1862 British Conchology, or an Account of the Mollusca which now Inhabit the British Isles and the Surrounding Seas. Volume V: Marine Shells and Naked Mollusca to the End of the Gastropoda, the Pteropoda, and Cephalopoda; with a Supplement and Other Matter, Concluding the Work

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Rebound

First edition. 

Rebound in full blue cloth.

Volume IV is collated and complete with a hand-coloured frontispiece and eight monochrome plates. This copy has had 102 additional monochrome plates bound-in to the rear, following from Plate VIII of this volume. These are the supplementary plates taken from Vol V, the final volume of this series. 

Volume IV of this five-volume series 'British Conchology, or an Account of the Mollusca which now Inhabit the British Isles and the Surrounding Seas'. This part explores the characteristics, habitats and distributions of a wide range of marine shells and naked mollusca.

From British conchologist and malacologist John Gwyn Jeffreys, who took part in several dredging expeditions, notably the Porcupine expeditions in 1869 and 1870 as its scientific leader.