The conchologist's first book, or, A system of testaceous malacology / arranged expressly for the use of schools ... by Edgar A. Poe ; with illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells presenting a correct type of each new genus.

Accession number: 
PML 79014
Author: 
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Published: 
Philadelphia : Published for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell ..., 1839.
Description: 
156 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm
Credit: 
Gift of William S. Glazier, 1984.
Notes: 

1st ed., Heartman and Canny's variant B, with uncolored plates.
Includes index.
Lithographs by P.S. Duval.
The text is a close paraphrase of Captain Thomas Brown's The conchologist's text-book, first printed in Glasgow, 1833.

Binding: 
1/4 leather, original pink printed boards; in case.
Variant Title: 

Conchologist's first book

Provenance: 
Bookplate: Newton Hall, Cambridge, with initials T.S.; William S. Glazier.
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