Sale: 366 / Rare Books including Marine Art, May 17./18. 2010 in Hamburg Lot 307

 
Anton Benedikt Reichenbach - Die Fische 1840


307
Anton Benedikt Reichenbach
Die Fische 1840
Estimate:
€ 350 / $ 375
Sold:
€ 384 / $ 410

(incl. surcharge)
Reichenbach, A. B., Die Fische dargestellt in getreuen Abbildungen und mit ausführlicher Beschreibung. With 60 colored lithographed plates . Leipzig, E. Eisenach 1840. Contemp. half calf with gilt spine. Small 4to. 1 l., 156 pp., 2 ll.

Agassiz IV, 170, 1. - Cf. Nissen 4715, 5. - First edition, released from 1838 to 40 in 10 issues of the series Naturgeschichte in getreuen Abbildungen . - Plates with 382 illustrations, among them mostly neatly colored llustrations of fish, but also of fishing and a smokehouse. - Foxed and browned, mostly affecting the text, endpaper glue-stained. Spine and edges somewhat scraped.




307
Anton Benedikt Reichenbach
Die Fische 1840
Estimate:
€ 350 / $ 375
Sold:
€ 384 / $ 410

(incl. surcharge)