conchologist (6 Ergebnisse)

In issues. Four complete volumes and three extra issues.

over 300 p., 4to, well bound in cloth volume, label on spine with gilt title. Four holes punched in inner margin.

Brown's collection of shells is now held by the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. The text of the letter is on the verso of the last leaf and recto of the first, with the central two pages each carrying a neat list, in double column, the first of 'Bivalves' and the second of 'Univalves'. Pinned at the head of the first page of the letter is an advertisement cut from a newspaper, reading: 'A DANISH COLLECTOR OF SHELLS | wishes to exchange Fine Specimens of Land and Freshwater Shells from Denmark, with Specimens from England and other places. Refer to DR. O. A. L. MORCH, Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.' Brown expresses his willingness to 'exchange specimens', explaining: 'The locality in which I chiefly reside is not very favourable for Collecting Land & freshwater mollusca but I spend a few days yearly in dredging and collecting on our Western Coasts and I append (overleaf) a rough note of the Larger Species which I can supply from my cabinet at all times - this list could, I think, in the course of the coming Summer be nearly doubled chiefly by the addition of the smaller species such as Eulina Skenea, Montacuta, Odostomia, Utriculus, etca.' He offers to send 'a parcel such as indicated by this list'. At the foot of the second page of the letter is a third list, this one of 'some of the water species obtainable in this neighbourhood which I usually can supply'.

Two pages, 12mo, good condition. Her letter was passed on from his old address but "persons are still thgere falsely carrying on business in my name or that of my late father. | Balls dredge being comparatively light will probably answer your purpose. I can supply it at £1.0.0. | A hand-net with telescopic handle at 9/6 | A lowing net of fine muslin for small floating objects 8/6 with a geological hammer for shore collecting 5/- will complete your apparatus. | I hope your dredging operations will prove successful particularly as to molluscsa & if you should meet any species of shells not in my 'Index' you will kindly let me see them - in preparation for my future supplement.[.] P.S. I beg to enclose a prospectus of my recently published work & shall be happy to forward a copy." The brief Prospectus is printed on the verso of the letter, beneath the Postscript.

viii, 88 p., 1 folded plate (depicting Pleurotomaria adansoni), contemporary cloth (spine worn, original covers of all four issues bound in at the back). Scarce.

232, viii p., several figures, 2 lithographed plates, in issues. Scarce.