Des Herrn Geoffroy D. und Prof. der Arzney Wissenschaft in Paris Kurze Abhandlung von den Conchylien, welche um Paris sowohl auf dem Lande, als in süssen Wassern gefunden werden aus dem Französischen übersezt und mit einigen erläuternden Zusätzen vermehrt durch Fried. Heinr. Wilh. Martini

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Notes

Added title page signed: A.F. Happe, invent

Signatures: pi² A⁶ B-C⁸ D⁴ E-L⁸ M⁴ (A2,3,4 signed A3,4,5)

Translation of his Traité sommaire des coquilles, tant fluviatiles que terrestres, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris (A Paris : Chez J.B. Guil. Musier fils, 1767)

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials

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SCNHRB has four copies

SCNHRB copy 1 (39088013486295) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry

SCNHRB copy 1 bound in gray paste-paper boards, paper spine label with manuscript title; housed in an archival cardboard box

SCNHRB copy 1 bound with: D. Jacob Christian Schäffers Nachtrag zu den ersten und fernern Versuchen mit Schnecken. Regensburg : Gedruckt bey Johann Christoph Keyser, 1770. Bound together subsequent to publication

SCNHRB copy 2 (39088013486337) inscribed on verso of title page: Chas. W. Richmond. Stamped on 3rd leaf: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Richmond Collection [manuscript accession number] 183894

SCNHRB copy 2 has [4] pages, "Nachricht," inserted at end

SCNHRB copy 2 bound in brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine

SCNHRB copy 3 (39088000957563) has bookplate of William Healey Dall. Property stamp of the Division of Mollusks, Sectional Library

SCNHRB copy 3 has early ink manuscript bibliographical note on verso of added title page, manuscript note on page [1]

SCNHRB copy 3 with 2 additional leaves of printed index bound-in at end

SCNHRB copy 3 bound in plain paper boards, title in manuscript on spine

SCNHRB copy 4 (39088000957282) has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks, Sectional Library. With property stamps of the Division

SCNHRB copy 4 with occasional pencilled manuscript notes to text

SCNHRB copy 4 bound in old marbled paper boards, title in gilt within green leather spine label, blue sprinkled edges

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

1767

Call number

QL425.F8 G3415 1767

author

Geoffroy M (Etienne-Louis) 1725?-1810

former owner

Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI

Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI

illustrator

Happe, Andreas Friedrich 1733-1802

Author

Martini, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm 1729-1778

former owner

Richmond, Charles Wallace 1868-1932 DSI

donor

Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI

Type

Early works to 1800

Physical description

[16], VI, 58, 58b-133, [16] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates 21 cm (8vo)

Place

France

Paris

Title

Geoffroÿ Abhandlung von den Conchÿlien

Kurze Abhandlung von den Conchylien, welche um Paris sowohl auf dem Lande, als in süssen Wassern gefunden werden

Topic

Mollusks

Record ID

siris_sil_928037

Usage

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