Kassel, Theodor Fischer, 1881. 8vo (21.7 x 14.1 cm). xvi, 295 pp. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Yellow endpapers. Marbled edges.

The second edition of a work first published in 1871. In the preface, the author presents a zoogeographical subdivision of Europe and adjacent northern Africa in four zones and 12 sub-regions. It lists names, original publications, distributions, and occasional taxonomical notes. Previous owner's name (an unknown 19th- or early 20th-century malacologist) written on the front free endpaper recto; small stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the title page. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH) Supplement, p. 575.