British Non-Marine Shells (bound papers)
- Illustrations : b/w plates
Description:
An interesting collection of circa 46 offprints/papers on the British and Irish non-Marine Mollusca, from various journals (Journal of Conchology, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, The Irish Naturalist, etc.), published between 1893 and 1930. Notable authors include, A.E. Boycott, R. Welch, H. Beeston, J. Davy Dean, Lionel E. Adams, C.E.Y. Kendall, W.E. Alkins, H.H. Bloomer, Robert Standen, J. Wilfrid Jackson, J.E. Cooper, Albert Wood, John R.B. Masefield, W. Denison Roebuck, A.W. Stelfox, etc.
Condition
Bound in a single volume, buckram, spine faded/sunned. Some foxing. Contemporary cuttings, short notes pasted to endpapers. Name blind-stamped to front board 'J.R. Charnley, Preston', to whom several of the papers are inscribed.