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W. G. BINNEY; B.B. WOODWARD; A. H. COOKE; A. E. SHIPLEY; Johnston, George; James Cosmo MELVILL
[NATURAL HISTORY] [BOOKPLATES] A dozen 19th & 20th Century Biology, Conchology, & Other Science Books from the Richard L. Johnson collection, Research Associate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and book collector.   Diverse group, most with his simple but distinctive owner's stamp, including rare bound volumes of publications by William Greene BINNEY and James Cosmo MELVILL.
Includes:

WITH:

-- --. A Manual of American Land Shells. Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1885. Octavo, 528 pages. Illustrations. Period red cloth; paper toned.  Owner's signature, E. W. Swanton, along with a later stamp by Richard L. Johnson, making this an association of two noted conchologists.

WITH:

James Cosmo MELVILL (1845-1929)

Bound volume containing 4 items by James Cosmo Melvill on the Genus Latirus, 1891-1910, removed from various journals and bound in cloth-backed marbled boards for Richard I. Johnson, a noted book collector and respected conchologist.

1. "An Historical Account of the Genus Latirus (Montfort) and Its Dependencies, with Descriptions of Eleven New Species, and a Catalogue of Latirus and Peristernia." Pp. [1]-47, 1 plate showing 16 shells.  Re-paged offprint of an article published in Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Series 4, 4: 365-411; pl. 2. [394-395; pl. 2, fig. 16]. 
2. 
   "NOTE XVIII. A New Species of Latirus. Described by J. C. Melvill."  1 p., published in Notes from the Lyden Museum, Vol. XIII (1891).
3. 
   "On Latirus Armatus Ad...Read before the Society, March 9th, 1898." Pp. 115-117. Offprint from the Journal Of Conchology?
4. 
   Melvill, J. C.  An enumeration of the additions made to the genus Latirus Montfort since 1891, with descriptions of of three new species. Journal of Conchology. (1911); 13(6). pp.164-178. illustrated. "Read before the Society, December 14th, 1910." 

(BOOKPLATE) Woodward, B. B.  Catalogue of the British Species of Pisidium (Recent & Fossil) in the Collections of the British Museum (Natural History) with Notes on Those of Western Europe.
Published by London: Printed By Order Of The Trustees Of The British Museum, 1913.  Presentation bookplate by the Trustees of the British Museum.  Orig. brown cloth. 

(BOOKPLATE) Cooke, A. H., S. F. Harmer, A. E. Shipley, and F. R. C. Reed. Molluscs. London: Macmillan, 1895. xi, 535 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps.  Green cloth.  With bookplate: Mary Georgine Broderick Her Book, with a small number label stuck to corner; Cambridge natural History v. 3, containing:

         Cooke, A. H.  (Alfred Hands)
         Harmer, S. F.; 1862-1950. ; (Sidney Frederic),
         Shipley, A. E.; Sir,; 1861-1927. ; (Arthur Everett),; Brachiopods (recent)
         Reed, F. R. C.; 1869-1946. ; (Frederick Richard Cowper),; Brachiopods (fossil)

[EARLY CONCHOLOGY] Johnston, George. An Introduction To Conchology; Or, Elements Of The Natural History Of Molluscous Animals. London : J. Van Voorst, 1850. 614 (1) pp; green cloth-- spine stamped Gurney &  Jackson (boards hang over a bit at fore-edge, suggesting a later issue of remaindered text, perhaps?) 

 [Stephan CLESSIN]  4 books by the noted  German malacologist and paleontologist Stephan CLESSIN, 1833-1911, from the Richard I. Johnson collection.

Clessin, S. Deutsche Excursions-mollusken-fauna. Nurnberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1876. 581 p., + 3 p. publisher's list. Later black cloth. Paper toned. 7 3/4" / 19.5 cm

Clessin, S. Deutsche Excursions-mollusken-fauna. Nurnberg:Bauer & Raspe, 1884. Zweite Auflage. 664 p., including publisher's catalog; illustration pasted on rear fly leaf. Original green cloth, publisher's binding; early bookplate; Richard L. Johnson's copy, stamped on ffe. (WITH: a second copy, 1884, later black cloth, paper toned.) Ist leaf is a foreword added to the text, tipped-in, pulling from page.

Clessin, Stephan. Die Molluskenfauna Oesterreich-Ungarns und der Schweiz. Germany, Bauer, 1887. "Die Mollusken-Fauna Mitteleuropa's by S. Clessin ; Theil 2";cloth binding. 858 pages.

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