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Wodarch's Introduction to the study of conchology : describing the orders, genera, and species of shells, with observations on the nature and properties of the animals, and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells — Wodarch, Charles
West coast shells. A description of the principal marine mollusks living on the west coast of the United States, and of the land shells of the adjacent region — ['Keep, Josiah, 1849-1911', 'Hannibal, Harold Briggs']
American journal of conchology
Descriptions of new species of Shells collected by G. Nevill, Esq., at Mauritius
On a collection of fresh-water shells from Rhode Island — F C Baker
Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained : with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet and descriptions of the most remarkable species — ['Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 12-1881', 'Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner. DSI', 'Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- , donor. DSI']
Exotic conchology : or figures and descriptions of rare, beautiful, or undescribed shells ... — ['Swainson, William, 1789-1855', 'Hanely, Sylvanus Charles Thorp, 1819-1899']
Notes on a Collection of Shells from Southern Mexico — Baker, Frank C.

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Wodarch's Introduction to the study of conchology : describing the orders, genera, and species of shells, with observations on the nature and properties of the animals, and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells — Wodarch, Charles
West coast shells. A description of the principal marine mollusks living on the west coast of the United States, and of the land shells of the adjacent region — ['Keep, Josiah, 1849-1911', 'Hannibal, Harold Briggs']
American journal of conchology
Descriptions of new species of Shells collected by G. Nevill, Esq., at Mauritius
On a collection of fresh-water shells from Rhode Island — F C Baker
Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained : with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet and descriptions of the most remarkable species — ['Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 12-1881', 'Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner. DSI', 'Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- , donor. DSI']
Exotic conchology : or figures and descriptions of rare, beautiful, or undescribed shells ... — ['Swainson, William, 1789-1855', 'Hanely, Sylvanus Charles Thorp, 1819-1899']
Notes on a Collection of Shells from Southern Mexico — Baker, Frank C.
Species Conchyliorum, or concise original descriptions and observations accompanied by figures of all the species of recent shells, with their varieties — ['Broderip, William John, 1789-1859. no 92015195', 'Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884. n 88669749']
Zoological illustrations : or original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists — Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or, Monographs of genera of shells — ['Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884', 'Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), b. 1843', 'Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI']
Land and fresh-water shells: an introduction to the study of conchology — ['Williams, Joseph William', 'Taylor, John William', 'Roebuck, William Denison, 1851-1919']
The land- and freshwater-molluscs of the Dutch West-Indian Islands, Br N 11-224
Catalogue of the specimens of the Australian land shells in the collection — Cox, James C
manual of conchology — henry a. pilsbry, sc.d.
Note on the Sound Heard in Connection with Conchs and Other Shells — Shaw, Garvin
Catalogue of the genera and species of recent shells in the collection of C.B. Adams — Adams, C. B. (Charles Baker), 1814-1853
The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or, Coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth — ['Sowerby, James, 1757-1822', 'Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871', 'Sowerby, Charles Edward, 1795-1842', 'Farey, John, 1766-1826', 'Meredith, Benjamin, printer', 'Palmer, Katherine V. W. (Katherine Van Winkle), 1895-1982, former owner. DSI', 'Petit, Richard E., former owner. DSI', 'Taylor, Richard, 1781-1858, printer', 'Arding and Merrett, printer', 'Arding, W., active 1821, printer', 'Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, bookseller', 'Sherwood and Co. (London), bookseller', 'White and Co. (London), bookseller', 'Penzance Library (England), former owner. DSI', 'Walker & Son (Plymouth, England), binder. DSI']
New Species of Shells from the New Hebrides and Sandwich Islands — Hartman, W. D.
