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A History of British Mollusca, and Their Shells.
1853 Four volumes (complete). lxxx, 486, viii, 557, x, 616, vi, 301 p., with 201 hand-coloured lithographed pls and 2 plain plates, contemporary publisher’s cloth (some slight wear to lower margins spines volumes 1 and 4. A few pages with slight foxing, but thegreat majority clean. Small round ex libris on front paste-down.A good and sound copy of this great classic of 19 century European shell books, here in the much scarcer larger format (18 x 26,5 cm, only 15 x 23 in uncoloured copy version) with beautifully hand-coloured plates. The 64 plates in volume I depict living shells, the remainder of the plates were published in volume 4.
A History of British Mollusca, and Their Shells. Vol. I. Tunicata, and the Families of Lamellibranchiata as far as Cyprinidae. Vol. II. Remaining Families of Bivalves, the Pteropoda, and the Gasteropoda as Far as Ianthinidae.
1853 Two volumes (of 4). lxxx, 486, viii, 557 p., 64 b/w plates, publisher’s cloth (outer ends spine with somewhat worn). A few pages with some foxing but the majority clean. Great classic of 19 century European shell books. The plates in vol. I depict living shells, the remainder of the plates were published in vol. 4.
