PFEIFFER, L.

Novitates Conchologicae.

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Series Prima. Mollusca Extramarina./ Beschreibung und Abbildung neuer oder kritischer Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken (Mit Einschluss der Auriculaceen). Band I./ Description et Figures de Coquilles Extramarines nouvelles et peu connues. Tome I. Cassel, Fischer, 1854-60. 4to. pp. 134, 138, with 36 handcoloured lithographed plates. Recent blue half morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, richly gilt.

Nissen ZBI, 4724. The first volume of five. "Pfeiffer began to publish a more ambitious work, the 'Novitates Conchologicae', the first five volumes of which, written by Pfeiffer himself, are devoted to non-marine molluscs and all of them replete with beautiful coloured illustrations" (Dance, Hist. of Shell Collecting p. 140).