Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Hough, Romeyn Beck. The American Woods, Volumes I through XII (of 14), and The American Woods, Commercial Woods, Volumes I and II. Together, 14 slipcases, containing a total of 14 descriptive pamphlets and 1062 wood samples mounted in 354 cards. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear, the final 2 cases in 1/2 morocco as issued, upper backstrip worn on Volume X, lacking clasps on Volumes I and X; the sample cards generally quite well preserved, a few wood samples with minor splits or chips; the first 12 volumes with original owner's full or partial paper spine labels and bookplates. Lowville, NY, 1893-1916
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Second edition of Volumes I through III, first edition of the other volumes. Without question the definitive study of American wood types, of great interest to anyone working with fine wood, as well as for its aesthetic merits. Hough described the work as "an exhibition of nature itself." Arranged geographically, each card exhibits a different species in transverse, radial, and tangential section. Provenance: Original owner was Otto Heinrich Louis Wernicke (1862-1930) of Grand Rapids, MI, founder of the Pine Institute of America, and owner of a turpentine and pine rosin plant in Florida; consigned by his heirs.