13 items found

An unknown plate containing a possibly valid name and illustration of an undescribed frog

[Anonymous]

Xenopus rothschildi [lithographed plate of an undescribed frog]

€250.00

'His most elaborate herpetological work' (Adler)

Barboza du Bocage, J. V.

Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies.

Lisbonne, Imprimerie Nationale, 1895. Very large 8vo (27.0 x 17.6 cm). xx, 203 pp.; 20 plates (numbered I-XIX, X.A). Contemporary rich gilt Iberian-style quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments rich gilt-patterned or with gilt fleur de lis vignette, and with gilt title. Patterned endpapers.

€950.00

Of taxonomical importance

Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A.

Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs. I. Mantellinae (Ranidae).

€35.00

Sicut plurima rerum naturalium prosunt homini, ita alia in usum aliorum condita sunt

Bose, C. and [J.] H. Menz

Generatio paradoxos in Rana. Conspicua et. sub praesidio Friderici. Menzii disputata a Casparo. Bosio. Die IV. Mart. MDCCXXIV.

€225.00

A seldom-seen work on tropical 'ranalogy'

Boulenger, G. A.

A monograph of the South Asian, Papuan, Melanesian and Australian frogs of the genus Rana.

€180.00

A herpetological paper that may have contributed to a suicide.

Boulenger, G. A.

Remarks on the midwife toad ( Alytes obstetricans), with reference to Dr. P. Kammerer's publications. [AND] On a second species of the batrachian genus Amphodus.

€200.00

A fine monograph on the amphibians of Southeast Asia

Bourret, R. [L.]

Les batraciens de l'Indochine.

€1,200.00

Unusual views of the elephant, horses, frog and man by one of the founders of comparative anatomy

Camper, P.

Planches pour les oeuvres de P. Camper, qui ont pour objet l'histoire naturelle, le physiologie et l'anatomie comparée.

€600.00

Daudin's best-illustrated work - in the very rare quarto version

Daudin, F. [M.]

Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds.

Paris, Levrault, An XI (1802). 4to (28.7 x 22.2 cm). 108 pp.; 38 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Early 19th-century polished, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt vignettes, and with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.

€9,500.00

A very early work on a South American frog