Oct 19, 2017 - Sale 2458

Sale 2458 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE--SOIL CONSERVATION)
Album with approximately 112 photographs documenting the various species of "range plants," from Agave to Yucca, present on the Texas plains.
Containing images of shrubs, cacti, vines, and trees. Each page of the album is dedicated to a different species, and many pages show an example of a "typical plant" and close-ups of the "fruiting branch." Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 3x4 1/4 inches (7.6x10.8 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only to pages with typed titles, extensive descriptions of the plants, and their distribution within Texas. 4to, brown boards; prong binding. 1938

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