[Rarebooks] FS: Sowerby's "Illustrated Index of British Shells" 1859. w/24 colored plates

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CONCHOLOGY) Sowerby, George Brettingham. ILLUSTRATED INDEX OF BRITISH SHELLS. Containing Figures of All the Recent Species, with Names and Other Information. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and the Author. 1859. 4to. xv,(1)pp. Index. Plus 24 engraved hand colored plates, each with a printed explanatory leaf, and all but 1 with a tissue guard. Orig. gilt & blind stamped red pebbled cloth. Spine lightly soiled and with a few small chips. Bound in at rear is a leaf of advertisements for Sowerby's natural history supply business.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)

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