Lot 16
Albin, Eleazar
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£1,625
Description
The history of esculent fish. London: printed for Edward Jeffery, 1794. First edition, 4to.,18 hand coloured engraved plates and 7 engraved end-pieces by Albin, extra-illustrated with two original drawings (one coloured) of fishermen, an engraving of fisherfolk by Wheatly, 8 early engravings of Dutch estates with waterways and lakes and 4 quarto sized hand coloured engraved plates from William Wood's Illustrations of British Fresh-Water Fish [1842-43], contemporary marbled boards, half calf corners and spine sensitively repaired, bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin, 1895, some offsetting onto text
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire