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• The true book of pebbles and shells. (Childrens Press, 1954), by Illa Podendorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frank's search for sea-shells (American Tract Society, 1866), by H. F. Parker and American Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A child's book of sea shells. (Maxton Publishers, 1954), by William Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained : with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet : descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them : and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology (London : Groombridge and Sons, 1856., 1856), by H. G. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversations on conchology (London : Darton and Harvey, 1837., 1837), by Mary Anne Venning, Joseph Rickerby, and England) Darton & Harvey (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entertaining stories of remarkable fishes and shells (Salem : J.P. Jewett ; Cincinnati : G.L. Weed, 1846, 1846), by Joseph Banvard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of Shells: Containing the Classes Mollusca, Conchifera, Cirrhipeda, Annulata, and Crustacea, by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rudiments of Conchology: Intended as a familiar introduction to the science., by Mary Anne Venning (Gutenberg ebook)

• Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained : with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet : descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them : and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology (London : Groombridge and Sons, 1856., 1856), by H. G. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Handbook for Shell Collectors: Illustrations and Descriptions of Shells From All Parts of the World (fifth edition; Rochester, NY: The author, c1945), by Walter Freeman Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Conchological Illustrations (London: Sowerby, 1841), by G. B. Sowerby, contrib. by George Brettingham Sowerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shells as evidence of the migration of early culture by J. Wilfrid Jackson... (University press;, 1917), by John Wilfrid Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conchology, or The natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries. (W. Miller, 1811), by George Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular conchology : or, The shell cabinet arranged according to the modern system, with a detailed account of the animals, and a complete descriptive list of the families and genera of recent and fossil shells (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854), by Agnes Catlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A descriptive catalogue of recent shells, arranged according to the Linnæan method; with particular attention to the synonymy. (Printed for J. and A. Arch, 1817), by L. W. Dillwyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of the Mollusca : or, Rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells (J. Weale, 1851), by S. P. Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index testaceologicus : or, A catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system; with the Latin and English names, references to authors, and places where found. Illustrated with 2300 figures. (Printed for W. Wood, 1828), by W. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign (Doubleday, Page & company, 1908), by Julia Ellen Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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. (C.T. Branford, 1951), by Julia Ellen Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook for shell collectors : Illustrations and descriptions of 1100 species of mollusca. (Rochester, N.Y., 1935), by Walter Freeman Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dispersal of shells : an inquiry into the means of dispersal possessed by fresh-water and land mollusca (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893), by H. Wallis Kew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philippine land shells of the genus Amphidromus (G.P.O., 1917), by Paul Bartsch and Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Govt. Print. Off., 1915), by Paul Bartsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'offeruation' delle chiocciole, propofta a'curiofi delle opere della natura (Per il Varefe, 1681), by Filippo Buonanni and Enrico Holst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der Conchyliologie und Malacozoologie (Eduard Anton, 1853), by Rodolfo Amando Philippi (page images at HathiTrust)
• General conchology, or, A description of shells, arranged according to the Linnean system, and illustrated with sixty plates, containing 260 figures of univalves and bivalves (London : Printed for John Booth, 1835, 1835), by W. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conchological miscellany of Sylvanus Hanley ... Illustrative of Pandora, Amphidesma, Ostrea, Melo, the Melaniadae, Ampullaria and Cyclostoma ... (Williams and Norgate, 1854), by Sylvanus Hanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martini Lister ... Historiae sive synopsis methodicae conchyliorum et tabularium anatomicarum. (e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1770), by Martin Lister and William Huddesford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Figures of non descript shells, collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764. (Sold [by the author] at his house, no. 16, Great Marlborough street, 1789), by Thomas Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conchologia iconica (Reeve, Brothers, 1843), by Lovell Reeve and G. B. Sowerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. Commenced (London, 1820), by James Sowerby and George Brettingham Sowerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyager's companion, or Shell collector's pilot; with instructions and directions where to find the finest shells; also