Conchology: oddities, rarities, private press and inscribed

Charles J. Maynard.  Spine title: Contributions to the history of the CERIONIDAE, 1913-26.  Over a dozen issues of this odd, charming publication, self published by Maynard, West Newton, Mass.; most complete and original, though a few have photocopied pages added by Johnson (p.219-242, and 3 plates).  Includes b&w and  hand colored illustrations. 

Charles Russell ORCUTT. Molluscan World. Volume 1. San Diego, California. 1915.  62, 208 p.  Index and text. A strange, oddly personal collection of over 3000 entries identifying mollusks recorded over a lifetime of observations. Entry number one reads: Helix albolabris. This is the first snail that the writer remembers finding, when a boy on his father‘s Green Mountain farm, in Hartland, Vermont.” Original cloth, some working to back cover and some gutters. 

Harold Hannibal. Californian freshwater MOLOUSCA. A synopsis of the recent and tertiary freshwater mollusca of the Californian province, based upon an ontogenetic classification. Off print from the proceedings of the Malacological Society. Inscribed by Hannibal and others. 

(SOUTH AMERICA) Comunicationes de la Socieda Malacologica del URUGUAY.  Volume four, number 27 - 34, plus index. 1974-1978.  Bound volume of mBound volume of this mimeographed journal. Some stains, mail-creased at center. 

(CUBA) Memorias de la Sociedad Cubans de Historia Natural.  Aug., 1950. Vol. xx, no. 1.  Contains text and 11 color plates, each with multiple shells by the artist Otto Siepermann.