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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 shellsAuthor: 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 regionAuthor: ['Keep, Josiah, 1849-1911', 'Hannibal, Harold Briggs']
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 speciesAuthor: ['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 ...Author: ['Swainson, William, 1789-1855', 'Hanely, Sylvanus Charles Thorp, 1819-1899']
Species Conchyliorum, or concise original descriptions and observations accompanied by figures of all the species of recent shells, with their varietiesAuthor: ['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 zoologistsAuthor: Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or, Monographs of genera of shellsAuthor: ['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 conchologyAuthor: ['Williams, Joseph William', 'Taylor, John William', 'Roebuck, William Denison, 1851-1919']
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 earthAuthor: ['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']
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. 1,3Author: 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 conchologyAuthor: 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 IndiaAuthor: William T Blanford
XII.βCharacters of new land-shells of the genera Helix, Clausilia, and Spiraxis, from the Andamans, Moulmein, Northern India, and CeylonAuthor: W H Benson
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 MuseumAuthor: Eduard Martens
Bibliography of north american conchology previous to the year 1860 foreign authors prepared for the Smithsonian InstitutionAuthor: W. G. Binney Part 2
A descriptive catalogue of recent shells, arranged according to the Linnæan method; with particular attention to the synonymyAuthor: Dillwyn, L. W. (Lewis Weston), 1778-1855
Elements of conchology : including the fossil genera and the animalsAuthor: ['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 shellsAuthor: ['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 arrangementsAuthor: ['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']
The complete writings of Thomas Say, on the conchology of the United StatesAuthor: ['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 foreignAuthor: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
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 1831Author: Rafinesque, C. S.(Constantine Samuel),1783-1840
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 namesAuthor: ['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 : with the Latin and English names, references to authors, and places where found : illustrated with 2300 figuresAuthor: ['Wood, W. (William), 1774-1857', '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 on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologistsAuthor: ['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 affinitiesAuthor: ['Swainson, William, 1789-1855', 'Bayfield, George', 'Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI']
VIII.βObservations on the shell and animal of Hybocystis, a new genus of CyclostomidΓ¦, based on Megalomastoma gravidum and Otopoma Blennus, B.; with notes on other living shells from India and BurmahAuthor: W H Benson
Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the speciesAuthor: ['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: PulmonataAuthor: Tryon, George Washington, 1838-1888
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the speciesAuthor: ['Tryon, George W. (George Washington), 1838-1888', 'Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, b. 1862', 'Sharp, B']
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the speciesAuthor: ['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-']
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]Author: 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 ..Author: Keep, Josiah, 1849-1911
American marine conchology; or Descriptions and coloured figures of the shells of the Atlantic coast of North AmericaAuthor: Conrad, T. A. (Timothy Abbott), 1803-1877
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A selection of included titles
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 β 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 β ['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 β 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 β ['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 ... β ['Swainson, William, 1789-1855', 'Hanely, Sylvanus Charles Thorp, 1819-1899']
Notes on a Collection of Shells from Southern Mexico β Baker, Frank C.
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