The Molluscan Family Planorbidae
by Baker, Frank Collins
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
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Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
The University of Illinois Press, 1945. The University of Illinois Press, 1945, 4to, 530 pages, illustrations. Hardcover edition bound in a brown cloth, no duist jacket. Name of previous owner stamped on front endpage (Richard I. Johnson), book very good+ condiion. 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. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Cape Cod Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- The Molluscan Family Planorbidae
- Author
- Baker, Frank Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The University of Illinois Press
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Conchology
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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