The conchologist's first book; or, A system of testaceous malacology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, a great number of new species added, and the whole brought up, as accurately as possible, to the present condition of the science.

The conchologist's first book; or, A system of testaceous malacology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, a great number of new species added, and the whole brought up, as accurately as possible, to the present condition of the science.

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Author / Creator:	Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : Pub. for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839.
Description:	156 p. 12 pl. 17 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mollusks. Mollusks.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2615969

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Other uniform titles:	Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862. Conchologist's textbook.
Notes:	Stated by R.W. Griswold, 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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