Wien, Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien, 1856-1870. Three parts in one. 8vo (20.8 x 13.1 cm). 238 pp. [I (1856): 138 (24-162); II (1859): 92 (215-308); Nachtrag (1870): 8 (908-916)] pp.; two tables (one folding), two lithographed plates of which one printed in sepia. Slightly later green half linen over marbled boards. White title on the spine. Speckled edges.

First thorough account of the terrestrial and fluviatile molluscs of Tirol (present day western Austria and adjacent part of Italy). Vinzenz Gredler (1823-1912) "was an Austrian priest who spent his entire professional career, some five decades, at the Franciscan college in Bozen (Bolzano), located in what is now the German-speaking region of northern Italy. From this Catholic college, he sent out the young missionaries on expeditions to China. These missionaries were evidently instructed not only to attempt to convert the Chinese to Christianity, but also to collect whatever molluscs they could find, which they dutifully sent to Gredler. It would appear that Gredler’s army of missionaries were more successful in collecting new species of molluscs than in converting the Chinese. Further, Gredler is probably the only malacologist commemorated in a mural on the wall of a German restaurant!" (2400 Years of Malacology. The present paper shows that he did not forget local malacology. He described and figured several new species of what was then broadly known as the genus Pupa. Published in the society's Verhandlungen; the first part (land snails) in Volume VI; the second ("Limnophila", or fresh water molluscs) in Vol. IX; and the"Nachtrag", containing Pupa tirolensis nov. spec., in vol. 19. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) above the first drophead title. Folded chart a bit toned, first plate with a shortened fore edge; otherwise a very good, clean copy. Very uncommon. Currently no other copies on the internet.