A conchological manualSowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham)
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A conchological manual
Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham)
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BEECHEY.--BOTANY OF CAPTAIN BEECHEY'S VOYAGE, comprising an Account of the
Plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other Officers of the
Expedition, during the Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait,
performed in her Majesty's ship _Blossom_, under the command of Captain F.
W. BEECHEY, by Sir William Jackson Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott, Esq.
_illustrated by 100 plates, beautifully engraved, complete in 10 parts_,
4to. _price 15s each._
1831-41
---- ZOOLOGY OF CAPTAIN BEECHEY'S VOYAGE, compiled from the Collections and
Notes of Captain Beechey and the Scientific Gentlemen who accompanied the
Expedition, by Dr. Richardson, N. A. Vigors, Esq., G. T. Lay, Esq., E. T.
Bennett, Esq., Richard Owen, Esq., John Edward Gray, Esq., W. Sowerby, Esq.
and the Rev. Dr. Buckland, 4to. _illustrated by 47 finely coloured plates
by Sowerby, extra cloth bds._ 5l 5s
1839
BOASE'S (DR. H. S. _Sec. Roy. Geol. Soc. of Cornwall_) TREATISE ON PRIMARY
GEOLOGY, being an Examination, both Practical and Theoretical, of the older
Formations, 8vo. _cuts_, (published at 12s) _cloth bds._ 5s
1834
"An admirable work, involving some of the most refined discussions of
which Geology is susceptible."--_Literary Gazette._
BURMEISTER'S MANUAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, translated from the last German edition
by W. E. SHUCKARD, Member of the Entomological Society, &c. with
considerable and important additions by the Author, (communicated expressly
for this edition,) and many original Notes by the translator. ILLUSTRATED
BY THIRTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL, in which are represented ABOVE FIVE
HUNDRED subjects, _chiefly generic distinctions, anatomical sections,
organs, eggs, larvæ, &c. of Insects; together with a beautifully coloured
frontispiece_, 1 thick vol. 8vo. _comprising above 650 closely printed
pages_, (published at 1l 1s _in bds._) _hf. bd. morocco_, 15s
1836
CURTIS'S FLORA LONDINENSIS; revised and improved by George Graves, extended
and continued by Sir W. Jackson Hooker; comprising the History of Plants
indigenous to Great Britain, their Uses, Economy, and various interesting
Particulars, with Alphabetical, Linnæan, and other Indexes; the Drawings
made by Sydenham Edwards and Lindley, 5 vols. royal folio (or 109 parts),
containing 647 plates, _exhibiting the full natural size of each plant,
with magnified dissections of the parts of fructification, &c. all
beautifully coloured_, (pub. at 87l 4s in parts) 26l 5s
---- the same, _elegantly hf. bd. morocco, top edges gilt_, 30l
This is the only extensive work on the Indigenous Botany of this
country, which gives well-coloured representations of the plants _in
their full natural size_.
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