CROSSE, H.

Faune malacologique terrestre et fluviatile de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses dépendances.

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Paris, chez H. Crosse, 1894. 8vo. pp. 317, with 4 handcoloured lithographed plates. Attractive recent half blue calf, richly gilt spine.

A separate print of 'Journal de Conchyliologie'. Crosse was one of the most active contributors to this journal and he described some sixhundred new species. 'Crosse may be regarded as the doyen of systematic conchologists in France during the second half of the nineteenth century' (Dance p. 163).