Les mollusques
Subtitle: avec un atlas
By: par M. G.P. Deshayes
Contributors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832; Prashad, Baini, 1894- former owner; Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner; Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- donor
Series: Règne animal / par Georges Cuvier -- v. [5]
Publisher: Fortin, Masson et cie .
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Mollusks; Classification; Pictorial works
Other titles: Règne animal.
Notes: Préface de la première édition and avertissement sur la seconde édition, p. [v]-xxxvj, by Cuvier.

Disciples edition; publisher from set t.p.

Added ill. general t.p. with vignette (medallion of Cuvier).

"Imprimé chez Paul Renouard."

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

Collation: text: xxxvj, 266, [2] p.; atlas: [306] p., [152] leaves of plates.

Plates numbered 1, 1a-1f, 2-30, 30 bis, 31-48, 48 bis, 49-61, 61 bis, 62-69, 69 bis, 70-83, 83 bis, 84-90, 90 bis, 91-111, 111 bis, 112-139.

Errata: p. [267].

Includes bibliographical references.

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SCNHRB copy (39088013485503, 39088013485545) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Stamped on front paste-down: S. Stillman Berry, Redlands, California [ms. no.] 21.II.1950.

SCNHRB copy has atlas t.p. bound after general t.p. in text volume; text t.p. lacking.

SCNHRB copy half bound in brown goatskin and orange cloth boards; title in gilt on spine and at foot of spine: B. Prashad, red sprinkled edges.