Jun 15, 2006 - Sale 2083

Sale 2083 - Lot 391

Price Realized: $ 1,610
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Emmons, DeKay, and others. Group of 8 volumes from the Natural History of New York series. Profusion of plates. 4to, publisher's cloth, variously worn, lacking some backstrips, several covers loose, and other faults; plates surprisingly clean, with less plates than usual suffering from staining from poor coloring. Albany, 1846-54

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Contains: Agriculture - volumes 1-3, with 2 additional copies of volume 3 (one volume with no plates); Zoology - Part 2, Birds; Part 5, Mollusca. First volume of Agriculture series quite foxed; most of fruit plates clean but with scattered staining from coloring; insect plates a bit toned. In the Zoology series the bird and shell plates are quite clean.