Invertebrates (others)
382 items found
Tollmann, A.
Das Neogen am Südwestrand des Leithagebirges zwischen Eisenstadt und Hornstein. Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Wien.
Wien, [not published], 1953. Small folio (29.8 x 21.0 cm). 226 pp.; 28 text figures (tipped in), three large, folded maps (one hand-coloured), five folded tables and graphs. Black half cloth. Hand-written label on the spine.
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Torre y Huerta, C. de la [AND] Moreno, A. Bonilla
El género Polymita. [AND] Estudio anatómico del género Polymita Beck.
Habana, Museo Poey, 1950. 8vo (24.2 x 16.0 cm). 51 [16; 35] pp.; 11 full colour plates of shells, 11 b/w anatomical plates (numbered XII-XXII). Original printed wrappers.
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[Trade Catalogue - Japanese Silk]
Well-known raw silk producers and their trade marks - Empire of Japan - Compiled for Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904.
Tokio [Tokyo], The Japan Sericultural Association, 1904. Folio (29.6 x 22.0 cm). Preliminary leaf, title page, (xiv [advertisements]), 166, 7, [ix] pp. 144 text illustrations (logos), of which 142 in colour - mostly in full colour chromolithography, a few partly printed in silver. Additional full-colour illustrations in the advertisement sections. Original multi-colour pochoir wrappers, with two silk ties. Printed erratum leaf tipped in.
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Trenkner, [F.] W. [T.]
Paläontologische Novitäten vom Nordwestlichen Harze. I. Iberger Kalk und Kohlengebirge von Grund.
Halle, H. W. Schmidt, 1867. 4to (28.1 x 22.3 cm). 60 pp.; four lithographed plates showing molluscs and other invertebrates; one large, folded plate with profiles. Patterned quarter cloth over marbled boards. Green diamond-shaped label with gilt title mounted on the front board. Speckled edges.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the fresh-water univalve Mollusca of the United States. (In continuation of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's work, published under the above title). Turbidae. Physadae.
Philadelphia, PA, The Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1870. Four parts in one. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). 238 pp; 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates [ Paludina 12-17; Limnea 16-18; Physa 6-9; Planorbis 5-7; Ancylus 2.] Later olive buckram with gilt title on the spine. Three original printed front wrappers bound in.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca inhabiting the United States.
Philadelphia, PA., [the author], 1866. 8vo (21.7 x 13.7 cm). 203 pp. [159, xliv]; 18 lithographed plates, each in careful original hand-colouring. Contemporary gilt-bordered black pebbled morocco over grey pebbled cloth. Spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, gilt lines and title. Yellow endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca inhabiting the United States. With illustrations of all the species.
Philadelphia, PA, the author, 1866. 8vo (21.1 x 13.7 cm). 159, xliii pp.; 18 lithographed plates in double suite: hand coloured, and uncoloured, sepia-tinted (for a total of 36 plates). Later olive buckram. Gilt bands and title on the spine.
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Uljanin, B. [N.]
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel X. Die Arten der Gattung Doliolum im Golfe von Neapel und den angrenzenden Meeresabschnitten.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1884. Large 4to (33.2 x 27.2 cm). viii, 140 pp.; 12 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Uljanin, B. [N.]
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel X. Die Arten der Gattung Doliolum im Golfe von Neapel und den angrenzenden Meeresabschnitten.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1884. Folio (32.1 x 26.2 cm). viii, 140 pp.; 12 lithographed plates. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Sprinkled edges.
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Ungemach, H.
Contribution a l'étude des lépidoptères d'Abyssinie. 1re partie. Rhopalocères.
Rabat, Institut Scientifique Chérifien, 1932. 8vo (25.2 x 16.3 cm). Half-title, title page, 122 pp.; two plates with explanatory text leaves, including one in full colour. Original printed wrappers.
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Valle, A. della
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel XX. Gammarini del Golfo di Napoli.
Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1893. In two volumes (text and atlas). Large 4to and folio (33.2 x 27.4 cm). xi, 948 pp.; 61, mostly double-sized or larger lithographed plates of which six in fine chromolithography, and several others tinted. Original printed wrappers.
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various authors
[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. Thick 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm). xxv, 684 pp.; 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured). Original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth.
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[Various authors]
Report of the scientific expedition in the Mount Jolmo Lungma Region (1966-1968). Palaeontology. I-III.
