The following books, unsold in our last and previous auctions, are for sale at reduced prices.
If you would like to buy any of them, please e-mail bas.payne@gmail.com or wrte to Bas Payne, The Mill House, Clifford Bridge, Drewsteignton, Exeter EX6 6QE. In order to give members first preference, orders from non-members will not be processed until 1 May. (To join CS.)
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The reference numbers are for identification; it would be helpful if you would quote this as well as the author's name to reduce the risk of confusion.
Books
Abbott, R. Tucker 1968 A guide to field identification: Seashells of North America. Golden Press. Soft cover, pp. 280, many coloured plates. Very good. 2011.9 £1
Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1845 /1846 A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca. Part II. Ray Society. Soft cover; 13 plates, partly coloured, with text commentaries. Fair / poor: loose covers and pages, some plates badly browned, with library stamp (QUB) and name of previous owner. BVadd 202 £10
Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1845 /1846 A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca. Part II. Ray Society. Soft cover; 13 plates, partly coloured, with text commentaries. Fair / poor: loose covers and pages, some plates badly browned, with library label and previous owner’s label. CS 5A £10
Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1846 /1847 A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca. Part III. Ray Society. Soft cover; 12 plates, partly coloured, and commentaries. Fair / poor: loose covers and pages, some plates slightly browned or foxed, with library label. CS 5B £10
Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1848 A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca. Part IV. Ray Society. Soft cover; 12 plates, partly coloured, and commentaries. Fair / poor: loose covers and pages, library label and signature of first owner. CS 5C £10
Aldridge, R.J. 1972 Llandovery Conodonts from the Welsh Borderland. Bull BM (NH) Geology 22 (2). Soft cover, pp. 106, 9 b&w plates. Sound. BVadd 201 £3.50
Allen, E. J. (ed) 1928 Science of the Sea. An Elementary Handbook of Practical Oceanography [second edition; original edition edited by Fowler GH] Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hard cover, 502 pp, 220 line illustrations and b&w photos. Dust jacket worn and stained on spine, cover slightly damp-spotted, inside good. SMT 6 £3
Allen, J. A. 1962 The Fauna of the Clyde Sea Area: Mollusca Scottish Mar. Biol. Ass., Millport. Paper cover, stapled, 88 pp, no illustrations. Cover slightly damaged otherwise sound. Signed presentation copy to Stella Turk. [see also SMT 27] SMT 7 £12
Allen. J. A. 1962 The Fauna of the Clyde Sea Area: Mollusca Scottish Mar. Biol. Ass., Millport. Paper cover, stapled, 88 pp, no illustrations. Cover slightly damaged otherwise sound. ex Cornish Biological Records Unit, with their label on the cover [see also SMT 27] SMT 8 £12
Angeletti, S. 1968 Conchiglie da Collezione Istituto Geografico de Agostini – Novara. Hard cover, 80 pp, 149 coloured plates. Slight damage to edge of cover, inside good. SMT 9 £1.50
Anon. 1971 Sea Shells How to Identify and Collect Them Orbis Books, London. Hard cover, 80 pp, 149 coloured plates. Some staining and damage. English translation of Angeletti 1968. SMT 10 £2
Baker, H. B. 1928 -1931 Minute American Zonitidae, Pseudohyaline American Land Snails and Nearctic Vitreine Land Snails. Offprints from Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. Cloth binding; pp. 92 and 15 b&w plates. A few notes on covers of papers; otherwise good. BVadd 203 £10
