The conchologist's first book; or, A system of testaceous malacology
Subtitle: arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, a great number of new species added, and the whole brought up, as accurately as possible, to the present condition of the science.
By: By Edgar A. Poe. With illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells ...
Contributors: Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862.
Publisher: Pub. for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Mollusks
Notes: Stated by R.W. Griswold, in the International monthly magazine, Oct. 1850, to be a copy nearly verbatim, of the text-book of conchology by Captain Thomas Brown, printed in Glasgow in 1833.