Malacostraca podophthalmata Britanniae; or, Descriptions of such British species of the Linnean genus Cancer as have their eyes elevated on footstalks. / By William Elford Leach ... Illustrated with figures of all the species, by James Sowerby.

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Malacostraca podophthalmata Britanniae; or, Descriptions of such British species of the Linnean genus Cancer as have their eyes elevated on footstalks. / By William Elford Leach ... Illustrated with figures of all the species, by James Sowerby.

Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836

Malacostraca podophthalmata Britanniae; or, Descriptions of such British species of the Linnean genus Cancer as have their eyes elevated on footstalks. / By William Elford Leach ... Illustrated with figures of all the species, by James Sowerby.

London : J. Sowerby, 1815-1875.

[128] pages, XLV [i.e. 55] leaves of plates (some folded). illustrations 32 cm

Issued in 19 numbers between 1815 and 1875.

Numbers 18 and 19 were continued and completed by George Brettingham Sowerby with a new index and 7 new plates, and published by Quaritch in 1875.

Leaves of plates accompanied by letterpress descriptions.

Revised plate count includes plates IXa, IXb, XXIb, XXIIb, XXIIc, XXVIIIb, XXXVIIb, and XXXVIIc. Plate XVIII, a double plate, is counted as two.

Includes index.

Cited/Indexed in:

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, Bd. 1, no. 2404

SCNHRB copy 39088009177536 (former INVZRB) has hand-colored engravings.

SCNHRB copy has mounted on front free endpaper: a handwritten list of the dates (month, day and year) of publication and contents for each number.

SCNHRB copy has mounted on front free endpaper: a portion of L. Rathbun's article from the Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI (1897), giving the dates for each number of this publication.

SCNHRB copy has embossed stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession no. 151007.

SCNHRB copy has old brown half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettered spine.

Decapoda (Crustacea)

Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, illustrator.

Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884

Binder's title: Leach's Malacostraca Britanniae

Descriptions of such British species of the Linnean genus Cancer as have their eyes elevated on footstalks

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