Bell, T. 1853 A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crustacea John van Voorst, London. Hard cover, 386 pp, many line illustrations. Binding repaired with tape and hand-labelled, and detached at front; text good clean copy. SMT 15 £20
van Benthem, Jutting 1954 The Malayan Streptaxidae of the Genera Discartemon and Oophana. Bull. Raffles Mus. 25: 71-106. <duplicate listing: also listed in Periodicals> BVadd 214 £7
Boettger, C.R. 1944 Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ost-See: Basommatophora.. Becker & Erler, Leipzig. (In German). Originally soft cover, later bound, 237 pp. with B&W figs. Good, with Bernard Verdcourt’s bookplate. BV 15 £1
Bogan, A.E., Parmalee P. et al. 1983 Tennessee’s Rare Wildlife Volume II: The Mollusks. State of Tennessee. Soft cover with plastic comb binder, 123 pp., with B&W maps and figures. Good. BV 16 £2.50
Bouvier, E.-L. X. 1923 Pycnogonides Faune de France 7, Paul Lechevalier, Paris. Soft cover, 69 pp with many line illustrations. Good. [in French] SMT 18 £7
Boyle, P. R. 1981 Molluscs and Man Studies in Biology 134 Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd, London. Soft cover, 59 pp. Good. SMT 21 £2
Bryden, D. J. 1972 Scottish Scientific Instrument-Makers 1600-1900 Royal Scottish Museum Information Series Technology 1 Soft cover, stapled, 59 pp. Cover fair, inside good. SMT 22 £3.50
Carson, R. 1955 The Edge of the Sea Staples Press, London Hard cover, 276 pp, many b&w illustrations. Sound but some fading and foxing, inscription in front. SMT 23 £0.50
Carson, R. 1956 The Sea Around Us Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Soft cover, 224 pp. Sound but cover badly foxed. SMT 24 £0.50
Charles, B. 1971 Discovering Sea Shells Shire Publications, Tring. Soft cover, 56 pp, b&w illustrations. Inscription in front, otherwise good. SMT 25 £0.50
Clark, R. B. 1960 The Fauna of the Clyde Sea Area: Polychaeta: Scottish Mar. Biol Ass, Millport. Soft cover, stapled, 71 pp, no illustrations. Fair, cover loose and rust stains from staples; inscription inside cover. [see also SMT 7] SMT 27 £10
Cooke, A. H., Shipley, A. E. & Reed, F. R. C. 1895 Molluscs and Brachiopods Cambridge Natural History, Macmillan & Co, London. Hard cover, 535 pp, many b&w illustrations. Fair; ex-library with stamps etc. SMT 53 £6
Cooke, A.H., Shipley, A.E. & Reed, F.R.C. 1927 Molluscs and Brachiopods Cambridge Natural History, Macmillan & Co, London. 1927 reprint. Hard cover, 535 pp, many b&w illustrations. Good; with Bernard Vercourt’s bookplate and signature. BV 28 £3
Cox, I. (ed.) 1957 The Scallop The Shell Transport and Trading Co., London. Hard cover, 135 pp, many coloured illustrations. Very good, in slightly worn original slip cover. BV 29 £0.25
Cox, I. (ed.) 1957 The Scallop The Shell Transport and Trading Co., London. Hard cover, 135 pp, many coloured illustrations. Fair, signed by F Turk, cutting and address label on early page, cover slightly faded and spotted. SMT 29 £0.50
Crisp, D. J. (ed.) 1971 Fourth European Marine Biology Symposium. Cambridge Univ. Press. Hard cover, with dust jacket, 599 pp. Good, book plate; also loose reviews in front. SMT 30 £15
Croft, P. S. 1986 A Key to the major groups of British Freshwater Invertebrates AIDGAP key, Field Studies Council, reprinted from: Field Studies 6: 531-579. Soft cover. As new. SMT 31 £5
Crothers, J. H. 1966 Dale Fort Marine Fauna Second Edition Field Studies Council Supplement to Field Studies 2. Soft cover, 169 pp, b&w maps, otherwise no illustrations. Sound; some marginal marking and annotation; also loose letter from JH Barrett about delays in publication. SMT 32 £3.50
