The conchologist's first book, or, a system of testaceous malacology
By: by Edgar A. Poe ; with illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells.
Contributors: Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862.; Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886.; Wyatt, Thomas.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Mollusks
Other titles: Conchologist's first book.; System of testaceous malacology.
Notes: Poe, with the aid of Isaac Lea and Thomas Wyatt, based this book on The conchologist's text-book by Captain Thomas Brown, Glasgow, 1833. This edition, according to Poe's "Preface to the second edition", has been revised and corrected.

"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".

BAL 16132.

Sabin 63519.

Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1975. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American Poetry, 1609-1900 ; Segment II, no.1831)

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