Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BOREMAN, THOMAS. A Description of Above Three Hundred Animals, viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects . . . With a Particular Account of the Manner of Catching Whales in Greenland. [6], 4, [1], 148, [1], 149-207 pages, including engraved frontispiece and 98 plates, one of them folding. 12mo, spine worn, with crack down center, ends chipped; occasional soiling and minor stains, variously affecting some plates, scattered minor tears, folding plate frayed along fore edge, partly separated at fold. Edinburgh: W. Coke, 1791

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Originally published in 1730. ESTC records only the National Library of Scotland and Bodleian copies of a 1790 edition printed by Coke.