Book Listings from Schooner Specimen Shells
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Exploring the Seashore Gloria Snively. 1978. 240 pgs. 23 x 15 cm. A field guide to Shorebirds & intertidal plants & animals of Oregon, Washington & B. C. with drawings, maps & photos...$14 (1 available)
Hall's Shells of the Florida Coasts Revised edition 1956, reprinted 1983. 32 pgs. 21 x 14 cm. Line drawings & colour plates of the usual suspects from Florida...$4 (1 available)
Tasmanian Sea Shells volume 2Margaret H. Richmond, revised 1958. 112 pgs.18 x 25 cm. With 50 B&W plates and Index...$4 (1 available)
Illustrations to "Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan Shells" by Phillip Carpenter Doris C. Brann. 1966. 111 pgs. 23 x 15 cm. 60 plates of line drawings originally intended for publication with Carpenter's 1857 work, including an index to the original text...$8 (1 available)
National Geographic July 1949. Rutherford Platt. 84 pgs. 25 x 17 cm. Lovely old early treatment of shells & collecting, with 16 illustrations & 41 colour photos...$9 (1 available)
National Geographic March, 1969. Paul Zahl & Victor Boswell. 446 pgs. 25 x 17 cm. The Geographic's renowned quality colour photos give glorious life to this article...$8 (1 available)
New Zealand Shells & Shellfish Collecting & Eating Glen Pownall. 1971. 87 pgs. 25 x 19 cm. Information on collecting, colour photo section for identification & good assortment of recipes...$10 (1 available)
Seashells S. Peter Dance. 1973, 159 pgs. 18 x 11 cm. Good little starter book, beautifully colour illustrated...$4 (1 available)
Animals of the Estuary Shore Malcolm B. Jones, 1983. 14.5 by 20.5 cm. 162 pages. Coil-bound handbook for New Zealand estuarine life of numerous Phyla, with keys. $9
Economic Mollusca of China 19 by 27 cm. 325 pages. All in Chinese except for latin names on plates & figures! Mostly illustrated with line drawings within the text, & 4 full page colour plates. $11
Guide to Australian Shells Alan Hinton, post 1976. 20 by 25 cm. 82 pages. 1060 species on 77 beautifully photographed colour plates. With dustjacket $18
Introduction to Invertebrate Fossils of New York Paul L. Weinman, 1966. 21 by 28 cm. 19 page educational leaflet, with geological map & line drawings of examples. $3
Johnsonia - Monographs of the Marine Molluscs of the Western Atlantic W. J. Clench Ed. Volume 2, Nos. 19-32, 1946-1953. 21.5 by 28 cm. 388 pages. Softcover 1975 reprint with articles on fine distinctions between species in various families, including Epitonidae, Tonnidae, Fissurellidae & several genera such as Purpura, Scaphella, Mya & Bankia. $20
Mollusca of Huanghai and Bohai 18.5 by 26 cm. 315 pages. Softcover on newsprint pages, and in Chinese with latin names on figures & plates (10 b&w and 3 colour plates) $8
Seashells '85 A 1985 calendar, but also a portfolio of 15 lovely art photos of selected shells, suitable for framing! $3
Seashells of North America R. T. Abbott, 1968. 11 by 19 cm. 280 pages. Great little North American field guide, with 850 species illustrated in colour. $10
Shells Roderick Cameron, 1961. 21 by 24.5 cm. 100 pages. 1972 Edition. A well illustrated history of shells and their relationship to man in art, culture & commerce. $15
South African Shells A Collector's Guide Deirdre Richards, First Edition, 1981 527 species described and illustrated in full colour plus 60 plates. 22 x 12 cm $10
A Child's Book of Sea Shells William M. Hutchinson 26 x 18.5cm Very thin book and illustrated in full colour. $7
Mollusks American Fisheries Society Special Pulbication 16, 25 x 17 cm Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates fromthe United States and Canada; 276 pages $15
Starting a Shell Collection Meriam Gilbert thin book, 45 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm. $ 5
Shell Collect Top Premiere Issue mini-issue 30 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm. $3
Field Preparation of Marine Specimens George J. Mueller Curator, Marine Collection University of Alaska, 1972 44 pages, 25 x 17 cm.
The Manual of Underwater Photography Heinz-Gert De Couet & Andrew Green, 394 pages, 24 x 17 cm. $15
Of Sea and Shore Magazine Volume 23, No. 4 Winter 2001, illustrated in full of colour plus 5 plates, 29.5cm x 21 cm. $ 5.95
Of Sea and Shore Magazine Volume 25, No. 4 Winter 2001, illustrated in full of colour, 29.5cm x 21 cm. $7.95
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Shells, Peter Dance, 288 pages, is the first reference work to combine comprehensive worldwide coverage of seashells with color photographs closely integrated in the text. 26 x 20 cm. $ 19.95
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Shells, Second
Edition, Peter Dance, 288 pages, is the first reference work to combine comprehensive
worldwide coverage of seashells with color photographs closely integrated in the
text. 26 x 20 cm. $24.95
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