First Edition. 8vo, contemporary calf over cloth covered boards, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped and gilt ruled, two compartments lettered in gilt. xiii, [1], 209 pp. A handsome copy, very well preserved with light evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CORE TEXT. A monograph of living auriculae with the addition of frosperpinaceae and truncatelli. The name of the auriculae designates a family of molluscs that breathe air through organs analogous to the lungs, and are destitute of an organic cover.A hermaphrodite head terminating in a blunt sublobed appendage with 2 subcylindrical non-retractable eyes seated near the inner base of the tentacles with a thin thickened edge, a protruding foot bearing a spiral part, containing the viscera, in the middle. The shape of the vented shell is highly variable, the filter is always folded, the apertural wall is usually toothed or folded, the peristome is acute, straight or expanded, often thickened, toothed or transversely ribbed.

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MONOGRAPHIA AURICULACEORUM VIVENTIUM. Sistens Descriptiones Systematicaas et Criticas Omnium Hujus Familiae Generum et Specierum Hodie Cognitarum. Nec Non Fossilium Enumeratione. Accedente Proserpinaceorum Nec Non Generis Truncatellae Historia. [A MONOGRAPHIA OF THE BASIC LIFE. Containing Systematic and Critical Descriptions of All the Genera and Species of this Family Now Known. Enumeration of Fossils. A History of the Proserpinaceae and the Genus Truncatella]

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Cassellis Theodori Fischer 1856

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1st Edition

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