Author: Tesch, J. J.
Title: The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. Volume III. No. X. Pteropoda and Heteropoda.
Description: London, The Linnean Society of London, 1910. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.8 cm). 15 pp. [numbered 165-189]; three plates [numbered 12-14]. Later blue quarter linen over red pebbled boards. Spine with embossed plastic title. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A rarely seen, bound offprint of a scarce work. During the first half of the 20th century, the Dutch malacologist Johan Jacob Tesch (1877-1954) was the leading expert in this group of planktonic molluscs. Dedicated by the author (handwritten in the top margin of the front wrapper) to the german zoologist and malacologist Johannes Meisenheimer (1873-1933), and with the latter's oval stamp in the lower margin. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) on the first blank recto and front wrapper. a very good, clean copy.

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