elements conchology introduction knowledge shells von costa mendes (8 Ergebnisse)

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

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

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

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

(22,5 x 14 cm). VIII (4) 318 (1) S. Mit 7 gefalteten kolorierten Kupfertafeln und 2 gefalteten Tabellen. Moderner Pappband im Stil der Zeit. Einzige Ausgabe. - Der englische Naturforscher Mendes da Costa (1717-1791) war einer der ersten jüdischen Mitglieder der Royal Society of London, deren Bibliothekar er auch wurde. Sein besonderes Interesse galt den Conchylien, über die er nicht nur forschte, sondern auch eine große Sammlung anlegte, die selbst Pallas bei seiner Reise nach London besuchte. - Stellenweise gering gebräunt. Wenige Blätter mit Papierfehlern in den weißen Rändern (ohne Textverlust), sonst sauber und wohlerhalten. - Nissen ZBI 2784.

pp. viii, iii-vi, 318, (i) Errata, (i) Advertisement. 7 folding, engraved plates. Two folding leaves containing tables signed U5 & U6, numbered as leaves 297-298, are inserted between pp.296-299. Modern half calf, some old and faded marginal staining at the top margin, one leaf folded vertically, one text leaf with a small lower margin tear without loss, the mispagination of the preliminary leaves is an error and there is no loss of text, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN. *FREEMAN BNHB #3555; ESTC T113814.

London, Benjamin White, 1776. 8vo (21.4 x 13.0 cm). viii, iii-vi, 319, [i] pp.; seven large, folded, engraved plates in fine, contemporary hand-colouring; two large, folded charts. Contemporary full speckled calf. Boards with gilt vignette and monogram; spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt stars, vignettes; Greek key bands at head and foot, and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = A rare, originally hand-coloured copy of the first work on shells by the British malacologist Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-1791) in a fine, contemporary binding. The colouring is realistic, accurate. Two years later his Historia Naturalis Testacearum Britanniae was published, but this earlier work deals with worldwide shells. Provenance: Bartlett Gurney (1756-1803), of Norwich; with his bookplate on the front pastedown, and his monogram and vignette of a lion on both boards. Also with the armorial bookplate of John Longe, of Spixworth Hall (probably the priest and magistrate who lived from 1765 to 1834), and inscribed by the leading Conidae specialist of the second half of the 20th, and early years of the 21st century, Alan Jacob Kohn (1931-2022). "Bartlett Gurney, of Coltishall in Norfolk, was the eldest son of Henry Gurney of St Augustine's Parish Norwich. and Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Bartlett of Bartlett House, Bolton near Bradford in Yorkshire. A member of the great Quaker family and a partner in Gurney's Bank, Norwich, he married firstly, in 1780, Hannah, daughter of Abel Chapman, of Whitney. She died in 1798 without children, and he married secondly, in 1800, Mary, daughter of William Cockell, of Attleborough" (University of Toronto Libraries). Spixworth Hall, near Norwich, was built in 1607 and demolished in 1952. "The house's library consisted of one of the most extensive collections of first-edition books of any stately home in the UK, with works by William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Miquel de Cervantes" (Wikipedia). Some light offsetting from the plates to the opposite text leaves, as often; hinges slightly tender, but otherwise a very good copy in a fine binding and with an interesting provenance. Nissen ZBI, 2784.

London, Benjamin White, 1776. 8vo (21.9 x 13.5 cm). viii, iii-vi, 319 pp.; seven large, folded, finely hand-coloured engraved plates, two large, folded charts. 20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges. = A rare, originally hand-coloured copy of the first work on shells by the British malacologist Emanuel Mendes da Costa, (1717-1791). The colouring is realistic, accurate. Two years later his Historia Naturalis Testacearum Britanniae was published, but this earlier work deals with worldwide shells. Provenance: the name Clench (the American malacologist William James 'Bill' Clench [1897-1984]) written in the top margin of the title page verso, and the stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the title page. Some offsetting from the plates to the opposite text leaves, but otherwise a very good, clean copy. Nissen ZBI, 2784.