Author: Mousson, [J. R.] A.
Title: Coquilles terrestes et fluviatiles, recueillies dans l'Orient par M. le Dr. Alex. Schläfi. II.
Description: Zurich, Zurcher et Furrer, 1863. 8vo (21.0 x 13.2 cm). 107 pp. Burgundy half cloth over ditto pebbled boards. Spine with title on plastic strip. Original blind blue wrappers bound in. = A seldom-seen work by the Swiss malacologist Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson (1805-1890), which includes descriptions of over one hundred species including many that are rarely observed or new. With on the front wrapper a dedication by the author to the American malacologist Isaac Lea (1792-1886). Published in the Vierterljahrschrift der Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich. From the library of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020), although not marked as such. Johnson added a first, 11 pp. part in old photocopies.

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