Invertebrates (others)
382 items found
Cantraine, F.
Malacologie Méditerranéenne et littorale, ou description des mollusques qui vivent dans la Méditerranée ou sur le continent de l'Italie, ainsi que des coquilles qui se trouvent dans les terrains tertiaires Italiens, avec des observations sur leur anatomie, leurs moeurs, leur analogie et leur gisement. Ouvrage servant de faune malacologique Italienne et de complément a la Conchiologia fossile subapennica de Brocchi.
Bruxelles, M. Hayez, 1840. Large 4to (27.8 x 21.1 cm). 173 pp.; 12 engraved plates of which six finely hand-coloured (double suite). Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title.
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Carus, J. V.
Icones zootomicae. Mit Originalbeiträgen der Herrn G. J. Allman, C. Gegenbauer, Th. H. Huxley, Aln. Kölliker, H. Müller, M. S. Schultze, C. Th. E. von Siebold und F. Stein. Erste Hälfte oder Tafel I-XXIII: Die wirbellose Thiere. [All published]
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1857. Folio (34.1 x 44.0 cm). [ii], iv pp., 23 finely engraved plates, partly in chromolithography with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half cloth over plain boards. Original paper label with script title on the spine.
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Chamisso, A. de and C. G. Eysenhardt
De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione terrae auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff, duce Ottone de Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta observatis. Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. Cum tabulis XI aeneis pictis.
Berlin, [F. Dümmler], 1821. 4to (26.1 x 20.5 cm). Title page, 30 pp. [numbered: (345)-374]; finely engraved and ten originally hand-coloured plates [numbered XXIV-XXXIII]. 20th century blue buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Claparède, [R.] É.
Les annélides chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. I, II, Supplément. [Complete].
Genève, Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 1868-1870. Three parts in three. Large 4to (29.6 x 22.7 cm). 685 pp. [272; 225; 188]; 45 chromolithographed and partly hand-coloured plates [16; 17-31; 14]. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossils of the Tertiary formations of the United States. Illustrated by figures, drawn from nature.
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1838. 8vo (21.1 x 15.6 cm). viii, 80, [vi] pp; 51 plates [numbered 1-32, 34-50, followed by two without number] (Plate 45 pencilled). Later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossils of the Tertiary formations of the United States. Illustrated by figures, drawn from nature. [Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the United States 1-2; Fossils of the Miocene formation of the United States 3-[4].]
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1838-1861. Four parts in one. 8vo (23.1 x 14.2 cm). xvi, 89 pp; 52 plates (numbered 1-32, 34-49 [Plates 3, 7, 11, and 19 in two widely different states; 24-25, 46-47 without number; 48 wrongly numbered 47, 33 not used]). 20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original brown, printed wrappers bound in.
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Constantineanu, M. I.
Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne. Insecta volumul IX Fascicula 4. Familia Ichneumonidae. Subfamiliile Ichneumoninae. Tribui Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae. [AND] Fascicula 5. Familia Ichneumonidae. Subfamiliile Phaeogeninae si Alomyinae.
Bucuresti, Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, 1959-1965. Two volumes in two (thick) 8vo. 1753 pp. (1248; 503, [ii]); 1005 (584; 421) (groups of) text figures. Publisher's uniform black, blindstamped cloth with silver titles on front boards and spines, and black wrappers with title in white on front wrappers and spine covers.
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Costa, A.
Cimicum Regni Neapolitani Centuriae. Centuria [prima], Centuria secunda, Centuria tertia et quartae fragmentum. Cum tabulis I - VIII. [AND] Additamenta ad Centurias Cimicum Regni Neapolitani. [Complete].
Napoli, for the author, 1838-1860. Five parts in three, 4to (ca. 25 x 20 cm). [iv], 266 pp. [74, 41, 41, 71, 39]; eleven finely engraved plates of which six originally hand-coloured, and five in stipple-engraved colour printing. Bound in three, rather similar contemporary bindings, viz. pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Speckled edges; and uniform green quarter paper over marbled boards with script titles.
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Costa, E. Mendes da
Elements of conchology: or, an introduction to the knowledge of shells. With seven plates containing figures of every genus of shells.
London, Benjamin White, 1776. 8vo (21.9 x 13.5 cm). viii, iii-vi, 319 pp.; seven large, folded, finely hand-coloured engraved plates, two large, folded charts. 20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges.
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Costa, E. Mendes da
Elements of conchology: or, an introduction to the knowledge of shells. With seven plates containing figures of every genus of shells.
