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Lot 112

Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$400 - 600
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$2,176
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[NATURAL HISTORY - BINDINGS & SETS]. A group of 17 works in 100 volumes, many finely-bound, including:


BEWICK, Thomas. Works. London: Bernard Quatrich, 1885. LIMITED EDITION, number 346 of 750 copies. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER. 5 volumes. -- BINGLEY, William. Animal Biography or, Popular Zoology. London: C. & J. Rivington, et al., 1824. 4 volumes. -- PENNANT, Thomas. Some Account of London. London: J. Faulder, et al., 1813. -- SOWERBY, James. English Botany or Coloured Figures of British Plants. London: George Bell & Sons, 1902. 11 (of 13) volumes. -- WOOD, J.G. The Illustrated Natural History. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [n.d.]. 3 volumes. -- The Intellectual Observer: Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research, and Recreative Science. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1862. 15 volumes. -- Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace. London: London: John Tallis & Co., 1851.

And 8 others. Together, 17 works in 100 volumes, all 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally very good.



Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas

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