Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD. A Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or Family of the Grouse. 27 hand-colored lithographed plates, comprising 25 of birds after Elliot and 2 of eggs after W. S. Morgan). Folio, 585x455 mm, contemporary black pebble-grain morocco gilt, spine ends chipped, raised bands and cover corners worn, joints rubbed and starting; scattered minor marginal fingersoiling on text leaves and plates, very faint offsetting on some plates. New York, 1865

Additional Details

first edition in book form. Anker 128; Sitwell, page 95; Nissen IVB 293.