The first major work exclusively on the freshwater snails of North America

Tryon, G. W.

A monograph of the fresh-water univalve Mollusca of the United States. (In continuation of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's work, published under the above title). Turbidae. Physadae.

Published 1870
Item ID 75390
€600.00

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Philadelphia, PA, The Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1870. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). 238 pp; 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates [ Paludina 12-17; Limnea 16-18; Physa 6-9; Planorbis 5-7; Ancylus 2.] Later olive buckram with gilt title on the spine.

A rare, finely hand-coloured copy of a continuation of the first major work exclusively on the freshwater snails of North America, written by the American malacologist George Washington Tryon (1838-1888). As stated in the title, this work is subsequent to a work by another American malacologist, Samuel Stehman Haldemann (1812-1880), hence the peculiar plate-numbering. Rare. We found no auction records. Provenance: stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto and title. A copy of an original front wrapper bound in. A very good, clean copy. Nissen ZBI, 4173.

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