Malacology List 21
76 items found
Jousseaume, [F. P.]
A collection of nine rare offprints on marine molluscs.
Paris, various publishers, 1869-1898. Nine papers in six (ca. 24.0 x 16.0 cm; two ca. 22.0 x 14.0 cm). 143 pp.; six lithographed plates of which three in original hand-colouring. Original printed wrappers (to six papers), and protective blind wrappers.
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Agassiz, A.
A contribution to American thalassography: Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer Blake, in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880.
Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (25.2 x 16.7 cm). 434 pp.[xxii, 314; 220]; over 550 fine - often large - text illustrations; one folded map. Original blue linen with gilt title on the spines. Top edges gilt.
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Hudleston, W. H.
A monograph of the British Jurassic Gasteropoda. Gasteropoda of the Inferior Oolite. Parts 1-9. [Complete].
London, Palaeontographical Society, 1886-1896. Nine parts in one. 4to (27.5 x 21.4 cm). General title, titles to the years (different for each part), and for the parts; 514 pp.; 44 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Later brown buckram. Spine with dark brown morocco label with gilt lines and title.
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Barrande, J.
Acéphalés. Etudes locales et comparatives. Extraits du système Silurien du centre de la Bohème. Vol. VI. Acéphalés.
Prague, chez l'auteur, 1881. 8vo (24.0 x 15.2 cm). xxxii, 536 pp.; ten double-sized lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
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Boettger, O.
Ad. Strubell's Konchylien aus Java I [AND] Ad. Strubell's Konchylien aus Java II und von den Molukken. [Complete].
Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1890-1891. Two parts in one. 8vo (22.1 x 15.4 cm). 115 pp. [37; 78]; four [2; 2] lithographed plates. Disbound.
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Montagu, G. [Chenu, J. C. (translator)]
Bibliothèque conchyliologique Tome quatrième. Testacea Britannica ou histoire naturelle des coquilles marines fluviatiles et terrestres d'Angleterre.
Paris, A. Franck, 1846. Large 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). Half-title to the series, half-title and title page, with engraved vignette, to the work. xi, 364 pp.; 12 engraved plates. Publisher's printed boards with engraved vignette on front board.
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Martens, [K.] E. von [AND] F. D. Godman
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Land and freshwater Mollusca. [AND] Introductory Volume.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1890-1901, 1915. Two parts in two. 4to (30.7 x 25.1 cm). xxviii, 706 pp.; 44 lithographed plates, of which plates 1-28 finely hand-coloured and partly heightened with gum arabic; [AND] viii, 149 pp.; two phototype portraits, eight coloured maps. Slightly later dark blue and black buckram with gilt title on the spines.
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Goodrich, C.
Calvin Goodrich. Complete occasional papers.
Ann Arbour, MI, The University of Michigan, 1921-1944. 27 papers in one. 8vo (22.5 x 15.0 cm). 334 pp.; eight plates (including one map and one portrait), several text illustrations. Red buckram with gilt bands and title on the spine.
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Dautzenberg, P. and H. Fischer
Campagnes scientifiques de S. A. le Prince Albert 1er de Monaco. Dragages effectués par l'Hirondelle et par la Princesse-Alice, 1888-1895 [AND] 1888-1896 [AND] Mollusques appartenant a la famille des Scalidae et au genre Mathildia.
Paris, Société Zoologique de France, 1896-1897. Three papers in two. 212 pp. [104; 95; 13 (numbered 395-498; 139-234; 62-74)], 14 [8; 5, 1] phototype plates. Near uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, gilt title and gilt ornamental head and foot pieces. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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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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Reeve, L. A.
Conchologia Iconica. Monograph of the genus Marginella.
London, Lovell A. Reeve, 1864-1865. 4to (28.0 x 22.0 cm). Title page and 27 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each with explanatory text leaves and printed index. Original "The Oast House, Brook, Ashford" pictorial wrappers.
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Reeve, L. A.
Conchologia Iconica. Monographs of the genus Cerithidea, Cerithium, Lampania, Potamides, Pyrazus, Telescopium, Tympanotonos, and Vertagus.
