Hanbury (Sir Thomas) Photograph Album of La Mortola Garden, presentation copy inscribed "Henry Fryer with love from Thomas & Katharine A.Hanbury in remembrance of the visit of M.A.Fryer to Mortola 24 January to 6th February 1873" on front free endpaper, 17 albumen prints mounted on 14 thick card leaves, prints c.180 x 240mm or vice versa, most with printed caption pasted at foot of mount, a few with caption supplied in manuscript, a little faded, some spotting, mainly to mounts, original half morocco, upper cover with image of lady with parasol walking in garden below palm trees and title 'The Garden at Mortola' in gilt, spine gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, 1873 § Berger (Alwin) Hortus Mortolensis...Alphabetical Catalogue of Plants...at La Mortola, first edition, portrait and plates, original cloth, rubbed, lower cover damp-stained, 1912, oblong folio & 8vo (2)

⁂ Sir Thomas Hanbury purchased a coastal plot at Mortola near Genoa in 1867 and with his brother Daniel, the botanist/landscape gardener Ludwig Winter and others created this famous garden. When Hanbury died in 1907 it was further developed by his daughter-in-law Lady Dorothy but was severely damaged in World War II and she sold it to the state. It is now the property of the University of Genoa and has been restored.