Author: Locard, A.
Title: Description de la faune de la mollasse marine et d'eau douce du Lyonnais et du Dauphiné.
Description: Lyon, H. Georg, 1878. Large 4to (33.8 x 27.5 cm). 284 pp.; two lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Later reddish-brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. = A detailed study of peculiar Oligocene-Miocene faunas from the Rhône valley, and much more recent terrestrial faunas from the same area in south-eastern France. Written by the French malacologist and 'Nouvelle École' adept, Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard (1841-1904) and published as the complete Volume II of the Archives du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Lyon. Several species are new. The explanatory text leaves are printed on thin paper, doubling as tissue guards. Provenance: Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper. First blank and half-title mildly foxed; elsewhere some very local, mostly marginal, spotting, but generally quite clean. A very good copy. Perhaps rarer than many other works by Locard. Not in Cat. BM(NH).

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