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Fossils.- Brander (Gustav) Fossilia Hantoniensia
Fossils.- Brander (Gustav) Fossilia Hantoniensia
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Fossils.- Brander (Gustav) Fossilia Hantoniensia collecta, et in Museo Britannico deposita, first edition, half-title, engraved title-vignette and 9 plates, with final leaf of text M2 in cancelled state starting "Fig.122. 123" and with contemporary ink manuscript notes to wider folding outer margin, plate 6 slightly short, some light foxing or browning to plates, faint crease to lower outer corner, final plate with short tear to upper margin, bookplates of Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell of West Grinstead Park and of Wyndham Portal with inscription dated 1888 to him at head of front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked with gilt spine and red morocco label, rubbed, later endpapers, [Nissen ZBI 535], 4to, 1766.

⁂ Compiled by the Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander for his compatriot Gustav Brander, a wealthy merchant and patron of the British Museum, to which he presented part of his collection of fossils and minerals. "The Fossil Shells, of which the following Plates are exact draughts, were collected in the County of Hampshire, out of the Cliffs by the sea coast, between Christ Church and Lymington, but more especially about the Cliffs by the Village of Hordwell...". (Preface).
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Fossils.- Brander (Gustav) Fossilia Hantoniensia

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Rupert Powell
International Head of Books and Works on Paper
Max Hasler
Modern First Editions and 20th Century Literature
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