Dec 17, 2019 - Sale 2527

Sale 2527 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CASSIN, JOHN. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. 50 tinted lithographed plates finished by hand. Royal 8vo, 10 1/2x7 inches, contemporary half morocco over pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt, minimal rubbing; foxing mostly confined to preliminaries and later text leaves, plates clean with bright colors; with: original printed green parts wrappers with subscribers list, prospectus and advertisements bound at rear: part numbers 4, 5 and 6 in manuscript. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., [1853]-1856