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Neuchatel, Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 1847 (27.0 x 21.5 cm). 48 pp.; three engraved plates, one being a detailed map, the other two hand-coloured profiles, of which one double-sized, folded. Late 20th-century marbled boards with printed label on the spine. = A geological-mineralogical-palaeontological work by the Swiss malacologist of French descent, Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson (1805-1890). This work contains two malacological supplements. One of Mesozoic ammonites, the other titled Die lebenden Mollusken der Gegend von Aix, including the description of a new species, Cyclostoma apricum, and notes on a few others. Offprint, with separate title, of the Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften - Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles 8(2). Uncut. Short, repaired tear in left margin of the title page, the map a bit foxed; otherwise a very good, clean unmarked, and neatly bound copy. Not in Ward and Carozzi.