CHINESE BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS -- An album of original 19th-century Chinese watercolours entitled 'India Flowers' on spine. 2° (350-375 x 280-300mm). 35 numbered watercolours of flowers on tissue paper tipped-in, of which 26 captioned in Chinese. Contemporary red morocco gilt in modern cloth box (rebacked, extremities rubbed, lightly scuffed). Provenance: Wrest Park (bookplate).
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CHINESE BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS -- An album of original 19th-century Chinese watercolours entitled 'India Flowers' on spine. 2° (350-375 x 280-300mm). 35 numbered watercolours of flowers on tissue paper tipped-in, of which 26 captioned in Chinese. Contemporary red morocco gilt in modern cloth box (rebacked, extremities rubbed, lightly scuffed). Provenance: Wrest Park (bookplate).

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CHINESE BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS -- An album of original 19th-century Chinese watercolours entitled 'India Flowers' on spine. 2° (350-375 x 280-300mm). 35 numbered watercolours of flowers on tissue paper tipped-in, of which 26 captioned in Chinese. Contemporary red morocco gilt in modern cloth box (rebacked, extremities rubbed, lightly scuffed). Provenance: Wrest Park (bookplate).

FINE FLOWER STUDIES in fresh condition and in a contemporary red morocco binding.