Dec 05, 2013 - Sale 2334

Sale 2334 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural History. Parts 1-IV. 120 cute hand-colored engraved plates finished with gum arabic. Oblong 4to, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth; internally clean. London, 1842-45

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Wonderfully amusing portraits of various creatures. Each image is accompanied by text which is often amusing in itself, though that was not the intent.