LOT 3555
17th July 2024
1/5
Place a bid
You’ll need to sign in to place a bid or add this to your wishlist
Not yet registered? Click here
Condition Report X
LOT 3555
SOWERBY, James. British Mineralogy: or Coloured Figures Intended to Elucidate the Mineralogy of Great Britain. London: R. Taylor & Co., 1804-1811. 4 vols. (only, of 5). 8vo (228 x 137mm.) 400 hand-coloured engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, tissue-guards, titles, indices to rear of each volume. (Toning, occasional light browning, first leaves up to C1 of volume IV loose.) Contemporary half calf to volumes ll-lV (spine lacking and boards detached to volume IV, upper cover of volume lll detached, worn), 20th century cloth-backed boards to volume l, paper label mounted to spine (endpapers replaced, finger-marks to spine). Note: a very influential source of information in the early study of geology. Sowerby drew all the plates from specimens in his collection and they were beautifully hand-coloured by himself and others (4).
Hammer price: £2,600
( Plus
Buyer’s Premium
)Buyer’s Premium is an additional charge on each lot sold, currently this is set at 24.5% plus VAT (29.4% including VAT) of the hammer price.
All sold prices shown exclude Buyer’s Premium
Condition Report
There is no condition report for this lot.