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The Conchologist's First Book
Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Brown
Long before his tales of terror, Edgar Allan Poe put his name to a guide about seashells. This first book of conchology explains the parts of shells, sorts the multivalves and bivalves, and classifies the mollusks that make them. A curious footnote to a famous life and a real primer besides. Collect shells with an unlikely and legendary guide.
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285 chapters
- 1THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK: A SYSTEM OF TESTACEOUS MALACOLOGY, Arranged expressly for the use of Schools, IN WHICH THE ANIMALS, ACCORDING TO CUVIER, ARE GIVEN WITH THE SHELLS, A GREAT NUMBER OF NEW SPECIES ADDED, AND THE WHOLE BROUGHT UP, AS ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE, TO THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SCIENCE.
- 2PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- 3PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- 4INTRODUCTION.
- 5EXPLANATION OF THE PARTS OF SHELLS.
- 6MULTIVALVE.
- 7BIVALVE.
- 8UNIVALVE.
- 9DESCRIPTION OF PLATE IV. HINGES OF BIVALVE SHELLS.
- 10CLASSIFICATION.
- 11CLASS I. ANNULATA.
- 12FAMILY I. Dorsalia. Two Genera.
- 131. Genus Arenicola.
- 142. Genus Siliquaria. Pl. V.
- 15FAMILY II. Maldania. Two Genera.
- 161. Genus Clymene.
- 172. Genus Dentalium. Pl. V.
- 18FAMILY III. Amphitritæa. Four Genera.
+ 267 more. The full contents open with the book.
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