Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LOW, DAVID. The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. 56 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic. Half-titles. 2 volumes. Folio, 427x322 mm, contemporary green morocco gilt with red morocco lettering pieces, leather on covers scraped in several places near joints, raised bands scuffed; marginal toning on text leaves, marginal dampstaining on verso of most plates but recto of plates clean, clean tear in blank lower inner corner of Volume 1 frontispiece. London, 1842

Additional Details

first edition in book form. Nissen ZBI 2564.