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Lot 116
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$832
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY - ENTOMOLOGY]. A group of 7 works, including:
CURTIS, John (1791-1862). Farm Insects. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1860. FIRST EDITION. -- HARRIS, Thaddeus William (1795-1856). A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation. Boston: William White, 1862. -- KIRBY, William Forsell (1844-1912). Elementary Text-Book of Entomology. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1885. FIRST EDITION. -- NEWMAN, Edward (1801-1876). An Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies. London: W.H. Allen & Co., [n.d.]. -- REAUMUR, Rene Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757). The Natural History of Ants. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Provenance: William Beebe (1877-1962), American naturalist and ornithologist (ownership bookplate). -- WOOD, William (1774-1857). Index Entomolgicus. London: G. Willis, 1854. FIRST EDITION.
And 7 others. Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, all 8vo and 4to sizes, many in original bindings. Condition generally very good.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
This lot is located in Chicago.