solander

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  1. Same as sellanders.
  2. A form of box designed to contain prints or drawings. See the quotation. A Solander case is the invention of Dr. Solander, of memory dear to readers of “Cook's Voyages,” who used one to contain and preserve specimens for natural history, drawings, and matters of the kind. It is really a box, generally shaped like a book, one side of which, turning on hinges, serves for a lid, while the front, or fore edge of the case, is furnished with hinges to be let down, so that the fronts as well as the tops of the contents can be got at. N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 135.

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