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London / Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. c1858. 9th Edition, corrected an enlarged. Hardcover. Hand colored engravings on steel; Author: Thomas Brown (Naturalist) - Captain Thomas Brown was a British naturalist and malacologist. Born in Perth, Scotland, he was educated at the Edinburgh High School. At the age of twenty, he joined the Forfar and Kincardine Militia, raising to the rank of captain in 1811. When he was quartered in Manchester, he became interested in nature, and edited Oliver Goldsmith's "Animated Nature." After his regiment was disbanded he bought the Fifeshire flax mill. But this burned down before Thomas Brown had the opportunity to insure it and he then started to write books about nature for a living. In 1840 he became curator of the Manchester Museum for twenty-two years. He wrote several natural history books, a few dealing with conchology. He became a fellow of the Linnean Society, a member of the Wernerian, Kirwanian and…
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THE CONCHOLOGIST'S TEXT-BOOK. EMBRACING THE ARRANGEMENTS OF LAMARCK AND LINNAEUS, WITH A GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS. TO WHICH IS ADDED IS ADDED A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE MOLLUSCA
by Thomas Brown (Naturalist) [Basis Of Edgar Allan Poe's Later Bool]
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