Rare, Striking 1808-10 Hand-colored French "Coquilles" Bookplate Engravings exotic wood Really a terrific object that

Really a terrific object that would be great on the desk sitting atop incoming or outgoing mail

The metal looks like brass

so it could be mailed yet

used to render an alternating design of two different flowers

Rare, Striking 1808-10 Hand-colored French "Coquilles" Bookplate Engravings exotic wood Really a terrific object thatSOLD : 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