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 green cloth, paper title label on cover. First edition. Timothy Abbott Conrad was an American geologist and malacologist who worked in New York, where he was one of the state geologists and a contributor the the New York Geological Survey in the 1830s. He was paleontologist of the New York Geological Survey from 1838 until 1841, and wrote their annual reports. He also made the reports of paleontological discoveries in the Pacific Railroad Survey and

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