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Crosby Lockwood, 1890. Crosby Lockwood, 1990, reprint of fourth edition, 8vo, 542 pages+ index & appendix. Book bound in a green cloth, shell in gilt on front board, top edge gilt. Numerous plates and illustrations. Wear to extremities, cloth on spine split but reglued, spine a little loose, else book about good condition. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of “Richard I. Johnson” to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell… Read More

Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1880. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Medium green cloth 8vo. Blind decorative design and gilt lettering on front board. Blind stamp on back. Backstrip missing entirely. Boards detached with a little fraying, wear and sun fading. Patterned end papers. Frontispiece. Title page has been labelled in pen. Interior is clear of markings and clean with numerous illustrations. It also contains several fold out plates. Some catalogue pages at back are detached. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:

London: Lockwood & Co., 1875. xiv, 542, 86, frontis, 23 plain plates, 297 text figs, 1 folding map. . HB. Sm. 8vo, cont. cloth. Light browning to endpapers; minor foxing; crease to top corner of final few pages.. Third edition, with an Appendix of recent and fossil conchological discoveries by R. Tate. Illustrated by A.N. Waterhouse and J. Wilson Lowry..

London: Lockwood & Co., 1875. With an Appendix of recent and fossil conchological discoveries by Ralph Tate, profusely illustrated, top edge gilt, covers worn but spine titles still bright, previous owners name ffep otherwise unmarked, 543pp +81 page Appendix + index to Appendix, VG/--.. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Waterhouse, A.N. And Lowry, Joseph Wilson.