for preserving the skins of animals; and the best methods of catching and preserving insects ... (Printed for and sold by the author, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), by John Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons on shells : as given in a Pestalozzian school, at Cheam, Surrey (P. Hill, 1833), by Elizabeth Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of conchology ... and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne [etc.], 1820), by Charles Wodarch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otia conchologica: descriptions of shells and mollusks, from 1839 to 1862. (Gould and Lincoln, 1862), by Augustus A. Gould, United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition (1853-1856), and United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shell-collector's handbook for the field (Roper & Drowley, 1888), by Joseph William Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of the shells of South America in the collection of the British Museum. Collected and described by M. Alcide d'Orbigny, in the "Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale." (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1854), by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, Alcide Dessalines d' Orbigny, and John Edward Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles in search of shells, land, and freshwater. (John Van Voorst, 1875), by James Edmund Harting (page images at HathiTrust)
• A classified and annotated check list of the North American Naiades. (Baylor University Press, 1927), by L. S. Frierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kaizukushi ura no nishiki (1751), by Ryūhō Ōeda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kai senshu. The illustrations of a thousand shells. (Unsôdô, 1914), by Yoichirō Hirase (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A conchological manual. (H.G. Bohn, 1842), by G. B. Sowerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wodarch's Introduction to the study of conchology : describing the orders, genera, and species of shells : with observations on the nature and properties of the animals and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green ... 1833., 1833), by Charles Wodarch and John Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land and fresh-water shells: an introduction to the study of conchology. (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889), by Joseph William Williams, William Denison Roebuck, and John William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. (Printed for W. Wood, 1818), by W. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bucketful of shells (Printed by Sewell & Duke, 1948), by Mary Priscilla Allen and Francis B. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyager's companion, or shell collector's pilot : with directions where to find the finest shells, for preserving the skins of animals, and the best methods of catching and preserving insects, etc., etc., etc. (Printed for and sold by the Author, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1821), by John Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons on shells : as given in a Pestalozzian school, at Cheam, Surrey (C. J. Folsom, 1842), by Elizabeth Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of conchology; structural and systematic with illustrations of the species (Academy of natural sciences, 1879), by George W. Tryon, Henry Augustin Pilsbry, and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Conchological Section (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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. (O. Spamer, 1881), by H. von Kiesenwetter and Theodor Reibisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elements of conchology; or Natural history of shells: according to the Linnean system. : With observations on modern arrangements. (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), by Thomas Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnæan Method, &c. (London, 1817), by L. W. Dillwyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie du jet des bombes. (Lagrange, 1788), by d' Ehrenmalm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Systematisches Conchylien-cabinet (Bauer und Raspe, 1837), by Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini, Wilhelm Kobelt, H. C. Weinkauff, H. C. Küster, J. A. Wagner, Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, and Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Appendix to the Manual of Mollusca of S.P. Woodward, A.L.S. : containing such recent and fossil shells as are not mentioned in the second edition of that work (Virture ;, 1868), by Ralph Tate and S. P. Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Branford, 1936), by Julia Ellen Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kairui Tebikigusa (Hirase Kaikan, 1909), by Yoichirō Hirase and Yoichiro Hirase (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The poetry of shells. (Eucalyptus Press, 1949), by Josiah Keep (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile. (G. Fischer, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shells and their inmates. (Religious Tract Society, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index testaceologicus : or, A catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system. A list of the plates of the "Index testaceologicus", with the Lamarckian names adapted to the figures in each plate. (Printed for W. Wood, 1829), by W. