19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More folk art boat painting The one at right shows

The one at right shows a patent date of 1890

and hopefully into the home of someone else who love them despite (or precisely because of) their wounded state

each one labeled with scientific name

once and a half

Many have come loose along their perforation line

19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More folk art boat painting The one at right showsI believe this is a Grand Tour sketchbook of sorts, probably 1880s or so, carried along on travels through Europe. The first few pages are very carefully rendered watercolors of floral arrangements (they look almost like prints, but close inspection shows they are indeed watercolors). Much more interesting to me though are the much more naive sketches on subsequent pages, presumably rendered on site of what look to be tombs memorials and ruins