Otis F. Clapp Sketchbook

Otis F. Clapp Sketchbook, Massachusetts, c. 1864-66, the leather-bound sketchbook with brass clasp engraved "O.F. Clapp" including sixteen finely detailed pencil drawings of buildings and landscapes in Springfield, Chicopee, Charlemont, Swampscott, and Medfield, Massachusetts, as well as twenty-four finely detailed botanical and leaf drawings (many colored and dated), approximately 52 pages, book ht. 2 3/4, wd. 4 1/2, dp. 1/2 in. Note: Otis Francis Clapp was a surveyor and engineer born in Boston 1843. He served as City Engineer in Providence, Rhode Island during the first decade of the 20th century; he died in 1917.