Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts., 17Nov1978,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 17, 1978 - November 17, 1978

Page Size: 502 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	THORNTON, Col. THOMAS	A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France	London	1806	USD 125.00 - 150.00	242.00
102	VIEILLOT, LOUIS JEAN PIERRE	Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux De L'Amerique Septentrionale	Paris	1807-08	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	3,080.00
103	ABBOT, JOHN and Sir JAMES EDWARD SMITH	The Natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia. Including their systematic char acters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed	London	1797	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	37,400.00
104	AMUCHASTEGUI, AXEL	Some Birds and Mammals of South America	London	1966	USD 600.00 - 700.00	495.00
105	BUTLER, CHARLES	The Feminin Monarchi, or The Histori of Bees	Oxford	1634	USD 250.00 - 350.00	374.00
106	CASTLE, THOMAS; HIBBERD, SHIRLEY	Essay on Poisons, The Amateur's Greenhouse		1845, 1878	USD 50.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
107	DENTON, SHERMAN FOOTE	As Nature Shows Them. Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains	Boston	1898-1900	USD 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
108	DONOVAN, EDWARD	The Natural History of British Birds	London	1794-1819, 1798	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,180.00
109	DONOVAN, EDWARD	An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China	London		USD 500.00 - 600.00	1,540.00
110	DONOVAN, EDWARD	An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India and the Islands in the Indian seas	London	1800	USD 850.00 - 950.00	2,090.00
111	DONOVAN, EDWARD	The Natural History of British Insects	London	1802, 1796-1801-1813	USD 850.00 - 1,000.00	2,420.00
112	DONOVAN, EDWARD	The Natural History of British Insects	London	1802-1793-1801	USD 400.00 - 550.00	1,100.00
113	DONOVAN, EDWARD	The Natural History of British Fishes	London	1803-1808	USD 500.00 - 600.00	1,650.00
114	DONOVAN, EDWARD	The Natural History of British Shells	London	1804-1800-1803	USD 400.00 - 500.00	935.00
115	DONOVAN, EDWARD	An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans	London	1805	USD 1,300.00 - 1,800.00	4,400.00
116	DONOVAN, EDWARD	The Natural History of British Quadrupeds	London	1810-1820	USD 350.00 - 450.00	770.00
117	HARRISON, JOSEPH	The Floricultural Cabinet	London	1833-1848	USD 150.00 - 200.00	264.00
118	HOEFNAGEL, JAKOB	Diversae Insectarum Volatilium icones ad vivum accuratissime depictae per celeberrimum pictorem ...	n.p. [Amsterdam]	1630	USD 450.00 - 550.00	1,320.00
119	HULTON, PAUL and DAVID BEERS QUINN	The American Drawings of John White 1577-1590...	London, British Museum, Chapel Hill N.C.	1964	USD 400.00 - 450.00	330.00
120	JARDINE, Sir WILLIAM	The Natural History of Humming-Birds i.e. The Naturalist's Library	Edinburgh	1833	USD 125.00 - 175.00	176.00
121	LESSON, RENÉ PRIM AVERE	Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches	Paris	n.d., 1829-1830	USD 600.00 - 750.00	550.00
122	LESSON, R. P.	Histoire Naturelle des Colibris suivie d'un Supplement a L'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches	Paris	n.d., 1830-1832	USD 500.00 - 600.00	825.00
123	LESSON, R. P.	Les Trochilidées ou les Colibris et les Oiseaux-Mouches	Paris	n.d., 1832-1833	USD 550.00 - 650.00	495.00
124	MAWE, JOHN	Travels in the Interior of Brazil, particularly in the Gold and Diamond districts of that country	London	1812	USD 150.00 - 200.00	187.00
125	PRINCE, FRED S.	Some Butterflies and other insects of the Marvel Cave Ozarks, this text and drawings made in 1939 1940-1941, collections and studies made in 1894-98			USD 350.00 - 400.00	440.00
126	SAY, THOMAS	American Entomology	Philadelphia Museum	1824-1828	USD 500.00 - 600.00	2,420.00
127		The Natural History of Birds, from the works of the best authors, antient & modern	Bungay	1815	USD 250.00 - 300.00	418.00
128	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in The United States and their Territories	New York and Philadelphia	1840-1844	USD 6,500.00 - 7,500.00	Not Sold