London, Benjamin White, 1776. 8vo (21.4 x 13.0 cm). viii, iii-vi, 319, [i] pp.; seven large, folded, engraved plates in fine, contemporary hand-colouring; two large, folded charts. Contemporary full speckled calf. Boards with gilt vignette and monogram; spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt stars, vignettes; Greek key bands at head and foot, and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Costa, E. Mendes da
Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French.
London, for the Author, 1778. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.3 cm). xii, 254, viii pp. 17 finely engraved plates in excellent original hand-colouring. 19th-century French red half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral vignette and title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Cox, J. C.
A monograph of the Australian land shells. Illustrated by XVIII plates.
Sydney, William Maddock, 1868. 8vo (23.3 x 15.8 cm). v, 111 pp.; 20 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, tissue-guarded, and with explanatory text leaves. Later burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Cuvier, G. [L. C. F. D.] and A. Brongniart
Description géologique des environs de Paris, par MM. G. Cuvier et Alex. Brongniart. Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on a inséré la descrition d'un grand nombre de lieux de l'Allemagne, de la Suisse, de l'Italie, etc., qui présentent des terrains analogues a ceux du Bassin de Paris. Avec 2 cartes et 16 planches représentant les coupes de ces terrains et beaucoup des coquilles fossiles qu'ils renferment, et une table alphabétique de tous les lieux décrits ou seulement cités.
Paris, G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, 1822. 4to (29.3 x 22.2 cm). ix, 428 pp.; one brightly hand-coloured geological map of the surroundings of Paris, and 17 lithographed plates, including one hand-coloured geological map of the basins of London and Paris. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt, and with two morocco labels (red and blue) with gilt title.
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Davidson, T.
A monograph of British Cretaceous Brachiopoda. [AND] M. R. Sahni, the Terebratulidae of the British Chalk. [AND] N. E. Pettitt, The Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk.
London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1854-1953. 4to (27.0 x 20.6 cm). 205 pp., 21 [12, 9] lithographed plates; 62 pp.; ten plates; 58 pp., three plates. Later half calf, spine with five raised, gilt bordered bands, and gilt titles on spine. Edges speckled red.
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Desor, [P. J.] E. and [C. L.] P. de Loriol [Le Fort]
Échinologie Helvétique. Description des oursins fossiles de la Suisse. Echinides de la période Jurassique.
Wiesbade[n], C. W. Kreidel; Paris, C. Reinwald, 1868-1872. Two parts (text and atlas) in two. Folio and 4to. Texte (4to, 29.5 x 24.1 cm) title page, xi, half-title to "première partie" (= all published), 442 pp.; Atlas (folio, 29.6 x 24.1 cm): title page, 61 lithographed plates numbered I-LXI. Text part in early 20th-century half morocco over marbled boards; spine with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and title; marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. Atlas in somewhat later burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges.
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Deyrolle, É. (ed.)
Le Naturaliste. Journal des échanges et des nouvelles. Volume I-III [nos. 1-66].
Paris, Émile Deyrolle, 1879-1881. Three volumes in one. Folio (31.5 x 23.8 cm). 532 pp. Numerous illustrations. Contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title.
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Dezallier d'Argenville, A. J. D.
l'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre; ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode Latine & Françoise de les diviser: augmenté de la zoomorphose, ou representation des animaux a coquilles, avec leurs explications. Nouvelle édition. Enrichie de figures dessinées d'après nature.
Paris, De Bure, 1757. 4to (28.5 x 22.8 cm). Title in red and black, with woodcut vignette, xxii, 394 pp.; half-title, second title in red and black, 84, cvii pp.; engraved frontispiece (plate 1) and another 40 [2-29, 1-3, 1-9] engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt-lined edges. Spine with five raised bands, compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and brown morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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[Dezallier d'Argenville, A. J. D.]
l'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, l'Oryctologie, qui traite des terres, des pierres, des métaux, des minéraux, et autres fossiles. Ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode Latine & Françoise de les diviser, & une notice critique des principaux ouvrages qui ont paru sur ces matières.
Paris, De Bure, 1755. 4to (28.6 x 21.1 cm). Engraved frontispiece, [6], xvi, 560 [1] pp.; 26 engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, richly floral gilt spine with five raised bands and gilt lettered red morocco label. Marbled endpapers, edged red.
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Dezallier d'Argenville, [A. J. D.] [Favanne de Montcervelle, (J.) de and (G.) de Favanne de Montcervelle]
La conchyliologie, ou histoire naturelle des coquilles de mer, d'eau douce, terrestres et fossiles; avec un traité de la zoomorphose, ou repésentation des animaux qui les habitent: ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode de les diviser. Par M. Desallier d'Argenville... Ouvrage considérablement augmenté de planches en taille-douce, qui représentent les figures de plus de deux milles testacées, dessinées d`après nature, accompagnées de descriptions étendues & de remarques sur chaque famille, avec plusieurs tables systématiques & des nomenclatures étrangeres. Troisième édition, dédiée au roi, par MM. De Favanne de Montcervelle pere & fils. Atlas.
