MANUSCRIPT. – Coralie W. GATESWEVER. [A hand-written journal of ‘Nature

MANUSCRIPT. – Coralie W. GATESWEVER. [A hand-written journal of ‘Nature Observations’ by a student at ‘Sheffield High School’. N.p.:] March-June 1903. 112pp., manuscript, 8vo (229 x 179mm.) Almost daily entries in a single legible hand relating the observations and changes in nature over spring-time around the Brincliffe Crescent area of Sheffield, numerous grass and flower samples mounted, many hand-coloured illustrations. (Browning, offsetting.) Original boards with hand-drawn flower to upper cover (toned, lower cover damp-stained). Note: Coraile lists the many birds seen in May on the Sheffield moors as well as listing the very many flowers, plants, grasses and insects that she sees as the seasons change. – And a further forty-eight volumes (including John Marshall’s ‘Anatomy for Artists’, 1890, 4to, and two copies of Lord Masham’s ‘Lord Masham’s Inventions’, 1905, 4to, and Eleanor Sinclair Rohde’s ‘The Old English Herbals’, 1922, 4to) (49).

Estimate:£50

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