Crowley, T. E. & Pain, T. 1977 La Faune Terrestre de l'Île de Sainte-Hélène 4th part: Mollusca not Charopidae, reprinted from: Ann. Mus. Roy. de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium: Sciences Zoologiques 220: 534-575. Soft cover. Cover slightly grubby, otherwise good. [in English] SMT 33 £12
Currey, J. D. 1970 Animal Skeletons Studies in Biology 22 Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. Hard cover with dust jacket, 52 pp. Good. SMT 34 £0.50
Dance, S. P. 1971 Seashells. Hamlyn. Soft cover, pp. 160, many coloured illustrations. Fair: one cover starting to detach. 2011.14 £0.20
Dance, S. P. 1971 Seashells Hamlyn, London. Soft cover, 159 pp, many coloured illustrations. Sound. SMT 36 £0.50
Dance, S. P. 1990 The collector's encyclopedia of shells. Zachary Kwintner. 1990 edition. Hard cover, pp. 288, many in-text coloured illustrations. Very good, with d/j. 2011. 12 £5
Dance, S. P. 1966 Shell Collecting An Illustrated History Faber and Faber, London. Hard cover with dust jacket, 344 pp, 35 b&w plates. Ex-library: good apart from two tactful cancelled stamps. [First edition] SMT 37 £10
Dance, S. P. 2005 Out of My Shell. A diversion for shell-lovers C-Shells-3 Inc, Florida. Soft cover, 212 pp, many coloured and b&w illustrations. As new. SMT 38 £5
Dance, S. P. 1974 The Encyclopedia of Shells Blandford Press, London. Hard cover, 287 pp, many coloured illustrations. [First edition.] Fair, binding showing signs of wear, polythene protectve cover taped to end cover with resulting stains but otherwise clean. SMT 39 £3.50
Dobson, J. (n.d.) Conservators of the Hunterian Museum, reprinted. from: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Hard cover, 39 pp. Cover with some rubbing, otherwise good. SMT 41 £3
Duncan, F. M. 1943 British Shells King Penguin, London. Hard cover, 32 pp, 16 colour pls. Weak binding, otherwise sound. SMT 42 £3
Eales, N. B. 1950 The Littoral Fauna of Great Britain. A Handbook for Collectors Cambridge University Press. Hard cover with dust jacket, 305 pp, some b&w illustrations. Sound copy, dust jacket slightly stained. SMT 43 £2
Eisenberg, J. M 1981 A collector's guide to seashells of the world. McGraw Hill. Hard cover, pp. 239, 158 coloured plates, also b&w drawings. Very good, with d/j. 2011. 11 £3
Evans, I. O. (ed.) 1962 The observer's book of sea and seashore. Warne. Hard cover, pp. 253, 64 plates, some coloured. Good except tape marks inside covers. 2011. 7 £0.50
Figuier, L. (n.d.; ca.1880) The Ocean World being a Description of The Sea and some of its Inhabitants Cassell & Co., London. Hard cover, 656 pp, with many b&w illustrations. Fair, binding slightly weak. SMT 44 £10
Fischer-Piette, E. 1936 Études sur la biogeographie intercotidale des deux rives de la Manche J. Linn. Soc XL: 181-272. Soft cover. Fair, cover battered. [in French] SMT 45 £10
Flattely, F. W. & Walton, C. L. 1922 The Biology of The Sea-Shore Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, London. Hard cover,336 pp. Fair. SMT 46 £3
Gabbi, G. 1999 Shells. A guide to jewels of the sea. Swan Hill. Soft cover, pp. 168, many in-text coloured illustrations. Good except one folded corner. 2011.13 £5
Galtsoff, P. S. et al (eds.) 1937 Culture Methods for Invertebrate Animals Comstock Publishing Co Inc, Ithaca, New York. Hard cover, 590 pp. Sound, spine stained. SMT 49 £1.50
Gascoigne, T. X. 1980 Fine Dissection of Ascoglossans Conchological Society of G.B. & Ireland. Soft cover, 30 pp. As new SMT 50 . £1.50
