Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 325

Unsold
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(FISH.) Kilbourne, Samuel A.; and Goode, George Brown. Game Fishes of the United States. 20 mounted chromolithographed plates each with accompanying sheet of text, without map. Folio, 17 1/2x23 inches, unbound in modern cloth porfolio; few text sheet and card mount edges with small tears and chips, one plate with a small repair within image (red snapper), else very clean and nice; blind stamp of Boston Society of Natural History at upper margin of title. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879

Additional Details

Superb chromolithographs after Kilbourne's paintings. "...the largest and most beautiful fish plates published in this country" (Bennett, page 65.)