elements conchology linnaean system illustrated von rev burrow (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Printed for the Author by Richard & Arthur Taylor. 1815, 1st Edition. 8vo, xv + 248pp plus 28 engraved plates. Hardcover no dust jacket. Grey cloth spine with paper title label over grey paper covered boards in very good condition with some marking to paper covered boards with the spine a little grubby. Inside in very good condition all pages unmarked and unblemished. A lovely copy.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. E I Burrow, C Heath (illustrator). New Edition. A scarce hand coloured copy of the New Edition of Burrow's Conchology. In contemporary half calf binding with gilt-decorated raised bands and title label to spine, and cobbled cloth on the boards. With 25 hand coloured and 3 black and white plates, including the frontispiece. The binding is clean and sound but with a lot of chipping and scuffing to the leather surface, particularly around the top of the spine where the top spine end has some fraying and the joint with the front board is beginning to show a small split (about 1 cm). The spine joints are generally rubbed. The cloth is faded towards the top edge of both boards with some bubbling in the faded area on the back board. There is some pale marking and a scuff to the surface on the front board. Corners with light rubbing. Internally there is a small cut out label with the owner's name on the front free endpaper. Contents: hand coloured frontispiece; title; contents and preface xix; text pp 1-202; writers on conchology 203-238; nomenclature p 239; table of colours 240-242; plate list 243-5; 3 black and white and 24 hand coloured plates; Publisher's ad 2pp. The contents are clean with delicate colouring to the plates. There is sporadic light spotting to the text pages - most frequently in the margins and some browning at the top page edge. The plate paper is lightly toned and there is a mark in the side margin of plate VII. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Very Good. New Edition. Book measures 21x15.cm. xix,238pp, 28 plates, of which 25 are coloured or partailly coloured. Bound in original publishers brown embossed cloth, with gilt lettering. Cloth rubbed, some abrasion wear, short split on hinge joint. Binding in good clean condition. Internally, pages and plates clean. A good copy. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Cloth backed boards, 8vo. xvii + 245pp. Good. New Edition. Boards rubbed & soiled, corners worn. Original paper label affixed to the spine. 28 engraved plates. Foxed. From the library of Richard I. Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvard s Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, before returning to Massachusetts and graduating from Harvard in 1951. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of Richard I. Johnson to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell books ever assembled.