An Essay Towards A Natural History Of The Corallines And Other Marine Productions Of The Like Kind

by John Ellis F R S

$800 · Offered by Kuenzig Books

London: Printed for the author 1755. xvii, 1 blank , 10 , 1 -103, 1 pages. Plus 41 plates extra to the pagination of which 18 are folding see below . Quarto. Early calf with maroon gilt spine label. Joints cracked but still sound. Tooled spine age darkened/sunned with minor loss at the head. With the bookplate of Wm. Constable Esq, F.R.S. & F.A.S. on the front pastedown. Some offsetting of the plates but generally a bright copy noting a few

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