wodarchs introduction study conchology observations von mawe (5 Ergebnisse)

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

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

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.

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.