Prodromus in systema historicum testaceorum
By: per Ioachimum Ioannem Nep. Antonium Spalowsky ... = Vorschmack einer vollständigen systematischen Geschichte der Schalthiergehäuse / von Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton Spalowsky ...
Publisher: Gedruckt bey Ignaz Alberti's Wittwe
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Wien
Language: lat
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Mollusks; Pictorial works
Other titles: Vorschmack einer vollständigen systematischen Geschichte der Schalthiergehäuse.
Notes: Parallel Latin and German texts, in double columns.

Signatures: pi² *² 2*² 3*1 )(² A-Y².

Hand-colored ill.

Each plate accompanied by tissue guardsheet with letterpress description, not counted in pagination statement.

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Dedicatory letter to Prince Carl Ludwig from Anna von Spalowsky dated "Wien den 26. August 1801" on p. [6] (1st group).

Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheque des Herrn Grafen von Schönborn Buchheim.

Old, spattered grey paperboard binding; gilt-tooled spine with binder's title, which reads: Vorschmack e. Geschichte d. Schalthier Gehaeuse v. Spalowsky.

Gilt-stamped shelfmark at foot of spine: I. 11. 294.

Armorial paper label pasted on upper left of front cover, with shelfmark: 10.132.

Bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased with support from the Collections Acquisition Fund, the Special Collections Endowment, and the Division of Mollusks, National Museum of Natural History.