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LYDEKKER, RICHARD - The Royal Natural History
Estimate:
$200 - $300
Sold
$150
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169: Rare Books
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LYDEKKER, RICHARD
The Royal Natural History
Frederick Warne, Date: 1893 - 1894-1896. 6 vols., First Edition. All with 6 chromolithograph frontispieces, with original tissue guards, 66 other coloured chromolithograph plates, with guards, monochrome wood-engravings some full page. Light spasmodic foxing throughout, heavier front & back few pages. 270mm, uniformly bound in brown half leather with pebble cloth boards, gilt titles and rules to spine, top edges gilt, some mottling to the cloth boards of 3 volumes. Leather scuffed and rubbed, and has split along the front hinge of Vol VI, boards still intact and bindings are all tight and firm.
The set comprises: vol. I: Mammals; vol. II: Mammals; vol. III Mammals-Birds; vol. IV: Birds; vol. V: Reptiles, Fishes, etc., vol. VI: Invertebrates.
Nice set of this classic survey of the animal kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century, all with the book plate of Cecil Mocatto.
Provenance: Major, Robert A. Wilson, Lethenty, Bulls.
The Royal Natural History
Frederick Warne, Date: 1893 - 1894-1896. 6 vols., First Edition. All with 6 chromolithograph frontispieces, with original tissue guards, 66 other coloured chromolithograph plates, with guards, monochrome wood-engravings some full page. Light spasmodic foxing throughout, heavier front & back few pages. 270mm, uniformly bound in brown half leather with pebble cloth boards, gilt titles and rules to spine, top edges gilt, some mottling to the cloth boards of 3 volumes. Leather scuffed and rubbed, and has split along the front hinge of Vol VI, boards still intact and bindings are all tight and firm.
The set comprises: vol. I: Mammals; vol. II: Mammals; vol. III Mammals-Birds; vol. IV: Birds; vol. V: Reptiles, Fishes, etc., vol. VI: Invertebrates.
Nice set of this classic survey of the animal kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century, all with the book plate of Cecil Mocatto.
Provenance: Major, Robert A. Wilson, Lethenty, Bulls.
