There are much more stunningly beautiful, much earlier herbarium out there, but I really love this one, with the collected botanical specimens preserved under film with celluloid tape around their borders, which has both kept them very well protected and makes the whole thing feel particularly time capsule-esque. Twenty specimens here by my count, and some great ones among them, including a Jack-in-the-Pulpit, which I at least have always thought quite magical forest finds. The paper cover is lost, but all pages here are in good shape, not fragile and paper not brittle, easily taken apart by removing the ribbon at top binding the pages. And I really like the effect of the toning to the tape bordering the specimens, making for rather painterly frames around them.
8 1/2" x 11. 20 pages. Good condition, cover lost but no other losses, dried specmens well preserved, not fragile or brittle. C. 1930s I believe.
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