Jun 19, 2003 - Sale 1974

Sale 1974 - Lot 409

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Gilliss, James Melville; Lieutenant. The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, during the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52. 42 plates, including 15 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds, plus uncolored plates of reptiles and other creatures, and colored plates of views; 9 maps. Volumes 1 and 2 only (of 4). 4to, publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth, neatly rebacked with the original backs retained; internally quite clean. 33rd Congress, 1st Session, House Ex. Doc. 121. Washington, 1855