Lot Details
Lot 5
AKELEY, CARL Four items.
Comprising: Lion Spearing. Special Zoology Leaflet No. 1. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1920. First edition. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers. Frontispiece, plates. Pale stain at lower backstrip, light toning at gutter, else fine; another copy of same. Fine; The Work of Carl E. Akeley in Field Museum of Natural History. [Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1927]. First edition. Publisher's stiff card portfolio in slipcase. 48 loose black-and-white photogravures (each 12 x 9 inches), one page of text, two-page list of subjects. Slipcase worn with spine detached but present, ownership signature above title, splits at foot of portfolio spine, photogravures lightly toned; and Lions, Gorillas and Their Neighbors. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. Second edition. Publisher's orange cloth in dust jacket. Frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title. Jacket toned and worn with marginal losses and front flap detached but present, lightly toned throughout.
The lot four titles. (4)
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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