engraved frontispiece, occasional spotting and browning, some marginal water-staining to frontispiece and title, hinges strengthened, later half calf, slightly rubbed, 4to, 1786. *** A rare auction catalogue. Compiled by Reverend John Lightfoot, English naturalist and librarian to the Duchess Dowager of Portland. The Duchess, Margaret Cavendish Bentwick, began collecting natural specimens as a girl. Over time, her collection grew to include all three Kingdoms of Nature, the Animal, Vegetable, and Fossil..., but more so than any other category, her love of shells is displayed, "Conchology," as it is called in the Preface.
engraved frontispiece, occasional spotting and browning, some marginal water-staining to frontispiece and title, hinges strengthened, later half calf, slightly rubbed, 4to, 1786. *** A rare auction catalogue. Compiled by Reverend John Lightfoot, English naturalist and librarian to the Duchess Dowager of Portland. The Duchess, Margaret Cavendish Bentwick, began collecting natural specimens as a girl. Over time, her collection grew to include all three Kingdoms of Nature, the Animal, Vegetable, and Fossil..., but more so than any other category, her love of shells is displayed, "Conchology," as it is called in the Preface.
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