Author: Forbes, E.; Hanley, S.
Title: A History of British Mollusca, and their Shells
Description: Van Voorst [1848-]1853 lxxx, 486; viii, 557; x, 616; vi, 302, 2 plain + 201 hand-coloured lithographic plates. . HB. 4 vols, roy. 8vo, orig. cloth, patchily faded, a few small nicks to spines; endpapers foxed - generally very clean. Exquisitely hand coloured plates. Some gatherings unopened. Vg.. Plates by G.B. Sowerby and James de Carle Sowerby. Rare large paper edition with plates hand-coloured (in the small paper edition plates are uncoloured). The two plain plates are never coloured. Plates comprise 139 of shells and 64 of animals. [Nissen ZBI, 1406]..
Keywords: ABABOOKFAIR; Britain; Conchology; Molluscs; Mollusca; Hand-coloured plates; Malacology; PBFA
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Title: A History of British Mollusca, and their Shells
Description: Van Voorst [1848-]1853 lxxx, 486; viii, 557; x, 616; vi, 302, 2 plain + 201 hand-coloured lithographic plates. . HB. 4 vols, roy. 8vo, orig. cloth, patchily faded, a few small nicks to spines; endpapers foxed - generally very clean. Exquisitely hand coloured plates. Some gatherings unopened. Vg.. Plates by G.B. Sowerby and James de Carle Sowerby. Rare large paper edition with plates hand-coloured (in the small paper edition plates are uncoloured). The two plain plates are never coloured. Plates comprise 139 of shells and 64 of animals. [Nissen ZBI, 1406]..
Keywords: ABABOOKFAIR; Britain; Conchology; Molluscs; Mollusca; Hand-coloured plates; Malacology; PBFA
Price: GBP 1150.00 = appr. US$ 1642.18 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: A33002
- Book number: A33002
See more books from our catalog: Invertebrates,Mollusca