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The book of shells : containing the classes Mollusca, Conchifera, Cirrhipeda, Annulata, and Crustacea

by: Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education

Publication date: 1837

Topics: Mollusks, Shells

Publisher: London : John W. Parker

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

"In the present little volume ... the method of M. Lamarck will be adhered to ... As a whole, Lamarck's System remains unrivalled, and the young naturalist can readily add to the information it contains, by reference to the works of more recent authors ..."--Preface "To the reader," p. [5]

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SCNHRB copy (39088013485164) has 7, [1] p. of publisher's advertisements bound-in at end

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Stamped on front free endpaper and t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library

SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p.: EM

SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Feb 20 1939 [acc. no.] 309532

SCNHRB copy bound in original blue-green publisher's cloth binding, blind-embossed, title in gilt on spine; housed in an archival cardboard box

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Cullman Library (rare book) %u2013 some ad pages in the back had text very slightly cut off

Addeddate: 2009-11-13 15:30:01

Associated-names: Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education