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Item Details
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| Author: |
Doughty, John & Thomas |
| Title: |
The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports |
| Place: |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher: |
J. & T. Doughty |
| Date: |
1830-1832 |
| Item # : |
125432 |
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| Sale Number |
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257 |
| Lot Number |
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27 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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02/10/2003 |
| Sale Time |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 2,000 |
| High Estimate |
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$ 3,000 |
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| Description: |
| Vols. I & II (of 3, as usual). vii, [1], 298, [2]; [2], vii, [1], 292 pp. Illus. with 44 (of 48) plates, most lithographed but a few engraved in copper, all but one of them hand-colored; copper-engraved frontispiece portraits & title-pages. 11x8¾, 19th century half red morocco & cloth, spines tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. First Edition. |
| First edition of the first American sporting book with colored plates. Originally issued in monthly parts, then bound up, so the fact that Vol. II is incomplete, lacking pp.145-192 and plates XIII-XVI (which comprised the seventh and eighth numbers), is not terribly unusual, and in the present copy they were never bound in. The third volume, of which only parts 1-4 were produced, is generally lacking from the sets, and in fact is called by Bennett "perhaps the most difficult of all American sport volumes to find." He also remarks that "Artistically, Vol. I is much the most important, for it contains the original plates by Thos. Doughty, famous painter and founding-father of the Hudson River School." This was the George Brinley copy, whh his small engraved bookplates in each volume. Bennett p.35; Gee, Early Am., pp.48-49; Gee, Sportsman's Lib., p.132; Henderson, Early Am. Sport, pp. 37-42; Howes D433; Reese 12. |
| Condition: |
| Just minor cover rubbing and shelf wear; occasional foxing, some pages darkened, marginal tear with slight paper loss to one leaf, a very good copy, plates generally clean, bright, and vivid. |
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