The Conchologist's Book of Species Containing Descriptions of Six Hundred Species of Univalves
Published by London: Henry Washbourne, 1842
- Hardcover
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Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.David Morrison Books
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Blind stamped grey cloth, Small 8vo. xii + 154pp. Second edition, enlarged with a glossary of terms, index to the genera and their localities, etc. Hand colored frontis illustration and numerous text illustrations. Gilt decoration of a shell on the front cover. From the library of Richard I. Johnson with his discreet ownership stamp on the front flyleaf. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvard s Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, before returning to Massachusetts and graduating from Harvard in 1951. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of Richard I. Johnson to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell books ever assembled. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Conchologist's Book of Species Containing Descriptions of Six Hundred Species of Univalves
- Author
- Hanley, Sylvanus, B.A.
- Publisher
- London: Henry Washbourne
- Publication year
- 1842
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Seller catalogs
- shells
David Morrison Books
Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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