London, Lovell A. Reeve, 1865-1866. Folio (25.9 x 20.3 cm). Titles and indices to all parts, and 36 beautifully hand-coloured plates [ Cerithidea (1866) 4; Cerithium (1865) 20; Lampania 1866) 2; Potamides (1866) 1; Pyrazus (1865) 1; Telescopium (1865) 1; Tympanotonos (1866) 2; Vertagus (1865-1866) 5]; all with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Guiart, [P. L.] J. [A.]
Contribution à l'étude des gastéropodes opisthobranches et en particulier des céphalaspides.
Lille, Le Bigot Frères, 1901. 8vo (22.8 x 15.1 cm). 219 pp.; 119 text illustrations, one large, multi-folded chart, seven lithographed plates. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Edges speckled red. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Barrande, J.
Céphalopodes. Etudes générales. Extraits du système Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Vol. II, Texte V. Chap. XVII. Partie initiale de la coquille. Observations générales. Chap. XVIII. Distribution verticale des Céphalopodes, dans l'ensemble des contrées paléozoiques. Chap. XIX. Résumé général de nos études sur les Céphalopodes.
Prague, Paris, J. Barrande [the author], 1877. 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). 253 pp; four double-sized, lithographed plates with explanatory text. 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 (28.1 x 20.1 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded engraved plates. Period style half calf over marbled boards, later endpapers.
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Körnig, G. et al. (eds.)
Die Weichtiere (Mollusca) des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Arten der Anhänge zur Flora-Fauna-Habitat-Richtlinie sowie der kennzeichnenden Arten der Flora-Fauna-Habitat-Lebensraumtypen
Halle (Saale), Landesamt für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt, 2013. Large 4to. 336 pp.; numerous full colour illustrations. Full colour pictorial softcover.
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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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Bruguière, J. G. [AND] Deshayes, G. P.
Encyclopedie Methodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier. Tome troisième. [Texts].
Paris, Pancoucke, 1789-1792 [AND] Mme veuve Agasse, 1832. 4to (27.8 x 21.3 cm [AND] 25.1 x 20.8 cm). 1321 (of 1915) pp. [i-vi, 1-757; 595-1152]. Original boards, and contemporary half calf over marbled boards.
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Bruguière, J. G.
Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.
Paris, Panckoucke, 1797. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 97 finely engraved plates (numbered 190-286), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label.
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Bruguière, J. G. and Lamarck [J. B. P. A. de Monet de] and Candolle, [A. P.] de
Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.
Paris, Panckoucke, An VI [1797]. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 104 finely engraved plates (numbered 287-390), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label.
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Pfeffer, G. [J.]
Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich eine monographische Übersicht der Oegopsiden Cephalopoden. Hierzu ein Atlas von 48 Tafeln. [The complete Cephalopoda].
Kiel und Leipzig, Lipsius & Tischer, 1912. In two volumes. Large 4to (32.1 x 26.1 cm). xxi, 815 pp.; 48 lithographed plates. Uniform red buckram with gilt title on the spines. Edges speckled red. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Dru, [V. E.] L. and [E. C. P. A.] Munier-Chalmas
Extraits de la Mission de M. le Commandant Roudaire dans les Chotts Tunisiens (1878-1879). I. hydrologie, géologie et paléontologie. II. Paléontologie. Description des espèces nouvelles.
Paris, Georges Chamerot, 1881. 8vo (25.0 x 16.2 cm). 79 pp.; one large, triple-folded, tinted map, one very large, multi-folded and hand-coloured profile from Chott Rharsa to the Mediterranean coast, five lithographed plates with shells. Original printed front wrapper in near contemporary wrappers.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossil shells of the Tertiary formations of North America, illustrated by figures, drawn on stone, from nature. Vol. 1(1)-(4). [AND] Vol. 1(3) ["republication"] Eocene fossils of the Claiborne, with observations on this formation in the United States, and a geological map of Alabama.
