Malacology
220 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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Dillwyn, L. W.
A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells; arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. In two volumes. [Complete].
London, John and Arthur Arch, 1817. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.3 x 14.2 cm). Two title pages, half-title. 1135 pp. (xii, 1-580; 580-1092, [xxix], [ii]). Original paper-covered boards with printed label on the spines.
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Cox, J. C.
A monograph of the Australian land shells. Illustrated by XVIII plates.
Sydney, William Maddock, 1868. 8vo (23.3 x 15.8 cm). v, 111 pp.; 20 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, tissue-guarded, and with explanatory text leaves. Later burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Lycett, J.
A monograph of the British fossil Trigoniae. [AND] Supplement to a monograph of the British fossil Trigoniae.
London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1875-1879; 1881-1883. Two parts in one. 4to (27.0 x 21.1 cm). 292 pp. [main work: [iv], 245; Supplement: [iv] 19]; 45 finely lithographed plates [Main work: 41, numbered I-IX, 10-40, XLI; Supplement: 4], numerous text illustrations [main work]; ; four text figures, four plates [Supplement]. Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands and two red morocco labels with gilt title. Brown endpapers; red speckled edges.
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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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Wood, S. V.
A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with descriptions of shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Part I. Univalves. Part II. Bivalves. Part III. Supplement to the Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with descriptions of shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. Vol. III. Univalves and bivalves. [Part IV] Second supplement to the Crag Mollusca, comprising testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Univalves and bivalves. [Part V]. Third supplement to the Crag Mollusca, comprising testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. [Complete].
London, The Palaeontographical Society, [1848-] 1850-1882. Five volumes in two. 4to (27.3 x 22.0 cm). 912 pp. [xii, 208; 342, 2; xxxi, 231; ii, 58; (ii), 24]; several text figures, 72 [21;31;13;6;1] lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves; one very large, multi-folded chart with profiles. Later uniform brown pebbled cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the fresh-water univalve Mollusca of the United States. (In continuation of Prof. S. S. Haldeman's work, published under the above title). Turbidae. Physadae.
Philadelphia, PA, The Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1870. Four parts in one. 8vo (22.1 x 14.4 cm). 238 pp; 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates [ Paludina 12-17; Limnea 16-18; Physa 6-9; Planorbis 5-7; Ancylus 2.] Later olive buckram with gilt title on the spine. Three original printed front wrappers bound in.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca inhabiting the United States.
Philadelphia, PA., [the author], 1866. 8vo (21.7 x 13.7 cm). 203 pp. [159, xliv]; 18 lithographed plates, each in careful original hand-colouring. Contemporary gilt-bordered black pebbled morocco over grey pebbled cloth. Spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, gilt lines and title. Yellow endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Tryon, G. W.
A monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca inhabiting the United States. With illustrations of all the species.
Philadelphia, PA, the author, 1866. 8vo (21.1 x 13.7 cm). 159, xliii pp.; 18 lithographed plates in double suite: hand coloured, and uncoloured, sepia-tinted (for a total of 36 plates). Later olive buckram. Gilt bands and title on the spine.
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Jeffreys, J. G.
A synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. In a letter addressed to L. W. Dillwyn. [AND] A supplement to the 'Synopsis of testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain'.
London, The Linnean Society, [1830-] 1833. 4to (25.8 x 20.2 cm). 89 pp. [numbered 323-392; 505-523]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt ornaments and title. Red edges.
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Swainson, W. [J.]
A Treatise on Malacology or Shells and Shell-fish [The cabinet cyclopaedia. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner... Natural History].
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, and John Taylor, 1840. 12mo (17.1 x 10.6 cm). Letterpress title, engraved title with large vignette, 419 pp.; 130 text engravings. Publisher's green, embossed cloth with gilt title spine. Patterned endpapers. Printed errata slip bound in.
