Jun 19, 2003 - Sale 1974

Sale 1974 - Lot 404

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
FIRST AMERICAN COLOR SPORTING PRINTS (NATURAL HISTORY.) Doughty, John and Thomas. The Cabinet of Natural History, and American Rural Sports. 3 engraved titles, 2 engraved portraits, 57 lithographed plates (54 hand-colored). 3 volumes. 4to, non-uniform bindings, volume one in contemporary 1/2 morocco, volume 2 in modern morocco, volume 3 in rebacked contemporary boards; minor foxing in volume one (the plates generally bright and clean), foxing and dampstaining in volume 2, minor foxing and soiling to volume 3, the wild turkey plate with minor chipping along the fore-edge. Philadelphia, 1830-33
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"This was the first major book issued in the United States to be illustrated with hand-colored lithographic plates"--Reese, American Color Plate Books 12; Henderson, page 37; Bennett, page 35; Howes D433.