Crustacea
47 items found
Bianchi, G. P. S. [J. Plancus]
De conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis (Venice), J. Baptista Pasqual, 1739. 4to (28.1 x 20.1 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded engraved plates. Period style half calf over marbled boards, later endpapers.
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Boone, [P.] L.
Scientific results of the World cruises of the yachts "Ara" 1928-1929, and "Alva" 1931-1932, "Alva" Mediterranean cruise 1933, and "Alva" South American cruise 1935, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Crustacea: Anomura, Macrura, Euphausiacea, Isopoda, Amphipoda, and Echinodermata: Asteroidea and Echinoidea.
Huntington, NY, Privately Published, 1935. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 264 pp.; 96 plates. Original dark green buckram with gilt title on the spines and front boards.
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Dybowsky, B.
Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der in den Baikal-See vorkommenden niederen Krebse aus der Gruppe der Gammariden.
St Petersburg, Russische Entomologische Gesellschaft zu St. Peterburg, 1874. Large 4to (32.5 x 24.5 cm). 190 pp.; 14 engraved plates of which the first three nicely hand-coloured. Original printed wrappers. In contemporary quarter cloth marbled portfolio.
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Fischer, S.
Abhandlung über die in der Umgebung von St. Petersburg vorkommenden Crustaceen aus der Ordnung der Branchiopoden und Entomostraceen, mit Zeichnungen nach der Natur begleitet.
St. Petersburg, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1848. 4to (30.0 x 22.2 cm). 40 pp.; ten lithographed plates. Contemporary pebbled cloth. Gilt-ornamented spine.
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Fritsch, A. [J.]
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); Volume III (1895): 132 pp.; 42 plates [several (much) larger; numbered 91-132], 122 text engravings (numbered 189-310); Volume 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.
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Gerstaecker, A. and A. E. Ortmann
Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Von Dr. H. G. Bronn, fortgezetzt von A Gerstaecker. Fünfter Band. Gliederfüssler (Arthropoda). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Arthropoda ... Fünfter Band, erste Abtheilung. Crustacea (Erste Hälfe). [AND] Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Arthropoda ... Fünfter Band. II. Abtheilung. Crustacea (Zweite Hälfte: Malacostraca).
Leipzig, C. F. Winter, 1866-1901. Two volumes in four. Large 8vo (24.7 x 16.5 cm). 2,639 pp.; 178 lithographed plates (several tinted); [numbered: I-LIX, IIIa; I-CXXVIII]. Early 20th century uniform blue buckram. Spines with gilt title. Edges sprinkled red.
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Giesbrecht, W.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte herausgegeben von de zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 33. Monographie: Stomatopoden. Erster Theil. [All published].
Berlin, R. Friedländer, 1910. 4to (33.5 x 27.1 cm). Title pages, vii, 239 pp.; 12 text engravings, 11 fine, large, folded lithographed plates (of which the first in chromolithography), with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
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Hensen, V. (ed.)
Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. [Complete].
Kiel [und Leipzig], Lipsius & Tischer, 1892-1926. Five volumes with all 12 published monographs (of 14 and an index, projected) in 61 published parts (only 50 initially projected), bound in 61. 4to (31.2 x 25.5 cm). Over 6,800 pp., about 491 mostly lithographed plates of which many tinted or finely coloured, and 44 coloured maps. Near uniform contemporary half calf (a few in half cloth) over marbled boards [predominantly green, or yellow; one with blind boards]. Gilt title on the spines.
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Hørring, R. (et al.)
Report on the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24. The Danish Expedition to Arctic North America in charge of Knud Rasmussen. Vol. II. No. 6-9. Zoology II. Birds, Fishes. Insects. Crustacea.
Copenhagen, Gylendal, 1937. Large 8vo (28.2 x 18.5 cm). 203 pp. [134; 19; 24; 26]; two folding maps. Original printed wrappers.
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Klein, J. T. et al.
Versuche und Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. Erster Theil - Zweiter Theil.
Danzig, Schreiberische Buchdruckerey, 1747-1754. Two volumes in two. 4to (24.6 x 19.8 cm). Two engraved title pages, 1174 pp. [viii, 600; viii, 558]; 14 [8; 6] folded, engraved plates. Uniform contemporary boards. Spines with marbled paper cover and yellow label with handwritten title.
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Koehler, [J. B. F.] R.
Ophiures recueillis par l'Investigator dans l'Océan Indien. I. Les ophiures de mer profondes [AND] Ophiures recueillis par l'Investigator dans l'Océan Indien II. Les ophiures littorales.
