Containing some 600 hand-coloured engraved plates, a set of Sowerby and De Carle’s The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain… of 1812-29 was just another of the many attraction in the February 19 sale held by Lyon & Turnbull (25/20% buyer’s premium).
In contemporary half morocco gilt, it was bound as seven volumes to incorporate the later issued and only eight completed parts of an unfinished final volume. It made £14,000, selling online just under estimate.
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