Victorian album of aquatic plant specimens.

Bookseller Notes

An excellent example of a nineteenth-century seaweed album. The fine and colourful specimens are annotated neatly with their Latin names. The reds and pinks are particularly well preserved, and include examples of delesseria sanguinea, bonnemaisonia asparagoides, and a shockingly pink laciniata, amongst others. While the stationer's label suggests that this album was a a Scottish product - and waters off Scotland are well known for their richness in aquatic plants - the only specimen to give a location rather than a name is labelled: 'from Cape of Good Hope', suggesting that the anonymous collector cast a wide net.