligna patriae collecta et depicta", album of 95 botanical watercolours, Saxony, 19th century

Lot 105
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£ 5 000
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Lot 105 | "Ligna patriae collecta et depicta", album of 95 botanical watercolours, Saxony, 19th century
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 7 000
Folio album (325 x 275mm.), containing 102 watercolours (mostly c.302 x 200mm. each), mounted on blue paper, most with manuscript numbering and binomial nomenclature and additionally captioned in Latin at outer margins of paper mounts, including 7 (later?) watercolours signed "Theodora Haynell, Callnberg" and dated 1880-1881, nineteenth-century green morocco gilt album, embroidered decorations to covers, some light spotting, extremities rubbed
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