Invertebrates (others)
338 items found
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.
Read moreOberthür, C.
Études d'entomologie. Faunes entomologiques. Descriptions d'insectes nouveaux ou peu connus. I. Étude sur la faune des lépidoptères de l'Algerie.
Rennes, Oberthür et fils, 1876. 4to (27.9 x 18.8 cm). 74 pp.; four nice hand-coloured engraved plates. Slightly later half cloth over marbled boards. Dark green morocco strip with gilt title mounted on spine. Original printed wrappers preserved.
Read morePervinquière, L.
Études de paléontologie Tunisienne - I - Céphalopodes des terrains secondaires. Texte - Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, F. R. De Rudeval [for the Regence de Tunis - Protectorat Français, Direction générale des Travaux Publics], 1907. Two parts in two. Large 4to/Folio (31.0 x 23.0 cm). v, 438 pp. 158 text illustrations, 28 heliotype plates (several double-sized). Uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreOberthür, C.
Études de lépidopterologie comparée. Volume I.
Rennes, F. C. Oberthür, 1904. 8vo (24.4 x 15.8 cm). 77 pp.; plates I-V; all finely hand-coloured, one heightened with silver, one in double suite; an extra, handwritten plate explanation to plates I-IV bound in the rear. Later blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreEhrenberg, 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.
Read moreAnnandale, [T.] N.
Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12.
Calcutta, The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, 1912-1918. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). pp. 1-77, 191-410, 493-621 [of 629] pp., errata leaf; plates I-V, XVI-XXVII, XXXVIII-LIV [of 57] (mostly lithographs and photogravures), several text illustrations. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreTapparone-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.
Read moreSterzl, A. (ed.)
Zeitschrift des Vereines der Naturbeobachter und Sammler. Volumes 1-9. [Last Published].
Wien, Verein der Naturbeobachter und Sammler, 1926-1934. 8vo (22.3 x 15.0 cm). Eight title pages, 271 pp.; 19 plates [1-18, 13(bis)] of which 17 in colour. In slightly later grey blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read moreMawe, J.
Wodarch's introduction to the study of conchology: describing the orders, genera, and species of shells: with observations on the nature and properties of the animals; and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells. Fourth edition, with considerable additions and alterations.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and J. Mawe, 1832. 12mo (18.2 x 10.6 cm). xii, 149 pp.; full-colour frontispiece and six hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green diced morocco; spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, and green morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined and blind-tooled borders. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V. M. D.] d' [Brullé, G. A. and C. É. Blanchard]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome sixième. 2.e Partie: Insectes.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1837-1846. Text and atlas. Large 4to and folio (33.3 x 24.9 cm). 220 pp.; 32 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-32] with captions providing the species names. Recent quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with printed label with title.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 3.e Partie: Mollusques.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1834-[1847]. In two volumes (text and atlas). Large 4to and folio (33.0 x 25.4 cm). Half-title to the Voyage, title to the Mollusques, half-title to the Mollusques; xliii, 758 pp.; 86 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-85; 41bis; plates 83-85 not coloured, as always]. Uniform period style half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreMilne-Edwards, H. and [P.] H. Lucas [A. C. V. M. D. d'Orbigny (ed.)]
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 1.re Partie: Crustacés.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1843-[1844]. Text and plates. Large 4to/folio mix (33.7 x 25.8 cm). Half-title (to the Voyage), title and half-title (to the Crustacés); 39 pp.; 18 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-12, 14-17, 7bis, 8bis]. Later marbled wrappers.
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