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Schmidt, F. C.

Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung, Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und Gegenstände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme, welchen ein Verzeichniß der am meisten bekannten Conchylien angehängt ist, wie solche nach dem Lamarkischen System geordnet werden können.

Published 1818
Item ID 75088
€350.00

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Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1818. Small folio (27.2 x 18.0 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, [iv], 252 pp. 20th-century green buckram with gilt title on the spine.

A seldom-seen work on the systematics, preservation and display of shells and shell cabinets, written by the German naturalist Friedrich Christian Schmidt (1755-1830). Schmidt's catalogue is of importance because it describes part of the Bolten (Röding) collection, which, after being auctioned, ended up in Gotha. Schmidt compares the systems devised by Linnaeus, Bruguière, Lamarck, Denys de Montfort, and Megerle von Mühlfeld. Weak, oval stamp of the Mercantile Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the title, dedication leaf and first preface page; and that of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto and on the title page; decommission stamp of the Free Library of Philadelphia on the title verso. Boards partly darkened. The binding is protective rather than elegant. Nevertheless a very good, clean copy of this rare work. BM(NH) Cat. Supplement, p. 1155.

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