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Lot 122
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
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$704
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY - LEPIDOPTEROLOGY]. A group of works on butterflies and moths, including:
COMSTOCK, John Adams (1883-1970). Butterflies of California. Los Angeles: The Author, 1927. -- HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-1879). The Genera of British Moths. London: Paul Jerrard, [n.d.]. -- KAPPEL, A.W. and KIRBY, William Forsell (1844-1912). British and European Butterflies and Moths. London: Ernest Nister, [n.d.]. -- KIRBY, William Forsell (1844-1912). The Butterflies and Moths of Europe. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1907. -- MORRIS, Francis Orpen (1810-1893). A Natural History of British Moths. London: Bell & Daldy, 1872. 4 volumes. -- MORRIS. A History of British Butterflies. London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. -- WESTWOOD, J.O. The Butterflies of Great Britain with Their Transformations Delineated and Described. London: George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.].
And 8 others. Together, 15 works in 20 volumes, all 8vo and 4to sizes, all in original bindings. Condition generally fine.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
This lot is located in Chicago.