Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[NATURAL HISTORY]. An early 19th century album of original sea moss specimens. 31 samples on 24 leaves inserted (each 197 x 152 mm), each specimen with manuscript captions, most heightened with watercolor wash; unbound in a gilt?decorated red morocco folding booklet (a few spots of wear to spine). ?Oh, call us not weeds, but flowers of the sea, For lovely and bright and gay?tinted are we; Our blush is as deep as the rose of thy bowers: Then call us not weed, we are ocean?s gay flowers? (a contemporary printed poem, clipped and affixed to front pastedown).