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The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shell : accurately drawn and painted after nature, with a new systematic arrangement

by: Martyn, Thomas, active 1760-1816; Iredale, Thomas, former owner. DSI; Harasewych, M. G., former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1784

Topics: Mollusks

Publisher: London : Sold [by the author] at his house ...

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English; French

Added t.p.: Figures of non descript shells collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since 1764, published by Thomas Martyn = Les figures des coquilles jusqu'à présent inconnues recueilles en divèrs voyages à la Mer de Sud depuis l'année 1764, et donnees au publíc par Thomas Martyn

Engraved title pages

Text in English and French on opposite pages

Col. frontispiece in v. 1 with caption Aphrodite, in Greek

With (as issued?): Explanatory table and Observations on the explanatory table between p. 27 and plate 1 in v. 1, and Explanatory table preceding plate 41 in v. 2

extracted picklist

Spine title: Shells

Armorial bookplate

Bookplate: M.G. Harasewych

Lacking title pages, frontispiece and all text

Library copy with 32 additional plates: several plates that were never published and versions that differ in arrangement and quality of the published plates