Herpetology
150 items found
Jäger, G. [E.]
Über eine neue Species von Ichthyosauren ( Ichthyosaurus longirostris Owen & Jäger), nebst Bemerkungen über die übrigen in de Liasformation Würtembergs aufgefundenen Reptilien.
Breslau und Bonn, Eduard Weber, 1855. Folio (29.6 x 22.5 cm). Title page, 30 pp. (including errata page); one large, folded, lithographed plate. Contemporary blue pebbled cloth over marbled boards.
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Gravenhorst, J. L. C. [C.]
Über die im zoologischen Museum der Universität Breslau befindlichen Wirtelschleichen (Pseudosaura), Krüppelfüssler (Brachypoda), und einige andere, denselben verwandte Reptilien aus den Zünften der Schleigen und Dickzüngler.
Breslau, Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae, 1847. 4to (29.6 x 22.6 cm). Title page, 102 pp.; 19 engraved plates. Later blind green cloth boards, printed paper label on the spine.
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Weber, M. C. W. (ed.)
Zoologische Ergebnisse einer reise in Niederlandisch Ost-Indien herausgegeben von Dr. Max Weber. Professor der Zoologie in Amsterdam. Erster Band [AND] Zweiter Band.
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1890-1892. Large 8vo (28.0 x 19.0 cm). Two volumes in three. 1031 pp. (460; 571, [ii]); 55 plates of which several chromolithographed or tinted [25; 30]. Original printed wrappers.
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Humboldt, A. [F. H.] von and A. Bonpland
Verzameling van waarneemingen omtrent de dierkunde en de vergelijkende ontleedkunde; gedaan in den Atlantischen Oceäan, het binnenste van het nieuwe-vasteland, en de Zuidzee, geduurende de jaaren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 en 1803. Uit het Fransch. Met plaaten.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1805. 4to (28.3 x 22.5 cm). viii [recte vi], 44 pp.; seven engraved plates (two larger, folded; three partially hand-coloured). Slightly later marbled boards, blind cloth spine.
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Calmette, [L. C.] A.
Venoms. Venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics. Translated by Ernest E. Austen, F.Z.S.
New York, NY, William Wood, 1908. Large 8vo (22.4 x 17.3 cm). Title page, xvi, 403 pp.; 125 fine text illustrations. Original burgundy buckram. Spine with gilt bands and title; front board with gilt title. Bevelled edges.
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Edinger, L.
Untersuchungen über die vergleichende Anatomie des Gehirnes. 3. Neue studien über das Vorderhirn der Reptilien. Mit IV Tafeln und XIV Textfiguren.
Frankfurt am Main, Moritz Diesterweg, 1896. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.1 cm). Two title pages, 75 pp.; 14 text engravings, four fine, chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Wilhelm, G. T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Die Amphibien.
Wien, the "Herausgeber", 1818. 8vo (18.1 x 11.1 cm). Frontispiece, [xvi], 328 pp.; 40 hand-coloured plates with 70 images. Contemporary tree-calf resembling paper covered boards. Spine with gilt lines, vignette, and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges dyed yellow.
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Wilhelm, G. T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Amphibien. Neue Ausgabe.
Augsburg, J. A. Schloßer, 1834. Two parts in two. Small 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). Title page, 168 pp.; 40 engraved and finely hand-coloured plates. Contemporary near uniform marbled paper boards. Spines with gilt lines and gilt title on leather label, black on text volume, blue on plate volume.
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Meyer, C. E. H. von
Ueber den Nager von Waltsch in Böhmen [AND] Physichthys Höninghausi aus dem Uebergangkalke der Eifel [AND] Schildkröte und Vogel aus dem Fischschiefer von Glarus [AND] Helochelys Danubia, aus dem Grünsande von Kelheim in Bayern [AND] Trachyteuthis ensiformisaus dem lithographischen Schiefer in Bayern.
Cassel [Kassel], Palaeontographica, 1855. Six papers in one. 4to (31.0 x 23.2 cm). 35 [5; 4; 12; 10; 4] pp.; six engraved plates [1; 1; 2 (one shared); 2 (one shared); 1], the two turtle and one cephalopod plate double-sized. Contemporary wrappers with the title added in script.
