[Rarebooks] FS: Phenomena of Nature, 1849, with 30 gorgeous hand-colored plates
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Wed Dec 6 09:16:59 EST 2006
From our latest Catalogue now posted on our website:
http://www.erols.com/agvent. It contains 34 select items in a variety
of fields. Highlights include Catlin's NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (1876)
with color prints, first editions of Hesse's SIDDHARTHA and Goethe's
FAUSTUS, the signed limited first editions of THE LITTLE PRINCE and
BRAVE NEW WORLD, several fine illustrated, hand-colored, and early
printed books, and books signed by Buffalo Bill, Willa Cather, Robert
Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and others.
THIRTY PLATES ILLUSTRATIVE OF NATURAL PHENOMENA, ETC. WITH A
SHORT DESCRIPTION ANNEXED TO EACH PLATE. London: Soc. for Christian
Knowledge 1849. First Edition. Nearly square quarto (10-3/4" x
13-1/4") bound in original cloth with the gilt title "Phenomena of
Nature" on the front cover. Illustrated with thirty very attractive
half-page hand-colored plates depicting various phenomena including
the Aurorao Borealis, Geysers of Iceland, Niagara Falls, Icebergs,
Coral Reefs, Snow Bridges, Mountain Passes, Avalanches, Sand Storms,
Volcanoes, etc. Beautiful plates with great detail. Front free
endpaper lacking; text and plates bright and clean. Some fraying to
spine. Near Fine $1000.00
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