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PERRY, George. Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for William Miller, [1810-] 1811.
2° (419 x 262mm). Letterpress half-title, title, introduction (4pp.), index (1p.), 61 hand-coloured aquatint plates by John Clarke after the author, each with accompanying leaf of description. (Some offsetting onto text, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary straight-grained brown morocco, covers with stylised foliate border in gilt and blind, spine gilt in five compartments, lettered in two, g.e. (minor crack to head of back joint, extremities rubbed, slightly scuffed). Provenance: Sir George Macgrath (inscriptions); gift to his niece, Mary Maclean (inscriptions and armorial label); by descent to Alice M. C. Mann (inscription).
FIRST EDITION of one of the classic English works on conchology, and the only book on shells to be illustrated with aquatints. The work led to a rift between Perry and his fellow conchologist G. B. Sowerby, who accused him of dreaming up extraordinary shells and questioned his naming of certain species. Sir George Magrath, who owned the present copy, was surgeon to Lord Nelson; Mary Maclean was daughter of Thomas Maclean, Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope. Nissen ZBI 3134.
2° (419 x 262mm). Letterpress half-title, title, introduction (4pp.), index (1p.), 61 hand-coloured aquatint plates by John Clarke after the author, each with accompanying leaf of description. (Some offsetting onto text, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary straight-grained brown morocco, covers with stylised foliate border in gilt and blind, spine gilt in five compartments, lettered in two, g.e. (minor crack to head of back joint, extremities rubbed, slightly scuffed). Provenance: Sir George Macgrath (inscriptions); gift to his niece, Mary Maclean (inscriptions and armorial label); by descent to Alice M. C. Mann (inscription).
FIRST EDITION of one of the classic English works on conchology, and the only book on shells to be illustrated with aquatints. The work led to a rift between Perry and his fellow conchologist G. B. Sowerby, who accused him of dreaming up extraordinary shells and questioned his naming of certain species. Sir George Magrath, who owned the present copy, was surgeon to Lord Nelson; Mary Maclean was daughter of Thomas Maclean, Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope. Nissen ZBI 3134.