Feb 25, 2021 - Sale 2559

Sale 2559 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DETMOLD, EDWARD and MAURICE. 16 Illustrations of Subjects to Kipling's "Jungle Book." Folio (21 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches). 12 (of 16) chromolithograph plates tipped onto card and window-framed as issued (several window mats unhinged), each with printed leaf of descriptive text (caption excised below title on first one itemized below), printed title leaf; lacking plate list and tissue guards; publisher's green cloth portfolio gilt (defective). First edition. Plates as follows: The Return of the Buffalo Herd, The Village Club, Council Rock, Elephant with Trapping, Monkey Fight, The Cold Lairs, Elephant-Dance, Shere Khan in Jungle, Baloo In the Forest, Kaa the Python, Mowgli Leaving the Jungle, and Rikki-Tikki. Livingston 106. Sold as is. London: MacMillan and Co., 1903