The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shell
Subtitle: accurately drawn and painted after nature, with a new systematic arrangement
By: by the author Thomas Martyn = Le conchologiste universel, montrant la figure de chaque coquille : aujourd'hui connuë soigneusement dessinee et peinte d'apres nature, le tout arrangé selon le systeme / de l'auteur Thomas Martyn
Contributors: Iredale, Thomas, former owner; Harasewych, M. G., former owner
Publisher: Sold [by the author] at his house ...
Published: 1784
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Mollusks
Other titles: Conchologiste universel, montrant la figure de chaque coquille.; Figures of non descript shells collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since 1764.; Figures des coquilles jusqu'à présent inconnues recueilles en divèrs voyages à la Mer de Sud depuis l'année 1764.; Shells.
Notes: Added t.p.: Figures of non descript shells collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since 1764, published by Thomas Martyn = Les figures des coquilles jusqu'à présent inconnues recueilles en divèrs voyages à la Mer de Sud depuis l'année 1764, et donnees au publíc par Thomas Martyn.

Engraved title pages.

Text in English and French on opposite pages.

Col. frontispiece in v. 1 with caption Aphrodite, in Greek.

With (as issued?): Explanatory table and Observations on the explanatory table between p. 27 and plate 1 in v. 1, and Explanatory table preceding plate 41 in v. 2.

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Spine title: Shells.

Armorial bookplate.

Bookplate: M.G. Harasewych.

Lacking title pages, frontispiece and all text.

Library copy with 32 additional plates: several plates that were never published and versions that differ in arrangement and quality of the published plates.