ID 474490
Lot 271 | MONTAGU, George (1753-1815) - Testacea Britannica. London: J.S. Hollis, 1803.
Estimate value
€ 100 – 200
First edition. A copy enriched in its second part with numerous contemporary annotations in the form of drawings of shells with contemporary colouring in the margins and complete of the handcoloured plates.
2 parts in one volume, 4to (270 x 214mm). Engraved titles with handcoloured vignettes, marginal drawings of shells in second part, 16 engraved numbered handcoloured plates (without the third part of Supplement sometimes present and published a few years later in 1808, some browning and spotting, occasional offsetting). Recent half dark calf over marbled boards, marbled edges.
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