A CATALOGUE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SLOANE SHELL COLLECTION VOLUME 1 NO. 1, No. 3 & No. 4

Published by The British Museum, 1953

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The British Museum, 1953, 1955, 1957, First Edition, 4to, 184 pages, 3 sections bound in 1 hardcover, plates, illustrations. Bound in a light brown cloth, no dust jacket. Name of previus owner (Richard I. Johnson) stamped to front endpages. Book very good+ condition. 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. 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. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Title
A CATALOGUE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SLOANE SHELL COLLECTION VOLUME 1 NO. 1, No. 3 & No. 4
Author
Wilkins, Guy
Publisher
The British Museum
Publication year
1953
Condition
Very Good+
Dust jacket
No Jacket
Binding
Hard Cover
Edition
First Edition.

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