1851-6 A Manual of the Mollusca; or, Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells

Description

Illustrated, Rebound

The complete edition. Three volumes in one, as issued. 

In a modern half cloth rebinding, with marbled boards. With the original backstrip laid down to the spine.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous in-text figures throughout, and twenty-four plates of engravings to the rear, with a descriptive index. Also with a folding map of molluscan provinces. Collated, complete. 

Offering the classes, habits, structure and physiology of many species of molluscs, with descriptions of their modes of attachment, food, use of shells, tenacity, and their position in the animal kingdom. 

The principal work of English geologist and malacologist, Samuel Pickworth Woodward. 

With six pages of advertisements to the rear. 

A charming copy with thought-out additions neatly bound-in from the previous owner. Including a handwritten leaf bound-in following p.448 discussing Belemnites and a plate of relevant figures bound-in following p.154.