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Maxwell SMITH,et al.

[AMERICAN CONCHOLOGY] Smith’s rare 1938 mimeographed Muricidae catalog, photo illustrated, Lantana, Florida

Along with 12other American studies, including bound volumes of a single author’s works.

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  • Kennard , Alfred Santer, A. E. Salisbury, and Bernard Barham Woodward. The Types of Lamarck's Genera of Shells As Selected by J.G. Children in 1823. City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1931. 40 pages ; 25 cm. Series Title:Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, v. 82, no. 17.; Publication (Smithsonian Institution), 3112. Printed wrappers, bound in cloth backed boards for Ronald L. Johnson, with his ownership stamp.
  • (MAPS) Parker, Gerald G., and C. Wythe Cooke. Late Cenozoic Geology of Southern Florida, with a Discussion of the Ground Water. Tallahassee, Fla: Publ. for the Florida Geological Survey, 1944. Prepared by the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Florida Geological Survey, Dade County, and the Cities of Miami, Miami Beach and Coral Gables.Description:119 pages : illustrations, maps (4 in pocket, lacking 1 map, no. 3) ; 23 cm.Series Title:Geological bulletin (Florida Geological Survey), no. 27.
  • Brooks, Stanley L. Bound volume of pamphlets, off prints, and photocopied selections by Stanley L. Brooks, 1929-1944.  
  •  Smith, Maxwell. A catalog of the recent species of the family MURICIDAE. Part one. Lantana, Florida: tropical laboratory, 1938.  Stapled green paper covers with lettering along spine, containing mimeographed pages of text and 10 photo illustrations, “ mostly from specimens in the writers collection“. Author was a noted amateur conchologist; Author & publisher of: East Coast Marine Shells, 1937; Catalog of Rock Shells; World Wide Sea Shells; Review of the Volutidae; Tritons, Harps and Helmets; Universal Shells, and others. Smith received an Honorary D Sci degree from Univ Alabama in exchange for his collection. (See Conchology.com) Rare. Some photos coming loose.
  • — —. Panamic Marine Shells. Winter Park, Fla: Tropical photographic laboratory, 1944. Book xiii, 127 pages including plates 28 x 22 cm.; rebound in cloth. Full title: synonymy, nomenclature, range and illustrations by Maxwell Smith; published by authority of the Beal-Maltbie shell museum of Rollins college, Winter Park, Florida. 
  • — —.  East coast marine shells. Descriptions of sure mollusks together with many living below tide Mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. With more than one thousand drawings and photographs. Second printing 1941. Ann Arbor, Michigan:  Edwards brothers, Inc. 1941. 308 pages. Publishers grey cloth binding. 
  • Cooke, C. Wythe. Scenery of Florida Interpreted by a Geologist. Tallahassee: Pub. for the State Geological survey, 1939. Printed wraps, 118 pages illustrations, 23 cm. Ownership markings on cover.
  • John, Alan  J. Types of Konus.  Bound volume containing original and photocopied issues of Kohn’s extended series, Typed specimens and identity of the described species of Conus, 1963-1988. Bound in green cloth.
  • Burch, J. B. Freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of North America. Cincinnati: E.P.A., (1982); 294 pp., illustrated , rebound in cloth with printed wrapper retained. 
  • — —. Freshwater Unionacean Clams (Mollusca : Pekycypoda) of North America.  Hamburg, Michigan, Malacological Publications, 1975, “revised edition.”  Inscribed to Richard L. Johnson by the author.
  •  Found in red cloth, original printed wrappers retained. 
  • S. S. Berry. Collection of writings by the author, Including originals of this privately printed series Leaflets in Malacology —including  Vol. 1 no 1, November 4, 1946. A mix of photocopied and original material, 1946- 1969.
  • Richards, Margaret Crozier, and William E Old, Jr. A catalog of molluscum type specimens in the department of living invertebrates, ...American Museum of natural history, May 1969.  Mimeographed copy bound in blue cloth. 147 pp., Printed on one side only.
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