1st Ed. Preface dated Bainsbury, March, 1856. XVI, 3 - 486, (12 catalogue) PP with engravings and woodcuts: 272 figures in text, plus 24 plates with 600 drawings accompanied by 24 pages "Explanation of the plates", and a folded map "Molluscan Provinces" by J.W. Lowry and dated 1856. Soft covers. Copy lacking the front cover, the frontispiece and the "Table of the sub-kingdoms and classes of "Animals"called for on page 2 of the text. Folded map with repaired tears. Pages XI to XVI present but in a loose condition. Slight ageing of paper and foxing, Book in need of a good binding. Still a very good copy of a scarce title. 18 x 11.2.

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Title: A MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA, or RUDIMENTARY TREATISE of RECENT AND FOSSIL SHELLS
Publisher: John Weale, London. -6.
Publication Date: 1851
Edition: 1st Edition

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