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NATURAL HISTORY: MOLLUSCA
Written by P.H. Gosse.
Stock no. 1828984
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1st 1854. Almost very good condition.

Gosse's Natural History. Small format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. viii and 328 pages including index. Sp[ine browned, boards a little grubby and marked. Wear to top & tail of spine. Tiny nick to vertical edge of rear board. Text block browned. Neat name in ink to front pastedown. Name & address ink-stamped to half-title page. Some foxing, a few grubby marks and stains to contents.

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BRITISH SNAILS
Written by Arthur Erskine Ellis. Illustrated by R.A. Ellis.
Stock no. 1828942
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Guide to the Non-Marine Gastropoda of Great Britain and Ireland Pleistocene to Recent. Reprint of the 1926 first edition. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. 298 pages including index plus plates to rear. Black ink marking and symbol to front pastedown and also front endpaper. Some light surface paper damage to front pastedown. Top edge of text block has minor foxing. Boards are clean as are contents. Green dustwwrapper is scuffed, faded to spine, surface paper loss to spine from removal of a label, top & bottom edge of wrapper has a margin of yellowed tape.

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A HISTORY OF BRITISH MOLLUSCA, AND THEIR SHELLS (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Edward Forbes; Sylvanus Hanley.
Stock no. 2133307
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1853. Almost very good condition.

Leather spines and corners. Maroon title blocks to spines, gilt titles. Marbled outer page edges and endpapers. 203 hand-coloured plates. Bookplates of 'The Wheelton hind Collection 1920' to front pastedown of each book. Rear join at rear of Volume 1 (on outside); leather has split, but still holding together well. Some scuffs and chips of leather spines and corners. Foxing to prelims of books; some margin marks; page browning. Hand-coloured illustrations are still nice and bright.

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MOLLUSQUES TERRESTRES ET FLUVIATILES DE SYRIE (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Louis German.
Stock no. 1708157
Published by J. - B. Balliere Et Fils. 1921. Very good condition.

Two volumes. Card wraps. Text in French. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. Volume 2 is published in 1922. Spines browned. Some foxing. Some pages edges un-cut.

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FLUKES AND SNAILS
Written by C.A. Wright.
Stock no. 1803043
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1971. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Science of Biology Series 4. A general account of the biology of the digenetic trematodes with particular emphasis on the ecological aspects of the relationships between the larval stages and their molluscan hosts. Green boards, silver title to spine. B/w plates. 168 pages including index. ISBN: 0045950083. A nice, clean copy in a blue dustwrapper which is edge-worn and a little grubby.

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