Cahier de Botanique [album + notebook of specimens, 1901]

Student botanical album compiled 1 May - 19 July, 1901, with an additional notebook of diagrammed specimens. 

46 album leaves with additional text leaves tipped to stubs. Two drawings and 52 botanical specimens present (labels where specimens have been lost are not counted). Oblong quarter cloth hardcover with marbled boards and woven tie closure, 9.75 x 6.75 x 9.75 inches. Overall Very Good with discoloration and residue from the specimens, light rubbing to extremities.

Plates and sections include Germination, Étude du lige, Plant sans fleurs ou cryptogames, Famille des graminées fourragères, Prêtres et fougères, Champignons (Agaric and Chanterelle), Les mousses, Gymnospermes, Angiospermes, graminées fourragères, Monocotyledones, Dicotyledones… Some are identified as taken from a school garden, and the student has a keen eye for observation, evident in the drawings, though is a bit clumsy and irregular with the specimens. Each page ruled in manuscript, small explicatory slips tipped to the tabs of excised pages very neatly trimmed. Later specimens are better and more uniformly preserved (like they got the hang of it).

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Dessin (printed cover title). Student notebook with (20) pages, (14) full of notes and botanical specimens, with a focus on plant anatomy [calice, corolle, pistil, l’etamines, &c.] 48 labeled specimens/groupings (and 1 missing)—includes seeds and smaller components. Some pages are tidier than others, with one, “Observons une fleur d’iris,” veering toward expressionist collage.