A MANUAL OF THE LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS
Written by William Turton; John Edward Gray.
Stock no. 1208944
Published by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans. 1840. Almost very good condition.

A new edition, thoroughly revised and much enlarged by John Edward Gray. With figures of each of the kinds of shell. Brown leather binding with five raised bands to spine and gilt title, metal clasp with metal protected corners. All edges gilt. B/w text illustrations plus 12 hand-coloured plates including frontis. ix and 324 pages including index plus a number of blank pages to rear (presumably for notes). Rebacked with original spine laid down and new joint leaves a 0.5cm gap between spine and leather front board (has been rebvound as if for a cloth bound book, not leather binding). Spine is worn with loss to lower section and torn across the title. Boards are scuffed and marked. Metal clasp works well. Front joint is broken but held with rebacking cloth. Contemporary inscriptions to front pastedown. Old tape mark to gutter of frontis and title page. A few marks to endpapers. Some very neat, tidy annotation in red ink (looks part of the original work!) to contents. Else contents in lovely condition for a book of this age.

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WODARCH'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CONCHOLOGY
Written by J Mawe.
Stock no. 1208920
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme And Brown. 4th 1932. Very good condition.

Fourth Edition with considerable additions and alterations. Describing the Orders, Genera and Species of Shells with Observations on the nature and Properties of the Animals, and directions for collecting, preserving and cleaning shells. Full calf leather boards, gilt borders, gilt title to spine on red title block. Marbled endpapers. 7 hand coloured plates. xii and 149 pages plus plates to rear. Spine & corners lightly rubbed, some spotting to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. A few very light touch pencil annotations. Some foxing present. All plates present with some browning. A nice copy.

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LIVING AND FOSSIL BRACHIOPODS
Written by M.J.S. Rudwick.
Stock no. 1829143
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 199 pages including index. ISBN: 0091030803. Top edge of text block foxed. Otherwise, contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

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A HISTORY OF BRITISH MOLLUSCA, AND THEIR SHELLS (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Edward Forbes; Sylvanus Hanley.
Stock no. 2133307
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1853. Almost very good condition.

Leather spines and corners. Maroon title blocks to spines, gilt titles. Marbled outer page edges and endpapers. 203 hand-coloured plates. Bookplates of 'The Wheelton hind Collection 1920' to front pastedown of each book. Rear join at rear of Volume 1 (on outside); leather has split, but still holding together well. Some scuffs and chips of leather spines and corners. Foxing to prelims of books; some margin marks; page browning. Hand-coloured illustrations are still nice and bright.

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ILLUSTRATED INDEX OF BRITISH SHELLS
Written by G.B. Sowerby. Illustrated by G.B. Sowerby.
Stock no. 1208607
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 2nd 1887. Almost very good condition.

Containing Figures Of All The Recent Species, With Names and Other Information. Habits and localities, range of depth of marine species and comparative abundance. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 26 tissue-guarded hand-coloured plates depicting 668 species. Red cloth, gilt title to front cover, embossed decorative borders to covers. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn with small tear in cloth at base of spine. Covers darkened at edges and on spine. Front hinge cracked. Inscription in ink on verso of front endpaper. All plates present. One tissue guard detached. Foxing to tissue guards. Plates clean except for a very few which have minor foxing at the edges. A bright copy.

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