LOT #92615 |
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Lot of Five Natural History Titles,... (Total: 5 Items)
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Description
Lot of Five Natural History Titles, including: Edward A. Samuels. The Birds of New England. Boston: Noyes, Holmes, and Company. 1870. Color bird illustrations. Cloth worn and rubbed. Scattered foxing. Inked name. Good. [and:] William Hamilton Gibson. Eye Spy, Afield With Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition. Illustrations by the author. A beautiful book, with cloth boards decorated with bees and beetles. Some pages lightly bumped at bottom corner. Pages bright and tight. Fine condition. [and:] Gertrude Jekyll. Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Garden. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. Tenth impression. Photographs. Binding frayed; rear joint split; spine sunned. Hinges cracked or starting. Bookplate; inked name. Fair. [and:] Jean Hersey. Wild Flowers to Know and Grow - Signed. Princeton: Van Nostrand Company, [1964]. Color flower illustrations by Allinora Rosse. Fine in dust jacket. Signed by the author. [and:] Michael J. Behe. Darwin's Black Box, The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution - Signed. New York: The Free Press, [1996]. Later edition. Fine in jacket. Signed by the author.Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2008
16th-18th
Thursday-Saturday
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