Lot 117 , Sowerby, James de Carle and Lear, Edward. - Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles, Drawn from Life. First edition. illustrated with 60 lithographed plates by Lear after Sowerby.

° Sowerby, James de Carle and Lear, Edward. - Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles, Drawn from Life. First edition. illustrated with 60 lithographed plates by Lear after Sowerby. Original rust blind stamped cloth, spine gilt, yellow endpapers, London Paris and Frankfurt: Henry Sotheran, Joseph Baer & Co. 1872. iv+16+60 plates.
£800-1,200

Condition:
cloth extremities slight wear, boards with a little discolouration and staining, inner joints cracked with a few sm. tears to the pastedowns, endpapers and title creased with some spotting, some offsetting to endpapers, spotting to text leaves and a few marginal spots on plates. Some uneven toning to paper of some plates.