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WOOD, William (1774-1857). Index Testaceologicus, an Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign Shells ... A New and Entirely Revised Edition ... by Sylvanus Hanley. London: Willis and Sotheran, 1861. 8°. 46 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary green half morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments with repeated shelf motifs, top edges gilt (small area of wear to upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed). cf. Nissen ZBI 4459 (citing first edition of 1818).
With 2 other works of related interest in 3 vols., Lovell Reeve's Elements of Conchology (London, 1860, 2 vols.) and Monograph of the Genus Cypraea ([London, n.d.]). (4)
With 2 other works of related interest in 3 vols., Lovell Reeve's Elements of Conchology (London, 1860, 2 vols.) and Monograph of the Genus Cypraea ([London, n.d.]). (4)
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