WODARCH'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CONCHOLOGY
Written by J Mawe
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme And Brown
in 1832
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- MARINE LIFE
- SHELLS
- HAND COLOURED
- ANTIQUARIAN
- LEATHER BINDING
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WODARCH'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CONCHOLOGY
Written by J Mawe.
Stock no. 1208920
4th.
1932.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Fourth Edition with considerable additions and alterations. Describing the Orders, Genera and Species of Shells with Observations on the nature and Properties of the Animals, and directions for collecting, preserving and cleaning shells. Full calf leather boards, gilt borders, gilt title to spine on red title block. Marbled endpapers. 7 hand coloured plates. xii and 149 pages plus plates to rear. Spine & corners lightly rubbed, some spotting to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. A few very light touch pencil annotations. Some foxing present. All plates present with some browning. A nice copy.
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Contents
- GLOSSARY
- CHAPTER I.
- General Observations
- Properties of animals inhabiting shells
- Customary uses to which shells and their inhabitants are converted
- Enemies to shells and shellfish
- Directions for collecting shells, and arranging them systematically
- Methods of preserving and cleaning shells
- CHAPTER II.
- Description of the animals inhabiting shells
- CHAPTER III.
- CLASSIFICATION
- I. Multivalves
- II. Bivalves
- III. Univalves -
- 1. With a regular spire
- 2. Without a regular spire
- ORDER 1. - MULTIVALVES
- Chiton
- Lepas
- Pholas
- ORDER II. - BIVALVES
- Mya
- Solen
- Tellina
- Cardium
- Mactra
- Donax
- Venus
- Spondylus
- Chama
- Arca
- Ostrea
- Anomia
- Mytilus
- Pinna
- ORDER III. - UNIVALVES
- Argonauta
- Nautilus
- Conus
- Cyprea
- Bulla
- Voluta
- Buccinum
- Strombus
- Murex
- Trochus
- Turbo
- Helix
- Herita
- Haliotis
- Patella
- Dentalium
- Serpula
- Teredo
- Sabella
- Explanation of the Plates