New Fresh Water Shells of the United States, with Coloured Illustrations, and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say; Also a Synopsis of the American Naiades

by Timothy Abbott Conrad

$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary purple cloth, paper title label on cover, spine rebacked with cloth. First edition. Timothy Abbott Conrad was a New York geologist and malacologist who contributed to the New York Geological Survey in the 1830s. He was a frequent contributor to journals such as the American Journal of Science and Journal of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, and also oversaw the posthumous publication of the last part of Thomas Say's American Conchology. In

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