The conchologist's first book; or, A system of testaceous malachology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, and a great number of new species added.
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| Author / Creator: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 |
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| Edition: | 2d ed.] With colored illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells, presenting a correct type of each genus. |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia, Barrington and Haswell, 1845. |
| Description: | 166 p. illus. 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2424193 |
| Item Description: | Stated by R. W. Griswole, in the International monthly magazine, Oct. 1850, to be a copy nearly verbatim of the text-book of conchology by Captain Thomas Brown, printed in Glasgow in 1833. |
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| Physical Description: | 166 p. illus. 20 cm. |