The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America

by Ida Shepard Oldroyd

$250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Publisher's red cloth, spine flat. First edition of this important monograph on the shells of the Western United States. Ida Shepard Oldroyd was an American conchologist and a curator in the Department of Geology at the Stanford University Museum for over 20 years, overseeing one of the largest collections of mollusk shells in the world at that time. Collecting along with her husband, she also amassed one of the largest private shell collections in California,

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