Invertebrates (others)
385 items found
Nissen, C.
Bestiaries of Five Centuries. Description and Introduction by the late Claus Nissen. Edited and Revised by Sandra Raphael. With an Introductory by S. Peter Dance.
Amsterdam, Antiquariaat Junk B. V. and Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 2024. Folio (29.8 x 21.3 cm). With sixty-one original prints, many hand-coloured, from famous zoological books published between 1491 and 1878; each mounted, matted, and numbered 1-28, 29a, 29b, 30-60, and one double-sized, unnumbered print, in full-colour facsimile; all in an original cloth dropbox (50.0 x 36.5 x 8.5 cm), together with an explanatory book (96 pp.; printed softcover).
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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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Filippova, N. A.
Fauna of Russia and neighbouring countries. Arachnoidea. Volum IV, issue 5. Ixodid ticks of subfamily Amblyomminae.
St. Petersburg, NAUKA, 1997. Large 8vo. 436 pp.; 245 text illustrations, 44 plates. Original black leatherette with gilt title on the front board and spine.
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Baehr, M.
Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian region. 1. The previous genera Sphallomorpha Westwood and Silphomorpha Westwood. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae).
München, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 1992. 8vo (24.0 x 16.9 cm). 440 pp.; full colour frontispiece, 553 text illustrations. Laminated pictorial softcover.
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Imaoka, T. et al.
Echinoderms from continental shelf and slope around Japan. Vol. II.
Tokyo: Japan Fisheries resource Conservation Association, 1991. 4to (25.7 x 18.3 cm). 204 pp.; 79 (groups of) full colour photos and numerous line drawings. Burgundy cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. In transparent jacket.
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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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Medvedev, G. S. (ed.)
Opredelitel nasekomych Evropejskoj chasti SSSR [Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR). Tom IV, Chast 1: Cheshuyekrylyye [Lepidoptera].
Leningrad, Akademia Nauk SSSR, 1978. 4to (26.8 x 17.6) cm, 710, [ii] pp.; 585 (groups of) text figures. Publishers's embossed cloth with gilt title on front board and spine.
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Berlese, A.
Complete acarological works. Acari Myriopoda and Scorpiones (1882-1903) in 12 volumes [AND] Collected acarological papers from "Redia" (1903-1923) in five volumes [AND] Complete acarological works. Varia (1881-1923) in two volumes. [Complete].
Firenze [REPRINT, The Hague, 1977-1982]. In 19 volumes. 8vo (18 parts: 23.1 x 15.6 cm), 4to (one part: 29.7 x 20.8 cm). Over 7000 pages and numerous plates (some folded). Uniform full dark brown cloth with gilt titles on front boards and spines.
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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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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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Legrand, W.
Collections for a monograph of Tasmanian land shells.
Hobart Town, Tasmania, [the author], 1871. 8vo (22.4 x 14.4 cm). iii, [36] pp.; two tissue-guarded lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves; two printed additional slips. Later black half linen over patterned boards. Gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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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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Bergquist, P. R.
The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part I, II, III.
Wellington, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, 1968-1980. Three parts in three. Large 4to (28.0 x .21.5 cm). Full colour (1) and b/w (1) frontispieces; 233 pp. [105; 85; 43]; 37 text figures [30; 3; 4], 51 plates [14; 20; 17]. Original uniform printed softcovers.
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Lith, J. P. van
Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Psenini. A collection of offprints.
Amsterdam, Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging (NEV), 1966-1979. 20 papers in 20. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). About 330 pp.; numerous illustrations. Partly in original printed wrappers, partly published without wrappers.
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Ellis, B. F. and A. R. Messina
Catalogue of Index 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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Kiriakoff, S.G.
Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman no. 217. Lepidoptera Familia Notodontidae. [Complete].
Bruxelles, Genera Insectorum (P. Wytsman), 1964-1970. In four volumes. 4to (32.3 x 24.8 cm)). 794 pp. [213; 238; 269; 74]; 536 text figures [171; 136; 195; 34], 30 plates [11; 8; 11; 0]. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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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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Pasteur-Humbert, C.
Les mollusques marins testacés du Maroc. Catalogue non critique. I. Les gastéropodes. [AND] II. Les lamellibranches et les scaphopodes. [AND] Premier supplement.
Rabat, Institut Scientifique Chérifien, 1962-1973. Three parts in one. 8vo (24.1 x 15.3 cm). 573 [245; 184; 144] pp.; 104 [42; 39; 23] plates, some text figures, one folded map; errata leaf to the third part tipped in. Contemporary full cloth with gilt title on the spine. Original, uniform printed wrappers bound in.
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Pasteur-Humbert, C.
Les mollusques marins testacés du Maroc. Catalogue non critique. I. Les gastéropodes. II. Les lamellibranches et les scaphopodes. [AND] Premier supplement.
Rabat, Institut Scientifique Chérifien, 1962-1973. Three parts in three. 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm, and somewhat larger). 573 [245; 184; 144] pp.; 104 [42; 39; 23] plates, some text figures, one folded map; printed errata leaf to the third part tipped in. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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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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Hammer, M.
Investigations on the oribatid fauna of the Andes Mountains. I. The Argentine and Bolivia. II Peru. III. Chile. IV. Patagonia. [Complete, and with author's dedications].
København, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1958-1962. Four parts in four. Large 8vo (27.0 x 21.0 cm). 419 pp. [129; 157; 96; 37] pp.; 118 [34; 43; 30; 11] plates. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Alberti, B.
Über die Stammesgeschichtliche Gliederung der Zygaenidae nebst Revision einiger Gruppen (Insecta, Lepidoptera).
Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1954. 8vo (24.0 x 17.0 cm). 366 pp. [numbered 115-480]; 33 text illustrations, 62 plates (including one larger, folded). Original printed wrappers.
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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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[Ant, H.]
Manuscript based on Staudinger's printed list of Palaearctic Lepidoptera.
Not published, no date [but after 1936; probably ca. 1950]. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.1 cm). 161 ruled pages with mounted strips with printed text. Mid-20th century black blind cloth over marbled boards.
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Esaki, T. (a.o.)
Iconographia insectorum Japonicorum. Editio secunda, reformata. [AND] Index.
Tokyo, Hokuryukan, 1950. Two parts in two. Thick 8vo (20.9 x 14.0 x 7.5 cm). 1,738 pp.; 15 full colour plates, two tables, numerous text figures. Publisher's half calf over linen boards. Title in silver on spine (the main work); 8vo (). 203, 14 pp. of text and two with figures. Publisher's blind-stamped limp linen with gilt title on front cover and spine (the index volume).
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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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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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Hayward, K. J.
Genera et species animalium Argentinorum. Insecta Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera). Tomus II.
Bonariae (Buenos Aires), G. Krafft, 1950. Large 4to (35.3 x 26.3 cm). Several title and dedication pages, 388 pp.; 26 plates (of which 12 in full colour). Original embossed and printed cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Edges red.
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Gilson, H. C. (ed.)
The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Lake Titicaca in 1937 under the leadership of Mr. H. Cary Gilson, M.A.. Reports 1-6, VII-XII, XIII-XX. [Complete].
London, The Linnean Society of London, 1939-1955. 20 papers in three. Large 4to (31.4 x 25.0 cm). 357 pp.; numerous plates and text illustrations. Original uniform printed 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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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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