"Exotic Conchology Or Drawings And Descriptions Of Rare Beautiful Or Undescribed Shells" 1968 SWAINSON, William (SOLD) The "21" Club

"Exotic Conchology Or Drawings And Descriptions Of Rare Beautiful Or Undescribed Shells" 1968 SWAINSON, William (SOLD) The "21" ClubSWAINSON, William[47] pp. w 48 platesD. Van Nostrand Company, Inc1968An edition limited to 2,000 copies11 3 4" x 9 1 2" VG Scroll Down for (12) Additional Scans: Editor R. Tucker Abbott notes in his preface that this is "one of the most beautiful and most rare of shell books. produced in London in three editions, from 1821 to 1841. The early issues were so rare that the book remained a bibliographical puzzle until comparatively recently." This

It was also the last novel to be issued in his lifetime

William Cameron [154] pp

along with Peter Beard's superb photographic record of a world where--for perhaps the last time in history--true wilderness and true sophistication were one ("Very few matters

when the book was written

machine parts

Inscribed by the author to "Morgan Wing" in appreciation of his "farm"

w/ 40 chips in each of 5 colors:

but I did have the Juan O

SFMOMA/ Yale University Press

Miacomet Golf Course is a public 18-hole golf course on Nantucket

then Cherbourg-en-Cotentin in 2016) and New York

Knox of Buffalo