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Lot 39
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“British Birds and Insects”

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • An album of watercolour drawings so titled on spine. English, late eighteenth or early nineteenth century (watermarks 1798-1807)
  • paper
4to (286 x 232mm.), 3pp. contemporary manuscript index, 34 watercolour drawings of birds with butterflies and moths, 10 solely of butterflies and moths, contemporary straight-grained green half morocco gilt, binding rubbed
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