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Recueil des Coquilles decrites par Lamarck dans son histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres et non encore figurees
by Delessert, Benjamin / Lamarck
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About This Item
Fortin, Masson et C.ie, Paris, 1841. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First and only Edition Paris 1841. Complete with 40 hand coloured engraved plates with over 1000 shell species, originally catalogued by Lamarck in his Histoire Naturelle, but without illustration. 48.5 x 34 cms Folio. Half title, Text leaves Intermittent light to moderate spotting, more so in the preliminaries, and a few others toned, approximately half the plates are toned and a few neatly re-strengthened with tape to gutter, a few are lightly spotted, with a few more spotted to verso only. Bound in later three quarter green morocco, leather rubbed and browned to spine.
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- Title
- Recueil des Coquilles decrites par Lamarck dans son histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres et non encore figurees
- Author
- Delessert, Benjamin / Lamarck
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fortin, Masson et C.ie, Paris, 1841
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- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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