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[SPECIMEN ALBUM - ALPINE PLANTS]. PAYOT, Arthur. Flora Alpina du Mont-Blanc (Souvenir du Mont-Blanc Plantes qui s’y trouvent…), circa 1874.
Approximately 91 samples of Alpine plants on 31 loose plates with manuscript captions. Housed in the original book-style wooden box (red cloth spine over textured paper boards, stamped in gilt). (Some wear, soiling, bowing, sunning to box, some wrinkling to loose plates, a few samples apparently missing). With engraved plate on inner front lid: “Medaille D’Argent et Mention Honorable, a l’Exposition National de Turin en 1858… Series des Roches de la Chaine du Mont-Blanc…”.