$960
Ellis, John (c. 1710-1776) Essai sur L'Histoire Naturelle des Corallines . The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1756. First edition, large quarto, hand-colored engraved frontispiece, and thirty-nine full-page and folding hand-colored engravings of corals, and other sea life, and one of the microscope Ellis used; bound in full contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18