129	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	The Birds of America	New York	1861	USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
130	CATESBY, MARK; Mr. George Edwards	The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, ... Revis'd	London	1749-1754	USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
131	CATLIN, GEORGE	Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio	London	1844	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,850.00
132	EDWARDS, GEORGE	A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, Gleanings of Natural History	London	1743-1751, 1758-1764	USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	13,200.00
133	EDWARDS, G.	A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, Gleanings of Natural History	London	1743-1751, 1758-1764	USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00	8,800.00
134	ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD	The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America	New York	1886-1869	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	6,050.00
135	GOULD, JOHN and RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE	A Monograph of The Trochilidae or Family of Humming-Birds, with Supplement, Supplement	London, Sotheran	1849-1861, 1880-1887	USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00	39,600.00
136	GOULD, JOHN	The Birds of Great Britain	London	1862-1873	USD 7,500.00 - 8,500.00	16,500.00
137	JARDINE, Sir WILLIAM; PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY and OTHERS	Illustrations of Ornithology [with the New Series]	Edinburgh	n.d., 1826-1843	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,960.00
138	LATHAM, JOHN	A General History of Birds, with Index.	Winchester	1821-1828	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,210.00
139	LATHAM, J.	A General History of Birds	Winchester	1822-24	USD 500.00 - 600.00	1,045.00
140	LOUDON, Mrs. JANE	British Wild Flowers	London	n.d.	USD 100.00 - 120.00	330.00
141	LOUDON, Mrs. JANE	The Ladies' Flower-Garden : Ornamental Annuals; Ornamental Perennials; Ornamental Bulbous Plants; Ornamental Greenhouse Plants	all London	n.d.	USD 850.00 - 950.00	2,860.00
142	NUYENS, A.	De Vogelwereld	Gröningen	1886	USD 300.00 - 400.00	242.00
143	WILSON, ALEXANDER; George Ord	American Ornithology [with Supplement ...]	Philadelphia	1808-1814	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
144	WILSON, A. and C. L. BONAPARTE	American Ornithology	Philadelphia	n.d., 1871	USD 700.00 - 800.00	550.00
145	ALLEN, J. A.; S. F. BAIRD and ELLIOTT COUES	Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology	Cambridge, Mass, Cambridge	1876-83, 1902	USD 150.00 - 250.00	60.50
146	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	Ornithological Biography	Edinburgh	1831-39	USD 400.00 - 500.00	330.00
147	AUDUBON, J. J.	Ornithological Biography	Edinburgh	1831-38	USD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
148	AUDUBON, J. J.; Donald Culross Peattie	Audubon's America	Boston	1940	USD 50.00 - 70.00	27.50
149	AUDUBON, MARIA R.; Elliott Coues	Audubon and His Journals, With Zoological and Other Notes	New York	1897	USD 45.00 - 55.00	44.00
150	BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON; THOMAS MAYO BREWER; ROBERT RIDGWAY and OTHERS	A History of North American Birds, Land Birds	Boston	1875	USD 150.00 - 200.00	60.50
151	BAIRD, S. F.; JOHN CASSIN and GEORGE N. LAWRENCE	The Birds of North America	Philadelphia	1860	USD 400.00 - 500.00	495.00
152	BAIRD, S. F.; THOMAS MAYO BREWER and ROBERT RIDGWAY	The Water Birds of North America [Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.]	Boston	1884	USD 100.00 - 150.00	248.00
153	BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH	Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania, Part First.	Philadelphia	1799	USD 200.00 - 250.00	374.00
154	BENDIRE, Capt. CHARLES	Life Histories of North American Birds with special reference to Their Breeding Habits and Eggs, [Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.], Life Histories of North American Birds, from the Parrots to the Grackles ..., [Smithsonian Institution. Special Bul	Washington	1892-95	USD 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
