Jun 19, 2003 - Sale 1974

Sale 1974 - Lot 405

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
A RARE TURKEY (NATURAL HISTORY.) Doughty, John and Thomas. Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports. Volume 3, only (of 3), parts 1 and 2, only (of 4). Engraved title, 2 hand-colored lithographed plates of a Wild Turkey and a Red Flamingo. Small folio, publisher's lettered-wrappers, chipped, bound together; unevenly trimmed along fore-edges (outside the text and plate captions). Philadelphia, 1833-34.

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"Ceased publication with vol. 3, pt. 4. Vol. 3 is rare . . . The wild turkey plate in vol. 3, pt. 1 is almost as rare as the famous Audubon folio wild turkey plate. Sets in the original wrappers are of the utmost rarity"--Henderson, page 37.