The conchologist's first book: 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

By

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Philadelphia, Pub. for the Author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1840

Edition

2d ed. With illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells ...

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.

Subjects

Mollusks

Call Number

QL405 .P75X

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11191
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/06014936
OCLC: 920437