Author: Boury, [M.] E. [A.] de
Title: Catalogue raisonné de la collection de Scalaria vivants et fossiles du Muséum de Paris.
Description: Paris, Masson (for the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris), 1912. Large 4to (31.8 x 24.5 cm). 56 pp. [209-264]; five plates [XII-XVI]. Printed rear wrapper bound in. = A large and well-illustrated monograph, written by French malacologist Marie Eugène Aubourg de Boury (1855-1920), who specialized in wentletraps (Epitoniidae). The genus Stenorhytis is well-represented on the plates. Several new species are included. Published in the Muséum's Nouvelle Archives 5(4). With a stamp of the Muséum in the lower margin of the first and third text page, and a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the first text page, above the drophead title. Small repair to the lower margin of the first text page and rear wrapper, first leaf verso a bit soiled, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Rare.

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