![PAINE, William (plant collector, fl.1730s) Herbarium with manuscript captions and title: 'To Thomas Player Esqr This Hortus Siccus is Presented by your Worship's Humble Servent Wm Paine Botanist Collected from the Sea's River's Fields Woods and Gardens of ye County's of Dorsett, Devon, Gloucester, Somerset & Wilts Anno Dom. 1730' [n.p.], 1730-1737.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/CKS/2003_CKS_06824_0050_000(064221).jpg?w=1)
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PAINE, William (plant collector, fl.1730s) Herbarium with manuscript captions and title: 'To Thomas Player Esqr This Hortus Siccus is Presented by your Worship's Humble Servent Wm Paine Botanist Collected from the Sea's River's Fields Woods and Gardens of ye County's of Dorsett, Devon, Gloucester, Somerset & Wilts Anno Dom. 1730' [n.p.], 1730-1737.
2° (315 x 190mm). Manuscript title with folding attached section at the foot of the page sub-titled 'The following Gentlemen have been serv'd with Collections by the Author', 476 botanical specimens mounted on 80 leaves, numbered from 1-80, each specimen with identifying manuscript caption in English beneath, 1 unnumbered leaf with four unidentified mounted specimens, 9pp. manuscript index, 43 blanks. (Lacking or largely lacking 16 specimens.) Contemporary panelled calf (joints neatly repaired). Provenance: Thomas Player (Cleve Hill, Mangotsfield, nr. Bristol, original recipient, by descent) -- Charles Bathurst (Lydney Park, Glos., née Bragge, assumed the surname and arms of Bathurst in 1804, bookplate).
RARE LOCALISED HERBARIUM collected by William Paine, a full-time botanical specimen collector active in the West Country and East Aglia in the 1730s. The list of 'subscribers' is on three joined sheets (1030 x 157mm) and includes 108 names before concluding with a note that 'several hundreds more' have also received collections from Paine, and a date '1737'. This final note may well be an exaggeration and there are currently only four or five other collections known: Sloan Herbarium (HS 317); BM (Natural History) fasc. 10, ff.15-25; Wadham College, Oxford; item 77 in Patrick King's summer 1996 catalogue; Mrs Treby of Plympton's copy (described in the Journal of Botany for 1872, pp.174-175, and possibly still extant). A sixth copy described in Notes and Queries in 1880 (p. 367) may be the present example.
2° (315 x 190mm). Manuscript title with folding attached section at the foot of the page sub-titled 'The following Gentlemen have been serv'd with Collections by the Author', 476 botanical specimens mounted on 80 leaves, numbered from 1-80, each specimen with identifying manuscript caption in English beneath, 1 unnumbered leaf with four unidentified mounted specimens, 9pp. manuscript index, 43 blanks. (Lacking or largely lacking 16 specimens.) Contemporary panelled calf (joints neatly repaired). Provenance: Thomas Player (Cleve Hill, Mangotsfield, nr. Bristol, original recipient, by descent) -- Charles Bathurst (Lydney Park, Glos., née Bragge, assumed the surname and arms of Bathurst in 1804, bookplate).
RARE LOCALISED HERBARIUM collected by William Paine, a full-time botanical specimen collector active in the West Country and East Aglia in the 1730s. The list of 'subscribers' is on three joined sheets (1030 x 157mm) and includes 108 names before concluding with a note that 'several hundreds more' have also received collections from Paine, and a date '1737'. This final note may well be an exaggeration and there are currently only four or five other collections known: Sloan Herbarium (HS 317); BM (Natural History) fasc. 10, ff.15-25; Wadham College, Oxford; item 77 in Patrick King's summer 1996 catalogue; Mrs Treby of Plympton's copy (described in the Journal of Botany for 1872, pp.174-175, and possibly still extant). A sixth copy described in Notes and Queries in 1880 (p. 367) may be the present example.
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