| Atlante delle Conchiglie di Profondita del Mediterraneo
by R. Ardovini & T. Cossignani
1999, L'Informatore Piceno., Ancona, Italy, in laminated boards, 111 pages, about 8½ by 12 inches (21.5 by 30.5 cm) in Italian, more than 200 color figures of species
Although this book has been around for a while this is the first time that I am offering it as part of my catalog. It is an excellent work and one that will be of great interest to collectors of shells from the Mediterranean Sea. It is the only work that I know of that deals solely with the deep-water shells foundin this area, many of them very small, most of them very rare. The text is in Italian but it is minimal and should be easily understood by almost anyone familiar with shell terminology. The photographs are of very high quality. This is a new copy.
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