Sea & Water Life, 26 books, including
£500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 17 May 2017 at 12:00 BST
Description
Bell, Thomas A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea. London: 1853. 8vo, green morocco gilt by J. Wright, bookplate of James Richard Wigram; Johnston, George A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizard. 1842. 8vo, 25 plates, some partially hand-coloured, green cloth gilt; Pritchard, Andrew A History of Infusoria... London: Whittaker and Co., 1842. 8vo, 12 hand-coloured plates, red cloth, rebacked; Jones, Thomas Rymer The Aquarian Naturalist... London: Jan Van Voorst, 1858. 8vo, hand-coloured plates, contemporary green half morocco with gilt aquatic tooling to spine; another copy in cloth; Tugwell, George A Manual of the Sea-Anemonies Commonly Found on the English Coast. London: John Van Voorst, 1856. 8vo, 7 chromolithographed plates, original blue cloth gilt; Step, Edward Shell Life... London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1901. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, stamp of the Edinburgh Guiders' Library; Sowerby, G.B. Popular History of The Aquarium. London, 1857. 12mo, original red cloth gilt; Wheeler, W.H. The Sea-Coast. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902. 8vo, red cloth gilt; British Museum A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries... London, 1908. Fifth edition, 8vo; and 16 others, sold not subject to return (26)