Author: Swainson, W. [J.]
Title: A Treatise on Malacology or Shells and Shell-fish [The cabinet cyclopaedia. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner... Natural History].
Description: London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, and John Taylor, 1840. 12mo (17.1 x 10.6 cm). Letterpress title, engraved title with large vignette, 419 pp.; 130 text engravings. Publisher's green, embossed cloth with gilt title spine. Patterned endpapers. Printed errata slip bound in. = Swainson's major work on molluscan systematics with the introduction of many new genus and species names, and many fine engravings. The British zoologist (chiefly malacologist) William John Swainson (1789-1855) was responsible for several parts of Lardner's Cyclopaedia. Inscribed on the front free endpaper in an old hand (Dr. ... Marsh); stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto and title page. Spine slightly sunned, some very light foxing in a few places, otherwise an excellent, clean copy, with the errata slip, which is very often lacking. Caprotti II, pp. 58-59 [222-223]. Although well-illustrated, not in Nissen ZBI.

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