Prodromus in systema historicum testaceorum ...
Subtitle: Vorschmack einer vollständigen systematischen Geschichte der Schalthiergehäuse
By: von Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton Spalowsky ...
Publisher: Gedruckt bey Ignaz Alberti's Wittwe
Published: 1801
Place of publication: Wien
Language: lat; ger
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Mollusks; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Vorschmack einer vollständigen systematischen Geschichte der Schalthiergehäuse
Notes: Signatures: pi-2pi² )(² *2 **² ***1 A-Y² (pi1 engraved).

Dedication signed: Anna von Spalowsky, Wien den 26 August 1801.

Frontispiece port. (p. [1]-[2] at front) within an allegorical frame, engraved by Samuel Czetter after Gandolph Steinhäuser von Treuberg; in some copies, the spaces for the portrait and coat of arms are blank.

Latin and German in parallel columns.

Plates I-XIII each accompanied by a sheet of descriptive letterpress.

The Houghton Library copy has hand-colored plates.

Large paper copy, printed on paper watermarked "C & I HONIG".