Captain Thomas Brown Collection
This Collection of beautiful hand coloured copperplate engravings of Captain Thomas - Shells, are beautifully hand coloured copperplate engravings.
These original prints are in fine condition from this rare first edition work.
Provenance: Illustrations from The Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland by Captain Thomas Brown om
Original Hand Coloured, antique copperplate engraving of Marine Life, Bivalves, by William Home Lizars (1788-1859) after a drawing by Scottish Naturalist, Captain Thomas Brown (1785 –1862) for Brown’s work, The Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland was one of his works drawn and coloured from nature, published in London and Edinburgh c1827.