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Le Caire [Cairo], L'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1938. 4to (28.2 x 22.7 cm). Half-title, title page (to the volume), title (to the work), dedication leaf, 91 pp.; ten (groups of) text figures, one chromolithographed plate. Original printed wrappers. = A rarely seen publication on Red Sea molluscs (Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Akaba), with the description of several new or poorly known species by the French malacologist Édouard Lamy (1866-1942). This is part VII of the expedition's result. The full colour plate is excellent. Bound with parts VIII-XI, on the Crustacea, and various insect groups (Thysanura, Coleoptera, etc.), and a one-page addition to part IV, Opisthobranchiata, by the Swiss opisthobranch specialist Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873-1972). Uncut. Rear wrapper creased and partly torn at front edge, otherwise an excellent, clean copy.