24 items found

Agassiz's most important malacological work

Agassiz, L.

Iconographie des coquilles Tertiaires, réputées identiques avec les espèces vivantes ou dans différens terrains de l'époque Tertiaire, accompagnée de la description des espèces nouvelles.

€400.00

Rare atlas of well-preserved Jurassic bivalves

Boehm, G.

Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koenigliche Bayerische Staates. Zweiter Band, vierte Abtheilung. Die Bivalven der Stramberger Schichten.

€650.00

A seldom-seen series with important zoological contributions

Bory de Saint-Vincent, [J. B. G. G. M.] et al. (eds).

Annales générales des sciences physiques. Volumes I-VIII. [All published].

€1,800.00

Written by one of the foremost experts in her field

Dechaseaux, C.

Rudistes. I. Diceras et Heterodiceras.

€60.00

The first major work on Japanese Mollusca, with fine, clean plates

Dunker, G. [= W. (B. R. H.)]

Index molluscorum maris japonici. Conscriptus et tabulis iconum xvi illustratus.

€1,500.00

The rarely-seen first volume which took 20 years to complete

Dunker, W. [B. R. H.]

Novitates conchologicae. Abbildung und Beschreibung neuer Conchylien. II. Abtheilung: Meeres-Conchylien.

€1,500.00

The first and rarest work on the continental Mollusca of Mexico and Guatemala

Fischer, P. [H.] and [J. C.] H. Crosse

Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, ouvrage publié par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur et par les soins du Ministre de l'Instruction publique. Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune d'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique publiées sous la direction de M. Milne Edwards. Septième Partie. Études sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatemala.

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1870-1902. Two parts in three. Large 4to and matching folio (35.1 x 26.7 cm). Title pages to the zoology part, the volume, the text, and the atlas; 702; 731 [1-376, 377-731] pp.; 72 lithographed plates of which 46 finely and accurately hand-coloured. Uniform dark blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. All 17 original printed wrappers bound in. The wrappers list the year of publication, and the included plates and feuilles by number.

€3,800.00

Magnificent and exceedingly rare work on the fossil faunas of Bohemia

Fritsch, A.

Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation Böhmens. Band I-IV. [Complete].

Prag, Selbstverlag and F. Řivnáč, 1879-1899 [1901?]. Four volumes in four. Folio (34.0 x 25.5 cm). 459 pp.; lavishly illustrated with 167 mostly chromolithographed plates (several double-sized or larger, folded), and over 400 text engravings, of which some plate-sized. Volume I (1883): 182 pp., 48 plates (some larger, folded, a few plain), 160 text engravings; volume II (1889): 114 pp., 44 plates (several larger, folded; numbered 49-90, 80b, 81b), 79 text figures (numbered 117-188); vol. III (1895): 132 pp., 42 plates [several (much) larger; numbered 91-132], 122 text engravings (numbered 189-310); vol. IV (1901): 101 pp., full colour frontispiece, of a landscape with "Miriopoden"; 33 plates (numbered 133-165), 64 text engravings (numbered 311-394, and including phototypes of fossil animals and tracks, freshwater bivalves, and, e.g. the author at work). Original uniform brown cloth sumptuously embossed with black floral borders, and gilt vignettes depicting Permian amphibians, reptiles and fish. Marbled edges.

€8,500.00

A superbly illustrated and scientifically highly important work on the malacofauna north of the Pyrenees

Gassies, J. B.

Tableau méthodique et descriptif des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais.

€175.00

A very rare set of all the plates that were ever published

Hüpsch, J. W. K. A. Freiherr Von

Naturgeschichte des Niederdeutschlands und anderer Gegenden. I-II (plates)

€1,250.00

As rare as "siebenzig" can be

Kobelt, W. et al.

Festschrift zum siebenzigsten Geburtstag von Wilhelm Kobelt am 20. Februar 1910. Mit einem Porträt, 28 Tafeln und 51 Abbildungen im Text.

Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1910. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.7 cm). Frontispiece portrait; [iv], 463 pp.; 28 mostly lithographed plates (11 in chromolithography; three in b/w photography, one a coloured map), 51 text figures. Later green buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.

€800.00

The 1770 edition, this copy with the often missing fig. 1008 and 22 anatomical plates

Lister, M.

Historiae sive synopsis methodicae conchyliorum et tabularum anatomicarum editio altera.

Oxoni [Oxford], Clarendoniano, 1770. Folio (37.3x 24.2 cm). Letterpress title, two pp. preface; seven pp. with engraved titles, introduction, systematical table, abbreviations and section review, index title, dedication leaf, 12, 77 pp.; 1056 figures (numbered 1-194, 197-922, 924-1058; 168.a) on over 400 plates (several double-sized, folded); a further 22, partly unnumbered, engraved anatomical plates. 20th-century full calf. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title. Speckled edges.

€6,500.00

A rare complete copy in a contemporary binding

Lycett, J.

A monograph of the British fossil Trigoniae. [AND] Supplement to a monograph of the British fossil Trigoniae.

London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1875-1879; 1881-1883. Two parts in one. 4to (27.0 x 21.1 cm). [iv], 245 pp.; plates [numbered I-IX, 10-40, XLI], numerous text illustrations [the main work]; [iv] 19 pp.; four text figures, four plates [the supplement]. Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands and two red morocco labels with gilt title. Brown endpapers; red speckled edges.

€300.00

The rare complete Mollusca section of a magnificent work

Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'

Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 3.e Partie: Mollusques.

Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1834-[1847]. In two volumes (text and atlas). Large 4to and folio (33.0 x 25.4 cm). Half-title to the Voyage, title to the Mollusques, half-title to the Mollusques; xliii, 758 pp.; 86 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-85; 41bis; plates 83-85 not coloured, as always]. Uniform period style half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

€5,900.00

Rare first, Spanish, publication of the fossil shells of Chile

Philippi, R. A.

Los fósiles terciarios i cuartarios de Chile.

Santiago de Chile, Gobierno de Chile, 1887. Large 4to (31.3 x 26.4 cm). 256 pp.; 58 fine lithographic plates. Publisher's embossed black cloth; boards with rich gilt-ornamented borders and title. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Inner dentelles. Endpapers with floral pattern. All edges marbled.

€1,000.00

A seldom-seen bound copy