MONOGRAPHS OF MARINE MOLLUSCA TAXONOMIC REVISIONS OF THE LIVING AND TERTIARY MOLLUSCA OF THE WORLD NUMBER 1 2, 3, & 4

American Malacologists, 1978. American Malacologists, 1978, Part 1: The Family Cerithidae in the Indo-Pacific, The Genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium, 130 pages. Part 2, The Family Buccinidae, The Genera Nassaria, Trajana and Neoteron, 52 pages. Part 3, Archaeogastropod Biology and the Systematics of the Genus Tricolia in the Indo-West Pacific, 103 pages. Part 4, The Mitridae of the World, 164 pages. All sections have illustrations, bound in a single hardcover edition in a green cloth 4to, no dust jacket. Previous owners name (Richard I. Johnson) stamped on front endpage. Book in near fine condition. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvard’s 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. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.