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This work in the whole is excellent, 

 though not perfedl, as it does not com- 

 prehend the whole feries or fpecies of 

 Shells difcovered : but, as the author him- 

 felf obferves, it is only a number of the 

 fineft and rareft fea, river, and land Shells, 

 many of which have never been engrav- 

 ed before. The expence, lays he, would 

 have been too great to have engraved all 

 that are methodized in the work ; be- 

 fides that the greater part are to be found 

 already figured in Buonanni, Lifter, 

 Rumphius, and other Conchologifts. 



The fecond edition is augmented by 

 three elegant plates, containing thirty- 

 three univalves and eight bivalves, with 

 their defcriptions, and the Zoomorphofe 

 or reprefentation of the animals which in- 

 habit the Shells. 



This curious addition, or account of 

 tlie animals, is illuftrated by nine elegant 

 copper- plates of them and their Shells, of 

 the different families, as well natives of 

 the Indies as of Europe, Gual- 



