Martens, [K.] E. von
List of the shells of Mergui and its archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum.
London, The Linnean Society 1887. 8vo (21.7 x 13.8 cm). 65 pp.; three hand-coloured lithographed plates. Later blue half-cloth over plain green boards. Gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Written by the German malacologist Karl Eduard von Martens (1831-1904). The Mergui Archipelago is situated on the west coast of Burma (Myanmar), on the continental slope. The terrestrial fauna has some endemic elements, and the marine fauna was little known, resulting in a few new taxa for both. Well-illustrated. In the rear a short paper, also with some new taxa, on the gephyreans (Sipuncula, or peanut worms) collected during the same expedition. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front wrapper. Uncommon when bound and with the wrappers still present. A very good copy.
