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Lot 188
Sale 4439 - The Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 10, 2015
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$250 -
400
Price Realized
$120
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Lot Description
1 vol.
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1 vol.
Botanical Specimen Book. [Phila, ca 1880.] Sm 4to, orig purple-brown cloth; joints frayed & starting to separate. With 22 seaweed specimens, 17 hinge-mtd. Presentation card to Harriet Judd Sartain from Maggie Devine & 16-line poem tipped in, "Oh call us not weeds, but flowers of / the sea." Harriet Judd Sartain, 1830-1923, 1st woman member of the Homeopathic County Medical Center, wife of Samuel Sartain (son of the engraver, John Sartain).