Gordon, W. J. (n.d., ca. 1900) Our Country's Shells and how to know them. A Guide to the British Mollusca Simpkin & Marshall, London. Hard cover, 152 pp, and 33 coloured plates. Fair, with a few loose pages. SMT 51 £3.50
de Haas, W. & Knorr, F. trans. Fisher, H. J. 1966 The Young Specialist Looks at Marine Life Burke, London. Hard cover with dust jacket, 356 pp, many coloured and b&w illustrations. Dust jacket defective; cover damp-stained; very clean inside. Owner’s stamp. SMT 55 £0.50
Harding, J. P. & Tebble, N. 1963 Speciation in the Sea Systematics Association Publication 5. Soft cover,199 pp. One corner slightly damaged, otherwise good. SMT 56 £3.50
Hedgpeth, J. W. 1947 On the evolutionary significance of the Pycnogonida Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 106 (18). Soft cover, stapled, 53 pp, 1 b&w plate. Spine frayed, otherwise good. SMT 57 £3
Herbert, D.G. 1997 The terrestrial slugs of KwaZulu-Natal. Reprinted from Ann. Natal Mus. 38:197–239. Soft cover, 43 pp. with 2 colour plates and B&W figures and maps. Very good. BV 54 £2.50
Hoff, C.C. 1942 The Ostracods of Illinois. Illinois Biol. Monogr. 19(1–2). Soft cover, 196 pp., with B&W figs. Uncut, good except front cover torn and part of back of binder missing, with Bernard Verdcourt’s bookplate. BV 57 £1
Hornell, J. 1951 Indian Molluscs The Bombay Nat. Hist Soc. Soft cover, 96 pp, 1 colour plate and numerous b&w illustrations. Fair. SMT 59 £7
Jaeckel, S. H. 1953 Praktikum der Weichtierkunde Veb Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena. Soft cover, 87 pp. Good. [In German.] SMT 63 £7
Jaeckel, S. 1957 Exkursionsfauna von Deutschland, Band I: Wirbellose. (In German.) No cover,stapled; 126 pp., with B&W figures. Fair, with some creasing. BV 62 £0.50
Johnson, R.I. 1964 The Recent Mollusca of Augustus Addison Gould. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA. Hard cover, 182 pp., with 45 B&W plates. Very good. BV 65 £5
Kendrick, J. S. 1977 Fifty Sea Shells from Herm Island Guernsey Press Co Ltd. Reprint. Soft cover, stapled, 36 pp, with b&w illustrations. As new. SMT 65 £0.50
Kennard, A. S. & Woodward, B. B. 1926 Synonymy of the British Non-marine Mollusca British Museum (NH), London. Hard cover, 447 pp. Sound, some pencil annotation; inscription inside front cover. SMT 66 £12
Kennelly, D. H. 1964 Marine Shells of Southern Africa Thomas Nelson & Sons, Johannesburg. Hard cover with dust jacket, 92 pp, with 2 colour and 30 b&w plates. Very good SMT 67 £3.50
Kensley, B. 1973 Sea-shells of southern Africa: Gastropods. Maskew Miller. Hard cover, pp. 236, over 900 illustrations, some coloured. Very good, with dj. 2011. 28 £10
Kenworthy, J.C. 1972 Marine shells of the Solomon Islands. Vol 1: Cowries. Solomon Islands Museum Association. Paper cover, pp. 29, 3 b&w figures. Fair: a little battered. 2011.21 £1
Kerney, M. 1976 Atlas of the Non-marine Mollusca of the British Isles Conchological Society of G.B. & Ireland / NERC. Soft cover, ca. 210 pp (mostly maps). Fair, with several loose pages. Also reprint of Kerney 1982, The mapping of non-marine Mollusca. Malacologia 22: 403-407; and a set of overlay maps of environmental and other factors published by ITE in 1978 (also fair). SMT 69 £3
Kerney, M. P., Brown, E. H & Chandler, T. J. 1964 The Late-Glacial and Post-Glacial history of the Chalk Escarpment near Brook, Kent Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London B 745 Vol 248:135-204. Soft cover, with 4 b&w plates. Sound; inscr. from authors to Stella Turk on cover. SMT 68 £10
