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Wodarch's Introduction to The Study of Conchology by Mawe, J
Fourth Edition
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831. 12mo. xii 149 pgs. Full leather-bound in Good to Very Good condion. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine and borders. Original binding is tight. Leather is worn and rubbed along boards, edges and corners, with a two inch long scuff to leather cover near edge of rear board. Marbled endpapers and textblock edges. Marbling to textblock faded, endpapers are bright. Light foxing to blanks and pages opposite plates. Attractive bookplate of previous owner Harold Sutcliffe Mort with maritime theme on front fixed endpaper, with tiny bookshop label (Tyrrells Limited, Sydney) at bottom right of same. A second owner name and date (1896) on front blank. Gilt edging along front and rear boards. Subtitle: Describing the Orders, Genera and species of Shells with Observations on the Nature and Properties of the Animals; and Directions for Collecting, Preserving and Cleaning Shells. with color frontis plate of Murex species and a section of six additional full color plates of drawings by author in rear of text. An introduction and glossary of terms is followed by chapters of general observations, properties and uses of shells, cleaning, preserving and collecting, classification and a section devoted to each order: multivalves, bivalves and univalves. #980.. Fourth Edition. Leather Bound . Good to Very Good. Illus. by J. Mawe. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. J. Mawe, Wodarch's Introduction to the Study of Conchology, Wodarch, Mawe, Shells, Seashells, Conchology, Taxonomy, Classification, Shell Collecting, Identification, Bivalves, Univalves, Multivalves, Biology, Marine Biology, Science, Natural History, Shell Collection, Preservation, Cleaning, Harold Sutcliffe Mort, Dorothy Woodruff, Claude John Tozer, Australia, Sydney, Linnaen Society.
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