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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Voyager's Companion or Shell Collector's Pilot' by J. Mawe, originally published in 1825, serves as an indispensable guide for those interested in natural history and shell collecting. This book offers practical advice and detailed descriptions to aid travelers and collectors in identifying and preserving various specimens. Intended as a companion for voyages, it combines elements of natural science with the thrill of discovery. Mawe's work provides insights into the methods and mindset of early 19th-century naturalists. This edition retains the original charm and educational value, making it a fascinating read for historians, collectors, and anyone captivated by the wonders of the natural world and the era of exploration.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Voyager's Companion or Shell Collector's Pilot' by J. Mawe, originally published in 1825, serves as an indispensable guide for those interested in natural history and shell collecting. This book offers practical advice and detailed descriptions to aid travelers and collectors in identifying and preserving various specimens. Intended as a companion for voyages, it combines elements of natural science with the thrill of discovery. Mawe's work provides insights into the methods and mindset of early 19th-century naturalists. This edition retains the original charm and educational value, making it a fascinating read for historians, collectors, and anyone captivated by the wonders of the natural world and the era of exploration.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Second edition. 2nd edition. Small octavo. Half leather over blue paper boards. Gilt itle and yer on spine. Wear to edges and corners of boards, head and heel of spine. Corners bumped. Slight foxing to early and late pages. 140 p. w/ 1 lithographic color frontis and 6 hand colored plates.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Rubbing to joints, ends of spine and corners or boards. Some loss of marbled paper at margins of boards. Small pieces of leather shaved from corners of boards. Owner's name written in ink on fore page edges. Pencil check marks to lists of shells. Minor foxing.; xiii, 140 pages + hand-coloured frontispiece + 6 hand-coloured plates with facing letterpress descriptions. Half-calf and marbled boards. Red leather spine label. Spine title: "Treatise on Conchology". Page dimensions: 191 x 116mm. Title continues: "With Observations on the Nature and Properties of the Animals; and Directions for Collecting, Preserving, and Cleaning Shells. A New Edition, With considerable Additions and Alterations, by J. Mawe".; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.…

Re-bound in full brown leather, octavo, gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, xiii + 140pp, illus with colour plates, VG (moderately heavy browning to page edges, moderate foxing throughout, some annotation in pencil & ink).

Second edition, 12mo, pp. [2], xv, [1], 152, [6]; nicely hand-colored frontispiece and 6 plates of various shells; contemporary brown cloth, speckled edges; spine sunned, upper hinge split, very good and clean. This edition with two additional chapters and two extra plates more than the first.

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and J. Mawe, 1832. 12mo (18.2 x 10.6 cm). xii, 149 pp.; full-colour frontispiece and six hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green diced morocco; spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, and green morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined and blind-tooled borders. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. = This work was initially written by Charles Wodarch (years of birth and death unknown) and published by John Mawe in 1820 (with four plates), and went through several reprints up to 1827. The British explorer and malacologist John Mawe (1764-1829) subsequently corrected and expanded it several times, this being the final - and least common - edition, published after Mawe's death. Provenance: dedication to "Jane" in an old hand, dated September 23 1839; inscribed by E. G. Wilkins, Leyton, dated September 24th [19]27. A sumptuously bound copy. Nissen ZBI, 4437 [under Wodarch].…

Zustand: Very Good-. hand colored frontisplate + 6 hand colored plates Octavo half roan spine gilt titled & ruled [head of spine damaged for 1cm/edges & tips worn/slight chipping to the paper sides although text readable] xiiipp =[frontis. +title +explanation of title +contents +glossary] +[1p=blank] +[17-140pp +6 plates and [6pp=explanation of the plates] *Divided into univalve and bivalves and found on land, in rivers and the sea. Arranged for the collector with directions for cleaning and arranging them systematically. A clean tight copy with minimal foxing and minor signs of use. 1st edition published in 1822, this 3rd edition includes additional plates. 1 volume. Hardcover. …

First edition. Undoubtedly the most entertaining shell-collector s handbook of that period was published by John Mawe. (Dance, p. 93). 15+207 pp., handcol. frontispiece + 36 lithographic plates, linen bound 8.