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Published By the Academy, 1966. Published By the Academy, 1966, folio, 546 pages, numerous plates. Hard cover edition bound in a blue cloth, no dust jacket. Previous owner's name (Richard I. Johnson) stamped on front endpage, else book in very good+ condition. Mr. Johnson was a long time Research Associate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, having started as a volunteer while still in high school. He published his first scientific article in 1941, at the age of 16, beginning his life as a gentleman scholar, an amateur with a worldwide scholarly reputation who produced more than 50 papers about malacology. Over six decades Johnson assembled perhaps the largest private collection of books and journals on molluscs, including titles seldom found even in research libraries, each volume identified with a discrete stamp of “Richard I. Johnson” to a preliminary leaf. It was one of the greatest collections of shell books ever assembled.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Folio -… Read More

San Francisco, Ca.: Published By the Academy. Very good. Once owned by a member and author of the California Academy of Sciences with his rubber stamp and ownership marks. . VG. Hardcover. 1966.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1966. Very Good condition. Hinges are perfect. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 72 full page plates, 28 in color. From the library of, and with the signature and embossed name stamp of Norman L. Rumpp, author of: A New Species of Cicindela [Beetles] from Idaho (Volume 35, Issue 7 of Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences), and Notes on the Cicindela praetextata-californica Tiger Beetle Complex, Description of a New Subspecies from Death Valley, California (Coleoptera - Cicindelidae). Norman L. Rumpp (1913-1991) was an engineer by profession, and cicindelophile by avocation. The Cicindela fulgida rumppi was named in his honor. Bound in the original sturdy blue cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Very heavy (almost 7 pounds + packing materials). Oversize Hardcover. 9.5" wide by 11.75" tall by 1.75" thick. This large, very heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International… Read More

San Francisco, California: Caifornia Academy of Sciences, 1966. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. MacFarland, Olive Hornbrook. 546pp.incl.index&plates; HB blue w/gilt; covers&corners rubbed; PONinscip.ft.endpaper; clean,tight pgs. Detailed study of the molluscan subclass Opisthobranchiata whch includes the orders Tectibranchiata & Nudibranchiata. illus. by wife, Olive. 72 b/w & color plates