Beijing, Science Press, 1975-1976. Three parts in three. Large 8vo (25.9 x 18.8 cm). 1439 pp. [425; 462; 552]; 295 [87; 100; 108] plates, numerous text illustrations; folding map, folding table. Uniform pictorial soft covers. Gilt title on front boards and spines.
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Vayssière, A. [J. B. P. M.]
Recherches zoologiques et anatomiques sur les mollusques de la famille des cypraeidés. 1re partie, 2me partie. [Complete].
Marseille, Musée d'Histoire naturelle de Marseille, 1923-1927. Two parts in two. Large 4to (31.0 x 23.5 cm). I (1923): 120 pp.; 14 plates (numbered I-XIV); II (1927): 54 pp.; five plates (numbered XXIV-XXVIII) of which one in full colour. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Vigelius, W. J.
Onderzoekingstochten van de Willem Barents. 2e gedeelte. IV. Die Bryozoen gesammelt während der dritten und vierten Polarfahrt des "Willem Barents" in den Jahren 1880 und 1881.
Amsterdam, Het Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra, 1884. Folio (36.3 x 27.8 cm). 104 pp.; eight tinted, lithographed plates (one partly chromolithographed). Original printed wrappers.
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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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Waagen, W. H.
Serie XIII. Salt-Range Fossils. I. Productus-Limestone fossils: i. Pisces - Cephalopoda [AND] 2. Pisces - Cephalopoda Supplement. Gasteropoda. [AND] iii. Pelecypoda.
Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1879-1881. Three parts in three. Folio (36.0 x 26.5 cm). pp. [i: 1-72; 2 (1880): 73-183 (184 blank); iii: 185-328]; 24 fine, lithographed plates [i: I-VI; 2: VII-XVI; iii: XVII-XXIV]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Wachsmuth, C. and F. Springer
The North American Crinoidea Camerata. In two volumes with eighty-three plates.
Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1897. In three volumes. Large 4to (two text volumes) and folio atlas (34.7 x 27.0 cm). ii, 359, [359-837 pp. 83 very fine tinted lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Uniform contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Walker, F.
Insecta Britannica. Diptera. Vol. I - III. [Complete].
London, Lovell Reeve, 1851-1856. Three volumes in three. 8vo (22.0 x 14.1 cm). [I (1851): vi, 314, (16); II (1853): vi, 298, (16); III (1856): xxiv, 352, (24)]; 30 engraved plates [I: I-X; II: XI-XX; III: XXI-XXX]. Uniform original pebbled and blind-tooled cloth; gilt title on the spines. Yellow endpapers.
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Wang, H. [et al.]
Mollusca, Foraminifera, Ostracoda, Bryozoa. In: Tertiary palaeontology of north continental shelf of South China Sea.
Guangdong, Guangdong Science and Technology Press, 1981. 4to (26.0 x 18.4 cm). 274 pp.; 108 plates. Publishers's cloth with gilt and blue title on boards and spine.
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Ward, C.
African Lepidoptera, being descriptions of new species. With illustrations. [All published, and printed but unpublished!].
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., [1873-1874]. Folio (29.7 x 22.3 cm). 16 pp.; 18 lithographed plates of which 12 in fine, original hand-colouring. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Weismann, A. [F. L.]
Die Entstehung der Sexualzellen bei den Hydromedusen. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Baues und der Lebenserscheinungen dieser Gruppe.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1883. In two volumes (text and atlas). 4to (35.4 x 27.2 cm). Title page, iii- xiii, 295 pp. [text volume]; title page, [i] p.; 24 chromolithographed plates with explanatory text leaves [atlas volume].
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Whymper, E.
Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator [AND] Supplementary appendix to travels amongst the great Andes of the equator.
London, John Murray, 1891-1892. Two parts in two. 8vo (22.7 x 16.1 cm). 549 [xxiv, 456; xxii, 147] pp.; 34 plates, four maps (one in rear pocket), numerous text figures. Uniform original cloth with bevelled edges, and gilt ornaments across the top and bottom of the front boards and spines; embossed on the rear board. Spines with gilt title.
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Wilcox, J. A.
Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Pars 78, Fasc. 1-4 (Editio Secunda). Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae. Fasc. 1: Oidini, Galerucini, Metacyclini, Sermylini; Fasc. 2: Luperini: Aulacophorina, Diabroticina; Fasc. 3 Luperina; Fasc. 4: Addenda et index. [Complete].
