Ending 26th Sep, 2021 18:00

Books and Maps - Timed Auction - Fri 17 Sept to Sun 26 Sept

 
  Lot 15
 

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Mantell, Gideon Algernon: A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains

Mantell, Gideon Algernon: A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, Consisting of Coloured Illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic Remains of a Former World" and Artis's "Antediluvian Phytology", With a Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 74 plates, mostly tinted. H G Bohn, 1850, first edition. 4to. PP: 207+Plates with tissue guards. Later half leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Leicester Museum bookplate and Leister Free Library blind stamp to top corners of all the plates.

Provenance: Leicester Museum Reference Library (Most of their books only have their bookplate and no stamps)

Sold for £440


 

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