Last week!! ..Conchological Society Book Auction and Sale, 2020

*** UPDATE ***

Bid deadline is midnight on Sunday 15 March ....

 

We are holding another book auction this winter, with over 240 books, including Forbes and Hanley 1853  A History of British Mollusca and their Shells.  Volume IV  (the one with all the plates: est. £80), a nice clean set of all nine parts of Fretter and Graham's  1976-86 The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark (est. £75), a set of Parenzan's 1970-1976 Carta d'identità delle conchiglie del Mediterraneo (est. £50), a good copy of Sowerby's 1859 Illustrated index of British shells with coloured plates (est. £85),  and offprints and journals including Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, continuing as Molluscan Research, complete from its start in 1957 up to 2016 (est, £500).   

The catalogue, rules and a bid form are all available to download below.

Preference is given to bids from members of the Conchological Society, the Malacological Society, and the British Shell Collectors Society;  non-members are very welcome to bid, but their bids will only be considered in the absence of members' bids.   

If you have any questions, or want more details, please e-mail bas.payne@gmail.com or phone Bas on 01647 24515.

We will shortly also be selling unsold books from earlier auctions at discounted prices on a "buy-it-now" basis.  The list will be put on the website soon.