Rare, Striking 1808-10 Hand-colored French "Coquilles" Bookplate Engravings antique photographs This is a ninth plate

This is a ninth plate image behind glass with a brass mat and housed in a full leather case

Quite a marvelous thing

But this is the first I've found that is completely blank

my first thought was that it would make a great line-making and design tool

though perhaps Scandanavian

Rare, Striking 1808-10 Hand-colored French "Coquilles" Bookplate Engravings antique photographs This is a ninth plateSOLD : E, F My photos do not do these hand colored bookplate woodcut engravings justice they are subtle but quite stunning I think, with the interplay of the engraving and the coloration making them feel both unusual and really rather exquisite. They come from a scarce 1808 10 work "Conchyliogie systmatique et classification mthodique des coquilles," by the French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766 1820) with the plates drawn and engraved by