Calcutta [Kolkata], The Trustees of the Indian Museum, 1899-1900. Folio (31.4 x 25.0 cm). [74; (ii), 4] pp., 22 [I-XIV; XV-XXII] lithographed plates (one folded). Contemporary, dark blue morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-lined bands. and gilt title. Original printed front wrappers preserved.
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Lacaze-Duthiers, [F. J.] H. de
Three important, published works by Henri Lacaze-Duthiers, including a collection of proof copies and handwritten notes and corrections to one of them.
Paris, 1877-1885. Various sizes. 468 pp. [160, 220, 88]; 28 [8; 14; 6] lithographed plates, of which 22 hand-coloured. Preserved in a clamshell box covered in burgundy cloth (30.4 x 25.2 x 9.2 cm) with printed label.
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Lemoine, V.
Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des systèmes nerveux, musculaire et glandulaire de l'ecrevisse.
Paris, E. Martinet, 1868. 4to (26.7 x 21.2 cm). 233, [i] pp.; six engraved plates. Contemporary red polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with intricate gilt ornaments at head and foot, gilt-lined compartments and gilt title. Marbled endpapers, red-sprinkled edges.
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Macleay, W. S. [Smith, A. (ed.)]
Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa; being a portion of the objects of natural history chiefly collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, under the direction of Dr. Andrew Smith, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa".
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1838. Folio (30.3 x 24.1 cm). Title (to the Invertebata part), title (to the work), [ii], 75 pp.; four finely lithographed and hand-coloured plates. Contemporary green, polished calf. Spine with five raised bands bordered by double gilt-lines; black morocco label with gilt title; boards with gilt borders, edges blind-tooled with oblique grooves. Marbled endpapers; marbled edges.
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Mayer, P.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel. VI. Monographie: Caprelliden.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1882. 4to (33.4 x 27.2 cm). Title pages, x, 201 pp.; ten fine, large, tinted lithographed plates (of which the first double-sized), with explanatory text leaves; 39 "Zinkographien" (groups of text illustrations). Original printed wrappers.
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Meyer, H. von
Ueber den Archegosaurus der Steinkohlenformation [AND] Fische, Echinodermen und andere Versteinerungen aus dem Muschelkalk Oberschlesiens [AND] Sphyraenodus aus dem Tertiärsande von Flonheim.
Cassel, Palaeontographica, 1849. 4to (29.2 x 23.0 cm). 76 [5; 68; 3] pp.; four engraved plates. Contemporary wrappers with the titles added in a neat old hand.
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Milne Edwards, [H.] [Cuvier]
Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux, et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. Edition accompagnée de planches gravées, ...Les crustacés. [Atlas].
Paris, Fortin, Masson, 1836-1844. Thick, 4to-sized folio (25.3 x 17.4 cm). 87 plates, numbered as follows: 1-11, 11bis, 12-34, 34bis, 35-54, 54bis, 55, 55bis, 56 -62, 62bis, 63-70, 70bis, 71, 71bis, 72-80; Plate 4 much larger, double-folded; each with explanatory text leaves and tissue-guards. Contemporary red half morocco over patterned boards. Spine rich gilt with ornamental vignettes and gilt title. Iridescent endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Milne-Edwards, A.
Histoire des crustacés podophthalmaires fossiles.
Paris, Martinet, 1861. 4to (26.5 x 21.5 cm). 222 pp.; one folding table, 16 engraved or lithographed plates (three larger, folded). Later marbled boards with printed label on the front board. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Milne-Edwards, H. and [P.] H. Lucas [A. C. V. M. D. d'Orbigny (ed.)]
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. 1.re Partie: Crustacés.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1843-[1844]. Text and plates. Large 4to/folio mix (33.7 x 25.8 cm). Half-title (to the Voyage), title and half-title (to the Crustacés); 39 pp.; 18 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-12, 14-17, 7bis, 8bis]. Later marbled wrappers.
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Müller, [C.] G. W.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 21. Monographie: Ostracoden.
Berlin, R. Friedländer, 1894. Large 4to (33.4 x 27.2 cm). Title pages, viii, 404 pp.; 40 fine, large, double-sized lithographed plates (of which one in beautiful chromolithography and many tinted), with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
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Pallas, P. S.
