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Lot 94
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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[NATURAL HISTORY]. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume II. London: Richard and John E. Taylor for the Society, 1841.
Small folio. Numerous engravings, many hand-colored. Contemporary half calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, lettering-piece gilt in second (extremities rubbed and sunned).
FIRST EDITION, containing the important work on the fish fauna of the Deccan plateau in India ("On the Fishes of the Dukun", pp.349-378) by W.H. Sykes. Nissen ZBI 4064.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas