Author's dedication copy to Isaac Lea

Agassiz, L.

Iconographie des coquilles tertiaires, réputées identiques avec les espèces vivantes ou dans différens terrains de l'époque tertiaire, accompagnée de la description des espèces nouvelles.

Published 1845
Item ID 74943
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Neuchatel, Henri Wolfrath (for the Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles), 1845. Large 4to (32.6 x 24.5 cm). 64 pp.; 15 lithographed plates (numbered 1-14, A). Original printed wrappers.

Dedication copy of an important paper on bivalve systematics, with fine illustrations of new and poorly known species, by the Swiss-American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe "Louis" Agassiz (1807-1873). Published in the Society's Nouveaux Mémoires, Volume VII, before Agassiz left for America. Offprint with new pagination. Inscribed by the author on the front wrapper, being a dedication to the American malacologist and palaeontologist Isaac Lea (1792-1886). Stamp of US Geological Survey Lea Library, and of Upsala College Library on title page. Inscribed in pencil in the title page top margin by the Australian palaeontologist and malacologist Jeffrey Darl Stilwell. Uncut. Edges, therefore, a bit creased and soiled. Some staining to the lower margin of the front wrapper, and the lower edge of a few plates, but otherwise clean, no foxing or toning. A very good copy. Caprotti II, p. 6 (170); Nissen ZBI, 40.

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