The rare French Montagu

Montagu, G. [Chenu, J. C. (translator)]

Bibliothèque conchyliologique Tome quatrième. Testacea Britannica ou histoire naturelle des coquilles marines fluviatiles et terrestres d'Angleterre.

Published 1846
Item ID 78808
€180.00

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Paris, A. Franck, 1846. Large 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). Half-title to the series, half-title and title page, with engraved vignette, to the work. xi, 364 pp.; 12 engraved plates. Publisher's printed boards with engraved vignette on front board.

This translated edition contains the text and plates of both the 1803 first edition as well as the 1808 supplement. Provenance: small bookplate of Dr. Hauquelin, and a larger, colourful armorial bookplate of McCulloch, "Vi et Amino" (by strength and courage). Of the latter also a small stamp on the front free endpaper recto and half-title to the work. Neither is known as a malacologist, but of Hauquelin it is known that he had more malacological works in his library. Dance, P. (1986), A History of Shell Collecting, p. 138.

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