The conchologist's first book
a system of testaceous malacology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, a great number of new species added, and the whole brought up, as accurately as possible, to the present condition of the science
By Edgar A. Poe. 2d ed. With illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells ...

Description

Main Author

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Language(s)

English

Published

Philadelphia Pub. for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell 1840

Edition

2d ed.

Subjects

Brown, Thomas, > Brown, Thomas, / 1785-1862. > Brown, Thomas, / 1785-1862. / Conchologist's text-book.
Mollusks.

Note

Stated by R. W. Griswold, in the International monthly magazine, Oct. 1850, to be a copy nearly verbatim, of the text-book of conchology by Captain Thomas Brown printed in Glasgow in 1833

Physical Description

166 p. 12 pl. 18 cm.

Locate a Print Version

Find in a library
Find in a library

Viewability