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  • Técnicas prehispánicas en los objectos de concha.

    • Text
    • México, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text HTA 75-102Offsite
  • Kingdom of the seashell, by R. Tucker Abbott.

    • Text
    • New York, Crown Publishers [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFF 91-2953Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Neptune's garden : shells A to Z / Wendy Frost.

    • Text
    • Boston : Little, Brown, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text JFF 93-2287Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The world's shells : a guide for collectors / by S. Peter Dance.

    • Text
    • New York : McGraw-Hill, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFF 93-2496Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Conchas y caracoles : ese universo maravilloso... / Lourdes Suárez Diez.

    • Text
    • México : Banpaís, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text JFG 93-1006Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A natural history of shells / by Geerat J. Vermeij.

    • Text
    • Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text JFE 94-9243Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Shell shock : conchological curiosities / Patrick Mauries ; [translated from the French by Michael Wolfers and Ronald Davidson-Houston].

    • Text
    • London : Thames and Hudson, c1994.
    • 1994
  • Jewels from the ocean deep; the complete guide to shell collecting.

    • Text
    • New York, Putnam [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text D-17 9911Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Shells.

    • Text
    • New York, Putnam [1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text AD-10 452Offsite
  • Shells as evidence of the migration of early culture by J. Wilfrid Jackson...

    • Text
    • Manchester, University press; London, New York [etc] Longmans, Green & co., 1917.
    • 1917
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QOD (Jackson, J. W. Shells as evidence of the migrations of early culture)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells, by O. H. Rippingale and D. F. McMichael.

    • Text
    • Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1961.
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text AF-10 307Offsite
  • On the mode of formation of shells of animals, of bone, and of several other structures, by a process of molecular coalescence, demonstrable in certain artificially formed products.

    • Text
    • London, Churchill, 1858.
    • 1858
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QBI (Rainey, G. On the mode of formation of shells of animals)Offsite
  • Der Naturaliensammler : das Anlegen und Aufbewahren von Naturaliensammlungen ; Wegweiser für Jung und Alt, für Laien, sowie für wissenschaftlich gebildete Naturfreunde zur Anlage von Sammlungen von Insekten, Conchylien, kleinen Wirbelthieren u.s.w., sowie zur Einrichtung von Aquarien, Vivarien u.s.w. / von H. v. Kiesenwetter und Th. Reibisch

    • Text
    • Leipzig : O. Spamer, 1881
    • 1881
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QGE (Kiesenwetter, E. H. von. Naturaliensammler)Offsite
  • Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit Ill. M.N. Suenson, Navarchus regius; ordinis Danebrogici; ordinis Henrici quarti & ordinis St. Annae eques.

    • Text
    • Hafniae, Typ. I. Chr. Graebei. 1857.
    • 1857
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QHM (Suenson, M. N. Catalogus conchyliorum quæ reliquit I11)Offsite
  • Shell collector's handbook / by A. Hyatt Verrill.

    • Text
    • New York : Putnam, [1950]
    • 1950
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text QHM (Verrill, A. H. Shell collector's handbook)Offsite
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    Book/Text QHR (Verrill, A. H. Shell collector's handbook)Offsite
  • Natural history, mollusca / by P.H. Gosse.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1854.
    • 1854
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QHO (Gosse, P. H. Natural history)Offsite
  • A conchological manual / by G.B. Sowerby, Jun. ; illustrated by upwards of six hundred and sixty figures.

    • Text
    • London : Henry G. Bohn ... and Sowerby ..., 1842.
    • 1842
    • 1 Item

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    Book/text QHO (Sowerby, G. B. Conchological manual)Offsite
  • Manual of conchology; structural and systematic with illustrations of the species, by George W. Tryon, jr. ... continued by Henry A. Pilsbry ...

