Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchyliogie

by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

$4,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Half calf and marbled paper boards, spines with raised bands forming five compartments, lettered and tooled gilt Provenance: Richard I. Johnson 1925-2020 Research Associate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and a prominent scholar who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. A foundational work in malacology with meticulous classification and exquisite illustrations of mollusk species. The present work is a foundational work in the

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