Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines
Subtitle: à l'état vivant et fossile, publiée par monographies, ou, description et classification méthodique de toutes les espèces connues jusqu'à ce jour, représentées en couleur avec la figure et l'anatomie d'un assez grand nombre de mollusques nouvellement découverts : Genre olive
By: par P.L. Duclos, élève de Lamarck
Contributors: Prêtre, J. G. (Jean Gabriel), b. 1769, ill; Legrand, H. (Henry), engraver; Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886, former owner; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner
Publisher: Typographie de Firmin Didot frères
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Oliva; Mollusks; Pictorial works
Other titles: Genre olive
Notes: Cover title.

Another part, Genre strombe, never published?

Plates are hand-colored and some are signed: J.G. Prêtre, del. -- H. Legrand, sculp. Plate numeration 4 and 18 repeated.

Includes indexes.

BM (Nat. hist.), v. 1, p. 485

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015709223) has additional plates no. 23-33 (issued in 1840?) and 13 plates of the part Genre colombella.

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.

SCNHRB c. 1 has pencilled bibliographical note on front free endpaper.

SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on verso of front cover: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jun 16 1910 [ms. acc. no.] 212817.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in green library buckram, title in gilt on spine; original printed wrappers bound-in.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015709264) stamped at head of title: Issac Lea Collection.

SCNHRB c. 2 has stamped on front cover: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Jan 6 1890 [ms. acc. no.] 134753 [and] Smithsonian Institution National Museum Oct 16 1933.

SCNHRB c. 2 in original printed paper wrappers; housed in an archival cardboard box.