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, Academy of natural sciences, 1879-1935.
    • 1879-1935
    • 39 Items

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    Book/text QHO (Tryon, G. W. Manual of conchology)Offsite
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    Book/text QHO (Tryon, G. W. Manual of conchology)Offsite
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    Book/text QHO (Tryon, G. W. Manual of conchology)Offsite
  • Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained, with directions for collection, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet and descriptions of the most remarkable species / By H. G. Adams.

    • Text
    • London : Groombridge and sons, [1871]
    • 1871
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QHP (Adams, H. G. Beautiful shells)Offsite
  • The elements of conchology; or Natural history of shells: according to the Linnean system. : With observations on modern arrangements. / By Thomas Brown ... Illustrated with nine coloured engravings.

    • Text
    • London: : Printed for Lackington, Allen, & Co. ... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ... John Murray ... Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and John Cumming ... Dublin. : J. Gleave, Printer., 1816.
    • 1816
    • 1 Item

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    Book/text QHP (Brown, T. Elements of conchology; or Natural history of shells)Offsite
  • The shell book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign, by Julia Ellen Rogers...eight plates in colour, and ninety-six in black-and-white mostly from photographs by A. R. Dugmore.

    • Text
    • New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1908.
    • 1908
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text QHP (Rogers, J. E. Shell book)Offsite
  • General conchology : or, a description of shells arranged according to the Linnean system ... / by W. Wood.

    • Text
    • London : J. Booth, 1835.
    • 1835
    • 2 Items
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    Book/text QHP (Wood, W. General conchology)Offsite
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    Book/text Stuart 12952Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Otia conchologica: descriptions of shells and mollusks, from 1839 to 1862. By Augustus A. Gould, M.D.

    • Text
    • Boston, Gould and Lincoln, 1862.
    • 1862-1846
    • 1 Item

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    Book/text QHR (Gould, A. A. Otia conchologica: descriptions of shells and mollusks)Offsite
  • Shells and how they live, by Eileen Mayo.

    • Text
    • London, Pleiades books. 1944.
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text QHR (Mayo, E. Shells and how they live)Offsite
  • Das kleine Buch der Meereswunder; Muscheln und Schnecken; kolorierte Stiche von Franz Michael Regenfuss; Geleitwort von Friedrich Schnack.

    • Text
    • Leipzig, Insel-verlag [1936]
    • 1936
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QHR (Regenfuss, F. M. Kleine buch der Meereswunder)Offsite
  • L'homme et la coquille; dessins par Henri Mondor.

    • Text
    • [Paris] Gallimard [1937]
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QHR (Valéry, P. A. Homme et la coquille)Offsite
  • Florida marine shells; a guide to amateur collectors of Florida marine shells which is completely illustrated with colored photo-engravings. by C. N. Vilas and N. R. Vilas; cover design and diagrams by N. R. Vilas.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Ill., Printed by Aberdeen press, inc. [1945]
    • 1945
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QHW (Vilas, C. N. Florida marine shells)Offsite
  • Schelpen.

    • Text
    • Amsterdam : Uitgeversbedrijf "De Spieghel", 1951.
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text QHZ+ (Amsterdam. Zoölogisch museum. Schelpen)Offsite
  • Report on the Turton Collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum, by Paul Bartsch...

    • Text
    • Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1915.
    • 1915
    • 1 Item

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    Book/text QHZ (Bartsch, P. Report of Turton collection of South African Marine Mollusca)Offsite
  • The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shell accurately drawn and painted after nature: with a new systematic arrangement by the author Thomas Martyn.

    • Text
    • London, Sold [by the author] at his house, no. 16 Great Marlborough Street, 1784.
    • 1784
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text QHO++ (Martyn, T. Universal Conchologist)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Théorie du jet des bombes.

    • Text
    • Paris, Lagrange, 1788.
    • 1788
    • 1 Item

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    Book/text VWS (Ehrenmalm, d. Théorie du jet des bombes)Offsite
  • De lege verzameling / Benjamin Jakobson.

