Lydekker, Richard
The Great and Small Game of India, Burma, & Tibet
£750
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
London: Rowland Ward, 1900. Number 108 of 250, signed by the publisher. 4to, 9 hand-coloured lithograph plates with facing tissue and black and white photographs and illustrations throughout text, original green cloth gilt with black endpapers, some darkening and dust-soiling to half title, bookplate and blind-stamp of Library of The American Museum of Natural History, AMNH cancellation stamp, early ownership annotations in ink and pencil, spine and edges bumped, tears to spine and corners, endpapers dampstained and detached from internal joints
Footnote
Provenance: Bookplates of Henry Fairfield Osborn and Asiatic Hall Collection of the Library of The American Museum of Natural History