‎Sarasin, P. & F. Sarasin‎
‎Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes. I. Die Süsswasser-Mollusken von Celebes.‎

‎1898 viii, 104 p., map, 13 photographic and lithographed plates, roy. 4to (25,5 x 31 cm), publisher’s half cloth with author/title on spine and front cover, and on front cover a shell with the motto ‘’profunda emersus palude’’. Important contribution to the fresh water molluscs of Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia with the descriptions and illustrations of new genera and species. The bluish photographic plates made by the author’s depict the shells, and the litographed plates (drawn by the Sarasins) depict radula, opercula and some anatomy. Bookplate of the German zoologist and malacologist Johannes Meisenheimer (1873-1933). With author’s dedication to Meisenheimer. Loosely inserted is the (8 page) advertisment of the work by Kreidl’s Verlag extensively promoting Sarasin’s works and those by Kobelt. The present work was sold at the time for 32 Mark. A very good, clean copy of this rare work.From the Library of Richard I. Johnson (1925-2020), malacologist and bibliophile, who build over a period of nearly six decades, what was perhaps the largest private library of books and journals on molluscs. With his stamp.‎

Reference : ML36729

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