From the Agassiz libraries: the first illustrations of shells from a rich and well-preserved fauna

Grateloup, [J. P. S. de]

Conchyliologie fossile du Bassin de l'Adour, ou description des coquilles fossiles qui ont été trouvées dans les terrains marins tertiaires, aux environs de Dax (département des Landes).

Published 1837
Item ID 74982
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Bordeaux, Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux (T. Lafargue), 1837-1840. Folio (30.7 x 24.0 cm). Half-title, title page, [72], 12 pp.; 48 large, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. Later quarter line over marbled boards. Spine with paper label with handwritten title in an old hand.

Rare, separately published atlas of this early work on the well-preserved Miocene fossils of the Aquitaine Basin. Written and illustrated by the French malacologist, palaeontologist and medical doctor, Jean Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup (1782-1862). The unnumbered text leaves contain detailed species descriptions. Plate numbering starts anew with each genus or group of genera. Grateloup described many species earlier, in the society's Bulletin, but the many new species on the supplement plates date from this work. Provenance: with on the front pastedown the richly engraved bookplate of Harvard University, with the printed text: "The gift of Alexander E. R. Agassiz, of Cambridge, Mass. (Class of 1855)". From the library of the late professor Louis Agassiz. The autograph of Agassiz on the front free endpaper recto, and a small stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the half-title and title. Rare. We found no auction records. Some spotting to the half-title, first plate, and locally elsewhere, but mostly quite clean. A very good copy. Caprotti II, p. 28 [192]; Nissen ZBI, 1679.

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