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catechism of conchology, containing a pleasing and familiar description of the construction and classification of shells, according to the Linnean system; with examples of each class ... (Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824), by William Pinnock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyager's companion, or shell collector's pilot : with directions where to find the finest shells ... (Printed for and sold by the Author, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), by John Mawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des éventails chez tous les peuples et à toutes les époques : et suivi de notices sur l'écaille, la nacre et l'ivoire (Renouard, 1875), by S. Blondel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le conchyliologiste universel, ou, Figures des coquilles jusqu'à présent inconnues recueillies en divers voyages à la mer du Sud depuis l'année 1764 (A. Franck, 1845), by Thomas Martyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinet of shells (Munroe and Francis, 1833), by William Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of conchology : prepared for the use of schools and colleges (Grigg & Elliot ..., 1846), by W. S. W. Ruschenberger, Achille Comte, and H. Milne-Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otia conchologica : descriptions of shells and mollusks from 1839 to 1862 (Gould and Lincoln, 1862), by Augustus A. Gould, United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition (1853-1856), and United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris : la collection Lamarck, celle du prince Masséna (appartenant maintenant a M.B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs (J.B. Baillière, 1873), by L. C. Kiener and Paul Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Doubleday, Page, 1920), by Julia Ellen Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description des coquilles fossiles de l'argile, de basele, boom, schelle, etc. ([Liége, 1837), by L. de Koninck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iconographie der schalentragenden europäischen Meeresconchylien. (T. Fischer, 1883), by Wilhelm Kobelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Untersuchungen über nicht celluläre Organismen : namentlich Crustaceen-Panzer, Mollusken-Schalen und Eihüllen (Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey, 1877), by Wilhelm von Nathusius (page images at HathiTrust)
• General conchology : or, a description of shells arranged according to the Linnean system and illustrated with plates drawn and coloured from nature. Vol. 1 (Printed for J. Booth by B. Howlett, 1815), by W. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (J. Churchill, 1858), by George Rainey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1857), by Maria Emma Smith Gray and John Edward Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabular view of the orders & families of the Mollusca ... ([London, 1800), by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hall of shells (D. Appleton and company, 1897), by Mrs. A. S. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some remarkable shells of a South American fresh-water mussel ([Chicago, 1945), by Fritz Haas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained : with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet : descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them : and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology (London : Groombridge and Sons, 1856., 1856), by H. G. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversations on conchology (London : Darton and Harvey, 1837., 1837), by Mary Anne Venning, Joseph Rickerby, and England) Darton & Harvey (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shells and their inmates. (London : The Religious Tract Society, [184-], in the 1840s), by George Baxter and Kronheim & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete guide to the almanack (1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910), by Julia Ellen Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lorraine Screven Frierson : a southern conchologist (Baylor University Press], 1929), by John Kern Strecker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entertaining stories of remarkable fishes and shells (Salem : J.P. Jewett ; Cincinnati : G.L. Weed, 1846, 1846), by Joseph Banvard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero (Typis Georgii Plachi caelaturam profitentis, & characterum fusoriam propè S. Marcum, 1709), by Filippo Buonanni, Francesco Maria Ruspoli, Giorgio Placho, Athanasius Kircher, and Collegio romano. Museo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let's read about sea shells. (Webster Pub. Co., 1957), by Kay Ware (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Marine shells of British Columbia. Preliminary check list. (R. Wolfenden, printer to the Queen's most excellent majesty, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conchologische mittheilungen als fortsetzung der Novitates conchologicae (T. Fischer, 1880), by Eduard von Martens and Biodiversity Heritage Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shells of the Florida coasts (Brush and Palette, 1962), by Francis Dawson Wyly Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shells : shelling along the Florida, Gulf and south Atlantic coasts (M.W. Pub. Co., 1956), by Mani O'Mara and Martha de R. Branham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les coquilles sacrées dans les religions Indoues. (Paris : E. Leroux, 1884., 1884), by Arnould Locard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elastically supported spherical segments under anti-symmetrical loads. (Defense Technical Information Center, 1960), by Szaja Lichtenstein and Columbia Univ. New York Dept. of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Free and forced vibrations of an infinitely long cylindrical shell in an infinite acoustic medium. (Defense Technical Information Center, 1952), by M. L. Baron, H. H. Bleich, and Columbia Univ. New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beautiful shells : Their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained; with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet; descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them; and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology, by H. G. Adams (Gutenberg ebook)

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