Invertebrates (others)
382 items found
Sauvage, [F.] C. and [N.] A. Buvignier
Statistique minéralogique et géologique du département des Ardennes.
Mézières, Trecourt, 1842. 8vo (21.0 x 13.0 cm). xlv, 554 pp.; five lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with blind-stamped and gilt ornamental borders. Marbled endpapers.
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Schaeffer, J. C.
Die Blumenpolypen der süßen Wasser beschrieben und mit den Blumenpolypen der salzigen Wasser verglichen.
Regensburg, Emanuel Adam Weiss, 1755. 8vo (22.7 x 18.7 cm). Title page, [iv], 54 pp.; three originally hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers.
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Schiödte, J. S. [Schiødte]
Genera og species af Danmarks Eleutherata at tjene som fauna for denne orden og som indledning til dens anatomie og historie. Förste Bind. Med fem og tyve kobbertavler. [All published].
Kjöbenhavn, H. C. Klein [Paa kongelig bekostning], 1841. Large, thick 8vo (25.1 x 17.0 cm). xii, 613, xxii pp.; 25 engraved plates on 24 leaves. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with blind embossed and gilt bands; gilt title.
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Schiødte, J. C. [Schiödte]
Fortegnelse over de i Danmark levende Coleopter. [List of Coleoptera living in Denmark].
København (Copenhagen), C. A. Reitzel, [1864-1872]. In four volumes. 8vo (22.0 x 14.5 cm). 453 pp.; one tissue-guarded lithographed plate. Uniform polished half calf over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Yellow endpapers, subtly marbled edges.
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Schlegel, H. and G. F. Westerman (eds.)
Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. Uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra. Eerste Deel. [= Issues 1-6].
Amsterdam, M. Westerman & Zoon, 1848-1854. Large 4to/Folio mix (35.2 x 27.1 cm). Title page, 132 pp. [52, 80]; 39 lithographed plates, of which five double-sized, and 20 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary gilt-bordered half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five rectangular compartments with gilt and black embossed borders, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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Schmeil, O.
Deutschlands freilebende Süsswasser-Copepoden. I Teil: Cyclopidae, II Teil: Harpacticidae, III Teil: Centropagidae, [IV] Nachtrag zu den Familien der Cyclopiden und Centropagiden, zugleich ein Begleitwort zu der Bearbeitung der Süsswasser-Cyclopiden und -Centropagiden im "Thierreiche".
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1892, and Stuttgart, Erwin Nägele, 1893-1898. Four parts in two. 4to (30.0 x 23.0 cm). [2], 192, [1], 103, 188 pp. (text part); 30 (8, 8, 14) fine lithographed plates (some tinted or partly coloured). Matching contemporary pebbled half calf over green cloth boards; spines with four raised bands, gilt ornaments to spine ends and bands, two text labels with gilt letters.
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Schmidt, F.
Miscellanea Silurica I-III. I. Über die Russischen Silurischen Leperditien mit Hinzuziehung einiger Arten aus den Nachbarländern (Baltikum); II. Über einige neue Baltisch-Silurische Petrefacten; III. I. Nachtrag zur Monographie der Russischen Silurischen Leperditien [AND] II. Die Crustaceenfauna der Eurypterenschichten von Rootziküll auf Oesel.
St. Petersbourg, Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 1873-1883. Four papers in one. 4to. 167 pp. (26; 48; iv, 88, [i]); 14 lithographed plates (1; 4; 9 [numbered I-VII, IIIa and Va; some folded and tinted], a few text engravings. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Speckled edges.
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Schmidt, F. C.
Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung, Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und Gegenstände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme, welchen ein Verzeichniß der am meisten bekannten Conchylien angehängt ist, wie solche nach dem Lamarkischen System geordnet werden können.
Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1818. Small folio (27.2 x 18.0 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, [iv], 252 pp. 20th-century green buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Schrenck, [P.] L. [I.] von
Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande 1854-1856. Volume 2, Heft 3. Mollusken des Amur-Landes und des Nordjapanischen Meeres.
Saint Petersburg, 1859-1867. Folio (33.0 x 23.2 cm). Half-title. 718 pp. [numbered (259)-976]; 17 finely lithographed plates and two large, folding maps [numbered consecutively, XII-XXX]. Navy cloth. Spine with black label with gilt title.
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Schumacher, [H.] C. F.
Essai d’un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Avec XXII planches.
Copenhague, Schultz, 1817. Quarto (25.2 x 20.2 cm). Title page, 287 pp.; 22 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over tree calf resembling paper boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title. Yellow endpapers. Marbled edges.
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Scott, T. (et al.)
The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second series. Zoology. Volume VI. [Crustacea].