Killeen, I. J. et al (eds.) 1998 Molluscan Conservation: A Strategy for the 21st Century Special Publication No.2 Journal of Conchology. Soft cover, 320 pp. Good. SMT 70 £2
Killeen, I. J. 1992 The Land Freshwater Molluscs of Suffolk The Suffolk Naturalists' Society, Ipswich. Hard cover,171 pp with 35 coloured plates, and many b&w illustrations and maps. As new; signed presentation copy to Stella Turk. SMT 71 £10
Killeen, I., Aldridge, D. & Oliver, G. 2004 Freshwater Bivalves of Britain and Ireland AIDGAP Guide: Field Studies Council Occ. Publication 82. Soft cover, spiral binding, 114 pp, 34 coloured plates and other illustrations. As new. SMT 72 £10
King. C. A. M. 1959 Beaches and Coasts Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. Hard cover with dust jacket, 403 pp Dust jacket slightly worn, otherwide good, with owner’s inscription. SMT 73 £0.50
King, P. E. 1984 Sea spiders AIDGAP Guide Test Version. Soft cover, plastic strip binding, 18 pp. Fair. SMT 76 £3
Kohn, A.J. 1966 - 1988 Type specimens and identity of the described species of Conus III, IV, VI. VII and VII. Reprints from Zool. J. 46-93. Soft cover, each with green tape strenthening spine, about 250 pp in all, with b&w figures and plates. Good. 2011. 31 £4
Lane, F. W. 1957 Kingdom of the Octopus Jarrolds, London. Hard cover, 287 pp. Binding weak and a little staining on front paper, otherwise good. Inscription from Frank Turk to Stella Turk, and address label. SMT 77 £2
Lellak, J. 1975 A concise guide in colour: Shells of Britain and Europe. Hamlyn. Hard cover, pp. 235, many coloured plates. Good. 2011. 8 £0.50
Locard, A. 1892 Les Coquilles Marines des Cotes de France Librairie J B Baillière et Fils, Paris. Hard cover, 384 pp with b&w illustrations. Used, spine missing, heavily annotated. SMT owner’s inscription; earlier bookplate. SMT 79 £40
Locard, A. 1885 Histoire des Mollusques dans l'Antiquité Mémoire [de l’]Académie Royale de Science Belle-lettres et Arts de Lyon. Soft cover, 312 pp. Used, slightly battered with loose pages, home-made front cover. Manuscript notes and index in envelope. SMT 80 £50
Macan, T. T. 1960 A Key to the British Fresh and Brackish water Gastropods Freshwater Biological Association, Scientific Pub. 13, 2nd edition. Soft cover, stapled, 47 pp, with b&w illustrations. Owner’s names on cover, otherwise good. SMT 81 £3.50
Marshall, N. B. 1987 Sir Alister Hardy. A biographical memoir, reprinted from: Biog. Mems. 32, The Royal Society, London. Soft cover, 50 pp, 1 b&w plate. Fair. Also related pamphlet Hardy A 1968 The Religious Experience Research Unit. SMT 83 £3
Matthews, G. & Parks, P. 1965 Seashore Life and Pattern. Puffin Picture Book 120, Harmondsworth. Soft cover, stapled, 31 pp. Fair. SMT 84 £0.50
May, W. L., rev. Macpherson, J. H. 1958 An illustrated index of Tasmanian Shells L G Shea Government printer, Tasmania. Soft cover, stapled, 72 pp with 50 b&w plates. Good revision of 1923 edition SMT 85 £10
McMichael, D. 1960 Some Common Shells of the Australian Sea-shore Jacaranda Press Brisbane. Hard cover (pocket size), 127 pp, with 287 b&w photos. Fair. SMT 86 £3
Morris, P. A. 1958 A Field Guide to the Shells of our Atlantic and Gulf Coasts Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Hard cover with dust jacket, 236 pp, with 45 b&w plates. Dust jacket worn, otherwise good. SMT 89 £2
Morris, P. A. 1952 A Field Guide to the Shells of the Pacific Coast and Hawaii Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Hard cover with dust jacket, 220 pp, with 40 b&w plates. Dust jacket worn, otherwise good. SMT 90 £2
