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Lot 53
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$576
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY]. KIRBY, William Forsell (1844-1912), et al. Lloyd’s Natural History... London: Edward Lloyd, 1896-97.
16 volumes, small 8vo. Over 400 chromolithographs, several folding maps. Original purple cloth, gilt-lettered spines (spines evenly sunned, fading to covers). Provenance: R.L. Howell (bookplates).
FIRST EDITION, comprising: Birds of Great Britain, British Mammalia, Carnivora, Game Birds, Lepidoptera, Marupialia, and Monotremata.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas