Rambles in Search of Shells, Land and Freshwater
- Publisher : John van Voorst
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 10 hand-col plates
Description:
First edition. A charming Victorian introduction to British land and freshwater molluscs by the noted naturalist James Edmund Harting, illustrated with 10 attractive hand-coloured plates.
Freeman 1568.
Condition
Small 8vo, orig. cloth, decorative gilt title to upper board and spine, spine slightly faded, boards lightly speckled; some wear to head/foot of spine. Foxing to the endpapers and final text leaves. Good.
Provenance: From the library of British naturalist and conchologist Ernest William Swanton (1870-1958), with his signature to the verso of the front free endpaper. E.W. Swanton was curator of the Haslemere Educational Museum and author of British Non-Marine Mollusca (1906). Early French bookseller's ticket to the front endpaper and contemporary manuscript notes in pencil (in French) to the recto of the rear free endpaper.
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