Conchological Society Book Auction March 2012: results.
SOLD:
3 Apte, D (1998) The book of Indian shells. Oxford University Press. Hard cover, pp. 115, 13 coloured plates. Clean copy, with dj. est. £8.00: SOLD at £8
3.5 Athersuch JA, Horne DJ, Whittaker JE (1989). Marine and brackish water Ostracods. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) No. 43. Linnaean Society / Brill. Soft cover, pp. 343, line drawings in text and 7 plates. Used copy, binding sound, grubby yellow card glued over original soft cover, otherwise good. est. £20.00 SOLD at £25
4 Beedham, GE (1972) Identification of the British Mollusca. Hulton Group Keys. Soft cover, pp. 239, many b&w drawings. Clean copy. est. £5.00 SOLD at £5
5 Biggs, HEJ (1973) The marine mollusca of the Trucial Coast, Persian Gulf. Bulletin of the BM (NH) 24:8. Soft cover, ca. 90 pp, 6 b&w plates and 10 b&w figures. Sound copy. est. £5.00 SOLD at £5
6 Biol. J Linn. Soc. 20 (1) (1983) Papers presented at a Linnaean Society / Systematics Association symposium on 'Darwin - a hundred years on', includes Crothers, JH on variation in Nucella. Soft cover, pp. 135, includes b&w plates and figures. Clean copy. est. £1.00 SOLD at £1
7 Coleman, N (2002) 2002 Seashells. Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Mollusca. Neville Coleman. Soft cover, pp. 144, many coloured plates. Clean copy, signed by author. est. £20.00 SOLD at £20
8 Crowe, A (1999 / 2003) Which seashell? The simple guide to the identification of New Zealand seashells. 2003 reprint. Penguin. Soft cover, pp. 64, many in-text coloured illustrations. Clean copy. est. £5.00 SOLD at £5
18 Graham, A (1971) British prosobranchs. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series) No. 2. Linnaean Society / Academic Press. Soft cover, pp. 112, 118 b&w figures. Sound. est. £5.00 SOLD at £5
19.5 Hiscock S (1986) A field key to the British Red Seaweeds. Aidgap Guide, Field Studies Council. Soft cover, pp. 101, with dichotomous key, line drawings and 8 coloured plates. Used but very sound. est. £5.00 SOLD at £5
20 Howard, C, Brunton, C and Curry GB (1979) British brachiopods. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series) No. 17. Linnaean Society / Academic Press. Soft cover, pp. 64, b&w figures. Good. est. £5.00 SOLD at £5
21 Jansen, P (1996) Common seashells of coastal Northern Queensland. Privately published. Soft cover, pp. 56, 4 coloured plates and many b&w illustrations. Clean copy. est. £4.00 SOLD at £4
26 McMillan, N (1968 / 1973) British shells. 1973 reprint. Warne. Hard cover, pp. 196, 80 plates, of which some coloured. Clean copy, spine faded, no dj. est. £10.00 SOLD at £8
29 Sharabati , D (1984) Red Sea shells. Routledge and Kegan Paul. Soft cover, pp. 128, 49 coloured plates. Sound copy, one ink annotation seen. est. £10.00 SOLD at £10
31 Thompson, TE and Brown, GH (1976) British opisthobranch molluscs. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series) No. 8. Linnaean Society / Academic Press. Soft cover, pp. 203, 105 b&w figures. Sound copy, one page with ink annotations. est. £4.00 SOLD at £5
32 Vincent P (1990) The Biogeography of the British Isles: An introduction. Routledge. Soft cover, pp. 315, many b&w illustrations in text. As new. est. £2.00 SOLD at £4
UNSOLD:
1 Abbott, R Tucker (1968) A guide to field identification: Seashells of North America. Golden Press. Softback, pp. 280, many coloured plates. Clean copy. est. £2.00
2 Abbott, R Tucker (1991) Seashells of South East Asia. Graham Brash, Singapore. Softback, pp. 145, 52 coloured plates. Clean copy, signed by author. est. £7.00
[9 Dakin WJ (1950) Great Barrier Reef: WITHDRAWN]
10 Dance, SP (1971) Seashells. Hamlyn. Soft cover, pp. 160, many coloured illustrations. One cover starting to detach. est. £0.50
11 Dance, SP (1974 / 1990) The collector's encyclopedia of shells. Zachary Kwintner. 1990 edition. Hardback, pp. 288, many in-text coloured illustrations. Clean copy with dj. est. £10.00
12 Eisenberg, JM (1981) A collector's guide to seashells of the world. McGraw Hill. Hard cover, pp. 239, 158 coloured plates, also b&w drawings. Clean copy, with dj. est. £6.00
13 Evans, IO ed. (1962) The observer's book of sea and seashore. Warne. Hard cover, pp. 253, 64 plates, some coloured. Sound copy; tape marks inside covers. est. £1.00
14 Fretter, V and Graham A (1962) British prosobranch molluscs. Their functional anatomy and ecology. Ed. 1. [superseded by 2nd / revised edition in 1994]. Hard cover, pp.755, many in-text b&w illustrations. Dust jacket torn abd scuffed, otherwise good copy. est. £17.00
15 Fretter, V and Graham A (1981) The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Supplement 6, The Journal of Molluscan Studies. Part 4: Marine Rissoacea. Soft cover, pp. 88. As new. est. £12.00
16 Fretter, V and Graham A (1981) The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Supplement 9, The Journal of Molluscan Studies. Part 6: Cerithiacea, Strombacea, Hipponicacea, Calyptraeacea, Lamellariacea, Cypraeacea, Naticacea, Tonnacea, Heteropoda. Soft cover, pp. 78. Signature on cover; otherwise good. est. £12.00
17 Gabbi, G (1999) Shells. A guide to jewels of the sea. Swan Hill. Soft cover, pp. 168, many in-text coloured illustrations. Sound copy; cover with one folded corner. est. £8.00
19 Hayward PJ and Ryland S (1985) Cyclostome bryozoans. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series) No. 43. Linnaean Society / Academic Press. Soft cover, pp. 147, b&w figures. As new. est. £5.00
22 Kenworthy, JC (1972) Marine shells of the Solomon Islands. Vol 1: Cowries. Solomon Islands Museum Association. Soft cover, pp. 29, 3 b&w figures. Sound copy but a little battered. est. £2.00
23 Kensley, B (1973) Sea-shells of southern Africa: Gastropods. Maskew Miller. Hard cover, pp. 236, over 900 illustrations, some coloured. Clean copy, with dj. est. £20.00 *** (includes photocopied list of revisions and corrections produced in 1978 by the Conchological Society of South Africa)
24 Kohn, AJ (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 strengthening spine, about 250 pp in all, with b&w figures and plates. est. £8.00
25 Lellak, J (1975) A concise guide in colour: Shells of Britain and Europe. Hamlyn. Hard cover, pp. 235, many coloured plates. Sound copy. est. £1.00
27 Ommanney, FD (1968) Collecting sea shells. Arco. Hard cover, pp. 182, coloured frontispiece, 16 b&w plates and 36 b&w figures in text. Clean copy, no dj. est. £2.00
28 Pinn, F (1977) Seashells of East Africa. Spider and Wing Shells. Rex Collings, London. Soft cover, pp. 40, many coloured plates. Sound copy. est. £1.00
30 Sutty, L (1990) Seashells of the Caribbean. Macmillan. Soft cover, pp. 106, many coloured plates. Clean copy. est. £4.00