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The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or, Coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822
Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871
Sowerby, Charles Edward, 1795-1842
Farey, John, 1766-1826
Meredith, Benjamin, printer
Palmer, Katherine V. W. (Katherine Van Winkle), 1895-1982, former owner. DSI
Petit, Richard E., former owner. DSI
Taylor, Richard, 1781-1858, printer
Arding and Merrett, printer
Arding, W., active 1821, printer
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, bookseller
Sherwood and Co. (London), bookseller
White and Co. (London), bookseller
Penzance Library (England), former owner. DSI
Walker & Son (Plymouth, England), binder. DSI
Title
The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or, Coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth
Volume v.6 (1829)
Publisher
London, Printed by Benjamin Meredith; and sold by the author, J. Sowerby; White and Co.; Sherwood and Co.; and by all booksellers in town and country
Description
Published by subscription in 113 parts
For details about the publication history of this edition, see the article by R.J. Cleevely, "The Sowerbys, Mineral conchology, and their fossil collection" in the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, volume 6 (1974), pages 418-481; and also the article by Cleevely and C.W. Wright, "Authorship and dates of the Sowerbys' Mineral conchology of Great Britain" in the Bulletin of zoological nomenclature volume 42 (1985), pages 64-71
Volume 7 was never completed and was published without title page or index. Plates 643-648 have no descriptions
The work was continued from volume 4 by James de Carle Sowerby and Charles Edward Sowerby
Imprint varies. Volume 2 has imprint: London. Printed by Arding and Merrett ... and sold by the author, J. Sowerby ...; Sherwood and Co. ... and by all booksellers in town and country, 1818; volume 3 has imprint: London. Printed by W. Arding ... and sold by the author J. Sowerby ...; Longman and Co. and Sherwood and Co., 1821; volume 4 has imprint: London. Printed by W. Arding ... and sold by J.D.C. and C.E. Sowerby ...; Longman and Co., and Sherwood and Co. ..., 1823; volume 5 and 6 have imprint: London. Printed by Richard Taylor ... and sold by J.D.C. and C.E. Sowerby ... G.B. Sowerby; Longman & Co., and Sherwood and Co., 1825[-1829]
Volumes 1-4 contain supplementary indexes and notes by J. Farey
Includes indexes
Many of the specimens described were later acquired by the British Museum
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SCNHRB copy is imperfect: part 105 of volume 6 is wanting (including a portrait of James Sowerby, a preface to the general indexes and the systematical index to the six volumes by J. de C. Sowerby, on pages [239]-250)
SCNHRB copy has bookplates: 1. Katherine H. Van Winkle Palmer, with her autograph on the front free endpapers; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy was acquired from the collection of the late malacologist, bibliographer and bookseller Richard E. Petit
SCNHRB copy has tipped in at the back of the volume: an article reprinted from the Magazine of natural history, new series, 1839, pages 254-263[?], entitled "Strictures upon the commencement of a publication entitled 'Conchologie mineralogique de la Grande Bretagne, par James Sowerby --traduction francaise revue, corrigee, augmentee par L. Agassiz, with a reply by Prof. Agassiz, and a letter from Mr. J.D.C. Sowerby."
SCNHRB copy of volume 7 has stamp on front free endpaper: Penzance Library; with engraved bookseller's label on the front paste down endpaper: Bound by Walker & Son, Plymouth. At the time of cataloging (November 2015), some of the conjoined leaves of text were still unopened
SCNHRB copy has later gilt-tooled half-leather bindings with marbled paper boards, endpapers, and edges; and raised bands.The binding for volume 7 is similar to the uniform binding style of volumes 1-6, but made with different marbled paper and leather

Subjects: Mollusks, Fossil; Paleontology
Language English
Publication date 1812
publication_date QS:P577,+1812-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: biodiversity
Accession number
mineralconcholo61829sowe
Notes No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1049682550
Source
Internet Archive identifier: mineralconcholo61829sowe
https://archive.org/download/mineralconcholo61829sowe/mineralconcholo61829sowe.pdf

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