Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2526BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 14, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
Heck, Johann Caspar (b. 1740),Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, New York: Rudolph Garrigue, 1851, five volumes, comprising four 8vo text volumes (Volumes I-IV),and one oblong 4to plate volume (Volume II) only, three quarter morocco, (bumped and chipped, with scuffing to morocco, covers soiled, text Vol. IV with rippling to front cover cloth and slightly bowed, plate Vol. II with front cover detached, owner's name inked to flyleaves, endpapers spotted and browned, scattered spotting).
Estimate $250-350