Burgundy cloth with titles in gilt on spine, titles blind stamped on front cover, first edition, published by John Van Voorst, London, 1875, hand-colored frontispiece plus nine other full page color plates, each with several illustrations of shells. Edges untrimmed, viii, 110 plus 2pp catalogue of Van Voorst books. Includes an Introduction on the Internal Structure of Mollusks, etc.; chapters on: Number and Distribution of British Mollusks; A Ramble over the London Clay; A Ramble over the Chalk; Hints to Collectors; A Systematic List of the British Land and Freshwater Mollusca; List of Local Catalogues of Land and Freshwater Mollusca. Based on articles entitled "Rambles in Search of Shells" published in the Natural History Columns of "The Field", this book is republished "with some important additions and emendations and with a series of coloured plates...carefully drawn and coloured by Mr. Arthur Rich."