Natural History - Marine Biology, Sponges - Bowerbank (J[ame...

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£200

Natural History - Marine Biology, Sponges - Bowerbank (J[ames] S[cott], [FRS]), A Monograph on the British Spongiadæ, four-volume set, London: Published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke, 1864-1882, b/w full-page lithoraphic plates, later three-quarter brown morocco over cloth by Bumpus, stamped, enclosing the original blue cloth covers and spines laid on leaves and bound to verso, gilt-lettered spines, top-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, [4] Provenance: Sir David Salomons, 2nd Baronet (1851-1925), of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, his Plain Armorial bookplate to each pastedown.