MEMOIRS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOLUME VI STUDIES OF OPISTHOBRANCHIATE MOLLUSKS OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH AMERICA
by MacFarland, Frank Mace
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Published By the Academy, 1966. Published By the Academy, 1966, folio, 546 pages, numerous plates. Hard cover edition bound in a blue cloth, no dust jacket. Previous owner's name (Richard I. Johnson) stamped on front endpage, else book in very good+ condition. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of Richard I. Johnson to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell books ever assembled.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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- Cape Cod Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- MEMOIRS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOLUME VI STUDIES OF OPISTHOBRANCHIATE MOLLUSKS OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH AMERICA
- Author
- MacFarland, Frank Mace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Published By the Academy
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Conchology
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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- Folio
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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