Lakes
10 items found
Ehrenberg, C. G.
Zur erkenntniss der Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Zweiter Beitrag. Entwicklung, Lebensdauer und Structur der Magenthiere und Räderthiere oder sogenannten Infusorien, nebst einer physiologischen Characteristik beider Klassen und 412 Arten derselben. Vorgetragen in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin im Jahre 1831.
Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (F. Dümmler), 1832. Very large 4to (38.1 x 26.5 cm). Title page, 154 pp.; four engraved plates, of which two hand-coloured. Near contemporary marbled boards.
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Bonaparte, C. N.
Vues pittoresques de l'Amerique dessinés par la Comtesse Charlotte de Survilliers 1824. [Picturesque American Scenes by Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte].
[Brussels, Stapleaux et Jobard, 1824]. Oblong folio (23.8 x 30.3 cm). Lithographed pictorial title page, printed by Jobard after a drawing by Michel Stapleaux; 12 original - early - lithographs with script captions and signed Charlotte. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title.
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Lovassy, A.
Resultate der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees. Mit Unterstützung der hohen Kön. Ung. Ministerien für Ackerbau und für Cultus und Unterricht. Zweiter Band. Die Biologie des Balatonsees und seiner Umgebung. Zweiter Theil. Die Flora. II. Sektion. Die Pflanzengeographischen Verhältnisse der Balatonsee-Gegend. Anhang. Die trophischen Nymphaeen des Hévizsees bei Keszthely.
Wien, Ed. Hölzel, 1909. Large 4to (29.3 x 21.2 cm). 91 pp.; four plates of which three in chromolithography. Original printed wrappers.
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Humphreys, H. N.
Ocean and river gardens: a history of the marine and fresh-water aquaria, with the best methods for their establishment and preservation. With twenty coloured plates from life. Part I. Ocean gardens. Part II. River gardens. [Complete].
London, Sampson Low, Son, 1857. Two parts in one. Small 8vo (17.9 x 13.1 cm). Three title pages (general; and, with engraved vignette, to each part), 235 pp. [viii, 112; vii, 108, (iv)]; 20 hand-coloured engraved plates [12; 8]. Later gilt-bordered burgundy morocco over burgundy linen boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt-lined borders and two black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Marsigli, L. F. Comte de (Marsilli, L. Graave van)
Natuurkundige Beschryving der Zeeën.
's Gravenhage, De Compagnie, 1786. Folio (41.6 x 26.0 cm). Half-title, a nice hand-coloured engraved allegorical frontispiece, title page with woodcut vignette. [ii], xxvi, 216 pp.; seven mostly folded engravings, five hand-coloured engraved maps and profiles, and 40 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates (for a total of 52 plates and maps), woodcut endpieces and capitals. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with six raised bands, compartments with gilt floral vignettes and burgundy morocco label with gilt title.
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Toni, J. de [= G. de Toni]
Diagnoses algarum novarum. Post sylloges editionem descriptarum. I (Centuriae I-XI) [AND] II (Centuria I). [All published].
Brixia [Brescia], privately published by the author (and heirs?), 1937-1955. 12 parts in 12 (17.7 x 13.6 cm). 1200 pages. (Near) contemporary uniform brown cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the fresh-water univalve Mollusca of the United States. (In continuation of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's work, published under the above title). Turbidae. Physadae.
Philadelphia, PA, The Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1870. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). 238 pp; 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates [ Paludina 12-17; Limnea 16-18; Physa 6-9; Planorbis 5-7; Ancylus 2.] Later olive buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the fresh-water univalve Mollusca of the United States. (In continuation of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's work, published under the above title). Turbidae. Physadae.
Philadelphia, PA, The Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences1870. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). 238 pp; 17 lithographed plates in double suite: hand coloured, and tinted (for a total of 34 plates) [ Paludina 12-17; Limnea 16-18; Physa 6-9; Planorbis 5-7; Ancylus 2.] Later blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges. Original wrappers bound in.
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