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REEVE, Lovell Augustus and George Brettingham SOWERBY. Conchologia Iconica: or Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. London: Reeve Brothers, 1843-1878.
20 volumes in 21, 4° (270 x 210mm.). Lithographic portrait, 2722 coloured lithographic plates finished by hand, 5 plain plates, by Reeve and Sowerby after Sowerby. (A few leaves slightly spotted or soiled, lacks text leaf to plate 1 of Pinna in vol.XI, a few titles in facsimile, a few leaves marginally frayed.) Modern green morocco-backed cloth. Together with a volume containing index and a cloth box of 244 loose duplicate plates, most with accompanying text. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.
Rarely found as a complete set, this formidable work comprises some 27,000 illustrations containing an almost complete repertory of species. Nissen ZBI 3331. (23)
20 volumes in 21, 4° (270 x 210mm.). Lithographic portrait, 2722 coloured lithographic plates finished by hand, 5 plain plates, by Reeve and Sowerby after Sowerby. (A few leaves slightly spotted or soiled, lacks text leaf to plate 1 of Pinna in vol.XI, a few titles in facsimile, a few leaves marginally frayed.) Modern green morocco-backed cloth. Together with a volume containing index and a cloth box of 244 loose duplicate plates, most with accompanying text. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.
Rarely found as a complete set, this formidable work comprises some 27,000 illustrations containing an almost complete repertory of species. Nissen ZBI 3331. (23)