Dierkundig mengelwerk, in het welke de nieuwe of nog duistere zoorten van dieren door naauwkeurige afbeeldingen, beschryvingen en verhandelingen opgehelderd worden. In het Latyn beschreeven door den heer P. S. Pallas ... vertaald en met aanmerkingen voorzien door P. Boddaert M.D. VI. Stukken. Met plaaten.
Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg en J. Van Schoonhoven, 1767-1770. 4to (26.6 x 21.0 cm) [board size 27.5 x 22.0 cm]. General title in red and black, dated 1770; viii, 195, [ii] pp.; ten fine, contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary polished half calf over speckled boards. Spine with triple gilt lines and grained tan morocco label with gilt title.
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Pennant, T.
British Zoology. Vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea.
London, Benjamin White., 1777. 8vo (20.5 x 12.9 cm). Engraved title page with molluscan vignette, xviii, 154 pp.; 93 finely engraved plates [numbered I-XCII, IX.A]. 20th-century buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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[Prévost d'Exiles, A. F.]
Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection des toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusq'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connus: ... Tome dix-septième. Histoire générale des voyages, depuis le commencement du XVme siècle, dix-septième partie. Livre septième. Vies des gouverneurs généraux, avec l'abregé de l'histoire des etablissemens Hollandois aux Indes Orientales [AND] Histoire naturelle des Indes Orientales.
La Haye [Den Haag, The Hague], Pierre de Hondt, 1763. 4to (25.1 x 20.4 cm). [ii], 266, 300, 48 pp.; 56 plates (of fish, etc.). Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Gilt title.
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Rathbun, M. J. and J. E. Benedict a.o. [B. W. Evermann (ed.)]
Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico. Second Part.
Washington, DC, United States Fish Commission, 1902. 4to (26.8 x 18.7 cm). viii, 431 pp., 72 plates (heliotypes, photographs, two fine chromolithographs of crabs), numerous text figures. Contemporary red pebbled half calf over red pebbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Red marbled endpapers, red marbled edges.
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Risso, [J.] A.
Histoire naturelle des crustacés des environs de Nice. Ornées de gravures.
Paris, Librairie Greque-Latine-Allemande, 1816. 8vo (21.1 x 12.6 cm). 176 pp., three folded engraved plates. Later green morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt-ornamented bands, gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Saussure, H. [L. F.] De
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle de Mexique, des Antilles et des États-Unis. Ire livraison. Mémoire sur divers crustacés nouveaux du Mexique et des Antilles.
Geneve, J. Kessmann, 1858-1861. 4to (29.0 x 22.2 cm). 82 pp., six lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers (protected by transparent paper).
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Schlegel, H. and G. F. Westerman (eds.)
Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. Uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra. Eerste Deel. [= Issues 1-6].
Amsterdam, M. Westerman & Zoon, 1848-1854. Large 4to/Folio mix (35.2 x 27.1 cm). Title page, 132 pp. [52, 80]; 39 lithographed plates, of which five double-sized, and 20 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary gilt-bordered half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five rectangular compartments with gilt and black embossed borders, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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Schmeil, O.
Deutschlands freilebende Süsswasser-Copepoden. I Teil: Cyclopidae, II Teil: Harpacticidae, III Teil: Centropagidae, [IV] Nachtrag zu den Familien der Cyclopiden und Centropagiden, zugleich ein Begleitwort zu der Bearbeitung der Süsswasser-Cyclopiden und -Centropagiden im "Thierreiche".
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1892, and Stuttgart, Erwin Nägele, 1893-1898. Four parts in two. 4to (30.0 x 23.0 cm). [2], 192, [1], 103, 188 pp. (text part); 30 (8, 8, 14) fine lithographed plates (some tinted or partly coloured). Matching contemporary pebbled half calf over green cloth boards; spines with four raised bands, gilt ornaments to spine ends and bands, two text labels with gilt letters.
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Schmidt, F.
Miscellanea Silurica I-III. I. Über die Russischen Silurischen Leperditien mit Hinzuziehung einiger Arten aus den Nachbarländern (Baltikum); II. Über einige neue Baltisch-Silurische Petrefacten; III. I. Nachtrag zur Monographie der Russischen Silurischen Leperditien [AND] II. Die Crustaceenfauna der Eurypterenschichten von Rootziküll auf Oesel.
St. Petersbourg, Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 1873-1883. Four papers in one. 4to. 167 pp. (26; 48; iv, 88, [i]); 14 lithographed plates (1; 4; 9 [numbered I-VII, IIIa and Va; some folded and tinted], a few text engravings. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Speckled edges.
