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Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History
30 April 2015 • London
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Sale Number: L15401
256 lots
25. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones avium… decas secunda. Berlin: Ex officina academica, 1829
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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26. [Madagascar, 17th century or earlier]
Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 GBP
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27. [Madagascar, 17th century or earlier]
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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28. Gould, John
A Monograph of Trochilidae or Family of Humming Birds. London: the author, [1849-]1861 (Supplement. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1880-]1887)
Estimate: 80,000 – 120,000 GBP
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29. The grete herball which geveth parfyt knowlege and understandyng of all maner of herbes... (Southwark: Peter Treveris, 27 July 1526), title-page printed in red and black, large woodcut on title-page, numerous woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, large woodcut printer's device on final leaf, +6 (containing full-page woodcut of a skeleton) lacking and supplied in facsimile, title-page laid down but complete, a few leaves slightly short, early inscriptions on +2 and recto of printer's device mostly erased, a few marginal tears and repairs, quire M slightly browned, Q2 slightly stained, small tear in S3 along edge of watermark
Estimate: 50,000 – 70,000 GBP
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30. Manuscript florilegium. Dutch, second half of the seventeenth century
Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 GBP
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31. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1829-1830], FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 12 COPIES WITH PLATES IN TWO STATES, 86 engraved plates in two states, plain and printed in colours and finished by hand, [Anker 291; Nissen IVB 547; Ronsil, p.290; Zimmer, p.386]
Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
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32. Lewin, William
17 original bodycolour drawings of birds, for the first edition of his Birds of Great Britain, 1789-1794, typically 210 x 170mm., framed and glazed
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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33. The Breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands. London: Longman and others, 1842
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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34. Lydekker, Richard
Wild Oxen, Sheep and Goats of all Lands. London: Rowland Ward, 1898, FIRST EDITION, number 152 of 500 copies signed by the publisher, errata slip, 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates, illustrations in the text, [Nissen ZBI 2614; Wood, p.444]
Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP
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35. Meyer, Henry Leonard
Illustrations of British Birds. London: Longman and Co., [no date but 1835-1841]
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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36. Newcastle, William Cavendish, duke of
Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux. Antwerp: Jacques van Meurs, 1657 (1658)
Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP
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