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<dl><dd>The portrait of Klein is signed: Sysang sc. 1743, Lips</dd>
<dd>Title in red and black, with vignette</dd>
<dd>Initials; head- and tail-pieces; side-notes</dd>
<dd>Publisher's advertisement on final p</dd>
<dd>Signatures: *p4 s2*1 A-2Bp4 s2Cp2 s2D-2Lp4 s2Mp2 s2N1</dd>
<dd>Leaf 2H2 is missigned as 2I2</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references and indexes</dd>
<dd>Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration</dd>
<dd>BM (Nat. hist.)</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB has 2 copies</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 (39088006358782) has bookplate: Ex libris William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks sectional library. With pencil annotations, possibly by Dall, on p. 61 (2nd group) and on plates I through XII</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 has stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution, U.S. National Museum; accession no. 274269</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 1 has later brown cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine; faux marbled endpapers; and marbled edges</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 (39088010282820) is imperfect: the folded portrait plate is wanting (perhaps not issued with every copy?)</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has autograph of F.B. Meek, May 1st, 1861, on t.p.; a printed invoice form completed in ms. ink, from Bailliáere Brothers booksellers to F.B. Meek, dated July 1st, 1861, is tipped in on the front free endpaper. There are pencil markings and a few annotations in the margins throughout, possibly in Meek's hand</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has stamp on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Mar. 3, 1882; accession no. 124764</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB c. 2 has an old brown spattered paperboard binding with leather spine; in later archival paperboard box for preservation. Plates I through XII have had their folded margins cut away and are mounted on tabs</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Mollusks; Shells</div>
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<dl><dd>Klein, Jacob Theodor, 1685-1759</dd>
<dd>Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia</dd>
<dd>Sysang, Johann Christoph, 1703-1757, engraver</dd>
<dd>Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Bailliáere Brothers, bookseller. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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