10th Aug, 2022 12:00

A Cabinet of Curiosities: including an Important Natural History Collection

 
  Lot 741
 

ENTOMOLOGY INTEREST - FOLIO SOCIETY

THE SURINAM ALBUM ISSUED BY THE FOLIO SOCIETY,
numbered 202/1000,
folio of 91 tipped in facsimilie prints from the Maria Sibylla Merian Collection in the British Museum with the exclusive introduction by Julie Harvey of the Entomology Library at the Natural History Museum, London
quarter bound in Nigerian goat skin leather and pictorial boards, with original paperwork and certificate, in outer sleeve.

 

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Sold for £500
Estimated at £400 - £600


 
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