ACADEMY FOR . 



This Day is Published, 



(In two Volui îe s , C omj >le t e ) 



FIGURES of Non-De script S H E L L S, 



Collected in the 

 Several Voyages to the South Seas, since the ye->r 1764. 



DEDICATED (By Permission) to HIS MAJESTY, 

 By Thomas Martyn. 

 Plan of Publication. 



I. . The whole Work, exhibiting a complete Colletion of Non- 

 descript Shells, from the South Seas, is comprised in two 

 volumes, Polio. 



II. Eighty Figures of shells are given in each volume. 



III. The more essential parts are executed by the Author only: 

 and the others by his pupils under his immediate direction. 



IV. In each volume is given an engraved title-page, and an 

 explanatory table (in French and English) , shewing in 

 different columns, 1st, The number referring to each figure 

 in the order of its succession. 2dly, The English name and 

 family, with an initial letter denoting the genus, or 

 division, of that family to which the shell belongs, according 

 to the system of the Author. 3dly, The Latin name, and its 

 degree of rarity. 4thly, where the shell is found. And, 

 lastly, in what cabinet it is preserved. 



The price is nine guineas each volume, in a rich extra binding 

 and ten guineas and an half in Horroco. Unbound, seven guineas 

 and an half. 

 An edition of the above Work , elegantly bound in small Polio, 

 y be had at five guineas and a half each volume. 



The subject of the Work above specified seems to entitle 

 it in a particular manner to the attention of the British Natural- 

 t, as a monument of the several voyages to the Pacific Ocean, 

 I of those important discoveries which will do such lasting 

 honor to the Philosophical spirit of this nation, under the present 

 t, so auspicious both to the liberal arts and useful sciences. 

 " is it destitute of a more general merit, which may as 



