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 : with colored illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells, presenting a correct type of each genus

Title Variants

Alternative: Conchologist's first book
Alternative: System of testaceous malachology

By

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862 , Conchologist's text-book.
Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 1805-1886 , lithographer.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Philadelphia, Barrington and Haswell, 1845

Edition

2nd ed.

Notes

Initials after preface to both first and second editions, 4 p.: E.A.P.

The text is a close paraphrase of Captain Thomas Brown's The conchologist's text-book, first printed in Glasgow, 1833.

Plates signed: P.S. Duval, Lith., Phila.

Includes index.

Subjects

Mollusks

Call Number

QL405 .P74 1845

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.16158
OCLC: 879099