[UNITED STATES, Eastern States. – collection of 25 malacological works.]

Olof O. NYLANDER, C.T. SIMPSON, W.B. MARSHALL, J.S. KINGSLEY and others.

[UNITED STATES, Eastern States. – collection of 25 malacological works.]

[comprising:]

1.Olof Olsson NYLANDER (1864-1943). [Wrapper title: Land and Fresh Water Shells of Aroostook County, Maine. The History of the Lymnaeidae of the Northern Part of Maine. Caribou, Maine: 1936]. Quarto. Copy of a typescript, printed o, the recto only of 30 leaves. (Some toning). Original drab brown wrappers (Some toning). Provenance: Percy E. Raymond  (author’s presentation inscription); MCZ Ink stamp.

2.Olof Olsson NYLANDER (1864-1943). [Wrapper title: Distribution of Limnaea Emarginata, Say, and the var. Mighelsi, Binney, in Fish River, Aroostook Co., Maine. Caribou?: 1901]. Octavo. 4 plates. (Some toning.) Original green paper wrappers (some toning).

3.Charles Torrey SIMPSON (1846-1932). [Drop-head title:] Contributions to the Mollusca of Florida. [Davenport, Iowa: 1887?]. Octavo. Stapled into cream paper wrappers. Provenance: Author’s presentation inscription. Off-print.

4.William Blanchard MARSHALL (1865-1957). [Wrapper title: Bulletin of the New York State Museum Vol.I. No.I. March 1892. Prelimiany List of New York Unionidae. Albany: 1892]. Octavo. Original blue/grey paper wrappers, stapled into cream paper wrappers. Provenance: Arthur Paul Jacot (1890-1939, ink stamps).

5.John Sterling KINGSLEY (1854-1929). [Wrapper title:] Preliminary catalogue of the marine invertebrate of Casco Bay, Maine … from the Proceedings of the Portland Society of Natural History. [Portland, Maine: 1901?]. Octavo. Original grey paper wrappers (toned, lower cover chipped), stapled into cream paper wrappers. Off-print.

6.Horace Francis CARPENTER (1842-1937). [Wrapper title: A Catalogue of the Shell-bearing Molluscaof Rhode Island … Second Edition, January 1^st, 1889. Providence, RI: 1889. 7pp. printed recto only of 7 leaves. Original light blue/green paper wrappers (light soiling to margins), stapled into cream paper wrappers.

7.-25 [19 others, mostly off-prints or extracts, of similar interest] (25)

RIJ 162, 386, 389, 574, 579, 603, 611, 675, 700, 719, 954, 1005, 1009, 1063, 1069, 1071, 1138, 1181, 1600, 1664, 1753, 1857, 1857a, 4161, 4189