155	BENT, ARTHUR CLEVELAND	Works	Washington	1919-58	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
156	BROWN, Capt. THOMAS	Illustrations of the American Ornithology of Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte ... With the Addition of Numerous Recently Discovered Species and Representations of The Whole Sylva of North America	Edinburgh	1831-35	USD 10,000.00 - 13,000.00	24,900.00
157	CASSIN, JOHN	United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838-42, Mammalogy and Ornithology	Philadelphia	1858	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,520.00
158	CASSIN, J.	Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America	Philadelphia	1862	USD 650.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
159	CASSIN, J.	Illustrations of the Birds of California...	Philadelphia	1865	USD 550.00 - 650.00	440.00
160	CASSIN, J.	Illustrations of the Birds of California ...	Philadelphia	1865	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
161	CATESBY, MARK; Mr. George Edwards	The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and The Bahama Islands ...	London	1771	USD 22,000.00 - 25,000.00	22,000.00
162	CORY, CHARLES B.	The Birds of the Bahama Islands	Boston	1890	USD 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
163	DE KAY, JAMES E.	Zoology of New-York, or the New-York Fauna ... Part II. Birds	Albany	1843-44	USD 500.00 - 550.00	Not Sold
164	ELLIOT, DANIEL GIRAUD	Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or Family of Grouse	New York	1864-65	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,400.00
165	ELLIOT, D. G.	The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America	New York	1866-69	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
166	ELLIOT, D. G.	North American Shore Birds, 1895 head of spine torn; The Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America, The Wild Fowl of the United States ... of North America	New York	1897, 1898	USD 400.00 - 500.00	550.00
167	FORBUSH, EDWARD HOWE	Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States	Boston	1925-29	USD 100.00 - 120.00	220.00
168	GRINNELL, JOSEPH, H. C. BRYANT and T. I. STORER; HUNTINGTON, DWIGHT W.; LEFFINGWELL, WILLIAM BRUCE, ed.; BLANCHAN, NELTJE	GAME BIRDS and SHOOTING. A Collection of 8 works (and one duplicate), The Game Birds of California, In Brush, Sedge, and Stubble. A Picture Book of the Shooting-Fields and Feathered Game of North America, GRINNELL, GEORGE BIRD. American Duck Shooting, Bir	Berkeley, Cincinnati, London, New York's	1918, 1898, 1890, 1901, 1898	USD 150.00 - 200.00	187.00
169	GENTRY, THOMAS G.	Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States. Illusstrated	Philadelphia	1880-1882	USD 130.00 - 150.00	187.00
170	GIRAUD, JACOB POST	The Birds of Long Island	New York	1844	USD 175.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
171	GIRAUD, J. P.	The Birds of Long Island	New York	1844	USD 200.00 - 250.00	77.00
172	GOULD, JOHN	A Monograph of The Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America	London	1844-50	USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00	8,250.00
173	GREENEWALT, CRAWFORD H.	Hummingbirds	New York	1960	USD 300.00 - 350.00	418.00
174	INGERSOLL, ERNEST	Nests and Eggs of American Birds, Parts 1-4/5, Salem, A History of Nests and Eggs of American Birds, Salem, George Bates	Mass's	dated 1880 on verso of upper wrappers, n.d.	USD 75.00 - 100.00	308.00
175	JONES HOWARD E.	Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio	Circleville, Ohio	1879-86	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
176	LEMBEYE, JUAN	Aves de la Isla de Cuba	Habana	1850	USD 250.00 - 300.00	396.00
177	LICHTENSTEIN, ANTON AUGUST HEINRICH	Beitrag zur ornithologischen Fauna von Californien, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Artkennzeichen der Peli-cane...	Berlin	1838	USD 150.00 - 175.00	440.00
178	MAYNARD, CHARLES JOHNSON	The Birds of Eastern North America, Newtonville	Mass	1889-1896	USD 300.00 - 400.00	374.00
