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Lot 277: MICHAUX, FRANCOIS ANDRE; and NUTTALL, THOMAS. The North American Sylva.

Est: $3,000 USD - $4,000 USDSold:
Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USDecember 04, 2003

Item Overview

Description

Portrait, 156 hand-colored engraved plates, 121 hand-colored lithographed plates [complete]. Large 8vo, contemporary 1/ 2 morocco, minor wear; the text a bit toned, but the plates bright and clean; ex-library, with a bookplate on the pastedowns but no other markings. Philadelphia, 1859

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Notes

A later combined edition of the American natural history classic, the best work on the subject produced in the 19th Century. Reese, American Color Plate Books 21; Bennett, page 76; Nissen, Botanical 1361 and 1458.

Auction Details

Printed & Manuscript Americana

by
Swann Auction Galleries
December 04, 2003, 12:00 AM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US