Jun 14, 2016 - Sale 2419

Sale 2419 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Sitwell, Sacheverell; and Blunt, Wilfrid. Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books. Bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge. 36 plates, many in color, endpapers, headpieces and decorations. Folio, 3/4 gilt-lettered green cloth over marbled boards; dust jacket, some wear. first edition. one of 1750 unnumbered copies on Gelderland paper. London: Collins, 1956

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with--Sitwell, Sacheverell et al. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. 22 color plates printed by Van Leer, Amsterdam; 16 black-and-white plates. Large folio, 3/4 tan cloth; dust jacket present but heavily worn. London: Collins, 1953.