Paris, De Bure, 1780. Folio (30.4 x 22.7 cm). Engraved frontispiece; 80 engraved plates. 19th-century dark green half morocco over dark green pebbled boards. Spine with four gilt-lined, raised bands; compartments with embossed borders and gilt title. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
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Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)
Giant flea [from the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire des sciences, plate 85].
[Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1768]. Oblong folio (39.2 x 45.9 cm). Broadsheet plate with a fine, large engraving with fine, contemporary hand-colouring, gilt border and printed caption.
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Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)
Giant louse [from the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire des Sciences, plate 84].
[Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1768]. Oblong folio (39.7 x 67.6 cm). Broadsheet plate with a fine, large engraving with fine, contemporary hand-colouring, gilt border and printed caption.
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Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)
Insects [from the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire des sciences, plates 75-83].
[Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1768]. Folio (39.2 x 25.1 cm, or wider). Nine plates with large engravings, each with fine, contemporary hand-colouring, gilt border and printed caption.
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Dillwyn, L. W.
A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells; arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. In two volumes. [Complete].
London, John and Arthur Arch, 1817. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.3 x 14.2 cm). Two title pages, half-title. 1135 pp. (xii, 1-580; 580-1092, [xxix], [ii]). Original paper-covered boards with printed label on the spines.
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Dognin, P.
Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud. I-XXV. [Complete].
Rennes, Oberthur, 1910-1924. 25 parts in one. 8vo (23.7 x 15.5 cm). 25 uniform title pages; 795 pp. [ I (1910): 48; II (1911): 56; III (1911): 66; IV (1911): 32; V (1912): 12; VI (1912): 51; VII (1914): 32; VIII (1914): 101; IX (1916): 36; X (1916): 25; XI (1916): 17; XII (1916): 34; XIII (1917): 19; XIV (1918): 27; XV (1919): 10; XVI (1919): 7; XVII (1919): 12; XVIII (1920): 13; XIX (1921): 19; XX (1922): 30; XXI (1923): 38; XXII (1923): 25; XXIII (1923): 34; XXIV 1923): 17; XXV (1924): 34]. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised ands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. All original uniform printed front wrappers bound in.
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Doria, G. and R. Gestro (eds.)
Esplorazione del Giuba e dei suoi affluenti compiuta dal cap. V. Bottego durante gli anni 1892-93 sotto gli auspicii del Società Geografica Italiana. - Resultati zoologici.
Genova, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1895. 8vo (25.5 x 17.0 cm). xviii, 558 pp.; five lithographed plates; one very large, folded map of the Horn of Africa. Original printed wrappers.
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Draparnaud, J. P. R. and A. L. G. Michaud
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume de J. P. R. Draparnaud. Avec XIII planches. [AND] Complément de l'histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France, de J. P. R. Draparnaud. Avec planches.
Paris, Louis Colas, an 13 [1805]; Verdun, Lippmann, 1831. Two works in one. 4to (28.8 x 23.0 cm). Half-titles and titles; viii, 164; xvi, 116, 12 pp.; 16 [13, 3] engraved plates. Brown buckram with gilt titles on the spine.
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Duméril, A. M. C.
Considérations générales sur la classe des insectes. Ouvrage orné de soixante planches en taille-douce reprentant plus de trois cent cinquante genres d'insectes.
Paris, F. G. Levrault, 1823. 8vo (23.5 x 14.5 cm). xii, 272 pp.; 60 engraved plates. Publisher's printed boards. In transparent sleeve.
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Dunker, G.
Index molluscorum, quae in itinere ad Guineam inferiorum collegit Georgius Tams Med. Dr. Accedunt novarum specierum diagnoses, Cirripedia nonnulla et X. tabulae iconum.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1853. 4to (27.2 x 21.2 cm). vi, 74 pp.; ten finely hand-coloured lithographed plates (plate IV present twice, not counted twice). Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original rear wrapper, with a list of related works published by Theodor Fischer, bound in.
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Dunker, G. [= W. (B. R. H.)]
Index molluscorum maris japonici. Conscriptus et tabulis iconum xvi illustratus.
Casselis Cattorum [Kassel], Theodor Fischer, 1882. 4to (27.3 x 22.1 cm). vii, 301 pp.; 16 exquise lithographed plates of which 13 superbly hand-coloured. Near contemporary grained blue half cloth over grained burgundy cloth. Script title on the spine.
