Author: Rimmer, R.
Title: The land and freshwater shells of the British Isles
Description: John Grant, Edinburgh, n.d.(1880).1st edition.Publisher's blue cloth.V.g./No Jacket.A crisp clean copy slightly rubbed at tips of spine and with ownership inscriptions on and opposite half title page.208 pp.The author writes, in his Preface, ""On several occasions I have been taken, or (as I would fain hope) mistaken, for a lunatic"".He goes on to extol the pleasures of shell collecting.Illustrated with monochrome plates (10 at rear), including slugs. In English.1 kg.

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