A CLASSIFIED AND ANNOTATED CHECK LIST OF THE NORTH AMERICAN NAIADES & OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON MOLLUSKS

Baylor University Press, & Harvard University Press, no publishing date listed for first article, 8vo, 111 pages. Also includes by author Richard I. Johnson "Occasional Papers on Mollusks", volume 3 Number 41, published in 1972, pages 137 to 176 with 10 plates. Hardcover edition, no dust jacket, book very good+ condition. Name of previous owner (Richard I. Johnson) stamped on title page. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of "Richard I. Johnson" to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell books ever assembled. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.…