Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(INSECTS.) Say, Thomas. American Entomology. Additional engraved pictorial title, 54 hand-colored engraved plates after various artists. Three volumes. 8vo, 250x160 mm, publisher's 1/4 green paper over lavender boards, onlaid engraved pictorial label for Volume I, lightly toned and sunstruck; plate 22 foxed, some plate-to-tissue offsetting, otherwise an attractive, unsophisticated copy. Philadelphia Museum: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1824-28