London, The Linnean Society of London, 1894-1897. Large 4to. [ii], 538, [i] pp.; 43 lithographed plates. Contemporary polished calf. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral borders and two (burgundy and black) labels with gilt title and gilt stippled borders. Boards with double -+gilt-lined and blind-tooled borders; inner dentelles, and marbled endpapers. Edges marbled.
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Scott, W. B. (ed.)
Princeton Expeditions to Patagonia 1896-1899. Palaeontology. Volume IV.
Princeton, NJ, The University, 1901-1906. Large, thick 4to (33.2 x 25.7 cm). 482 pp.; 65 plates. Burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Seitz, [F. J.] A.
Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Abteilung I. Die Groß-Schmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Band I-IV. [Complete original edition].
Stuttgart, A. Kernen, 1906-1913. Four volumes in seven (text and atlases). Large 4to (31.4 x 24.0 cm). Text volumes with title pages to the volumes and to the parts; 1869 pp. (I: 379, [vi]; II: vii, 479; III: iii, 511; IV: v, 479]. Atlases with plate indexes, and 245 chromolithographed plates [I: 89; II: 56; III-IV: 75; 25]. Contemporary uniform quarter calf over pebbled boards. Spines with four slightly raised, gilt-bordered bands, gilt vignettes and head- and tailpieces; front boards with gilt ornamental title. Bluish or brownish-green endpapers. Marbled edges.
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Seitz, [F. J.] A.
Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. [Complete as published].
Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1909-1954. 20 volumes in 34. 4to (31.3 x 24.8 cm). Text and 1458 chromolithographed plates in 10-14 colours. Publisher's uniform half calf, spines rich gilt with vignettes and gilt morocco labels (25 parts). The other parts are unbound in recent portfolios (9 parts).
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Seitz, [F. J.] A.
The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Division II: Fauna Exotica. Volume X. The Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges.
Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1933-1934. In two volumes (text and atlas). 4to. (31.8 x 27.0 cm). ix, 909 pp.; (vii) pp., 104 chromolithographed plates (Numbered 1-54, 55 A-C, 56 A-C, 57-100). Publisher's half calf. Spine rich gilt with vignettes and gilt morocco labels. Edges blue.
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Sepp, J. C. [S. C. Snellen Van Vollenhoven]
Proof prints from: Nederlandsche insecten, naar hunne aanmerkelijke huishouding, verwonderlijke gedaantewisseling en andere wetenswaardige bijzonderheden, beschreven en afgebeeld door Jan Christiaan Sepp. Tweede Serie. Eerste - Tweede deel.
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp & Zoon, 1860-1870. 79 folio sheets (26.5 x 21.3 cm), numbered V-L (first part), and I-XXXIII (second part).
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Siboga Expedition (M. W. C. Weber, ed.)
Résultats des explorations zoologiques, botaniques, océanographiques et géologiques entreprises aux Indes Néerlandaises Orientale en 1899-1900, à bord du Siboga sous le commande de G. F. Tydeman, publiés par Max Weber. Livraison 1-148. [All published].
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1901-1986. Large 4to (ca. 33.0 x 27.0 cm); more than 1,200 plates (188 in colour) including lithographed and chromolithographed plates, some etchings and photographic plates. Partly original printed wrappers, partly blind wrappers.
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Smith, A.
Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. Mammalia. Aves. Reptilia. Pisces. Invertebratae. [Complete].
London, Smith, Elder and Co., [1838]-1849. Five volumes in five. Large 4to (31.6 x 26.6 cm). Reptilia: (ii [index], 28 [appendix] pp., errata leaf; 78 plates (75 plates hand-coloured, plates 30, 42, and 48 plain as intended); Mammalia: vii pp. (including index); 52 plates (numbered I-XVII, XIX-XXXVI, XXXVIII-LIII, VIIIbis); 48 hand-coloured, four (8bis, 15, 21, 25, plain, as intended); plates 18 and 37 not published - see Mammalia index list); Pisces: [i] p. (index); 31 hand-coloured plates; Aves: [ii] pp.; 114 hand-coloured plates; Invertebratae: [ii], 75 pp.; four hand-coloured plates, making a total of 279 plates (272 hand-coloured) most by and after George H. Ford, and all with descriptive text on unnumbered leaves. Uniform publisher's green blind-stamped cloth with floral pattern on the boards and gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.
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Sowerby, J.
The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and description of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. Volumes I - II.
London, J. Sowerby, 1812-1818. Two volumes in two. 8vo (23.2 x 15.5 cm). 482 pp. [I: 234, x; II: 235, iii]. 205 hand-coloured engravings (eight larger, folded), numbered 1-203, A (between 184 and 185). Number 33 used twice; no. 177 also numbered 173[bis]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands, blind-tooled compartments and two black morocco labels with gilt title. Green endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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Spath, L. F.
