Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de Monet de]
Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les charactères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une introduction offrant la détermination des caractères essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturels; enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie. Tome septième.
Paris, l'Auteur, 1822. 8vo (20.9 x 12.8 cm). 711 pp. Contemporary, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title.
The final (7th) part of this famous series, containing the index to the whole work, and the (true) Mollusca from the Suite des trachélipodes – from "Les turbinacés" ( Solarium) (i.e. the Architectonicidae) to the end, and including, e.g., Trochidae, Turbinidae, Phasianellidae, Turritellidae, Cerithiidae, Turridae (s.l.), Turbinellidae, Terebridae, Cancellariidae, Columbellidae, Muricidae, Strombidae, Harpidae, Olividae, Mitridae, Volutidae, Marginellidae, Ovulidae, Cypraeidae, and Conidae; as well as, supplemental, genera such as Calyptraea, Bulla, Helicina, Bulimus, Auricula, Planorbis, Nerita, Cephalopoda, Foraminifera, Carinaria, etc. Provenance: with, on the front pastedown, the armorial bookplate, "ne vile velis", of Richard Cornwallis Neville (probably the British archaeologist Richard Cornwallis Neville, 4th Baron Braybrooke [1820-1861]), and a holographic inscription by the American oil geologist and micropalaeontologist Arthur N. Dusenburg Jr (d. 1985); on the front free endpaper recto the name of the Australian malacologist and palaeontologist Jeffrey D. Stillwell, with date and place of acquisition (and his bookplate mounted on the rear free endpaper recto); and on the first blank verso a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) - however, not his ownership stamp, but his (much rarer) bookseller's stamp. Rebacked. Boards rubbed; some pencilled ticks. Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1049.
