£100
Swammerdam (Jean), HISTOIRE GENERALE DES INSECTES, full vellum, laid paper, fold-out annotation sheet, thirteen fold-out illustrated plates, Jean Ribbius, Utrecht 1685 (at fault)
Binding reasonably tight but slightly open at endpapers. Cover vellum shows a split approximately halfway down opening edge, with a perpendicular scratch at the end of the split. All corners bumped, particularly front top right, which shows some creasing as a result of distortion of corner. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Foxing, staining and age-related darkening to all pages. Some creasing to page corners. Tape repair to plate at p106.
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