Morton, J. E. 1958. Molluscs. Hutchinson University. Hard cover, pp. 232, b&w figures in text. Tatty dust jacket , owner’s name and tape marks; otherwise good clean copy. BVadd 204 £0.50
Morton, J. E. 1967 Molluscs (4th revised edition), Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London. Soft cover, 244 pp. Fair: Front cover damaged. SMT 91 £0.50
Moss, E. G. B. 1908 The Beautiful Shells of New Zealand Collins Bros & Co, Auckland. Soft cover, 46 pp with 10 b/w plates. Worn: front cover loose, foxed, slightly battered. SMT 92 £20
Mozley, A. 1959 Ecological Processes H K Lewis, London. Hard cover with dust jacket, 68 pp. Good. SMT 93 £3
Mozley, A. 1952 Molluscicides H K Lewis, London. Hard cover with dust jacket, 87 pp. Good. SMT 94 £3.50
Nichols, A. R. 1900 A list of the marine Mollusca of Ireland Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. (3) 5: 477-622. Photocopy in card wrapper. Fair. SMT 96 £7
Nordsieck, F. 1968 Die europäischen Meeres-Gehauseschnecken Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. Hard cover, 273 pp, with many b&w drawings. Cover splitting, text clean. Owner’s signature (AW Lacourt). [in German] SMT 98A £12
Nordsieck, F. 1969 Die europäischen Meeresmuscheln Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. Hard cover, 256 pp, with many b&w drawings. Cover slightly stained, text clean. [in German] SMT 98B £12
Nordsieck, F. 1972 Die europäischen Meersschnecken Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. Hard cover, 327 pp, with many b&w drawings. Cover repaired with tape; text clean. With author’s signed presentation to AW Lacourt. [in German] SMT 98C £12
Nosek, J. 1986 The soil fauna of the Little Carpathians. Bratislava. Soft cover, pp. 359. Includes papers on mollusca by Flasar and Staffek. Sound. BVadd 205 £3.50
Ommanney, F.D. 1968 Collecting sea shells. Arco. Hard cover, pp. 182, coloured frontispiece, 16 b&w plates and 36 b&w figures in text. Very good but no d/j. 2011. 27 £1
Pelseneer, P. 1906 A Treatise on Zoology (ed. E Ray Lankester). Part V: Mollusca Adam & Charles Black, London. Hard cover, 355 pp, many b&w illustrations. Sound. SMT 100 £12
Pelseneer, P. 1935 Essai d'Éthologie Zoologique d’après l’éde des Mollusques Academie Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. Hard cover, 662 pp. Sound; perhaps later binding / re-binding. SMT 101 £20
Pickford, M. 1995 Fossil Landsnails of East Africa and their Palaeoecological Significance. Reprinted from J. African Earth Sciences 20: 167-226, with signed dedication by author to Bernard Verdcourt, together with earlier drafts and notes in two folders. BV 94 £2.50
Pinn, F. 1977 Seashells of East Africa. Spider and Wing Shells. Rex Collings, London. Soft cover, pp. 40, many coloured plates. Good. 2011. 20 £0.50
Poppe, G.T. n.d. Shells. [Sale catalogue] Soft cover; 95 pp text and 32 pp colour plates. Very good. BV 96 £0.25
Rice, T. 1972 What is a Shell? Ellis Robinson Publishing Inc.. Soft cover, stapled. 64 pp with 28 colour plates. Good. SMT 105 £1
Rimmer, R. 1880 The land and freshwater shells of the British Isles. John Grant, Edinburgh. Hard cover, pp. 208, 10 b&w plates. One cover with crease; otherwise good. BVadd 208 £5
Rimmer, R. 1907 Land and Freshwater Shells of the British Isles John Grant, Edinburgh. Hard cover, 208 pp with 10 b&w plates. Fair: one loose plate, some foxing. Signed by F A Turk. SMT 106 £5
Rippingale, O. H. & McMichael, D. F. 1961 Queensland and Great Barrier Reef Shells The Jacaranda Press, Brisbane. Hard cover with dust jacket, 209 pp, with 29 colour plates. Good (dust jacket slightly worn). Inscribed from Frank to Stella Turk. SMT 107 £7