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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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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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Pritchard P. C. H. and Trebbau P.
The Turtles of Venezuela. Color paintings by Giorgio Voltolina.
[Lawrence, KN], Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1984. Large 4to (27.3 x 21.0 cm). Two volumes (text, and plates). viii, 401 pp.; 47 full colour plates, 16 distribution maps. Uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title. In original burgundy cloth slipcase (28.9 x 22.4 x 6.0 cm). Top edge of the text volume gilt.
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McDowell, S. B. and C. M. Bogert
The systematic position of Lanthanotus and the affinities of the anguinomorphan lizards.
New York, NY, The American Museum of Natural History, 1954. Large 8vo (27.0 x 19.8 cm). 142 pp.; 42 (groups of) fine text figures, 16 b/w plates, one folded chart. Original printed wrappers.
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Riedel, G. F. and F. Kirschner
Tabulae regni animalis, omnes VI classes animalium comprehendentes. Tabula Regni animalis. Tabula V classis IV Amphibia Reptilia.
Augsburg, Kaiserlich Franzische Akademische Handlung [1786]. Oblong folio (38.5 x 55 cm). Eight, uncut, copper engravings. All finely, and accurately hand-coloured. Loose, as issued, housed in a modern portfolio for protection.
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Bonnaterre, [P. J.]
Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature, dédié et présenté a M. Necker, Ministre d'État, & Directeur Général des Finances. Erpétologie, ophiologie.
Paris, Panckoucke, 1789-1790. Large 4to (28.7 x 22.3 cm). Title page, xxviii, 70, [i] pp.; 69 engraved plates, as follows: 1-7 [amphibians], 1-6 [turtles], 1-12, 6(2) [reptiles]; xliv, 76 pp., 43 (A, 1-42) [snakes]; two title pages; xliv, 76 pp.; 43 plates (A, 1-42).
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Strauch, A. [A.]
Synopsis der Viperiden, nebst Bemerkungen über die geographische Verbreitung dieser Giftschlangen-Familie.
St.-Petersbourg, Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1869. Folio (30.9 x 23.9 cm). Title page, 144 pp.; two finely engraved plates. Near-contemporary burgundy half buckram over reptile-skin boards. Black leather label with gilt title on the spine.
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Deraniyagala, P. E. P.
Some of Linné's reptiles and a mammal from Ceylon and elsewhere that are in Sweden. [AND] Some little-known characters of the two subspecies of Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz).
Colombo, The National Museums of Ceylon, 1961. 4to (27.9 x 21.3 cm). 8 [1, 7] pp.; two plates, three (groups of) text figures. Disbound.
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Krefft, [J. L.] G.
Snakes of Australia. Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species.
Sydney, T. Richards, 1869. 4to (26.3 x 20.3 cm). xxv, 100 pp.; 12 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, and several text illustrations. Early 20th century, beautiful, full brown morocco binding. Spine with five raised, gilded bands; compartments rich gilt with floral corner pieces and arabesque vignettes. Boards with gilt-lined panels, gilt-ornamented edges, and gilt-rolled floral inner dentelles. Marbled pastedowns.
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Fowler, H. W. [AND] V. [F. M.] Fitzsimons
Scientific Results of the Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition, March to September 1930. The Freshwater fishes. [AND] Reptilia and Amphibia.
Cambridge, The University Press, 1935. Two papers in one 8vo (25.0 x 16.1 cm). 147 [44; 103] pp.; 6 [4, 2] plates; 48 [18; 30] text figures. Original pictorial wrappers.
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Tate, R. (ed.)
Scientific results of the Elder Exploring Expedition. II. [AND] III (last).
Adelaide, W. C. Rigby (for the Royal Society of South Australia), 1893-1896. Two volumes (of three) in two. 8vo (21.3 x 14.0 cm). 317 pp. [numbered 69-386]; 38 plates (numbered II-XXXIX), of which seven in chromolithography, and three larger, folded. Very large, partly coloured folded map (106.0 x 60.5 cm). Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Reinach, A. von
Schildkrötenreste im Maizer Tertiärbecken und benachbarten, ungefähr gleichalterigen Ablagerungen. Mit XXXXIV Tafeln.
