The rare, originally hand-coloured edition

Mousson, [J. R.] A.

Die Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken von Java. Nach den Sendungen des Herrn Seminardirektors Zollinger zusammengestellt und beschrieben.

Published 1849
Item ID 75147
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Zürich, Friedrich Schulthess, 1849. 8vo (20.6 x 14.0 cm) [board size 21.3 x 15.0 cm). iv, 126 pp.; 22 lithographed plates, all in fine, original hand-colouring. 19th-century grained half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers; marbled edges.

A rarely seen work, in the ultra-rare coloured version, on the continental molluscs of one of the larger and topographically diverse islands in the Malayan Archipelago, and of some adjacent islands and islets. There are no auction records at all. However, this a most important work as many species are described and illustrated here for the first time. The plates are excellent, with fine, accurate colouring. A few images are heightened with silver, and some of them are oxidized, but most illustrations are fine. The author, Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson (1805-1890) was a Swiss physicist and malacologist. Terrestrial and fresh water molluscs were his speciality. However, brackish water species, e.g., Melampidae, are included too. Provenance: originally acquired by the Scottish malacologist Robert Boog Watson (name written on the front free endpaper recto), then bequeathed to the Conchological Society (their oval stamp on the title, bookplate on the front pastedown and blind-stamp in the plate margins); then purchased by Wheldon & Wesley (their stamp over the Conchological Society bookplate and stamp, and dated May 1954), and finally bought by the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) with his stamp in the top margin of the title page. Board edges rubbed; spine slightly sunned, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Caprotti II, p. 42 [206]; Nissen ZBI, 2902.

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