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Lot 131

Carlolo Agardh Westerlund

(NATURAL HISTORY). 2 iterms 1876 Fauna Europæa : molluscorum extramarinorum prodromus & a paleo-Arctic paper.

2 volumes in 1

Lot 132

August Nicolaus Herrmannsen

(NATURAL HISTORY) Indicis Generum Malacozoorum Primordia, 1846-1852

Lot 133

Thomas BROWN

(IRISH NATURAL HISTORY) “Account of the Irish Testacca” 1815, (1818); color plate

Early work on shells

Lot 138

Adolf d' AILLY

(AFRICA; NATURAL HISTORY) 1912 Contributions a la connaissance des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de Kameroun.

Cameroon freshwater terrestrial molluscs. Scarce. Together with 1 other scholarly work on African conchology

Lot 139

Richard I. JOHNSON

Small archive of Johnson’s Photographs, monographs, inscribed material, etc.

Includes Manuscript material, travel notes

Lot 143

C.S. WEAVER, & J.E. DU PONT

[COLOR PLATES; NATURAL HISTORY] Living Volutes: A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World

Together with 5 other Conchology & related books

Lot 144

Nelson ANNADALE; Stanley KEMP; E. GNOSH; S. Thomas SATYAMURTI

[AUTHOR'S COPY] Fauna of the Chilka Lake.

[ INDIA] Together with The mollusca of Krusadai Island and another Item

Lot 145

Casto de ELERA

[ASIA; NATURAL HISTORY] Rare 1896 Catálogo sistemático de toda la fauna de Filipinas

Monumental work by the foremost Dominican Scientist of the 19th Century

Lot 151

S. P. WOODWARD

[NATURAL HISTORY] A Manual of the Mollusca, 2 copies, 1866 & 1890

Together with 3 other 19th Century Conchology books

Lot 153

INSCRIBED BOOKS: P. MAOZZO; M. STENTA; BENTHAM JUTTING; er al.

CONCHOLOGY BOOKS: Collection of signed and presentation copies.

8 Volumes From the Richard L. Johnson collection

Lot 157

Societe Belge de Malacologie (publishers)

Arion: bulletin de contact ... de la societe Belge de malacologie.

13 volumes bound in three

Lot 168

A. E. ORTMANN

Monograph of the Naiades of Pennsylvania 1911, 4 volumes bound in 2

Together with other ORTMANN titles

Lot 176

[Yoichiro HIRASE]

Kyoto (Japan). The Album of the Hirase Conchological Museum. 1915.

An uncommon Japanese Conchology book. illustrated

Lot 180

Adolf SCHMIDT; H. STREBEL; W. KOBELT

[SCHOLAR'S SHELF] Group of 19th and 20th Century European Conchology Books including Kobelt's Geographische with maps

Over 15 items, including bound volumes of rare pamphlets & off-prints; maps, color illust., etc. 1847-1920s

Lot 182

Franz Hermann TROSCHEL (1810-1882)

[GERMAN ] Das Gebiss der Schnecken zur Begründung einer natürlichen Classification

Largest comparative study of molluscan radulae ever published

Lot 183

Various Authors

[SCHOLAR'S SHELF] Large lot of 20th Century European Conchology & Related Books, Monographs, etc.

Over 30 items

Lot 192

Jesse Wedgewood MIGHELS; Richard L. JOHNSON; C. B. ADAMS

[AMERICANA] MIGHELS' CATALOGUE OF THE SHELLS OF MAINE; Description of twentyfour species of the Shells of New England

Johnson's bound volume of MIGHELS' publications 1840's

Lot 195

Arthur J. STANSBURY & Amos DOOLITTTLE (illustrators). - D. W. BARNES

[AMERICANA, 1822] On the Genera Unio and Alasmodonta, with introductory remarks . By D. W. Barnes

Illustrations by Arthur J. Stansbury & Amos Doolittle

Lot 198

C. J. MAYNARD,

Conchology: oddities, rarities, private press and inscribed

5 books, Includes a bound volume of Maynards natural history chapbooks

Lot 203

Paul PELSENEER

Conchology—Scholar’s Shelf of 19th & 20th Century French Books & Monographs.

Rare Hanoi-Haiphong, 1918, imprint; 4 Paul Pelseneer titles, 1 inscribed

Lot 204

M. Ch. VELAIN

(ASSOCIATION COPY; ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION) Remarques au sujet de la faune des îles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam (océan Indien)

Inscribed with autographed letter to Robert Boog Watson.

Lot 205

BLAINVILLE, VILLA, COUSIN, and others

Natural Science: Group of Books and Monographs including Reports of Expeditions, 1841-1957

Lot 206

Various authors

Large lot of Natural History & Conchology books and monographs

60+ Volumes, Including Simpson’s 3 volumes. 1914 catalogue of the Naiades

Lot 261

E. G. ALDERSON, the “Applesnail Guru”

(CONCHOLOGY) Inscribed copy of author’s landmark Studies in Ampullaria, 1925; 1/150 copies

With 19 plates drawn by the author,

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