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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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various authors
[Alert voyage] Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the HMS Alert 1881-1882.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1884. Thick 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm). xxv, 684 pp.; 54 lithographed plates (some partially coloured). Original embossed and gilt-lettered cloth.
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Tryon, G. W.
American Marine Conchology: or, Descriptions of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from Maine to Florida.
Philadelphia, PA, The Author, 1873. 8vo (22.5 x 14.9 cm). 32 pp. (first seven with Roman page numbers); eight finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates by the author. Original printed wrappers.
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Linnaeus, C.
Amoenitates academicae seu dissertationes variae physicae, medicae botanicae antehac seorsim editae nunc collectae et auctae ... editio tertia curante D. Jo. Christiano Daniele Schrebero.
Erlangen, J. Jacob Palm, 1787-1790. Ten volumes in ten. 8vo. Title pages, 4,691 pp. (1: [ii], 571; 2: [ii], 472; 3: [ii], 464; 4: [ii], 600, [ii]; 5: [ii], 583, [ix]; 6: [ii], 486, [vi]; 7: [ii], 506, [iv]; 8: [ii], 332, [i]; 9: [ii], 331; 10: [iii], 172, 131); 59 folded, engraved plates [17;4;4;4;11 [numbered I-III, I-VIII];6;7;6;0;0]. Uniform contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spines with gilt bands and two light brown, gilt-bordered morocco labels with gilt titles and volume numbers (small, oval labels).
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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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Hoefnagel, G.
Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 1.8.
Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured.
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Prieser, T.
Beitrag zur Systematik und Stammesgeschichte der europäischen Peltoceraten.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart (Erwin Nägele), 1937. Large 4to (29.2 x 22.4 cm). 144 pp.; nine heliographic plates, seven text figures, five folding plates with line drawings. Burgundy leatherette. Spine with black morocco label with gilt title.
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Martens, [K.] E. von
Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Mollusken. [Including] Anhang. Anatomie einiger Landschnecken.
[Berlin, Gutmann], 1880. 4to (30.3 x 25.3 cm). Title page, 172 pp. (numbered [181]-352); four lithographed and finely hand-coloured plates [numbered 19-22]. Later green, pebbled cloth with gilt title on the spine.
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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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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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Pennant, T.
British Zoology. Vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea.
London, Benjamin White., 1777. 8vo (20.5 x 12.9 cm). Engraved title page with molluscan vignette, xviii, 154 pp.; 93 finely engraved plates [numbered I-XCII, IX.A]. 20th-century buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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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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Rigacci, G.
Catalogo delle conchiglie componenti la collezione Rigacci. Parte prima. Conchiglie viventi. [AND] Necrologia di Giovanni Rigacci.
Roma, Salviucci, 1874-1875. Tall 4to (27.2 x 19.2 cm). [ii], 144 pp. Albumen portrait, mounted. Patterned half-linen over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title.
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Bouillet, J. B.
Catalogue des espèces et variétés de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés jusqu'a ce jour a l'état vivant, dans la Haute et la Basse-Auvergne (départemens de Cantal, du Puy-de-Dôme et partie de celui de la Haute-Loire); suivi d'un autre catalogue des espèces fossiles recueillies récemment dans les diverses formations tertiaires des mêmes départemens. [AND] Coquilles fossiles du calcaire d'eau douce du Cantal.
Clermont-Ferrand, Thibaud-Landriot, 1834-1836. Two papers in one. 8vo (21.6 x 13.7 cm). 166, [i] pp.; 16 pp.; two lithographed plates. 20th-century half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Original printed wrappers of the first paper bound in.
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Pilsbry, H. A.
Catalogue of the marine mollusks of Japan with descriptions of new species and notes on others collected by Frederick Stearns.
Detroit, Frederick Stearns, 1895. 8vo (22.3 x 13.8 cm). viii, 196 pp., 11 lithographed, engraved, and phototype plates. Later blue buckram with gilt lines and title on the spine.
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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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