    • Text
    • [Rotterdam : Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 1997]
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text 3-MAMZ 98-3986Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Vom Tier zum Fels; ausgewählte Kapitel über die Teilnahme von Tieren an dem Aufbau und der Umgestaltung der Erdkruste, von Hans Wolfgang Behm ...

    • Text
    • Leipzig, Deutsche naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft [1915]
    • 1915
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text PXE (Berckhemer, F. Language of rocks)Offsite
  • The romance of shells, in nature and art.

    • Text
    • New York, M. Barrows, 1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text 3-MNH (Travers, L. A. Romance of shells)Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Histoire des éventails chez tous les peuples et à toutes les époques; ouvrage illustré de 50 gravures et suivi de notices sur l'écaille, la nacre et l'ivoire, par S. Blondel.

    • Text
    • Paris, Renouard, 1875.
    • 1875
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text MMW (Blondel, S. Histoire des eventails)Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Shells / Cheryl Claassen.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFF 99-1066Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • El strombus en el arte chavín.

    • Text
    • Lima, Editorial Antena, 1937.
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text HBC p.v. 262 10 titlesSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The poetry of shells, by Josiah Keep. Foreword by Joshua L. Baily, jr.

    • Text
    • Mills College, Calif., The Eucalyptus Press, 1949.
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text *KP (Eucalyptus) (Keep, J. Poetry of shells)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • I. The honey ants of Point Loma, California. [By] P. Leonard. II. H. Hemphill: Descriptions of some varieties of shells ... III. F.A. Carpenter: Photographing "Red snow" in natural colors.

    • Text
    • San Diego, 1911.
    • 1911-1911
  • Los artífices de la concha : ensayo sobre tecnología, arte y otros aspectos socio-culturales de los antiguos habitantes del estado Lara / Iraida Vargas Arenas ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • [Venezuela] : Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, U.C.V. : Alcaldía del Municipio Jiménez-Lara : FUNDACULTURA : Museo Arqueológico de Quíbor, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text HBC+ 00-6651Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The conchologist's companion ...

    • Text
    • London, Whittaker & Co., 1834.
    • 1834
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text Stuart 12949Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A conchological manual ...

    • Text
    • London, H.G. Bohn, 1846.
    • 1846
    • 2 Items
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    Book/text QHP (Sowerby, G. Conchological manual. 1846)Offsite
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    Book/text Stuart 12950Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The conchological illustrations.

    • Text
    • London, Sowerby, 1841.
    • 1841
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Stuart 12951Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Index testaceologicus, and illustrated catalogue of British and foreign shells ...

    • Text
    • London, Willis & Sotheran, 1856.
    • 1856
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Stuart 12953Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Conchologia systematica, or, Complete system of conchology: in which the lepades and conchiferous mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits.

    • Text
    • London, Longman, Brown ... 1841-42.
    • 1841-1842
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Stuart 12982-12983Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Exotic conchology; or, Figures and descriptions of rare, beautiful, or undescribed shells ...

    • Text
    • London, H.G. Bohn, 1841.
    • 1841
    • 2 Items
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    Book/text QHR+ (Swainson, W. Exotic conchology)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Book/text Stuart 12995Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Photography with high powers by lamplight : illustrating structure of diatoms / by Jacob D. Cox.

    • Text
    • [Washington? : American Society of Microscopists, 1884]
    • 1884-1884
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *C p.v. 1505Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • Shellcraft; explaining the making of ornamental and utilitarian objects from shells, and giving the scientific names [microform] By Ruth Lippencott Walworth ... with a foreword by W.J. Clench ...

    • Text
    • [Fort Myers, Fla., Geddes Press, 1937]
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
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    Microform *ZM 3-MAR p.v. 518-523Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Über die Spiralen der Conchylien [microform].

    • Text
    • [Leipzig, 1846]
    • 1846
  • The use of marine Mollusca and their value in reconstructing prehistoric trade routes in the American Southwest / by Donald B. Tower.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, Mass. : The Excavatorś club, 1945.
    • 1945
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text MTA (Excavators' club, Cambridge, Mass. Papers. v. 2, no. 3)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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