May 25, 2006 - Sale 2081

Sale 2081 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE.) Paris, Dr. J. A. Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports. 25 woodcut illustrations by Cruikshank. 3 volumes. 8vo, original boards with white paper spine labels, scattered minor wear, joints tender or starting, but otherwise unusually bright; unopened, scattered foxing to endpapers and edges; custom chemises and slipcase with divisions, worn. Lack 12-page publisher's advertisement. first edition. Cohn 626; Toole Stott 525. London: Longman, 1827