With a fine letter written by the author

Drouët, H.

Études sur les nayades de la France. Première partie: Anodonta. Avec neuf planches noires. [AND] Études sur les nayades de la France. Seconde partie: Unio. Avec neuf planches noires. [Including an original letter by Drouet].

Published 1852-1857
Item ID 75265
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Paris, Simon Raçon; Troyes, Bouquot, 1852-1857. Two parts in two. 8vo (22.5 x 14.0 cm). Frontispiece coat of arms; 260 pp. (vii, 117 [condensed from 333]; 136); 18 [9; 9] engraved plates. Near uniform quarter leather over marbled boards. Spines with gilt or embossed ornamental bands and gilt title. Speckled edges. Première partie with marbled endpapers.

Two well-illustrated monographs by the French malacologist Henri Drouët (1829-1900). The first volume initially published in parts in the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie as ' Études sur les anodontes de l'Aube', and here entirely reset, with new pagination, a new title, and a new – finely hand-coloured in red, blue and gilt – coat of arms of Dom Pedro V, King of Portugal, to whom Drouët dedicated this work. The second volume, on Unio, was first published in the Mémoires of the Société Académique de l'Aube. With very neatly written letter by Drouët, written on stationery of the Académie des Sciences Arts & Belles-Lettres de Dijon, dated 11 November 1895 and addressed to the British malacologist Edgar Albert Smith (1847-1916), in which Drouët asks for specimens of a Danish or Swedish Anodonta (fresh water clam) species, which he needed for comparison. In the top margin, Smith noted, in ink, "Answered 13. Nov. 95". Letter folded horizontally in the middle, signs of being once tipped-in with its left margin, otherwise very good. Provenance: stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of both front wrappers. On the front free endpaper verso of the Anodonta volume a pencilled collation by Johnson; and, in the margins, pencilled indications of the original page numbers and publishing dates. Slight wear to the boards, some occasional, light spotting, otherwise very good, clean. Not in Nissen.

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