‎Dall, W.H.‎
‎Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake" / Report on the Mollusca. Part I. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda / Part II. Gastropoda and Scaphopoda.‎

‎1886-1889 Two parts in one. 640 [148, 492] p., 49 [9, 40] lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, later half cloth over marbled boards (original printed front covers bound in). Spine with gilt title. Old stamp on front covers, some pencil underlining in the preface to the first part, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Rare.The complete bivalve, gastropod and scaphopod section of the most important zoological dredging operation in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, an area of depths over 25 fathoms previously only incidentally investigated (e.g. a few stations by the Challenger expedition; and earlier by a few others, as recorded by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1847). Massive numbers of often spectacular new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. Nearly all the molluscs are described in this work. These two papers of the Museum's Bulletin series contain a sizable part of Dall's new molluscan taxa.‎

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