Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(NATURAL HISTORY.) DeKay, James E.; editor. Natural History of New York. Hundreds of plates, some colored. 22 (of 30) volumes. 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, variously worn, with a few lacking backstrips; mostly clean internally, not collated except as noted, and sold as is. Albany, NY, 1842-67
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The most desirable volume, Zoology Part II, is complete with 141 hand-colored bird plates. Includes all 12 volumes of the first four series: Zoology (5 volumes), Flora (2 volumes), Mineralogy (1 volume), and Geology (4 volumes). Agriculture (4 of 5 volumes), is lacking Volume IV. Only the first 6 (of 13) volumes are present of Paleontology, the final series. with--duplicate copies of Geology volumes II and IV, and of Paleontology volume III:2 (plates) and Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington, 1884.