Frankfurt am Main, Moritz Diesterweg, 1900. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.1 cm). Title page, 135 pp., 44, mostly tinted, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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[Various herpetologists]
Salamandra. Zeitschrift für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde. Volumes 11-33.
Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, 1975-1997. In 63 issues. 8vo (24.0 x 17.0 cm). 613 [284; 329] pp. Numerous illustrations (many in full colour). Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Tidswell, F.
Researches on Australian Venoms. Snake-bite, snake-venom and antivenine. The poison of the platypus. The poison of the red-spotted spider.
Sydney, Department of Public Health, New South Wales, 1906. 8vo (21.1 x 13.8 cm). vii, 79 pp.; several tables. Later black, patterned tape over contemporary black, pebbled cloth.
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Willis, B. (ed.)
Research in China. In three volumes and atlas. 1(1). Descriptive topography and geology; 1(2). Petrography and zoology; 2. Systematic geology; 3. The Cambrian faunas of China. A report on Ordovician fossils collected in eastern Asia in 1903-04. A report on Upper Paleozoic fossils collected in China 1903-04; [4.] Geographical and geological maps. [Complete].
Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1907-1913. In five parts (four text and plate volumes, one atlas). 4to (29.8 x 24.0 cm). Text; 101 plates, including six chromolithographs of birds, and geological maps; folio atlas (52.7 x 45.0 cm) with 42 mostly coloured geological and topographical maps (some with explanatory text or figures). Original printed wrappers.
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Gravenhorst, J. L. C. [C.]
Reptilia Musei zoologici Vratislaviensis. Recensita et descripta. Fasciculus primus. Continens Chelonios et Batrachia. [OR] Deliciae Musei zoologici Vratislaviensis. Fasciculus primus. Continens Chelonios et Batrachia.
Lipsiae [Leipzig], Leopold Voss, 1829. Folio (40.0 x 25.1 cm). Half title, double title page, 106 pp. including dedication page and second half title; 17 finely engraved plates of which 13 delicately hand-coloured. Contemporary style quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with intricate gilt-rolled bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed label mounted before half title.
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Nikolski, A. M. [Nikolsky, Nikolskii]
Presmykaiushchisi i zemnovodnyia Kavkaza (Herpetologia caucasica).
Tiflis [Tbilisi], Tipografiia kantseliarii Namiestrika E.I.V. na Kavkazie, 1913. 8vo (23.1 x 16.0 cm). 272 pp.; four (groups of) text figures, three lithographed plates of which one in chromolithography. Near contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards.
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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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Pavlovsky, E. N.
Papers on Experimental Zoology and Toxic Animals.
Moskva, Akademii NAUK SSSR, 1963. Large 8vo (26.0 x 17.1 cm). 208 pp.; numerous text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth. Front board blind-stamped, and with gilt title; spine with gilt title. Printed errata slip bound in.
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Mertens, R.
[Original manuscript on the variability of the striped kukri snake, Oligodon octolineatus (Schneider)].
[Frankfurt am Main, 1969]. Handwritten in ink on rectos of 23 uniform, loose, ruled leaves (20.8 x 14.8 cm), a photocopy of a single leaf of G. A. Boulenger's Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, volume II (1894) with a few annotations by Mertens; and another 14 leaves of several sizes, a few with printed text.
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Kofod, B. P.
Om slanger i almindelighed og om de forgivtige Slanger, bibelen berører, tilligemed nogle antiqvariske tilloeg.
Kjøbenhavn, Boas & Brünnich, 1799. 8vo (17.3 x 10.5 cm). Title page, [vi], 294, [ii] pp.; one large, folded, engraved plate. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine with gilt bands and vignettes, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Lortet L. [C. É.]
Observations sur les tortues terrestres et paladines du bassin de la Méditerranée.
Lyon, Henri Georg [for the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Lyon], 1886. Large 4to (37.4 x 28.0 cm). Half-title, title page, 26 pp.; eight fine lithographed plates, including three in chromolithography, finished by hand. Original printed wrappers with title on front wrapper and spine.
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