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London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1844. Large quarto. (12 1/16 x 9 5/8 inches). [15], 144pp. 62 hand-coloured plates. Publisher's red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Second edition, "greatly enlarged," of this classic catalogue of mollusca with beautifully hand-colored plates. Thomas Brown was a British naturalist and malacologist. He gained the title of captain in 1811, after rising through the ranks of the Forfar and Kincardine Militia, which he joined at the age of 21. Brown created paintings for the first European edition of Wilson's American Ornithology and edited Oliver Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature, In 1838, he became a curator of the Manchester Natural History Society's Museum and was later elected fellow of the Linnean Society and president of the Royal Physical Society. He wrote a number of natural history books which he also illustrated and coloured. First published in 1827 (with only 53 plates), this enlarged edition of Brown's beautiful catalogue of mollusks of the… Read More