Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

305 c   (NATURAL HISTORY.) Pennant, Thomas. British Zoology [ with : Genera of Birds]. 6 engraved sectional titles, 295 engraved plates, folding plate of sheet music. 4 volumes. 4to, 9 1 / 2 x7 1 / 2 inches, contemporary diced calf, recased, later marbled endpapers, volume one rebacked with plain calf, other spines worn; occasional light foxing and offsetting; bookplates of Eric Carrington Smith. Warrington: Benjamin White, 1776-1781 [300/500] 306 c   (ORCHIDS.) Sander, Frederick. Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described. 182 (of 192) chromolithographed plates. 4 volumes, First and Second Series. Folio, 20 1 / 2 x15 inches, original half morocco, worn; plates lightly browned at edges, several with remnants of tissue overlay stuck to face of the image, generally nice and bright colors. Provenance: familial descent of renowned 20th century orchid hybridizer Harold J. Patterson. St. Albans: F. Sander & Co., 1888-1894 [5,000/7,500] 305 306