This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/20/2022
[NATURAL HISTORY]. An early 19th century album of original sea moss specimens. 31 samples on 24 leaves inserted (each 197 x 152 mm), each specimen with manuscript captions, most heightened with watercolor wash; unbound in a gilt–decorated red morocco folding booklet (a few spots of wear to spine). “Oh, call us not weeds, but flowers of the sea, For lovely and bright and gay–tinted are we; Our blush is as deep as the rose of thy bowers: Then call us not weed, we are ocean’s gay flowers” (a contemporary printed poem, clipped and affixed to front pastedown).