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Lot 62
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
400
Price Realized
$256
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY]. MILLAIS, John Guille (1865-1931). Rhododendrons and the Various Hybrids. First and Second Series. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1917, 1924.
2 volumes, folio. 34 plates after Beatrice Parsons, Archibald Thorburn and others, many colored. Original gilt-lettered maroon cloth (some fraying to spine ends, a few spots of discoloration or staining to covers). Provenance: autograph note tipped in to vol.1.
FIRST EDITIONS, LIMITED ISSUES, number 215 and 349 of 550 copies. Nissen BBI 1369.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
This lot is located in Chicago.