Description of five new species of american fresh water shells — Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
Zoological illustrations, or original figures and descriptions of new, rare or interesting animals: selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology and Conchology and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists. 1,3 — Swainson, William
Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained; with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet; descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them; and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology — Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 12-1881
Contributions to Indian Malacology, No. VI. Descriptions of New Land Shells from the Nilgiri and Anamullay Hills, and Other Places in the Peninsula of India — William T Blanford
Notes on some Floridian land and fresh-water shells with a revision of the Auriculacea of the eastern United States — W H Dall
XXX.—A list of the land and freshwater shells of Barbados — ['Edgar A Smith', 'H W Feilden']
The Philippine land shells of the genus Schistoloma — Paul Bartsch
New marine shells from Panama — Paul Bartsch
V.—Additional notices of British shells — J Gwyn Jeffreys
XII.—Characters of new land-shells of the genera Helix, Clausilia, and Spiraxis, from the Andamans, Moulmein, Northern India, and Ceylon — W H Benson
On the Land and Freshwater Shells of Perak
On the freshwater shells of Tasmania — J E Tenison-Woods
On some new species of Australian land shells — J C Cox
Descriptions of new species of land and marine shells from Australia and the Solomon and Louisiade Islands — J C Cox
List of the Shells of Mergui and its Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum — Eduard Martens
List of some recent shells found in layers of clay on the Maclay coast, New Guinea — J Brazier
The natural history of British shells, ... in five volumes. ... By E. Donovan, ... 1801: Vol 3 — Donovan, Edward.
New land shells of the Japanese empire — ['H A Pilsbry', 'Y Hirase']
Descriptions of new Japanese land shells — ['H A Pilsbry', 'Y Hirase']
Drift shells from Texas — V Sterki
The land shells of Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Fla — G H Clapp
XXXVIII. — Descriptions of land shells from the province of Tavoy, in British Burmah — Augustus A Gould
Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part I — ['G B Pritchard', 'J H Gatliff']
New land shells from the Philippines — Paul Bartsch
Land shells collected on the Bimini Islands, Gun and Cat Cays, Bahamas — G H Clapp
Description of new Japanese land shells — ['H A Pilsbry', 'Y Hirase']
Annotated list of the shells of St. Augustine, Fla — C W Johnson
British conchology; or, An account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas — Jeffreys, John Gwyn, 1809-1885
Bibliography of north american conchology previous to the year 1860 foreign authors prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by W. G. Binney Part 2
A descriptive catalogue of recent shells, arranged according to the Linnæan method; with particular attention to the synonymy — Dillwyn, L. W. (Lewis Weston), 1778-1855
Illustrated index of British shells: Containing Figures of All the Recent Species, with Names ... — George Brettingham Sowerby
Under the German shells — ['Bourcier, Emmanuel, b. 1880', 'Holt, George Nelson', 'Holt, Mary Roxy Wilkins, b. 1869']
Elements of conchology : including the fossil genera and the animals — ['Bowdich, T. Edward (Thomas Edward), 1791-1824', 'Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923, former owner. DSI', 'Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI']
Elements of conchology, or, An introduction to the knowledge of shells — ['Mendes da Costa, Emanuel, 1717-1791', 'White, Benjamin, ca. 1724-1794, publisher']
The elements of conchology, or, Natural history of shells : according to the Linnean system : with observations on modern arrangements — ['Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862', 'Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862, ill', 'Scott, Robert, 1777-1841, engraver', 'Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI', 'Hazard, Robert, former owner. DSI', 'Hazard, John Henry, former owner. DSI']
Generic catalogue of recent & fossil shells — Woodward, S. P. (Samuel Peckworth), 1821-1865
Common sea-shells of California — Keep, Josiah, 1849-1911
Fossil Shells in Himalayan Mountains — Everest from ARv18pt2
The complete writings of Thomas Say, on the conchology of the United States — ['Say, Thomas, 1787-1834', 'Binney, W. G. (William Greene), 1833-1909']
The shell book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign — Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Under the German shells — ['Bourcier, Emmanuel, b. 1880', 'Holt, George Nelson, tr', 'Holt, Mary Roxy Wilkins, 1869- joint tr']
Enumeration and account of some remarkable natural objects of the cabinet of Prof. Rafinesque, in Philadelphia; being animals, shells, plants and fossils, collected by him in North America, between 1816 and 1831 — Rafinesque, C. S.(Constantine Samuel),1783-1840
