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Item #39388 New Fresh Water Shells of the United States, with Coloured Illustrations, and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say; Also a Synopsis of the American Naiades. Timothy Abbott CONRAD.
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New Fresh Water Shells of the United States, with Coloured Illustrations, and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say; Also a Synopsis of the American Naiades
New Fresh Water Shells of the United States, with Coloured Illustrations, and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say; Also a Synopsis of the American Naiades
New Fresh Water Shells of the United States, with Coloured Illustrations, and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say; Also a Synopsis of the American Naiades

New Fresh Water Shells of the United States, with Coloured Illustrations, and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say; Also a Synopsis of the American Naiades

Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1834. 8vo. (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). 76, [8]pp. 9 hand-colored plates. Light foxing.

Contemporary green cloth, paper title label on cover.

First edition.

Timothy Abbott Conrad was an American geologist and malacologist who worked in New York, where he was one of the state geologists and a contributor the the New York Geological Survey in the 1830s. He was paleontologist of the New York Geological Survey from 1838 until 1841, and wrote their annual reports. He also made the reports of paleontological discoveries in the Pacific Railroad Survey and the Mexican Boundary Survey. He was a frequent contributor to journals such as the American Journal of Science and Journal of the Philadelphia Academy of Science and oversaw the posthumous publication of the last part of Thomas Say's "American Conchology."

Sabin 15904; Wheeler, p. 132; Binney, pp. 23-30; Nissen ZBI 945.

Item #39388

Price: $4,500.00

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