Revision of the Jurassic Cephalopod Fauna of Kachh (Cutch). Part IV. [Family Perisphinctidae to Family Olcastephanidae].
Calcutta, Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1931. Folio (36.0 x 27.0 cm). Title pages, 272 pp. [279-550]; 55 plates [XLVIII-CII] with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
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Spencer, [W.] B. (ed.)
Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part I. Introduction, narrative, summary of results, supplement to zoological report, map.
London, Dulau; Melbourne, Mullen and Slade, 1896. 4to (25.6 x 19.2cm). xviii, 220 pp.; 11 plates, seven text illustrations, one large, multi-folded map. Original azure buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Spengel, J. W. (ed.)
Ergebnisse und Fortschritte der Zoologie. Erster - Vierter Band.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1909-1914. Four volumes in four. 8vo (22.9 x 16.1 cm). 2416 pp. [I: 596; II: 585; III: 593; IV: 642]; numerous text illustrations, several plates. Uniform pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Speckled edges.
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Stainton, H. T.
A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths. Volumes I-II. [Complete].
London, John van Voorst, 1857-1859. Two volumes in two. 8vo (17.7 x 10.5 cm). I (1857): xii, [v; on five leaves], 2, 338 pp.; II (1859): xi 480 pp., [xviii; on 18 leaves], numerous woodcuts. Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards, blind-tooled spine with five raised, gilt-bordered and stippled bands, red morocco label with gilt title.
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Standfuß, M. and F. Ris, a.o.
Mitteilungen der Entomologia Zürich und Umgebung. 1-6 [All published] (1915-1923).
Zürich, Entomologia Zürich und Umgebung, 1915-1923. Six parts in one. 8vo (22.3 x 15.7 cm). title page, [ii], iv, 407 pp.; 15 plates. Contemporary blind grained half cloth over marbled boards. Speckled edges.
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Stoliczka, F.
Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India. Vol. III. The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known genera of this class, fossil and recent.
Calcutta, Geological Survey Office, 1871. Folio (37.0 x 25.1 cm). Title page, xxii, 538 pp.; 50 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Near-contemporary half calf with blind-tooled borders over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt lines, and two red morocco labels with gilt title.
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Stoll, C.
Natuurlijke en naar het leven nauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen der spoken, wandelende bladen, zabel-springhanen, krekels, trek-springhanen en kakkerlakken in alle vier deelen der wereld, Europa, Asia, Afrika en Amerika huishoudende. Representation exactement colorée d'après nature des spectres ou phasmes, des mantes, des sauterelles, des grillons, des criquets et des blattes. Qui se trouve dans les quatre parties du monde. L'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [1e - 4e geslacht].
Amsterdam, J. C. Sepp, 1787. 4to (28.6 x 24.1 cm). Title page; pp. [9, 74; 28; 38]; 58 fine hand-coloured engraved plates [I-XXV; I.a-XIII.a; I.b-XX.b.]. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands with gilt borders.
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Stoll, C.
Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden, in alle vier waerelds deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America huishoudende, by een verzameld en beschreeven. /Représentation exactement colorée d'après nature des cigales, qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde, l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique rassemblées et décrites [BOUND WITH] Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der wantzen, in alle vier waerelds deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America huishoudende, by een verzameld en beschreeven. /Représentation exactement colorée d'après nature des punaises, qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde, l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique rassemblées et décrites.
Amsterdam, Jan Christiaan Sepp, [1780]-1788. Two parts in one. Large 4to (30.5 x 24.0 cm). pp. [ii], 124; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 29 hand-coloured engraved plates. [AND] 172 pp.; hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 41 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt lines and lettering.
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Sturany, R.
Catalog der bisher bekannt gewordenen südafrikanischen Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des von Dr. Penther gesammelten Materiales.
Wien, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Carl Gerold's Sohn), 1898. Large 4to (30.2 x 24.1 cm). 106 pp.; three lithographed plates. Later quarter linen over red pebbled boards. Spine with plastic strip with embossed letters. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
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Sturm, J.
Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung, Erster Theil. Käfer. [All published].
Nürnberg, The author [Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers], 1826. 8vo (22.1 x 12.8 cm). viii, 208, 16, [ii] pp.; four originally hand-coloured engraved plates. Later polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers; sprinkled edges.
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Sturm, J.
Kupfersammlung zu Schuberts und jeder andern Naturgeschichte brauchbar. In 12 Blättern, nach der Natur gezeichnet, gestochen und gemahlt.
Nürnberg, privately published, (n.d., but circa 1825). 8vo (20.1 x 12.0 cm). pp. v-viii; 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary blind grey/black mottled paper covered boards. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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[Sturm, J. (AND) Frauenholz, J. M.]
