Description:
Cat Prints, Nineteen Natural History Examples. Including: Daniel Giraud Elliot's Felis Caffra, Felis Temminckii, and Felis Canadensis after Wolf, from his A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats, with accompanying text leaves (some marginal dampstain damage); two hand-colored octavo-format French plates showing the male and female ocelot and lynx; The Norwegian Lynx, colored lithograph after Wolf, c. 1861-1867; two oblong folio hand-colored engravings printed by Lizars of Edinburgh of the ocelot and puma, or American lion; title page from Buffon, Cuvier, and Lacepede's Natural History, New York: Miller, 1833, with lion printed in gold, and a hand-colored plate of a serval; plate 96 by F. Guerin, hand-colored engraving showing Le chat elegant, chat sauvage, and chat domestique from Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle et des Phenomenes de la Nature, 1834; [and] a defective uncolored copy of Catton's Twenty-six Animals, New Haven: Howe, 1825, containing some text leaves and eight plates of cats; sizes vary. (19)
Estimate $300-400
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