24 Mar 2009
11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Printed Books, Manuscripts, Music & Photographs
Back to auction 16761
Printed Books, Manuscripts, Music & Photographs
Back to auction 16761
ALBIN (ELEAZAR)
A Natural History of English Insects, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by the author, each with accompanying text by W. Derham, without the index and list of subscribers, occasional light offsetting onto text, one text leaf with small piece of blank margin torn away, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints splitting [Nissen IVB 58; Freeman 45], 4to, William Innys, 1749
Sold for
£3,120
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Albin was keen to stress that his work was accurate in its depictions as he "observed it as a great fault in those who have gone before... that they either did not look often enough at their Pattern, or affected to make the picture outdo Nature" (preface).
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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