Introduction, p. XVI, signed: C.L. Kämmerer.

Woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces.

Plates are hand-colored.

Errata: p. [3], 3rd paging group.

Signatures: a-deA-Q.

Includes bibliographical references.

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013485685) has bookplate of William Healey Dall. Stamped on front free endpaper and t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.

SCNHRB c. 1 inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper: S. Hanley.

SCNHRB c. 1 has occasional pencilled ms. notes in text.

SCNHRB c. 1 has plates folded and tipped-in on blank leaves.

SCNHRB c. 1 half bound in sheepskin and brown paper boards, title in gilt within leather spine label, red edges; housed in an archival cardboard box with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound with: Kämmerer, Christoph Ludwig. Nachtrag zu den Conchylien im fürstlichen Cabinette zu Rudolstadt. Rudolstadt: auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1786. Bound together subsequent to publication?

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013485727) inscribed in ink on t.p.: Isaac Lea from Dr. Menke. Stamped on t.p.: Isaac Lea Collection.

SCNHRB c. 2 has unidentified ink signature on t.p.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Jan 8 1890 [ms. acc. no.] 184825.

SCNHRB c. 2 has a few ink ms. margin notes.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in tree sheepskin, gilt roll at edges, green edges and endpapers.