The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shell, accurately drawn and painted after nature…

by Thomas Martyn

$78,500 · Offered by Hordern House

London: the Author , 1784. Two volumes, square folio, engraved frontispiece with a Greek-key border applied in gold, and 80 engraved plates, all finely coloured by hand, edged in black, each plate presented on a larger sheet of blue paper, each with manuscript edging in black and numbered in manuscript; two engraved title-pages in English and French , and with 27 pages of bilingual text, each volume with an engraved explanatory table; in the

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