Sold for:
$369
$369
Cooke, Edward William (1811-1880) Entwickelungsgeschichte: Grotesque Animals . London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1872. Folio, illustrated with twenty-four plates of fantastical creatures, in publisher's gilt-stamped green textured boards; all text leaves disbound, the original binding was purely adhesive, and is adhesive no more; backstrip detached, 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. Cooke was a serious painter and naturalist with a sense of whimsy.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
