OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON MOLLUSKS VOLUME 5 NUMBER 69
by Kabat, Alan & Boss, Kenneth
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
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The Department of Mollusks Harvard University, 1997. The Department of Mollusks, Harvard University, 1992, 1997 8vo, 370 pages. Hardcover edition bound in a red cloth, no dust jacket, book near fine condition. Previous owner's name (Richard I. Johnson) stamped on front endpage. 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. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
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- Cape Cod Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON MOLLUSKS VOLUME 5 NUMBER 69
- Author
- Kabat, Alan & Boss, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Department of Mollusks Harvard University
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Conchology
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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