British Conchology, or an account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas.

JEFFREYS, J.G.

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London, J. van Voorst, 1904-1869. 5 volumes. 8vo (195 x 125mm). pp. cxiv, 341; xiv, 465; 393; 486; 258, with 147 (107 handcoloured) engraved and lithographed plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spines. The 40 plain plates were never issued coloured. "The Welshman, John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809-1885), author of the British Conchology and for long a leading authority on eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean molluscs, had a remarkably complete collection of shells from British and adjacent seas" (Dance. Shell collecting, p. 217). The first volume is a reissue of the 1862 edition.Nissen ZBI, 2103. Seller Inventory # 7458

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Antiquariaat Junk was established in 1899 in Berlin by Dr Wilhelm Junk. A German refugee he moved his business to The Hague (Holland) where my father Rudolph Schierenberg bought it in 1935. Antiquariaat Junk carries a large stock of very fine Natural History items, including beautiful colour plate books as well as scientific works. Most of them on display at our website, with thousands of colour pictures http://www.antiquariaatjunk.com Antiquariaat Junk is since 1899 one of the leading Natural History dealers of the world.

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