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Lot 36
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$200 -
300
Price Realized
$704
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY]. GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. Baron Cuvier, translator and editor. London: A. Fullarton & Co., 1847.
36 parts, tall 8vo. 73 hand-colored engraved plates. Original pictorial wrappers, pt.36 upper cover with a manuscript notice pasted on from the publisher regarding "binding this book in a suitable style" (chipping to extremities with some losses, a few covers detached, light spotting or soiling to covers).
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. IN THE RARE ORIGINAL PARTS.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
This lot is located in Chicago.