The earliest paper entirely devoted to nutmeg shells
Bellardi, L.
Description des cancellaires fossiles des terrains tertiaires du Piémont.
Published
1841
Item ID
74500
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Torino, Reale Accademia delle Scienza di Torino, 1841. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.0 cm). 40 pp.; four finely engraved plates. Marbled wrappers.
A very important contributions to the Tertiary marine malacology of the Mediterranean, by the Italian palaeontologist and malacologist Luigi Bellardi (1818-1889) – one of his earliest papers, containing the descriptions and illustrations of many new species of nutmeg shells that are still valid today. In fact, it is the earliest work entirely devoted to Cancellariidae. Published in the academy's Memorie, Series II, Volume III. A very good, clean copy. Rare. Caprotti 2, p. 172.