VI.—on the Land and Fresh-Water Shells of the Western Himálaya — Thomas Hutton
Little shells from many shores — Hopkins, E. A. W. (Eliza Ann Woodruff)
An introduction to conchology; or, Elements of the natural history of molluscous animals — Johnston, George, 1797-1855
Jacobi Petiveri Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia or, Gazophylacium : containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils : also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of Plants, on above three hundred copperplates, with English and Latin names — ['Petiver, James,1665-1718', 'Ray, John,1627-1705', 'Empson, James']
Index testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system — Wood, W. (William), 1774-1857
Index testaceologicus, or, A catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system : with the Latin and English names, references to authors, and places where found : illustrated with 2300 figures — ['Wood, W. (William), 1774-1857', 'Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI']
An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology: Contained in His Histoire Naturelle Des ... — Edmund A. Crouch
Mineral Conchology Of Great Britain Vol. 2 — Sowerby, James
XXXIX.—Descriptions of new species of shells from Mauritius and California — Edgar A Smith
Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals : selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists — ['Swainson, William, 1789-1855', 'Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI']
Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities — ['Swainson, William, 1789-1855', 'Bayfield, George', 'Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI']
West coast shells — ['Keep, Josiah, 1849- [from old catalog]', 'Hannibal, Harold Briggs. [from old catalog]']
VIII.—Observations on the shell and animal of Hybocystis, a new genus of Cyclostomidæ, based on Megalomastoma gravidum and Otopoma Blennus, B.; with notes on other living shells from India and Burmah — W H Benson
Marine shells of South Africa: a catalogue of all the known species — Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884
Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species — ['Tryon, George W. (George Washington), 1838-1888', 'Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia', 'Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, b. 1862']
Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata — Tryon, George Washington, 1838-1888
A manual of the mollusca; or, Rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells — Woodward, Samuel Peckworth, 1821-1865
The Williams collection of shells, a brief account of the conchological cabinet of Mrs. Alice L. Williams — Chadwick, George Halcott, 1876-
Report of the Treasurer of the "Manual of Conchology"
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species — ['Tryon, George W. (George Washington), 1838-1888', 'Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, b. 1862', 'Sharp, B']
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species — ['Tryon, George W. (George Washington), 1838-1888', 'Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, b. 1862', 'Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902', 'Cooke, Charles Montague, 1874-1948', 'Baker, Horace Burrington, 1889-']
Shells from life-love-God — Seton, Julia, 1862-
Quarterly journal of conchology
Notes on Freshwater Sponges---Sponges from shells of the genus Aetheria (15) — Annandale, N
Sea Shells Polka — Smallwood, William
The Dispersal of Shells — CLEMENT REID
Osborn, Charles E., 1887-1904 (Dealer in Shells, Minerals, Curios, and Postage Stamps; [later] Osborn's Old Curiosity Shop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [ANS Chapman brothers business correspondence] — Osborn, Charles E.
West coast shells. A familiar description of the marine, fresh water, and land mollusks of United States, found west of the Rocky Mountains .. — Keep, Josiah, 1849-1911
Hulse - Drilling Machines for Boiler Shells, British Patent 24196 of 1894 — W. W. Hulse
Notes on American Fresh Water Shells, with Descriptions of Two New Species — Geo. W. Tyron, Jr.
Report on the Freshwater Gastropod Molluscs of Lower Mesopotamia (1) — ['Annandale, N', 'Prashad, Baini']
The Indian Molluscs of the Estuarine Subfamily Stenothyrinae — ['Annandale, N', 'Prashad, B']
Au bord de la mer : barcarolle & tremolo on the beautiful melody Shells of ocean — Beck, Jas. N
Journal of conchology — Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Description of new operculated land shells — H Dohrn
A history of British Mollusca and their shells — Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854, author
American marine conchology; or Descriptions and coloured figures of the shells of the Atlantic coast of North America — Conrad, T. A. (Timothy Abbott), 1803-1877
Tryon's Conchology
A history of British mollusca and their shells: by Edward Forbes and Sylvanus Hanley. 4 — Forbes, Edward

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