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Author:
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
Corporate author:
Main entry uniform title:
Uniform title:
Title:
An epitome of Lamarck's arrangement of Testacea : being a free translation of that part of his works, De l'Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, with illustrative observations, and comparative and synoptic tables of the systems of Linnaeus and Lamarck / by Charles Dubois.
Varying title form:
Lamarck's conchology. Epitome Lamarck's arrangement of Testacea.
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 166

Edition details

Publisher:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, and J. Mawe
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1825
Edition:
Physical description:
xxx, [1], 317, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Series entry:
Language(s):
English

Notes

General notes:
Printed by W. McDowall, Pemberton Row, Gough Square.
Errata: p. [1], before the Introduction.
Contents notes:
Provenance:
NHM ZOOLOGY (MOLLUSCA) - Stamped with 'Zool. Dept. Mollusca' and 'Z. D.'.
Title history:
According to W. Engelmann, "Bibliotheca Zoologica" (1846), Bd. 1, p. 457, this was first issued in 1823.
Language notes:
With note:
NHM EARTH SCIENCES - Bound in at front and back are copies of J. Mawe's publisher's list of works on mineralogy and conchology and S. Mawe's sales list of ornamental works of art.
NHM ZOOLOGY (MOLLUSCA) - Bound in at back is a copy of a publishers' list: 'Valuable standard works printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, and J. Mawe'.
Dissertation notes:
Subject:
Mollusks
Additional author(s):
Dubois, Charles,
1656?-1740.
Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778
Additional corporate author(s):
Additional title(s):
De l'Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres.
OPAC identifier:
9910866202081
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Summary notes:
Other notes:
Index found at: pages [313]-317.
By permission of the Trustees of The Natural History Museum (London).
NHM ZOOLOGY (MOLLUSCA) - Pencil annotation on front flyleaf: 'Also with new title-page, dated 1828 + called "A new edition" C. D. S. [Charles Davies Sherborn] 28 Feb. 1917'. UK-LoNHM .
NHM EARTH SCIENCES - The volume has been rebound. UK-LoNHM
NHM ZOOLOGY (MOLLUSCA) - Spine broken and binding brittle: needs repair. UK-LoNHM
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