Author: Daudin, [F. M.]
Title: Sur un nouveau genre de coquille bivalve nommée Cyrtodaire.
Description: Paris, Société Philomathique, An 7 [1798]. Large 4to (26.7 x 20.8 cm). Text page; three figures on one plate. Contemporary blind wrappers. = A rarely seen paper by the French zoologist François Marie Daudin (1774-1804), describing and illustrating a new bivalve genus. Published in the society's Bulletin des Sciences, number 22, p. 170. Bound together with the numbers 13 to 24, with many other papers on zoological subjects, including works by Latreille, Cuvier, Coquebert, Geoffroy, etc. Several are of malacological interest. Uncut. Edges irregular, a bit frayed; binding weak, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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