A History of the British Mollusca and their Shells

by Edward Forbes, Sylvanus Hanley

$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Uniformly bound in contemporary blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First edition of this standard work on British shells. Edward Forbes was a malacologist and one of the pioneers of marine studies, laying the foundation of what would come to be known as the field of oceanography. Born on the Isle of Man, the young Forbes was interested in collecting insects, shells, minerals, fossils, and plants from an early age. Though he initially aspired to be an artist, he

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