Mollusc-carrying slugs. A.T. Aikman engraving, Captain Brown c1845

by Brown, Captain Thomas

Antique Print of Land and Fresh Water Conchology engraved by A.T. Aikman c1845 for Captain Brown.

Original (hand-coloured) copperplate engraving by Scottish engraver A.T. Aikman after a drawing by Scottish naturalist Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. (1785-1862), for Brown’s “Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, drawn and coloured from nature”, published in London and Edinburgh circa 1845.

Slight soiling towards top of page. Page size is 28 x 23 cm (approximately 11 x 9 inches).