Sold for:
$2,583
$2,583
Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890) Falconry in the Valley of the Indus . London: John Van Voorst, 1852 First edition, with the half-title, illustrated with full-page frontispiece and three full-page plates in the text (a total of four), eight pages of publisher's ads after the text; pale yellow endleaves; bound in full publisher's textured purple cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, boards blind ruled; minor water stain at the foot of the frontispiece, spine faded to brown, headcap a bit crumpled, binding shifting forward from the back board a bit, no signs of interior foxing, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
