Jun 19, 2003 - Sale 1974

Sale 1974 - Lot 451

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
WEBBER,C. M. Wild Scenes and Song Birds. 20 chromolithographed plates. Large 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, worn at edges, recased retaining the original backstrip; minor toning, scattered soiling and staining; ex-library, with an inked stamp on the title and a text leaf (the plates unmarked). New York, 1855

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The plates, chromolithographed by Rosenthal, include 15 images of birds and 5 of Indians (the latter after Alfred Jacob Miller). This copy presumably the Second Edition, with the first published by Putnam the year prior. Reese, American Color Plate Books 28 (First Edition); Bennett, page 111.