Jun 19, 2003 - Sale 1974

Sale 1974 - Lot 380

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(INSECTS.) McCook, Henry Christopher. American Spiders and their Spinningwork. 35 hand-colored lithographed plates, numerous illustrations. 3 volumes. Tall 8vo, original cloth, worn; considerable dampstaining throughout though generally restricted to the margins; luckily the gathering of 30 plates in the third volume shows no sign of dampstaining, the remaining 5 in the second volume show the slightest evidence only in the margins; ex-library, with labels on pastedowns and a few scattered inked stamps (not on the plates). one of 250 numbered sets. Nissen, Zoology 2625. Philadelphia, 1889-93