Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana
Catalogue Information: 219 lots | 176 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
USA
Lot 1: BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, JOHN RICHARDSON, ET. AL.
The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage; compiled from the Collections and Notes made by Captain Beechey, the Officers and Naturalists of the Expedition, during a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom... [...more]
Lot 2: BIDWELL, E.
[Eggs of the Great Auk (title taken from spines). N.p. (Twickenham?), n.d. (late 19th/early 20th centuries)]3 volumes of mounted photographs (13 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.; 353 x 260 mm). 60 (of 69?) plates of auk eggs, each comprising 2 silver print photogra [...more]
Lot 3: BLAAUW, FRANZ ERNST
A Monograph of the Cranes. Leiden and London: E. J. Brill and R. H. Porter, 1897Folio (18 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.; 464 x 363 mm). 22 tipped-in hand-finished chromolithographed plates after H. Leutemann and J. G. Keulemans by Keulemans, text illustrations; [...more]
Lot 4: BOLTON, JAMES
Harmonia ruralis; or, an Essay towards a Natural History of British Song Birds. Stannary, near Halifax [Yorks.]: for the author, 1794-962 volumes, 4to (12 7/8 x 9 in.; 328 x 230 mm). 81 fine handcolored etched plates by Bolton; occasional minor spo [...more]
Lot 5: BONAPARTE, CHARLES LUCIEN AND HERMANN SCHLEGEL
Monographie des loxiens. Leiden and Dusseldorf: Arnz, 18504to (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.; 292 x 216 mm). 54 handcolored lithographed plates after F. W. J. Baedecker and Schlegel by Arnz & Co., 6 plates with corrected caption-slips; plates 25 and 52 foxed. N [...more]
