[Rarebooks] FS: Sowerby's "Conchological Illustrations" w/200 colored plates. London: 1841

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CONCHOLOGY) Sowerby, George Brettingham, Jun. THE CONCHOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. London: Sowerby. 1841. 8vo. Irregularly paginated (this work was originally issued in parts). Illustrated with 200 hand-colored engraved plates (complete) containing some 1,500 images. 19th c. gilt decorated calf over pebbled cloth, outer hinges cracked but holding nicely. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few of the plates are closely trimmed at fore-edge, affecting a few plate numbers but none of the images.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)

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