Lot 413: 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: Ten Plates ten 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, Murex III with hand-written amendments to the numbers in ink, Typhis II with an area of scattered foxing in the upper left margin corner, otherwise all apparently in 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.) (10).