Dunker, Guilielmo. Mollusca Japonica. Descripta Et Tabulis Tribus Iconum. 1st. Ed. Pub. Stuttgartiae. 1861
pp.iv, 34 with three hand-coloured lithograph plates depicting 65 new species. More recently rebound in cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. With neat ownership inscription to title page. Scattered foxing to contents, which are o/w. in fine condition. Scarce. Was £800.00.
A very scarce work on the mollusca of Japan, indeed this was the first publication to deal exclusively with this subject. Dunker was a mining engineer and mineralogist. His extensive collection of shells was placed in the Natural History Museum in Berlin after his death, where it remains part of the permanent collection.
£725.00 [Ref: 47797]