b'33115THOMAS GRIFFITHS of TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN, antique Australian book box, handsomely crafted in native Queensland rain forest timbers, early 20th century,20.5cm high$1,2002,000116[NATURAL HISTORY],Miss Caswell, Album of pressed ferns, seaweeds & corallines from the Hunter River, N.S.W., 1850s.Inscribed to cardboard cover Australian Wild flowers, Ferns & Corallines, & From Miss CaswellHunter River/ Australia -/ Augst 1859. Later pencil mss inscription to inside cover, Bath, 1970. [Illegible initials] Blakley(?). Overall 23.7 x 34.3cm, 50 pps. 24 pages are mounted with pressed ferns & flowers with ink ms identifications. Then follow 8 pages mounted with seaweeds, the first with a poem, Call us not weeds! We are flowers of the Sea [ill.]. Pressed items in album with losses & crumbling; page stains & crumples. Spine worn; binding slightly loose. Together with 15 sheets of pressed seaweeds on pages of various sizes, some irregular shapes. Some stains, marks, etc., but the specimens in good condition. The collector and compiler was a daughter of William Caswell R.N. (1789-1859), the naval officer at Port Stephens, N.S.W., and his wife Susan ne Hoddle, sister of ROBERT HODDLE, first Surveyor General of Victoria.$1,0001,500For images of the album and contents see the online listing for this lot.115Ex 116'