Lot 122: GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY I (1788-1854), GEORGE BRETTINHAM SOWERBY II (1812-1884), and GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY III (1843-1884)

Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or Monographs of the Genera of Shells: Eight Plates eight lithographs with hand-coloring, 1842-87, on wove papers, published by Hanhart Imp., London, all with margins, all with pale light- staining and surface soiling to varying degrees, the occasional very pale foxmark on a few plates, otherwise all apparently in very good condition, in rustic painted wood frames, not examined out of the frames all L. approx. 9 x 5 in. (228 x 126 mm.) all overall 15 3/8 x 111/2 in. (390 x 292 mm.) (8).