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Scott, T. (et al.)
The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second series. Zoology. Volume VI. [Crustacea].
London, The Linnean Society of London, 1894-1897. Large 4to. [ii], 538, [i] pp.; 43 lithographed plates. Contemporary polished calf. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral borders and two (burgundy and black) labels with gilt title and gilt stippled borders. Boards with double -+gilt-lined and blind-tooled borders; inner dentelles, and marbled endpapers. Edges marbled.
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Scott, W. B. (ed.)
Princeton Expeditions to Patagonia 1896-1899. Palaeontology. Volume IV.
Princeton, NJ, The University, 1901-1906. Large, thick 4to (33.2 x 25.7 cm). 482 pp.; 65 plates. Burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Smith, A.
Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. Mammalia. Aves. Reptilia. Pisces. Invertebratae. [Complete].
London, Smith, Elder and Co., [1838]-1849. Five volumes in five. Large 4to (31.6 x 26.6 cm). Reptilia: (ii [index], 28 [appendix] pp., errata leaf; 78 plates (75 plates hand-coloured, plates 30, 42, and 48 plain as intended); Mammalia: vii pp. (including index); 52 plates (numbered I-XVII, XIX-XXXVI, XXXVIII-LIII, VIIIbis); 48 hand-coloured, four (8bis, 15, 21, 25, plain, as intended); plates 18 and 37 not published - see Mammalia index list); Pisces: [i] p. (index); 31 hand-coloured plates; Aves: [ii] pp.; 114 hand-coloured plates; Invertebratae: [ii], 75 pp.; four hand-coloured plates, making a total of 279 plates (272 hand-coloured) most by and after George H. Ford, and all with descriptive text on unnumbered leaves. Uniform publisher's green blind-stamped cloth with floral pattern on the boards and gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.
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Suckow, F. W. L.
Anatomisch-Physiologische Untersuchungen der Insekten und Krustenthiere. Ersten Bandes erstes Heft. [All published].
Heidelberg, Engelmann, 1818. 4to (27.5 x 22.1 cm). 90 pp.; 11 copper-engraved plates including one hand-coloured. Contemporary quarter grained calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on spine, green morocco label with gilt title on front board. Original printed wrapper pasted on front pastedown.
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Takeda, M. and T. Okutani
Crustaceans and Mollusks Trawled off Suriname and French Guyana.
Tokyo, Japanese Marine Fishery Resource Research Centre, 193. 4to (25.7 x 18.1 cm). 355 pp.; numerous full colour photographs and line drawings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title on front board and spine, in original transparent sleeve.
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Tollmann, A.
Das Neogen am Südwestrand des Leithagebirges zwischen Eisenstadt und Hornstein. Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Wien.
Wien, [not published], 1953. Small folio (29.8 x 21.0 cm). 226 pp.; 28 text figures (tipped in), three large folded maps (one hand-coloured), five folded tables and graphs. Black half cloth. Hand-written label on the spine.
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Valle, A. della
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel XX. Gammarini del Golfo di Napoli.
Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1893. In two volumes (text and atlas). Large 4to and folio (33.2 x 27.4 cm). xi, 948 pp.; 61, mostly double-sized or larger lithographed plates of which six in fine chromolithography, and several others tinted. Original printed wrappers.
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various authors
[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm). xxv, 684 pp.; 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured). Original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth.
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Various authors
[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections, made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882. [AND] Account on the zoological collections made during the Survey of the HMS Alert in the straits of Magellan and the Coasts of Patagonia.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm, and 23.0 x 15.8 cm). xxv, 684 pp.; 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured) [AND] London, The Zoological Society, 1881. 141 pp.; ten lithographed plates. The first title in original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth; the second in recent boards with printed paper label on the front board.
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Visscher, N. J. [A. Collaert]
Piscium vivae icones. Inventae ab Adriano Collardo et excusae a Nicolao Ioannis Visscher.
[Amsterdam, N. J. Visscher], 1634. Oblong folio (20.1 x 30.3 cm). Engraved title page or frontispiece with title in cartouche, and 19 finely engraved plates [together numbered (1)-20], each with a print-size of 12.5 x 19.0 cm. Bound without covers.
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Zoological Society of London
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Volume XVI.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., for the Society, [1901]-1903. Large 4to (31.7 x 25.0 cm). 427 pp.; 38 plates, of which several in fine chromolithography. Contemporary blue half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title.
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