Original hand-coloured proof plates [with insects and plants] for Bilder für Kinder mit Hinsicht auf die von Herrn Andre und Bechstein herausgegebenen Spaziergänge, gesammelt von I. F. Frauenholz.
Nürnberg, Frauenholz, [1792]-1793-1795. Five plates. Oblong (19.5 x 22.5 cm), and near square (22.0 x 19.0 cm). Engraved and finely coloured by hand, one with handwritten captions. On loose sheets; versos blank.
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[Sturm, J.- Attributed to]
Four proof plates for Monographiae Insectorum XVIII. In valle Plauensi delectorum. Verzeichnis der merkwürdigsten Insecten welche in Plauischen Grunde gefunden werden. In: W. G. Becker (1799). Der Plauische Grund bei Dresden, mit Hinsicht auf Naturgeschichte und schöne Gartenkunst.
[Nürnberg, Frauenholzische Kunsthandlung, 1799]. Four loose plates. Folio (24.3 x 18.5 cm or slighly larger). Each finely engraved and carefully hand-coloured.
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Sturm, J. [or J. A. Boerner]
Four beetles. [Original watercolour].
Germany, [the artist], [before] 1835. Single leaf (8.9 x 7.1 cm) with four small, detailed drawings of beetles, mounted on a larger sheet (17.5 x 11.7 cm). Preserved in a larger, modern cardboard frame (37.4 x 25.6 cm).
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Suckow, F. W. L.
Anatomisch-Physiologische Untersuchungen der Insekten und Krustenthiere. Ersten Bandes erstes Heft. [All published].
Heidelberg, Engelmann, 1818. 4to (27.5 x 22.1 cm). 90 pp.; 11 copper-engraved plates including one hand-coloured. Contemporary quarter grained calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on spine, green morocco label with gilt title on front board. Original printed wrapper pasted on front pastedown.
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Swainson, W. [J.]
A Treatise on Malacology or Shells and Shell-fish [The cabinet cyclopaedia. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner... Natural History].
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, and John Taylor, 1840. 12mo (17.1 x 10.6 cm). Letterpress title, engraved title with large vignette, 419 pp.; 130 text engravings. Publisher's green, embossed cloth with gilt title spine. Patterned endpapers. Printed errata slip bound in.
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Tapparone-Canefri, C. [M.]
Zoologia del viaggio intorno al globo della R. fregata Magenta durante gli anni 1865-1868. Malacologia (gasteropodi, acefali e brachiopodi).
Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1876. Large 4to (28.5 x 21.1 cm). 155 pp.; four chromolithographed and partly hand-coloured plates, heightened with gum arabic. Later brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. Edges sprinkled red.
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[The Western Society of Malacologists]
The Echo. The Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report. 1-20.
Pacific Grove, CA, The Western Society of Malacologists, 1968-1987. In 20 volumes. 8vo and 4to (28.0 x 21.7 cm). Numerous pages, several illustrations (shells, meeting participants, etc.). Original pictorial wrappers.
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The Zoologist [H. W. Bates]
The Zoologist. A popular miscellany of natural history conducted by Edward Newman, F.L.S., Z.S., &c. Volumes 1-11.
London, John van Voorst, 1843-1853. 11 volumes in 11. 8vo. (21.4 x 13.6 cm). 4156, cciv pp.; illustrations in the text. Contemporary uniform black half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title, volume year, and decorative lines. Speckled edges.
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Thunberg, C. P.
Periculum entomologicum, quo characteres generum insectorum, consensu exper. fac. med. upsal. praeside Carol. Pet. Thunberg, publicae censurae proponit Samuel Törner, Norcopia-Gothus. In audit. Gust. maj. d. X Jun. MDCCLXXXIX.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], Joh. Edman, 1789. Quarto (21.5 x 17.5 cm). Title page, 16 pp. Early 20th-century light blue buckram; black morocco strip with gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
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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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Tizard, T. H. et al. (eds.) [Thomson, C. W. and J. Murray (general editors)]
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Volumes I - II. Narrative of the Cruise. [The complete narrative].
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1882-1885. Two volumes in three. 4to (29.2 x 24.6 cm). Volume I (in two parts) (1885): liv, 1111 pp.; two elongate photographic frontispieces; 340 numbered (groups of) woodcuts and many unnumbered, often acting as head- or tailpieces; 75 charts; 35 numbered photographic plates; 15 chromolithographed plates (numbered A-I, K-P), and a very large map (in two parts) of both hemispheres, with the complete itinerary, in a rear pocket in Part I; a second, very long, full-colour map on the salinity of the oceans in Part 2. Volume II (1882): viii, 744, 42, 29 pp.; several text engravings and two plates, of which one in chromolithography, and a tipped-in note on the reason for publishing Volume II ahead of Volume I. Original, uniform, dark-green blind-stamped pebbled cloth. Boards with bevelled edges. Gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.
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