‎Dall, W.H.‎
‎Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", during 1891. XXXVII. / Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904, to March, 1905. XIV. The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda.‎

‎1891-1904 283 p., 22 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves, including three large, folded, maps (one colour-printed), 8vo (23.0 x 14.6 cm), later green buckram. Spine with gilt authortitle. Original printed wrappers bound in. Right margin front cover taped. Some pencil annotations in the text. From the library of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020), however, without his stamp. A good copy of this scarce publication.The complete bivalve, gastropod and scaphopod section (and the brachiopods) of one of the most important zoological dredging operations along the tropical coasts of the Gulf of California, Central and South America. Massive numbers of, often spectacular, new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. Nearly all species are new.‎

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