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Lot 034 - "Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things" Antique Natural History Book by William Hamilton Gibson, Illustrated by the Author, Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897
Lot 034 - "Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things" Antique Natural History Book by William Hamilton Gibson, Illustrated by the Author, Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897
"Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things" is an antique natural history book written and illustrated by William Hamilton Gibson, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897. The cloth-bound cover is decorated with a color-printed vignette depicting a wreath of wasps arranged around a green ground panel bearing the title and author's name in gilt lettering. The spine is lettered in gilt with the title and author's name, with small insect vignettes as dividers. A photographic frontispiece portrait of the author faces the title page, below which appears a facsimile signature. The title page notes the book was illustrated by the author. Contents include essays on natural subjects including beetles, spiders, fungi, botanical subjects, and insects, among others, with chapter titles including "The Story of the Floundering Beetle," "Ballooning Spiders," "The Paper Wasp and His Doings," and "The Perfumed Beetles."
Condition shows wear to the spine ends and corners, with fraying to the head of the spine. Interior pages show toning consistent with age.
