Keep, Josiah: West Coast Shells. A Familiar Description of the Marine, Fresh Water, and Land Mollusks of the United States, Found West of the Rocky Mountains. Adapted to the Use of Schools, Private Students, Tourists, and all Lovers of Nature

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Keep, Josiah : West Coast Shells. A Familiar Description of the Marine, Fresh Water, and Land Mollusks of the United States, Found West of the Rocky Mountains. Adapted to the Use of Schools, Private Students, Tourists, and all Lovers of Nature

Bancroft Brothers and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1887

Original publisher's brown cloth binding. Gilt lettering on the spine. All edges stained red. 5 1/2" x 7." 230 pages, complete. One color frontispiece and many black and white illustrations, complete. Index in the back. Former owner's signature in pencil on the front free endpaper: "Josiah Keep, Sacramento, Cal." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight rubbing to the corners, edges, head and tail of spine, and front and back outer joints. A Fine copy. A shell identification guide replete with black and white illustrations interspersed among the text. On the title page is the following: "Josiah Keep, A. M., Professor of Natural Science, Mills College. With Numerous Illustrations by Laura M. Mellen, Teacher of Art, Mills College." Excerpt from the Preface: "The kind of reception given to my little book on the 'Common Sea-shells of California,' has induced me to prepare this larger work, embracing a wider territory, namely, that part of the United States lying west of the Rocky Mountains. The present volume includes descriptions of all the species mentioned in the former one, together with many others of the more minute or uncommon marine shells which are found from Puget Sound or Alaska on the north, to San Diego on the south. It also describes the land and fresh-water mollusks of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada, thus making it of use as a reference-book for the interior, as well as along the sea-coast.". Illustr.: Mellen, Laura M.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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