ADAM'S - THE HISTORY SALE - APRIL 26TH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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The History Sale
A large folio album, hardbound, late 19th/early 20th century, formerly a ledger, containing about 120 pages of carefully mounted dried flowers, grasses and
other botanical and arboreal specimens, all titled in manuscript, mostly with their Latin names on slips, some also with English names, some with details of where
collected, including various locations in north and south Co. Dublin in 1901.
The specimens are mounted on large blank sheets glued between the stubs of the ledger pages which previously occupied the binding.The pages are numbered,
apparently in two series, suggesting they have been extracted from two separate compilations. The captions are numbered, and a few are also dated. They are in
two distinct hands, with a few notes in a third.
The specimens include such as chrysanthemum parthenium, wild camomile, achillea millefolium,Artemisia vulgaris, petasites vulgaris, senecio (groundsel) vulgar-
is, senecio sylvaticus, senecio aquaticus (two samples), senecio jacobea (ragwort), slender thistle, spear thistle, marsh thistle, creeping thistle, yellow goat’s-beard,
harebell campanula, common primrose, cowslip primrose, bog pimpernel, common butterwort, common ash, field forget-me-not, common henbane, nightshade,
digitalis purpurea (foxglove), common veronica, brooklime veronica, wild sage, water mint, hemp nettle, wild thyme, woodsage, verbena, common thrift, sea
plantain, euphorbia peplus, small nettle, common stingnettle, green-winged orchid, spotted orchid, yellow iris, etc. etc.
The locations include Lusk, Naul, Balbriggan, Dundalk, Scalp, Swords, Little Scalp, Howth,Three Rock, Clonskea, Ballygarth, Bray, etc. Dates, where given, are
mostly in 1901, with a few earlier in 1882.
Most of the captions, on gummed slips, are in a neat scholarly hand, possibly female; a few of these captions are accompanied by further details in a thinner slanting
hand (possibly male), sometimes dated 1882. A smaller group is in a sprawling hand, probably female, and often dated 1901.
It is tempting to conclude that this was a family enterprise: wife, husband, daughter. The neat scholarly hand is very individual, and might be recognised by some-
one with a knowledge of the field.
Provenance: Collection of the historian P.S.O’Hegarty.
€ 400 - 500
mounted on yellow card, depicting various picturesque views of countiesWicklow, Kilkenny and Killarney, with labels and descriptions verso. Retailed by Pim
Brothers & Co, Dublin and Robinson Optician, Dublin. (16)
€ 200 - 300