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Fri, Dec 3, 2021 09:00AM EST
Lot 216

Three American Leatherbound Titles

Estimate: $500 - $700

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$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
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$50,000 $5,000
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Studer's Popular Ornithology, The Birds of North America: Drawn and Colored from Life by Theodore Jasper, Columbus, Ohio: Jacob H. Studer & Co., 1878, with 119 color plates, bound in full leather with gilt lettering, five raised bands, aeg; two bound compilations of Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, 1860 and 1863, bound in three quarter leather over cloth boards

Provenance: Estate of the Artists James McBey and Marguerite McBey, London, England; by descent in family

Condition

all with scuffs, wear, lifting, and some losses to leather, bumped corners, wear to extremities, some toning and small tears to paper throughout; Ornithology with front board starting near top of spine

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