[Rarebooks] FS: West Coast Sea Shells in 1882

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “West Coast Shells. A Familiar Description of the Marine, Fresh 
Water, and Land Mollusks of the United States, Found West of the Rocky 
Mountains”

By Josiah Keep.
Published in San Francisco by Samuel Carson & Co. in 1888.

DISCUSSION: Josiah Keep was a professor of Natural Science at Mills 
College. This work was an enlargement of a book on California seashells 
he had published several years before. The illustrations of shells were 
drawn from life by Laura M. Mellen, an art teacher at Mills College. 
Professor Keep, who had come to the school in 1885, helped develop its 
science department as the private seminary for girls developed into "the 
Wellesley of the Pacific Coast". His obituary in the September, 1911 
issue of the journal 'Science', noted that to his books on shells "we 
may fairly ascribe much of the wide-spread interest [in shells] which is 
to-day found among Californians and which…has immensely increased our 
knowledge of the Pacific coast fauna".

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 5.5"x7", 230 pages, color frontispiece and many 
line illustrations. brow cloth covers with gilt lettering and shell 
design.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers light rubbed, minor soil and scattered light 
spotting, book smells slightly of air freshener, but otherwise clean and 
nice, with a tight binding.

PRICE: $125 -

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