Paris, Petit de la Saussaye (first four volumes), Crosse, Fischer, and Bernardi, 1850-1862. Ten volumes in ten. 8vo (22.5 x 14.0 cm). Text and 145 plates of which 66 finely hand-coloured. 20th-century uniform black buckram with gilt title on the spines.

The start of the most important malacological periodical ever published, including some of the rarest volumes in this series. A very good set with the maximum number of hand-coloured plates. With many contributions by the most important conchologists and malacologists of its era. Includes the descriptions and illustrations of many new species. The first four Volumes were edited and published by the French malacologist Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye (1792-1870). After a two-year gap, Paul Fischer and A. C. Bernardi (later replaced by Hippolyte Crosse) continued the magazine with a second series. One volume with a mostly weak damp-stain in the lower margin, restricted mostly to a part of the text pages; several plates and text sections foxed - mostly in the first volumes, as usual, but generally quite clean. Dance, A History of Shell-Collecting, p. 163.