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Wodarch's introduction to the study of conchology : describing the orders, genera, and species of shells; with observations on the nature and properties of the animals : and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells

by: Wodarch, Charles; Mawe, John, 1764-1829; Crouch, Edmund A., lithographer; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1822

Topics: Shells

Publisher: London : Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, and by J. Mawe

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Frontispiece signed: E.A. Crouch lithog.; plates I-VI signed J. Mawe

Plates accompanied by leaves with explanatory letterpress

Colophon: W. McDowall, printer

Plates are hand-colored

Includes index

SCNHRB copy (39088013486261) 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 has stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Feb 20 1939 [acc. no.] 311205

SCNHRB copy bound in recent green marbled paper boards, marbled edges; older green cloth spine, stamped in gilt at foot of spine: U.S.N.M