Rogers, J. E. 1908 The Shell Book Charles T Branford, Boston. Hard cover, 503 pp, 8 coloured and 96 b&w plates. Good. SMT 108 £3.50
Smith, M. 1940 World-wide Sea Shells Tropical Photographic Laboratory, Florida. Hard cover, 139 pp. with numerous line drawings [but no photographs!]. Fair: cover tired, with cup-stain. SMT 117 £5
Spry, J. F. 1964 The Sea Shells of Dar es Salaam. Part II Pelecypoda (Bivalves), reprinted from:Tanganyika Notes and Records 63. Soft cover, 41 pp, 8 coloured and b&w plates. Fair. SMT 110 £3
Sowerby, G.B, 1859 Illustrated Index of British Shells. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London. Hard cover, xv pp., 24 coloured plates with commentary. Good, some neat pen and pencil annotations in text; earlier owner’s signature. HR 109 £80
Sowerby, G.B., (1990) Sowerby’s Book of Shells (facsimile of 1852 edition of A Conchological Manual). Studio Editions. Hard cover, 139 pp., with reproduced coloured plates. Very good. HR 110 £3.50
Steenberg, C.M. 1925 Études sur L’Anatomie et la Systématique des Maillots (fam. Pupillidae s. lat.). Librairie CA Reitzel, Copenhagen. (In French). Soft cover, 211 pp. and 34 B&W plates. Cover slightly tired, otherwise very good, with author’s dedication to first owner and Bernard Verdcourt’s bookplate. BV 111 £7.50
Step, E. 1907 Wayside and Woodland Trees. F Warne and Co. Hard cover, pp. 182, 127 b&w plates. Clean. BVadd 209 £2
Stephenson, T. A. 1944 Seashore Life and Pattern King Penguin Books, London and New York. Hard cover, 28 pp and 16 plates. Some spine damage as usual; otherwise good. SMT 111 £7
Stephenson, T. A. 1944 Seashore Life and Pattern King Penguin Books, London and New York. Hard cover, 28 pp and 16 plates. Fair: spine damage and plates with ink annotations. SMT 112 £5
Stephenson, T. A. & Stephenson, A. 1972 Life Between the tidemarks W H Freeman & Co, San Francisco. Hard cover, 425 pp. Good; signed presentation to Dr F A Turk by A Stephenson. SMT 113 £5
Stubbs, A. G. 1907 Illustrated Index of British Freshwater Shells Taylor Brothers, London. Hard cover, 3 b&w plates and lists / captions. Poor: falling apart and stained. SMT 115 £3.50
Sutty, L. 1990 Seashells of the Caribbean. Macmillan. Soft cover, pp. 106, many coloured plates. Good. 2011. 22 £2
Swainson, W. 1968 Swainson's Exotic Conchology Limited edition Reprint of 1834 publication, D Van Nostrand Co., N. Jersey. Hard cover with transparent dust jacket, 48 pp and 48 coloured plates. Dust jacket damaged; otherwise good. SMT 116 £10
Taylor, D.W. 1975 Index and Bibliography of late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusca of Western North America. Claude W. Hibbard Memorial volume 1.Pacific Marine Station, University of the Pacific, Dillon Beach, California, USA. Soft cover, 384 pp.. Good, covers creased, signed by author for Bernard Verdcourt. BV 119 £7
Thorson, G. 1941 The Zoology of Iceland: Vol IV Part 60: Marine Gastropoda Prosobranchiata Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen and Reykjavik. Soft cover, 150 pp. Good, author’s presentation copy to Dr A C Stephen. [see also SMT 82] SMT 122 £10
Tilling, S. M. 1987 A Key to the major groups of British Terrestrial Invertebrates Field Studies Council AIDGAP Guide, reprinted from: Field Studies 6: 695-676. Soft cover. As new. SMT 123 £3
Turk, S. M. 1973. Concordance to the Field Card for British Marine Mollusca. Conchological Society. Soft cover, pp. 66. Good. BVadd 210 £0.50
Turk, S. M., Meredith, H. M. & Holyoak, G. A. 2001 Atlas of the land and freshwater molluscs of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Publication 1. Soft cover, 136 pp, with distribution maps and b&w drawings. As new except with SMT’s address label. SMT 126 £10
