Klubbat för:

16000 SEK

Estimate

15 000-20 000 SEK

Description

SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. (WRIGHT, WILHELM VON. Skandinaviens fiskar målade efter lefvande exemplar och ritade på sten. Text B. Fr. Fries - C. U. Ekström. Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1836-57.) Lacking the printed title.

4:o (about 297x245 mm.). 59 coloured lithographed plates and 1 uncoloured (all, a few plates with offsetting from text, about 10 partly foxed, 4 harder, 1 plate with small tear in outer margin) and 3 engraved plates of fishing tackles (all, foxed).
Near contemporary blue half calf, somewhat worn, faded gilt (with fishes) spine in six compartments, upper edge gilt, otherwise mostly uncut (about 10 leaves somewhat cut in the margins). Partly foxed. Partly printed on thick (heavy) paper.

Dal 169-172, 314, Nissen: ZBI 1435, Lindberg, Swedish books, 62. With the 44-page appendix on fishing tackles in Scandinavia (Beskrifning öfver de i Skandinavien bruklige fiskredskap med figurer), and the Latin text.

Collation: (upper yellow wrapper to a fascicule dated 1836 placed as title [with signature in upper margin dated 1842, some foxing], printed title missing as usual). (2, latin preface), 1-49, 49b, 50, 50b, 51, 51b, 52, 52b, 53, 53b, 54, 54b, 55-140 (Latin text), (I)-IV (Swedish preface), (1)-170, 169-222 (Swedish text), (2), 3-44 (about fishing-tackle, (2) pp.

Auktionsnummer:

6204

Date:

2019-06-14