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
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
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Other uniform titles:Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862. Conchologist's text-book.
Notes: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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