Author: Boury, [M.] E. [A.] de
Title: Monographie Scalidae I. Crisposcala.
Description: Paris, Comptoir géologique de Paris, 1886. 4to (29.2 x 21.5). xl, 52 pp.; six finely lithographed plates. Green buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A well-illustrated monograph by arguably the foremost wentletrap expert of the late 19th and ealy 20th century, the French malacologist Marie Eugène Aubourg de Boury (1855-1920). The plates are excellent. Provenance: Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto and front wrapper. Boards spotted, otherwise very good, clean copy.

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