Pacifique

1899 · MM43575 — 1899 Three papers in one. 164 p. [92, 45, 17]; 80 [49, 9, 22] fine text engravings, 8vo (24.0 x 15.3 cm), green buckram with gilt author/title on the spine. Original uniform printed wrappers bound in. A small map of the tropical Pacific region is mounted on the front board. In the top margin of the title page, a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020). Some foxing to the endpaper margins, the top outer corner of the first text leaf margin, above Johnson's stamp, clipped. The two other first leaves have, in exactly the same spot, a red stamp "With C. Hedley's Compliments".The complete Mollusca, rarely found together (often the Supplement is lacking!). Many species are described as new. Even very small shells are illustrated in great detail. Fanafuti (Tuvalu) is an island in an atoll north of Tahiti, and nowadays an independent state. Written by the British born Australian malacologist Charles Hedley (1862-1926).