Wagner, R. J. L. & Abbot, R. Tucker 1964 Van Nostrand’s Standard Catalog of Shells First Edition, D Van Nostrand Co, Princeton, N. Jersey. Soft cover, 190 pp, some b&w illustrations. Sound. SMT 129 £3.5
Wagner, R.J.L & Abbott, R. Tucker, 1977 Standard catalogue of shells/ Ed. 3, with supplements. Looseleaf in custom binder. Good with inscription from one of the authors. CS 135 £4
Webb, W. F. (n.d.) Webb's Catalog of Recent Mollusca from all parts of the World Lee Publications, Mass., USA. Soft cover, 157 pp, b&w plates throughout. Fair: text good, cover stained and faded at spine, detaching; tape and clear plastic protection front and back. SMT 132 £3.5
Whitehead, P.J.P. 1977 Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717–91) and the Conchology or natural history of shells. Reprinted from Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) (Historic Ser.) 6(1): 1–24. Soft cover, stapled, 24pp. Very good. BV 133 £2.50
Williams, J. W. 1901 Land and Freshwater Shells: An introduction to the study of Conchology Swan Sonnenschein & Co Ltd., London. Soft cover, 112 pp, coloured frontispiece, b&w illustrations. Fair: front cover loose. Chapter on distributions by Taylor JW and Roebuck W D. SMT 133 £10
Williams, J. W. 1888 The Shell Collector's Handbook for the Field Roper & Drowley, London. Hard cover 148 pp, some b&w illustrations; interleaved for notes. Almost good. SMT 134 £10
Wilson, D. P. 1951 Life of the Shore and Shallow Sea Nicholson & Watson, London. Hard cover with dust jacket, 213 pp, many bw plates. Good, but dust jacket worn. SMT 135 £2
Winckworth, R. 1932 The British Marine Mollusca. Reprinted from J. Conch. 19 (7): 211-252. Soft cover, 41 pp.. Fair, with Bernard Verdcourt bookplate. BV 134 £0.50
Woodward, B. B. 1913 The Life of the Mollusca Methuen & Co Ltd., London. Hard cover, 158 pp with 32 b&w plates. Fair; spine faded and splitting. Inscr. from Frank to Stella Turk. SMT 136A £7
Woodward, S. P. 1890 A Manual of the Mollusca, reprint of 1880 4th edition, Crosby Lockwood & Son, London. Hard cover, 542pp, with 23 b&w plates; also Appendix by R Tate of recent discoveries, 86 pp. Almost good, but some pages loose. SMT 136B £10
Wright, A.D. 1964, The fauna of the Portrane Limestone, II. Bull BM (NH) Geology 9 (6). Soft cover, pp. 100, 11 b&w plates. Good BVadd 211 £3.50
Wright, C. A. 1971 Flukes and Snails George Allen and Unwin, London. Hard cover with dust jacket, 168pp As new. SMT 137 £3.50
Wright, C. A. 1957 A Guide to Molluscan Anatomy for Parasitologists in Africa .British Museum (NH) London. Soft cover, stapled, 19 pp. Good. SMT 138 . £1
Yonge, C. M. & Thompson, T. E. 1976 Living Marine Molluscs Collins, London. Hard cover with dust jacket, 288 pp. As new except with SMT’s label. SMT 139 £3
Periodicals
Basteria 23 suppl. 1959 The Netherlands as an environment for molluscan life Basteria 23 supplement. Hard cover, 174 pp. Good. Collection of papers by van Benthem Jutting, Kristensen, Swennen, van Regteren Altena, Morzer Bruins and Butot SMT 12 . £10
Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 16 (4) 1981 Includes two papers by Heller and Volokita on shell-banding in Israeli land snails. BVadd 213 £1.50
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore 25 1954 . Includes papers by Purchon and Enoch on rocky shore zonation, and by van Benthem Jutting on Malayan Streptaxidae. <duplicate listing: also listed under van Benthem Jutting> BVadd 214 £6
Malacologia 1963 - 1969 Vols. 1(2) – 7. BV 140 £10