May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BOTANICAL.) Strutt, Jacob George. Sylva Britannica: or Portraits of Forest Trees, Distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty. Etched frontispiece, additional pictorial title, and 48 etched plates. Folio, 530x370 mm, 19th century 1/2 black morocco, front cover and backstrip loose, backstrip lacking top inch; signatures split from one another, but the leaves remarkably clean and sound. Would make for a good book once rebound. Nissen BBI 1907. London: 1826