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Dunker, G. [= W. (B. R. H.)]
Mollusca Japonica descripta et tabulis tribus iconum illustrata.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1861. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.5 cm) [Board size 32.5 x 26.0 cm] 36 pp.; three finely hand-coloured lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed boards.
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Dunker, W. [B. R. H.]
Novitates conchologicae. Abbildung und Beschreibung neuer Conchylien. II. Abtheilung: Meeres-Conchylien.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1858-1878. 4to (29.1 x 22.0 cm). [i], 144 pp.; 45 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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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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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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Eilenburg, C. H.
Kurzer Entwurf der königlichen Naturalienkammer zu Dresden.
Dresden and Leipzig, Walther, 1755. Folio (27.8 x 20.9 cm). Title page with engraved armorial vignette; 102 pp.; two very large, multi-folded engraved plans; several engraved pictorial headpieces and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title in gilt, ornamental border; boards with ruled borders. Colour-stamped floral endpapers. Edges marbled blue.
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Eimer, G. H. T.
Die Artbildung und Verwandtschaft bei den Schmetterlingen. Eine systematische Darstellung der Abänderungen, Abarten und Arten der Segelfalter-ähnlichen Formen der Gattung Papilio. [AND] Die Artbildung und Verwandtschaft bei den Schmetterlingen. II. Theil. Eine systematische Darstellung der Abänderungen, Abarten und Arten der Schwalbenschwanz-ähnlichen Formen der Gattung Papilio. Text.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1889-1895. Two Parts in one. 8vo (24.3 x 16.7 cm). Two title pages, 416 pp. [xii, 243; viii, 153]. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and two (red and green) labels with gilt title. Red edges.
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Eisig, H.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte herausgegeben von de zoologischen Station zu Neapel. XVI. Monographie: Die Capitelliden. Monographie der Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte, nebst Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Anatomie und Physiologie.
Berlin, R. Friedländer, 1887. In two parts (text and atlas). 4to (33.5 x 27.1 cm). Title pages (to the text and atlas), xxviii, 907 pp.; 37 fine, lithographed plates (mostly larger, folded; several in chromolithography), with explanatory text leaves. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Eisig, H.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Ichthyotomus sanguinarius. Eine auf Aalen schmarotzende Annelide.
Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1906. Large 4to (33.3 x 27.2 cm). 300 pp.; 34 text engravings, ten lithographed plates, of which one (showing an eel as host species and living animals in situ) in full colour, and some others tinted. Original wrappers with printed text and wood engraving of the Institute' s building in Naples.
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Elles, G. L. and E. M. R. Wood
A Monograph of British Graptolites. [AND] A Synoptic Supplement to "A monograph of British Graptolites by Miss G. L. Elles and Miss E. M. R. Wood".
London, Palaeontographical Society, 1901-1918, 1971. In three volumes. Thick 8vo (27.1 x 21.3 cm). Text volume: Title page, 719 pp. ([e]-m, clxxi, 539); 359 text illustrations; Atlas volume: Title page, 52 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves; Supplement: Title page, 130 pp. Uniform red buckram with black title on the spines.
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Ellis, B. F. and A. R. Messina
Catalogue of Index of Foraminifera. 1-3. [Complete].
New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, 1965-1967. Three volumes in three. Thick, small folio (26.9 x 21.0 cm). Uniform red pebbled cloth binders with silver title on the spines. Marbled endpapers.
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Engramelle, M. and J. Ernst
Papillons d'Europe, peints d'apres nature par M. Ernst gravés et coloriés sous sa direction. [Unpublished supplement plates].
Paris, Unpublished (printed and coloured 1792-1793). 4to (30.5 x 24.0 cm). Being: Sup. Cl. Ire (supplement, classe I), beautifully hand-coloured engraving 1-5, 7-9 with 84 figures. numbered n, m: 172 a-d, f-i bis; 173e; 174 a-d bis; 178 i, k-l; 186 i, k (2x), l; 187 a-d bis and gg, hh, ii, kk; 194 i; 195 a-f bis; 201 k; 207 h; 208 c-f; 215 d; 217 h; 218 h-i; 228 c-e; 237 a-b bis; 242 a-d bis; 256 d; 245 i, k; 246 m; 258 a-c bis; 261 g; 262 a-d bis; 254 c-e; 257 bis; 263 a-b bis; 276 h-i; 278 a-c bis; 280 a-c bis; all engraved by A. Schmidt and painted by M. Hochecker. In new marbled portfolio.
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