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Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained, with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet : descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them : and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology

by: Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 12-1881

Publication date: 1855

Topics: Shells, Shells, Mollusks

Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Series from cover

Includes index

The leaves of plates are bound at the front of the volume

The final 2 p. are publisher's advertisements

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SCNHRB copy 39088012158119 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Alice E. Kennington Rare Book Fund

SCNHRB copy has the publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped green embossed-cloth binding