Sowerby (James). British Mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the Mineralogy of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1804-17, 550 hand-coloured engraved plates (complete), some heightened with gum arabic, index at end of volume V, Birkbeck College Library stamps, occasional offsetting and toning to text, some mainly marginal water stains, library labels and usual marks to endpapers and pastedowns, hinges reinforced, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and scuffed with residue from labels, 8vo (Qty: 5) Ward & Carozzi 2090. Sowerby's important work on mineralogy, originally issued in parts. The plates are meticulously engraved after drawings from specimens in his own collection.
Sowerby (James). British Mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the Mineralogy of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1804-17, 550 hand-coloured engraved plates (complete), some heightened with gum arabic, index at end of volume V, Birkbeck College Library stamps, occasional offsetting and toning to text, some mainly marginal water stains, library labels and usual marks to endpapers and pastedowns, hinges reinforced, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and scuffed with residue from labels, 8vo (Qty: 5) Ward & Carozzi 2090. Sowerby's important work on mineralogy, originally issued in parts. The plates are meticulously engraved after drawings from specimens in his own collection.
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