Malacology
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Fischer, P. [H.] and [J. C.] H. Crosse
Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, ouvrage publié par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur et par les soins du Ministre de l'Instruction publique. Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune d'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique publiées sous la direction de M. Milne Edwards. Septième Partie. Études sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatemala.
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1870-1902. Two parts in three. Large 4to and matching folio (35.1 x 26.7 cm). Title pages to the zoology part, the volume, the text, and the atlas; 702; 731 [1-376, 377-731] pp.; 72 lithographed plates of which 46 finely and accurately hand-coloured. Uniform dark blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. All 17 original printed wrappers bound in. The wrappers list the year of publication, and the included plates and feuilles by number.
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Folin, A. G. L., De
[Caecidae]. Le genre Meioceras. [AND] Monographie de la famille des Coecidae. [AND] A.L.S. to O. A. L. Mørch [AND] Manuscript by Mørch.
Angers, Société Linnéenne de Maine et Loire, 1869 [AND] Bayonne, Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Bayonne, 1875. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). Text and plates, as follows: Le genre Meioceras (1869; pp. 17-31; one lithographed plate); 4 pp. letter to O. A. L. Mörch; 3 pp. synopsis (by Mörch); Monographie de la famille des Coecidae (1875; title page, pp. 3-31; one lithographed plate). Later dark blue buckram. Spine with gilt title.
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Forbes, D. et al.
Report on the geology of South America. Part I. Bolivia and southern Peru: with notes on the fossils by Professor Huxley, ... J. W. Salter ... T. Rupert Jones.
London, The Geological Society [Taylor and Francis], 1861. 8vo (22.2 x 14.0 cm). 84 pp.; two hand-coloured maps; one very long, multi-folded profile, and three lithographed plates showing fossils. Original printed wrappers.
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Fritsch, A.
Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation Böhmens. Band I-IV. [Complete].
Prag, Selbstverlag and F. Řivnáč, 1879-1899 [1901?]. Four volumes in four. Folio (34.0 x 25.5 cm). 459 pp., lavishly illustrated with 167 mostly chromolithographed plates (several double-sized or larger, folded), and over 400 text engravings, of which some plate-sized. Volume I (1883): 182 pp., 48 plates (some larger, folded, a few plain), 160 text engravings; volume II (1889): 114 pp., 44 plates (several larger, folded; numbered 49-90, 80b, 81b), 79 text figures (numbered 117-188); vol. III (1895): 132 pp., 42 plates [several (much) larger; numbered 91-132], 122 text engravings (numbered 189-310); vol. IV (1901): 101 pp., full colour frontispiece, of a landscape with "Miriopoden"; 33 plates (numbered 133-165), 64 text engravings (numbered 311-394, and including phototypes of fossil animals and tracks, freshwater bivalves, and, e.g. the author at work). Original uniform brown cloth sumptuously embossed with black floral borders, and gilt vignettes depicting Permian amphibians, reptiles and fish. Marbled edges.
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Gabb, W. M.
Description of a collection of fossils, made by Doctor Antonio Raimondi in Peru.
Philadelphia, PA, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, "1877" [1881]. Large 4to (33.1 x 25.5 cm). Drophead title; 74 pp. [numbered 263-336]; nine lithographed plates [numbered 35-43]. Later black buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Gaertner, [P.] G. [Gärtner]
Versuch einer systematischen Beschreibung der in Wetterau bisher entdekkten Konchylien.
Hanau, Johann Gerhard Scharneck, 1813. Square 4to (22.4 x 19.8 cm). Title page, [iv], 40 pp. Interleaved. Contemporary marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and paper label. Red edges.
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Grateloup, [J. P. S. de]
Conchyliologie fossile du Bassin de l'Adour, ou description des coquilles fossiles qui ont été trouvées dans les terrains marins tertiaires, aux environs de Dax (département des Landes).
Bordeaux, Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux (T. Lafargue), 1837-1840. Folio (30.7 x 24.0 cm). Half-title, title page, [72], 12 pp.; 48 large, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. Later quarter line over marbled boards. Spine with paper label with handwritten title in an old hand.
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Gregorio, A., De
Monographie de la faune Éocénique de l'Alabama et surtout de celle de Claiborne de l'étage Parisien (horizon à Venericardia planicosta Lamk.). Avec 46 pl. (contenant 1480 figures de 751 espèces et mutations).
Palermo, Librairie International L. Pedone Lauriel (Charles Clausen), 1890. Folio (33.2 x 24.0 cm). 316 pp.; 46 fine lithographed plates. Original printed boards.
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Hanley, S. [C. T.]
Ipsa Linnaei conchylia. The shells of Linnaeus, determined from his manuscripts and collection. Also, an exact reprint of the Vermes Testacea of the 'Systema Naturae' and 'Mantissa'.
London, Williams and Norgate, 1855. 8vo (22.1 x 14.3 cm). Title page, [i], 556 pp.; five lithographed and finely hand-coloured plates, tissue-guarded. Original blind-stamped pebbled cloth. Spine with gilt title.
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