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Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 9, 2021
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Nov 10, 2021
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HILL, John, Sir (1716?-1775). A Decade of Curious Insects: Some of them not describ'd before: Shewn in their Natural Size. London: Printed for the author, 1773.
4to (plates 290 x 227 mm, text 277 x 215 mm). 10 hand-colored engraved plates. (Some minor dampstaining to outer margins.) Modern green cloth. Provenance: E. W. Classey (bookseller's ticket).
FIRST EDITION, A WIDE-MARGINED COPY, of Hill's scarce work. English botanist John Hill is best-known for his British Herbal, and Vegetable System. SCARCE: according to American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 45 years. Nissen ZBI 1938.
Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch