The conchologist

by John Warren

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. First edition, small 4to, pp. 4 , 204; lithograph frontispiece and 16 composite lithograph plates; recently rebacked in green paper over marbled boards; corners worn, text and plates variously foxed, some plates trimmed close, plate III with a printing error due to a blemish in the paper that strikes a blank line through the bottom of the image; good and sound. This copy inscribed by the author to Mrs. Chase on

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