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The shells of Madeira, with 2 plates

PAIVA, Antonio, Barone de Castello de.
Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium Insularum Maderensium.
Olispone, typis Academicic, 1868. 4to. With 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Modern black half goatskin, author's name and title in gold on spine, preserving the original printed front wrapper. [4], XIX, [1 blank], 168, [2] pp.
€ 750
Rare offprint of a study of the shells of Madeira. It was originally published in Academia Real da Sciencias, nova serie IV, 1, and includes here its own title-wrapper and one additional page with quotations from Psalm 103, Isaac Newton and Castello de Paiva.
Some repairs to the front wrapper and some spots to the plates, otherwise in good condition. BMC NH, p. 1499.
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