Western Atlantic
8 items found
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.
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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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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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Tryon, G. W.
American Marine Conchology: or, Descriptions of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from Maine to Florida.
Philadelphia, PA, The Author, 1873. 8vo (22.5 x 14.9 cm). 32 pp. (first seven with Roman page numbers); eight finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates by the author. Original printed wrappers.
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Tuomey, M. and F. S. Holmes
Pleiocene fossils of South-Carolina: containing descriptions and figures of the Polyparia, Echinodermata and Mollusca.
Charleston, SC, Russell & Jones, [1855-] 1857. Large 4to/Folio (34.5 x 26.5 cm). Title page, 168 [xvi, 152] pp.; 30 finely lithographed and tinted plates. 19th-century full linen. Spine with two black morocco labels with gilt title.
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