's-Gravenhage, W. Junk, 1971-1975. Four parts in four. 8vo (34.7 x 16.9 cm). 772 pp. [220; 212; 234; 106]. Original grey printed wrappers (Fasc. 1 and 2); uniform red, pictorial wrappers (Fasc. 3 and 4).
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Wilde, [W.] O.
Die Pflanzen und Raupen Deutschlands. Versuch einer lepidopterologischen Botanik. Erster Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Pflanzen, unter Angabe der an denselben lebenden Raupen. Mit einem Vorworte von A. Speyer. Zweiter Theil. Systematische Beschreibung der Raupen unter Angabe ihrer Lebensweise und Entwicklungszeiten.
Berlin, E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1860-1861. Two volumes in one. 8vo (19.2 x 12.4 cm). xiii, 223; vii, 494 pp.; ten engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum over paper covered boards, spine with red morocco label with gilt title.
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Wilhelm, G. T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Der Insecten. Neue Ausgabe.
Augsburg, J. A. Schlosser, 1834. Three parts in five. Small 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). Three title pages, 1044 pp. [I: xlviii, 376; II: 416; III: 204]; 150 [I: 46; II: 52; III: 52] engraved plates in fine, original hand-colouring; and a larger, double-folded, deliberately not coloured Table d'Instruction(unnumbered, present twice). Contemporary near-uniform marbled paper boards. Spines with gilt lines and gilt title on leather label, black on text volumes, blue on plate volumes.
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Williams, J. D. et al.
Freshwater mussels of Alabama & the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi & Tennessee.
Tuscaloosa, AL, The University of Alabama Press, 2008. Large, thick 4to (30.0 x 22.8 cm). xv, 908 pp.; numerous, nearly all full colour illustrations. Publisher's pictorial laminated hardcover.
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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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Wolff, J. F.
Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].
Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (24.0 x 20.9 cm). [2], [2], viii, 208 pp., five title pages; 20 engraved plates of which two partly hand-coloured. Each plate has a handwritten explanatory text leaf. Early 20th-century full, grained cloth with gilt title on spine and front board. Blue endpapers. All edges marbled.
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Wolff, J. F.
Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].
Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (25.2 x 20.1 cm). First title page (verso blank), [ii (preface)], [iv], [ii], [iii-iv; vii-viii; v-[vi], 208 pp. (with second title [1801], third title [1802], fourth title [1804], and fifth (last) title [1811]); 20 finely engraved plates with beautiful original hand-colouring. Later 19th-century full embossed cloth. Spine with gilt ornaments and title; boards with blind-stamped ornamental borders. Marbled edges.
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Wollaston, T. V.
Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of the Canaries in the collection of the British Museum.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1864. Thick 8vo (21.9 x 14.0 x 3.8 cm). xiii, 648, 8 pp. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Yellow endpapers.
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Wollaston, T. V.
Coleoptera Atlantidum, being an enumeration of the coleopterous insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries.
London, John van Voorst, 1865. Thick 8vo (22.0 x 13.8 x 4.8 cm). xlvii, 526, 140 pp.; one engraved map. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine.
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Wood, S. V.
A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with descriptions of shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Part I. Univalves. Part II. Bivalves. Part III. Supplement to the Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with descriptions of shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. Vol. III. Univalves and bivalves. [Part IV] Second supplement to the Crag Mollusca, comprising testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Univalves and bivalves. [Part V]. Third supplement to the Crag Mollusca, comprising testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. [Complete].
London, The Palaeontographical Society, [1848-] 1850-1882. Five volumes in two. 4to (27.3 x 22.0 cm). 912 pp. [xii, 208; 342, 2; xxxi, 231; ii, 58; (ii), 24]; several text figures, 72 [21;31;13;6;1] lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves; one very large, multi-folded chart with profiles. Later uniform brown pebbled cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Wright, J.
The British Carboniferous Crinoidea. Volumes I-II [FULL COMPLETE SET in ten original parts].
London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1950-1960. Two volumes in ten. 4to (27.8 x 21.7 cm). xxx, 347 pp.; 83 plates. Uniform original blue/grey wrappers with printed paper label on front wrappers.
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Zavattari, E (ed.)
Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana. [Complete in four volumes].
Roma, Centro Studi Africa Orientale, 1939-1940. In four volumes. Large 8vo (24.9 x 17.6 cm). 2,154 pp. [537, 719, 463, 435]; over 500 text illustrations; 23 [0; 16; 7; 0] plates, mostly coloured, one coloured map and one large, folded map. Uniform original quarter cloth over printed boards. Spines with large, printed labels.
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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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