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LOT #288
Alexander von Humboldt "Cosmos" and "Views of Nature" Book Collection
(6) volumes comprising early English translations published by Henry G. Bohn, London 1850-1860, including (5) volume “Cosmos” and “Views of Nature: or Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation”; uniformly half-bound calf over marbled boards, all edges and end-papers marbled; “Views” having a color frontispiece; together with Ovid’s “Epistolarum Heroidum Liber” published by Bonwick, Nicolson and Newborough, London, 1702 having full paneled calf binding
Estimate: $400 - $600
Hammer Price: $200
Dimensions: Height: 7 inches, Width: 4 3/4 inches, Depth: 1 1/4 inches (each Humboldt)
Condition: Good, overall moderate wear consistent with normal use and age; all spine titles darkened but readable; "Cosmos" having chips to spine ends, splits to hinges, losses to spines volumes #1 and #4, a detached portion present #1; "Views" having a pulled spine top; rubber stamps of name; Ovid having detached front board and end-papers; losses to tooled tulip designs at corners of blind stamped panels on boards; name to end-paper
Disclaimers: not subject to individual page-by-page inspection for completeness
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Sales Tax: Kansas (6.500%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6.000%), Washington (10.500%)