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Lot 234
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
WOOD, William (1774-1857). General Conchology; or a Description of Shells, arranged according to the Linnean System. London: for John Booth, 1835.
8vo (234 x 155mm). With 60 hand-colored plates. (Lacking half-title, some light toning to text and plate guards.) Contemporary half morocco (spine and corners repaired, lacking spine label, front hinge cracked with spine pulling away from text block). Provenance: E. M. Howland (inscription on front flyleaf dated 1934). Second edition. Nissen, ZBI 4455.