Index Testaceologicus

London: for W. Wood, 1828. Octavo, with 38 handcoloured engraved plates; contemporary cloth with paper label. Wood's two manuals, this and his General Conchology, were the best-known conchological works to be arranged according to the Linnaean system. The exquisitely drawn and handcoloured plates depict some two thousand three hundred different shells, including nearly twenty Australian species and approximately forty… Read more about this item

W. Wood, 1828. Hardback. Very Good. Second edition, two volumes-bound-as-one hardback , corrected and revised, 1828, in the original full green leather binding with gilt decoration to boards, the spine with five bands, gilt decoration and gilt titles. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - spine a touch tanned… Read more about this item

London: Printed for W. Wood, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. viii, 188, (2)pp. With 2300 Figures. Thirty-eight full page plates of shell in two states: One hand-colored followed by one uncolored. Contemporary full long grained red leather. Spine in five compartments with raised bands; two with gilt titles and the remainder tooled in gilt. Boards tooled in… Read more about this item

London: W. Wood, 1825.. Second edition, 8vo, xxxii, (ii), 187, (1) pp, lacking a companion volume of plates. Slip concerning extra subscribers tipped in, bookplate of Thomas Stewart Traill, Scottish scientist, founder of several Liverpool institutions and Editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica among many other positions. Contemporary dark green morocco, a.e.g., joints worn, spine sunned.… Read more about this item

W Wood 1825. Re-bound, double plates (one monochrome & one coloured) - total of 76 plates, octavo, half bound marbled boards, gilt lettering in black panel to tan leather spine, marbled eps, teg, xxxii + 188pp, illus with 76pp plates, VG (browning to page edges, some staining, moderate foxing throughout, occasional annotation in ink & pencil)

London, for W. Wood, 1828. 8vo (22.1 x 14.0 cm). xxiii, 212, [ii] pp.; 38 hand-coloured engraved plates. Original green pebbled boards. Spine with printed paper label. = Written by the English bookdealer and zoologist William Wood (1774-1857) who was a staunch Linnaean, the Index Testaceologicus is renowned for its small yet accurate illustrations of more than two thousand… Read more about this item