16 Apr 2012
10:00 EDT
New York
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
CORALS.
HAEKEL, ERNST. Arabische Korallen. Ein Ausflug nach den Korallenbänken der Rothen Meeres. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1876.
4to. With additional tinted lithographed title, 3 chromolithographed plates, lithographed plate and table, wood-engraved illustrations. Period quarter cloth preserving original upper printed board. Light foxing and very faint waterstain at lower edge of plates, inner hinges split.
FIRST EDITION of Haekel's boldly illustrated study of Red Sea corals, which also serves as an account of his travels in Egypt. Nissen ZBI 1780.
4to. With additional tinted lithographed title, 3 chromolithographed plates, lithographed plate and table, wood-engraved illustrations. Period quarter cloth preserving original upper printed board. Light foxing and very faint waterstain at lower edge of plates, inner hinges split.
FIRST EDITION of Haekel's boldly illustrated study of Red Sea corals, which also serves as an account of his travels in Egypt. Nissen ZBI 1780.
Estimate:
US$ 600 - 800
£400 - 530
€470 - 620
£400 - 530
€470 - 620
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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