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Images of 18th century paintings are in commons:Gastropoda in scientific graphics gallery too.

100 years after the author's death

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  • (electronic version needed) Emil Adolf Rossmässler: (1835-1859): Iconographie der Land- und Süßwassermollusken. (3 volumes) [Iconography of land Mollusca and freshwater Mollusca]
only google version available http://www.archive.org/details/iconographieder00rollgoog

80 years after the author's death

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  • (electronic version needed) Stefan Clessin (*1833-†1911, Germany) (1887): Die Molluskenfauna Österreich-Ungarns und der Schweiz. - pp. 1-858. Nürnberg. (Bauer & Raspe).

70 years after author's death

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  • (electronic version needed) John William Taylor (*1845-†1931, U.K.) (1894-1914): Monograph of the land and freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles. Vols. 1-3. Taylor Brothers, Leeds.
Few parts or volumes parts are already available at: 1907 http://www.archive.org/details/monographoflandf814tayl part 8-14; http://www.archive.org/details/monographoflandf1521tayl part 15-21; 1921 http://www.archive.org/details/monographoflandf2224tayl part 22-24. Previous volume (volume I) is not available yet.
  • (electronic version needed) Hermann Felix Paul Ehrmann (abbreviation Ehrmann P.) (* 21st December 1868 – † 6th October 1937; Germany) (1933): Mollusca. - In: Brohmer, Ehrmann & Ulmer: Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas, 2 (Lief. 1) 264 pp. + 13 tables. Leipzig, Quelle & Meyer.

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Published in New Zealand.

pre-1923 in USA

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Publications published before January 1, 1923 in the USA are public domain under {{PD-1923}}.

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Journals:

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  • Manual of Conchology volume 27 and volume 28 - no copyright notice, full scans is available at Internet Archive.
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CC-BY resources

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  • ZooKeys The article and published supplementary material are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0):

Will be free soon

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work by Louis Germain (1878-1942) will be public domain/free in 2013.

  • Germain L. (1930). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. vol I., Faune de France, number 21, 478 p. PDF
  • Germain L. (1931). Faune n° 22 Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. vol. II. Faune de France, volume 22, 520 p. 390 fig. PDF
  • Germain L. (1931). Illustrations des Faunes n° 21-22 Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. PDF