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The conchologist's first book, or, A system of testaceous malachology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, and a great number of new species added : with colored illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells, presenting a correct type of each genus
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mollusks.
- Physical Description:
- 166 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Barrington and Haswell, 1845.
- Notes:
- Initials after preface to both first and second editions: E.A.P.
- Stated by R. W. Griswole, in the International monthly magazine, Oct. 1850, to be a copy nearly verbatim of the text-book of conchology by Captain Thomas Brown, printed in Glasgow in 1833.
- Includes index.
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