10th Aug, 2022 12:00

A Cabinet of Curiosities: including an Important Natural History Collection

 
Lot 678
 

AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM,
Baron Cuvier & Prof. Macgillivray (tr.), circa 1839, with hand-coloured plates, in three quarter morocco and marbled boards

 

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Sold for £80
Estimated at £40 - £60


Condition Report
Two notes on restoration work carried out, one on notepaper, another in pen to inner page. As notes suggest, restoration to twenty pages. There are notes in pen to some of the pages. Additional images detailing all of this now available.

 
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