REEVE, BEKHAM, AND REEVE. 



\ complete work on the subject than coxild be produced in any other 



I country. 



l The figures are drawn and lithogTaphed by G. B. Sowerby, Jun., 



5 from specimens selected from the most eminent collections, and aU arc 



\ of the natural size, excepting those which requii'e to be enlarged. 



" This great work is intended to embrace a complete description and illustration of 



the shells of molluscous animals ; and so far as we have seen, it is not such as to 



disappoint the large expectations that have been formed respecting it. The figures 



\ of the shells are all of full size ; in the descriptions a careful analysis is given of the 



;' labom's of others ; and the author has apparentlj' spai'ed no pains to make the work 



\ a standard authoi'ity on the subject of which it tTca.ts."—Athena2im. 



[ The following genera published in Parts 1 to 60 of the coloured 

 \ edition, comprise 480 plates of 3750 figures of 2886 species in four 

 \ volumes, as follows : — 



VOL. I. 



\ Conus Phorus Delpliiuula 



\ Pleurotoma Pectuncidus Cypricardia 



\ Crassatella Cardita Harpa 



5 [122 plates, jmce £7- 16*. Gd. half-bomid.'] 



VOL. II. 



i Corbula Glauconome Mitra 



I Area Myadora Cardium 



< Triton Ranella Isocardia 



I [114 phdes, price £7. 0*. 6d. half-bou7td.'\ 



\ VOL. III. 



\ Murex Mangelia Monoceros 



\ Cypraea Purpura Bullia 



> Haliotis Ricinula Buccinuni 



[139 plates, price £8. 5*. 6^/. Jiatf-bound.'] 



[lid plates, price £7. Ij- &d. half-bound.'] 



