The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations

Lot 158
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Sold
$ 4 032
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 753021
Lot 158 | The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with IllustrationsThomas Doughty, 1830 and 1832[DOUGHTY, Thomas (1793-1856).] The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations. Volume I. Philadelphia: J. and T. Doughty, 1830. [With:] The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations. Volume II. Philadelphia: J. and T. Doughty, 1832. "The first major book issued in the United States to be illustrated with hand-colored lithographs" (Stamped with a National Character). The Cabinet was released in monthly parts; the present lot contains the first two volumes. Part of a third volume was also published before the project was discontinued. It is "an odd amalgam of natural history, sporting accounts, travel narratives and practical advice for the countryman … it marks the dominance of lithography in book illustration, although the process had been commercially viable in America for a decade. The plates in the first volume are by Thomas Doughty, a well known as a Hudson River School painter, who executed the drawings on the lithographic stones" (ibid.). Stamped with a National Character 12; Bennett p. 35; Howes D-433; Phillips, Sporting Books, p.69. Two volumes (only), quarto (285 x 223mm). Vol 1: engraved portrait frontispiece, lithographed title, 24 half-colored lithographs, 1 black-and-white plate; vol 2: engraved portrait frontispiece, lithographed title, one additional engraving, 22 hand-colored lithographs (some gatherings browned, spotting and staining, dampstains). Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards by Dragonfly Bindery.
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
20 Rockefeller Plaza
10020 New York
USA
Preview
26.05.2022 – 26.05.2022
Phone +1 212 636 2000
Fax +1 212 636 4930
Email
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase
Shipping Postal service
Courier service
pickup by yourself
Payment methods Wire Transfer
Business hoursBusiness hours
Mo 09:30 – 17:00   
Tu 09:30 – 17:00   
We 09:30 – 17:00   
Th 09:30 – 17:00   
Fr 09:30 – 17:00   
Sa closed
Su closed
?>
× Create a Search Subscription