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Auction archive: Lot number 562

PACIFIC]. SEEMAN, B.C. Botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald. London: 1852-1857. 2 vols., (including plate vol.), 318 x 248 mm., contemporary red half-morocco, t.e.g., scuffed. FIRST EDITION. Two maps with routes hand-clored, hand colored lithographe...

Auction 05.06.1997
5 Jun 1997
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$8,625
Auction archive: Lot number 562

PACIFIC]. SEEMAN, B.C. Botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald. London: 1852-1857. 2 vols., (including plate vol.), 318 x 248 mm., contemporary red half-morocco, t.e.g., scuffed. FIRST EDITION. Two maps with routes hand-clored, hand colored lithographe...

Auction 05.06.1997
5 Jun 1997
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$8,625
Beschreibung:

PACIFIC]. SEEMAN, B.C. Botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald. London: 1852-1857. 2 vols., (including plate vol.), 318 x 248 mm., contemporary red half-morocco, t.e.g., scuffed. FIRST EDITION. Two maps with routes hand-clored, hand colored lithographed frontispiece to vol. of plates, 99 litographed plates of botanical specimens. Stafleu & Cowan TL2. 1218. -- BENTHAM, G. The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur. London: 1844-[1846]. 6 parts in one vol., 4to, 316 x 230 mm., later marocco-backed cloth, original wrappers bound at back, plates somewhat browned. 60 lithographed plates. Stafleu & Cowan TL2. 425. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- LESSON, A. and A. RICHARD. Voyage de l'Astrolabe...Botanique. Paris: 1832-1833. 3 vols. in two (2 vols. in one of text, 1 vol. atlas), folio and 8vo, contemporary roan-backed boards, spine worn, extremities rubbed, title of atlas vol. repaired at margins, some spotting and soiling to plates. Engraved title, 80 plates (three hand-colored). Ferguson 1341. Conservatoire botanique, Geneva, cancelled stamps; KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (5)

Auction archive: Lot number 562
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

PACIFIC]. SEEMAN, B.C. Botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald. London: 1852-1857. 2 vols., (including plate vol.), 318 x 248 mm., contemporary red half-morocco, t.e.g., scuffed. FIRST EDITION. Two maps with routes hand-clored, hand colored lithographed frontispiece to vol. of plates, 99 litographed plates of botanical specimens. Stafleu & Cowan TL2. 1218. -- BENTHAM, G. The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur. London: 1844-[1846]. 6 parts in one vol., 4to, 316 x 230 mm., later marocco-backed cloth, original wrappers bound at back, plates somewhat browned. 60 lithographed plates. Stafleu & Cowan TL2. 425. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- LESSON, A. and A. RICHARD. Voyage de l'Astrolabe...Botanique. Paris: 1832-1833. 3 vols. in two (2 vols. in one of text, 1 vol. atlas), folio and 8vo, contemporary roan-backed boards, spine worn, extremities rubbed, title of atlas vol. repaired at margins, some spotting and soiling to plates. Engraved title, 80 plates (three hand-colored). Ferguson 1341. Conservatoire botanique, Geneva, cancelled stamps; KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (5)

Auction archive: Lot number 562
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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