Accession number
PML 129860-61
Creator
Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836.
Published
London : J. Sowerby, 1815-1875.
Notes
Part 2 has title (on cover): Malacostraca podophtalmata Britanniae, or, Description of British species of crabs, lobsters, prawns, and of other malacostraca with pedunculated eyes ... continued and completed, with a new generic and specific index to the whole, and seven new plates by George Brettingham Sowerby. London : Published by Bernard Quaritch, 1875.
At head of title, pt. 2: Nos. XVIII & XIX.
Bound with vol. 1 is p. 306-400 from the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. XI, 1814, containing the first publication of Leach's work, "A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linne arranged under insecta.".
Vol. 1 is extra-illustrated with 13 original watercolors (on paper watermarked 1828) by Thomas Brightwell and/or his daughter Cecilia Lucy Brightwell.
At head of title, pt. 2: Nos. XVIII & XIX.
Bound with vol. 1 is p. 306-400 from the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. XI, 1814, containing the first publication of Leach's work, "A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linne arranged under insecta.".
Vol. 1 is extra-illustrated with 13 original watercolors (on paper watermarked 1828) by Thomas Brightwell and/or his daughter Cecilia Lucy Brightwell.
Description
2 v. ([92], [28] p., [54] leaves of plates (some folded) : col. ill. ; 32 cm
Provenance
Bookplates of Henry White and William Beebe in vol. 1.
Binding
Vol. 1 in gilt-tooled brown straight-grain morocco; vol. 2 in original wrappers and in a half green morocco clamshell box.
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