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Auction archive: Lot number 102

NATURAL HISTORY]. AGASSIZ, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America . Boston, 1857-1862. 4 volumes, 4 o. Numerous plates. Later cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- AGASSIZ. "Essay on Classification." Part I of volume I of Cont...

Auction 14.06.2006
14 Jun 2006
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$480
Auction archive: Lot number 102

NATURAL HISTORY]. AGASSIZ, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America . Boston, 1857-1862. 4 volumes, 4 o. Numerous plates. Later cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- AGASSIZ. "Essay on Classification." Part I of volume I of Cont...

Auction 14.06.2006
14 Jun 2006
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$480
Beschreibung:

NATURAL HISTORY]. AGASSIZ, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America . Boston, 1857-1862. 4 volumes, 4 o. Numerous plates. Later cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- AGASSIZ. "Essay on Classification." Part I of volume I of Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of North America . [Boston, 1857?]. 4 o. Later cloth. -- CHAMBERS, Robert. Explanations: a Sequel to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation . London, 1845. 8 o. Original cloth (spine perishing). -- POWELL, John Wesley Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States . Washington, 1879. 4 o. Original cloth. Second edition. -- PLEASONTON, Augustus James. The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky, in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life . Philadelphia, 1877. 8 o. Printed on blue paper. Original cloth. -- BRISSON, Mathurin Jacques. Pesanteur spécifique des corps . Paris, 1787. 4 o. Contemporary calf. -- Miscellanea Curiosa. Being a Collection of some of the Principal Phenomena in Nature ... . London, 1705-1713. 2 volumes only [of 3], 8 o. Folding plates. Contemporary calf. Together 11 volumes, condition varies. (11)

Auction archive: Lot number 102
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
14 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

NATURAL HISTORY]. AGASSIZ, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America . Boston, 1857-1862. 4 volumes, 4 o. Numerous plates. Later cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- AGASSIZ. "Essay on Classification." Part I of volume I of Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of North America . [Boston, 1857?]. 4 o. Later cloth. -- CHAMBERS, Robert. Explanations: a Sequel to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation . London, 1845. 8 o. Original cloth (spine perishing). -- POWELL, John Wesley Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States . Washington, 1879. 4 o. Original cloth. Second edition. -- PLEASONTON, Augustus James. The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky, in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life . Philadelphia, 1877. 8 o. Printed on blue paper. Original cloth. -- BRISSON, Mathurin Jacques. Pesanteur spécifique des corps . Paris, 1787. 4 o. Contemporary calf. -- Miscellanea Curiosa. Being a Collection of some of the Principal Phenomena in Nature ... . London, 1705-1713. 2 volumes only [of 3], 8 o. Folding plates. Contemporary calf. Together 11 volumes, condition varies. (11)

Auction archive: Lot number 102
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
14 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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