179	MAYNARD, C. J.	A Collection of Ten works, The Naturalist's Guide, Revised, Eggs of North American Birds, Handbook of the Sparrows, Finches etc. of New England, Nature Study in Schools, The Warblers of New England, Directory to the Birds of Eastern North America, A Field	Salem's, Boston's, Newtonville, West Newton's	1872-1916, 1872, 1871, 1877, 1890, 1896, 1899, 1905, 1907, 1916	USD 400.00 - 450.00	330.00
180	MAYNARD, C. J.	An Atlas of Plates for the Directory to the Birds of Eastern North America	West Newton, Mass	1910	USD 400.00 - 500.00	330.00
181	MAYNARD, C. J.	An Atlas of Plates for the Directory to the Birds of Eastern North America	West Newton, Mass	1910	USD 400.00 - 500.00	484.00
182	MENABONI, ATHOS and SARA	Menaboni's Birds, JAQUES, FLORENCE PAGE. Francis Lee Jacques, Artist of the Wilderness World	New York & Toronto, New York etc, Garden City New York	1950, 1971, 1973	USD 60.00 - 80.00	38.50
183	MONTES DE OCA, RAFAEL	Ensayo Ornitológico de los Troquilideos ó Colibries de México	Mexico	1875	USD 150.00 - 200.00	352.00
184	ECKERT, ALLAN W.; BREWSTER, WILLIAM	NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS [Monographs]. A Collection of 26 works, on individual species, including water birds, land birds, birds of prey etc., Hawks and Falcons of the World, The Owls of North America, Garden City, NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY. Research Reports N	New York's, N.Y., Edinburgh	1968, 1974, 1942-56, 1831	USD 250.00 - 350.00	198.00
185	OBERHOLSER, HARRY C.; BAILEY, ALFRED M. and R. J. NIEDRACH; ALLEN, ROBERT PORTER; GOSS, N. S.; CORY, CHARLES B.	A Collection of 41 Works, Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. No. IV. The Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts, The Bird Life of Texas, Birds of the Caribbean, History of the Birds of Kansas, The Birds of Eastern North America	Albany, Cambridge, Mass, Austin & London, New York, Topeka, Chicago	1910-14, July 1906, 1974, 1891, 1899	USD 600.00 - 750.00	825.00
186	NUTTALL, THOMAS	A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America, The Land Birds; Game and Water Birds	Boston	1896	USD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
187	PHILLIPS, JOHN C.	A Natural History of The Ducks	Boston and New York	1922-26	USD 1,300.00 - 1,400.00	1,100.00
188	C. B. R. Kennedy	Reports of Explorations and Surveys ... for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean	Washington	1859	USD 50.00 - 80.00	60.50
189	RICHARDSON, Sir JOHN and WILLIAM SWAINSON	Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: ... Collected on the late Northern Land Expeditions under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, Part Second, only (ex 4) The Birds	London	1831	USD 200.00 - 250.00	605.00
190	ROBERTS, THOMAS S.	The Birds of Minnesota, Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press	London	1932	USD 150.00 - 200.00	88.00
191	ROSS, ALEXANDER MILTON	The Birds of Canada: With Descriptions of Their Habits, Food, Nests, Eggs, Times of Arrival and Departure	Toronto's	1871, 1871	USD 75.00 - 100.00	27.50
192	SEEBOHM, HENRY	The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and Their Allies	London	1887-88	USD 500.00 - 550.00	495.00
193	SITWELL, SACHEVERELL; HANDASYDE BUCHANAN and JAMES FISHER	Fine Bird Books 1700-1900	London & New York	1953	USD 450.00 - 500.00	418.00
194	STODDARD, HERBERT L.	The Bobwhite Quail Its Habits, Preservation and Increase	New York	1931	USD 150.00 - 200.00	60.50
195	STUDER, JACOB HENRY and THEODORE JASPER	Studer's Popular Ornithology, The Birds of North America	Columbus, Ohio	1874-78	USD 300.00 - 450.00	220.00
196	STUDER, J. H. and THEODORE JASPER	The Birds of North America ... Drawn and Colored from Nature	New York	1895	USD 150.00 - 200.00	66.00
197	TURNBULL, WILLIAM P.	The Birds of East Lothian, The Birds of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey	Glasgow	1867, 1869	USD 50.00 - 75.00	33.00
198	WARREN, BENJAMIN HARRY	Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	1890	USD 100.00 - 120.00	66.00
199	WEBBER, CHARLES WILKINS	Wild Scenes and Song-Birds	New York	1854	USD 50.00 - 80.00	33.00
200	WILSON, ALEXANDER	American Ornithology	Philadelphia's	1808-24-14, 1825-33	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	3,300.00

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