American Seashells: a Guide to the Shells of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Shores of the United States and Canada, Central America,and the Islands of the Caribbean

Abbott, R Tucker

Published by D Van Nostrand Company, Princeton, 1958

About this Item

VERY HEAVY. Foreword by H A Pilsbry. xiv, 541 pages, illustratinos include line drawings, photographs, and color plates, guide to molluscan literature, indexes to subject matter and common names, and to scientific names. The lower corner of pages 1-14 are creased and torn, the corners of pages 11/12 and 13/14 are missing- none of which affects text. Decorative cloth boards, with a tear in the cloth at the lower front corner, in rubbed, price-clipped and lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. More than 1500 of the most important varieties of mollusks to be found in shallow waters from Labrador to Florida and the Caribbean Islands, and from Alaska to lower California and Central America are described in this book of identifications, life histories and biological facts. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: American Seashells: a Guide to the Shells of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Shores of the United States and Canada, Central America,and the Islands of the Caribbean
• Publisher: D Van Nostrand Company, Princeton
• Publication Date: 1958
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Photographs by Frederick M Bayer
• Edition: Fourth Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History & Environment