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1832-1835. 8vo (23.3 x 14.2 cm). 74 pp.; 21 plates [numbered 1-14, XV-XVI, 17-21]. 20th-century black buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Joubin, L.
Gisements de Mollusques Comestibles des Cotes de France. La Méditerranée: de Cerbère à l'embrouchure de l'Hérault. (Avec une Carte).
Monte Carlo, Institut Océoanographique, 1913. 8vo (23.8 x 16.2 cm). 16 pp.; one page-sized map, and one very large, tinted and partially hand-coloured, multi-folded map (ca 100 x 80 cm). Contemporary blind boards.
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Férussac, [A. É. J. P. J. F. d'Audebert de] (Baron) and G. P. Deshayes
Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles. Tant des espèces qui l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels qui présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. [Large paper copy. Text and atlases, complete].
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1820-1851. In four volumes. Folio (42.5 x 30.0 cm). Four half-titles, four title pages, 950 pp.; (I: [v-viii, 402; II: xvi, [1]-184, 96a-z [i.e., 25; letter w omitted], 96α-96λ [i.e., 11], 96.1-96.24 (i.e., 24), 260, 22, [ii]); 248 engraved plates on paper stubs [Atlas I: 1-69K; Atlas II: 70-166, 1-5; 127A, 127B, 127A-127B], mostly printed in colour, some finished by hand. One plate plain, as intended. Uniform 19th-century half brown morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt.
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Lischke, C. E.
Japanische Meeres-Conchylien. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken Japan's, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die geographische Verbreitung derselben. I - III. [Complete].
Cassel [Kassel], Theodor Fischer, 1869-1875. Three volumes in one. 4to (28.2 x 21.7 cm). Three title pages; 503 pp. ([ii], 192; [ii], 184; 123]); 37 [14; 14; 9] fine, hand-coloured lithographed plates. Later grained green half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands and two green morocco labels with gilt title.
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Eilenburg, C. H.
Kurzer Entwurf der königlichen Naturalienkammer zu Dresden.
Dresden and Leipzig, Walther, 1755. Folio (27.8 x 20.9 cm). Title page with engraved armorial vignette; 102 pp.; two very large, multi-folded engraved plans; several engraved pictorial headpieces and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title in gilt, ornamental border; boards with ruled borders. Colour-stamped floral endpapers. Edges marbled blue.
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Deyrolle, É. (ed.)
Le Naturaliste. Journal des échanges et des nouvelles. Volume I-III [no's 1-66].
Paris, Émile Deyrolle, 1879-1881. Three volumes in one. Folio (31.5 x 23.8 cm). 532 pp. Numerous illustrations. Contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title.
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Milne-Edwards, A.
Les explorations sous-marines du "Travailleur" dans l'Océan Atlantique et dans la Méditerranée wen 1880 et 1881.
Paris, Société de Géographie, 1882. 8vo (22.7 x 14.0 cm). 38 pp. [numbered 93-130]; two fine, very large, chromolithographed maps. Original blind wrappers.
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Roemer, [C.] F. [von]
Lethaea Erratica oder Aufzählung und Beschreibung der in der norddeutschen Ebene vorkommenden Diluvial-Geschiebe nordischer Sedimentär-Gesteine.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1885. Large 4to (30.2 x 23.6 cm). Title page, 173, xii pp; 11 lithographed plates with accompanying explanatory text leaves. Original limp blind boards, with stamp.
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Dezallier d'Argenville, A. J. D.
l'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre; ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode Latine & Françoise de les diviser: augmenté de la zoomorphose, ou representation des animaux a coquilles, avec leurs explications. Nouvelle édition. Enrichie de figures dessinées d'après nature.
Paris, De Bure, 1757. 4to (28.5 x 22.8 cm). Title in red and black, with woodcut vignette, xxii, 394 pp.; half-title, second title in red and black, 84, cvii pp.; engraved frontispiece (plate 1) and another 40 [2-29, 1-3, 1-9] engraved plates (i.e., a total of 41 plates). Contemporary mottled calf with gilt-lined edges. Spine with five raised bands, compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and brown morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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