[Letourneux, E.] Couffon, O and T. Surrault (eds.)
Collection malacologique T. Letourneux offerte au Musée d'Histoire naturelle de la ville d'Angers. Catalogue par MM. O. Couffon (Coquilles marines) Th. Surrault (coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles). Ouvrage honoré d'une subvention de M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.
Angers, Germain et G. Grassin, 1909. 8vo (21.4 x 13.6 cm). Half-title, title page, xiii, 202 pp.; two portraits. Mid-20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
A description of the important malacological collection of the French malacologist Tacite Letourneux (1804-1880), and his nephew, the malacologist and botanist Aristide-Horace Letourneux (1820-1894). With a preface, containing a biography of both, by "le commandant" Émile Letourneux, and portraits of both men. Aristide, especially, is known as a prolific malacological author. The collection contained possible type material from Aristide Letourneux, and from other Fench malacologists, Bourguignat, Cailliaud, De Folin, Dupuy, Gassies, Mousson, and others. Couffon and Surrault provided synonymies, localities, references, etc. A small stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the wrapper. Spine sunned; light, even toning, a hole (paper fault) in the first blank, but otherwise an excellent, clean copy. Rare. Cat. BM(NH) Suppl. p. 624.
