Descrizione

Grenoble, Prudhomme, 1846. 16mo (20.0 x 12.5 cm). 22, [i]; 27]. 20th-century green half linen over plain green boards. Gilt title on the spine. = One of several mid to late19th century regional catalogues of non-marine molluscs. Almost every French département had its own keen malacologist tackling the local malacofauna. This one, by Claude Joseph Albin Gras (1808-1856) deals with the malacofauna of the Alpine department of Isère, in south-eastern France. With a handwritten index combining both the main work and the supplement, and including plate references and a tally of all the figured and unfigured species. This table a bit shaved at the fore edge, with some loss. Provenance: stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front board and half-title. Scattered foxing throughout, otherwise very good. A unique copy.