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Lot 3733 SESSION 12 - 11.30AM Thursday 31 July Documents
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $400
BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS, 1740, engravings by August Johann Rosel von Rosenhof, 40 coloured plates stuck in a plain page book, first page with engraved plate, Der Insecten Belustigung (The Insect Merriment), Zweyter Theil (German Edition), together with hand written index for Vols 1-3, inside cover with bookplate of John Thomas Stanley Esq of Alderley. Covers loose, some ageing to paper, otherwise very fine and scarce.
John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley.
With research.
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