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Auction archive: Lot number 5

Bent (Arthur Cleveland): Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, 2 vols., 8vo, 1937-38 [see Zimmer p. 54], plates (light spotting), original wrappers (slighty faded, spine of vol. II tattered) -- Baldwin (William Charles): African Hunting fro...

Auction 18.10.1991
18 Oct 1991
Estimate
£100 - £150
ca. US$172 - US$258
Price realised:
£104
ca. US$179
Auction archive: Lot number 5

Bent (Arthur Cleveland): Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, 2 vols., 8vo, 1937-38 [see Zimmer p. 54], plates (light spotting), original wrappers (slighty faded, spine of vol. II tattered) -- Baldwin (William Charles): African Hunting fro...

Auction 18.10.1991
18 Oct 1991
Estimate
£100 - £150
ca. US$172 - US$258
Price realised:
£104
ca. US$179
Beschreibung:

Bent (Arthur Cleveland): Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, 2 vols., 8vo, 1937-38 [see Zimmer p. 54], plates (light spotting), original wrappers (slighty faded, spine of vol. II tattered) -- Baldwin (William Charles : African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, second edition, 8vo, 1863 [see Nissen ZBI 209], engraved frontispiece, seven chromolithographed plates, one double-page map, wood-engraved illustrations (occasional soiling and staining), original cloth (rubbed) -- Seebohm (Henry): A History of British Birds, 4 vols., 8vo, R.H. Porter, [1882]-83-85 [Nissen IVB 851; Zimmer p. 568], 68 chromolithographed plates of eggs, wood-engraved illustrations (light spotting), contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, with avian motifs (spines faded, scuffed), t.e.g.; The Birds of Siberia, 8vo, 1901, wood-engraved illustrations (light spotting), original cloth (faded); and a quantity of bird books in one teachest.

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
18 Oct 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

Bent (Arthur Cleveland): Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, 2 vols., 8vo, 1937-38 [see Zimmer p. 54], plates (light spotting), original wrappers (slighty faded, spine of vol. II tattered) -- Baldwin (William Charles : African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, second edition, 8vo, 1863 [see Nissen ZBI 209], engraved frontispiece, seven chromolithographed plates, one double-page map, wood-engraved illustrations (occasional soiling and staining), original cloth (rubbed) -- Seebohm (Henry): A History of British Birds, 4 vols., 8vo, R.H. Porter, [1882]-83-85 [Nissen IVB 851; Zimmer p. 568], 68 chromolithographed plates of eggs, wood-engraved illustrations (light spotting), contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, with avian motifs (spines faded, scuffed), t.e.g.; The Birds of Siberia, 8vo, 1901, wood-engraved illustrations (light spotting), original cloth (faded); and a quantity of bird books in one teachest.

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
18 Oct 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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