Jun 17, 2004 - Sale 2010

Sale 2010 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 546
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Brehm, Alfred Edmund. Brehm's Tierleben. Plate portfolios for Volumes 4-10, Together, 2 portfolios, containing 117 (of 118) chromolithographed plates of birds, insects, reptiles, fishes, crustacea, and other organisms, each plate tipped to a larger publisher's mount captioned in German. 4to, cloth, each case lacking the bottom flap; scattered chipping at the edges of the mounts due to the poor quality of the paper used on the mounts. Berlin, circa 1870

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Portfolio dealing with birds consists of 55 plates and is complete. The remaining portfolio dealing with various creatures lacks a single plate for completeness.