[Anonymous]
[Aquatic animals]. Fine drawings of fish, a crustacean and a cone-shell.
No place, not published, ca. 1700. Broadsheet (28.5 x 20.3 cm). Drawings on laid paper.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. VI. Classe des mollusques, ordre des acéphales. Texte et 361 planches. [Bivalvia].
Prague, Musée Bohême, 1881. Four parts in four. Large 4to. xxiv, 342 pp.; 361 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original uniform blind-tooled black cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. II. Classe des mollusques, ordre des céphalopodes. Texte et 544 planches.
Prague, Musée Bohême, 1867-1877. 11 parts in 11. Large 4to and folio (32.5 x 25.5). 3,583 pp.; 545 lithographed plates (including 240bis) with explanatory text leaves. Original blind-tooled cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Bédé, P. [E.]
Letter to R. P. Dollfus.
Sfax, 1935. Single printed leaf (21.5 x 27.1 cm), folded. Hand-written, signed and dated.
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Belon, P. [Petri Bellonii Cenomani; Pierre Belon du Mans]
De Aquatilibus. Libro duo, cum eiconibus ad vivam ipsorum effigiem, quoad eius fieri potuit, expressis.
Paris, Carolum Stephanum, 1553. Oblong 8vo (11.1 x 17.0 cm). [xxxii (index)], 448 pp.; 187 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp vellum; ink title in an old hand, written on the spine.
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[Bertrand, B. N.]
Elemens d'oryctologie ou distribution méthodique des fossiles.
Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1773. 8vo (18.8 x 11.5 cm). xxxix, 137, xxii pp.; 16 double, folded tables. Contemporary full calf. Spine with four raised bands. Rich gilt floral compartments, red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red.
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Beyrich, [H. E.]
Die Conchylien des norddeutschen Tertiärgebirges. Vierter Stück. Fusus, Turbinella.
Berlin, Wilhelm Hertz, 1856. 8vo (23.0 x 14.2 cm). 68 pp.; ten finely lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Bianchi, G. P. S. [J. Plancus]
De conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis (Venice), J. Baptista Pasqual, 1739. 4to (29.2 x 20.0 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded, engraved plates. Contemporary limp boards with script title in an old hand on the spine.
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Bory de Saint-Vincent, [J. B. G. G. M.] et al. (eds).
Annales générales des sciences physiques. Volumes I-VIII. [All published].
Bruxelles, Weissenbuch, Père, 1819-1821. Eight volumes in eight. 8vo (23.0 x 14.3 cm). Numerous pages and plates, of which several with additional hand-colouring. Original uniform blue wrappers. Handwritten paper labels on the spines.
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Brookes, S.
An introduction to the study of conchology: including observations on the Linnaean genera, and on the arrangement of M. Lamarck; a glossary, and a table of English names. Illustrated with coloured plates.
London, John and Arthur Arch, 1815. 4to (26.6 x 21.3 cm). vii, 164 pp.; 11 engraved plates, of which nine in original hand-colouring. 20th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title.
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Buonanni, F.
Ricreatione dell' occhio e della mente nell' osseruation delle Chiocciole, proposta a' curiosi delle opere della natura. Con quattrocento, e cinquanta figure di testacei diuersi, sopra cui si spiegano molti curiosi problemi.
Roma, Varese, 1681. In two volumes (text and plates). 4to (23.7 x 17.2 cm). I (text). Engraved allegorical title; letterpress title, [xiv], 384, [xv] pp.; four engraved plates (opposite p. 50, 51, 59, 316), several text engravings; II (atlas). Engraved allegorical title; engraved section title to part IV; engraved title to Classe prima, six plates with figs 1-20); engraved title to Classe seconda, 23 plates with figs 1-100); and engraved title to Classe terza, followed by 77 plates with figs 1-266, 268-311, 315-314 [ recte 312-313], 314-319), for a total of 110 plates, and six engraved titles. Contemporary uniform full vellum. Spines with four raised bands and contemporary script title in ink. All edges blue.
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Buvignier, [N.] A.
Statistique géologique, minéralogique et paléontologique du Département de la Meuse.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1852. Folio (45.0 x 31.0 cm). Atlas with title page and 52 pp. of explanatory text; 29 fine lithographed plates of fossils; one double-sized hand-coloured geological map, two hand-coloured profiles (separately numbered, but on one sheet), for a total of 32 "plates". Original blue quarter cloth portfolio with blue boards. Front board with printed title.
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