MS volume, essay by Sir Thomas Gage, An attempt to class the varieties of tulips, annotated in pencil (by Gage?) 'Like most other theories good only upon paper'. With Gage's watercolour paintings of varieties Peter's General Washington (Common cloth of gold), Rayon d'or, Common golden, Bell's King, Indian chief, Golden fan, Common yellow, Pied Gold Bizar, Fringed tortoise shell, Brown tortoise shell, L'étincelle, The Quaker. With printed catalogue (titled in French, English, German and Dutch), Catalogue of flower(s), roots and bulbs sold by Henry Van Eeden, & Comp. florists at Harlem in Holland, No. 151, n.d.; MS, Gage's order for tulips from Brussels, 1814, annotated by him in French with note that last year's bulbs were small and most have not flowered, and request to have a catalogue from Haarlem; MS 'Note des tulipes fournis le 17 juin 1815 à Monsieur T. Gage par Henry Van Eeden & Co. florist à Haarlem'; Gage, MS list of tulips 1815, annotated from Haarlem, Brussels, Mr. Beeton, Mr. Clay