Malacology
185 items found
Ackermann, R. (publisher) [Hodson, T. and J. Dougall]
The Cabinet of the Arts, being a new & universal drawing book, illustrated by 130 engravings from drawings by various masters. Second edition with additions. [Atlas].
London, R. Ackermann, [1821]. Folio (28.2 x 22.5 cm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title; 126 engraved and aquatint plates, of which 31 originally coloured by hand. Later half calf over contemporary plain boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title. Olive endpapers; speckled edges.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Jurassiques. II. Gasteropodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1850-1860. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm [text]; 22.0 x 15.7 cm [atlas]). 623 pp.; 198 lithographed plates, numbered 235-431, 237bis. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreMorlet, L. [J.] et al.
Mission Pavie Indo-Chine 1879-1895. III. Recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de l'Indo-Chine orientale. Mollusques.
Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1904. 4to (26.6 x 21.6 cm). 118 pp. [numbered 332-449]; four finely lithographed and hand-coloured plates. Brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges.
Read moreNeumann, J. G.
Naturgeschichte Schlesisch-Lausitzischer Land- und Wassermollusken.
Zittau, Johann Gottfried Seyfert (for the Oberlausitzischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften), 1833. 8vo (18.6 x 11.9 cm). 166 pp.; two large, folded lithographed and hand-coloured plates. Later pebbled half cloth over marbled board. Spine with gilt title. Red edges.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Jurassiques. I. Cephalopodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1842-1849. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.3 x 13.8 cm [texte]; 22.2 x 15.6 cm [atlas]). 642 pp.; 234 lithographed plates. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised, stipple-gilted bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreOrbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Jurassiques. II. Gasteropodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1850-1860. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.3 x 13.2 cm [text]; 22.1 x 14.6 cm [atlas]). 623 pp.; 198 lithographed plates, numbered 235-431, 237bis. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers.
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 moreMichaelsen, W. and R. Hartmeyer (eds.)
Die Fauna südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-Australischer Forschungsreise 1905.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1907-1914. Four (of five) parts in four. 4to (26.5 x 19.0 cm). 2,143 pp.; one map, 42 plates (some coloured). Contemporary uniform half calf with gilt titles on spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. All original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreOrbigny, A. 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. 4.e Partie: Paléontologie.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1842. Folio (34.0 x 25.9 cm). Title page, half-title, 182 pp.; 22 finely lithographed plates. Spine with gilt lines and title. Later blind linen spine over contemporary boards. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreOwen, D. D.
Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska territory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department [AND] Illustrations to the geology report of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Two parts in two. 4to (31.1 x 23.0 cm). Engraved frontispiece and title page, 639 pp. (first xxxviii in Roman numbers), numerous fine steel-engravings (text volume); title page, 27 (I-XV, IA-D, IIA-B, IIIA, VA-B, VIIIA, XIIA-B) fine lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, and 21 mostly folding (all but two) and (partly) hand-coloured (all but two) geological maps, views, and profiles (atlas volume). Original near uniform blind-tooled cloth. Text volume spine with gilt title, plate volume with gilt title on the front board.
Read morePaetel, F.
Die bisher veröffentlichten Familien- und Gattungsnamen der Mollusken.
Berlin, Gebrüder Paetel, 1875. 8vo (22.4 x 15.1 cm). Contemporary grained half morocco over shagreen boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands and gilt title. Salmon endpapers; yellow edges.
Read morePaetel, F. [Schaufuss, L. W. (ed.)]
Molluscorum, systema et catalogus. System und Aufzählung sämmtlicher Conchylien der Sammlung von Fr. Paetel. Zur Belebung des Interesses für Malakozoologie, herausgegeben von Dr. L. Schaufuss.
Dresden, Oscar Weiske, 1869. 8vo (22.4 x 13.8 cm). xiv, 119 pp. Contemporary limp vellum with script title on the spine.
Read morePassy, A. [F.]
Description géologique du département de la Seine-Inférieure. [Text and Atlas].
Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1832. Two parts [text and atlas] in one. 4to (26.7 x 21.3 cm). 402 pp. [xvi, 371; 15]; 20 engraved plates (several double-sized), of which 15 in original hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards; spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read morePennant, 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.
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 moreMoquin-Tandon, [C. H. B.] A.
Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1855. Three parts in three. 4to (25.2 x 16.1 cm). I: viii, 416 pp.; II: 646 pp.; Atlas: half-title, title page, 92 pp., 54 finely chromolithographic plates. Contemporary uniform polished half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands and two black calf labels with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
Read moreMeyer, H. A. and K. Möbius
Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Erster Band: Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia. Mit 26 Tafeln. Zweiter Band: Die Prosobranchia und Lamellibranchia nebst einen Supplement zu den Opisthobranchia. Mit 24 Tafeln. [Complete].
Leipzig, Engelmann, 1865-1872. Two parts in two. Folio (35.4 x 25.7 cm [board size: 36.1 x 26.8 cm). Two title pages (as part of a series, and as a stand-alone), 213 pp.; 46 [24; 22] chromolithographed plates, tinted lithographed map, three tables, including two large, folded; printed errata slip. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Spines with gilt title.
Read morePhilippi, R. A.
Los fósiles terciarios i cuartarios de Chile.
Santiago de Chile, Gobierno de Chile, 1887. Large 4to (31.3 x 26.4 cm). 256 pp.; 58 fine lithographic plates. Publisher's embossed black cloth; boards with rich gilt-ornamented borders and title. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Inner dentelles. Endpapers with floral pattern. All edges marbled.
Read moreLister, M.
Historiae sive synopsis methodicae conchyliorum et tabularum anatomicarum editio altera.
Oxoni [Oxford], Clarendoniano, 1770. Folio (37.3x 24.2 cm). Letterpress title, two pp. preface; seven pp. with engraved titles, introduction, systematical table, abbreviations and section review, index title, dedication leaf, 12, 77 pp.; 1056 figures (numbered 1-194, 197-922, 924-1058; 168.a) on over 400 plates (several double-sized, folded); a further 22, partly unnumbered, engraved anatomical plates. 20th-century full calf. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title. Speckled edges.
Read moreLeymerie, A. [F. G. A.]
Description géologique et paléontologique des Pyrenées de la Haute-Garonne accompagnée d'une carte topographique et géologique à l'echelle 1:200.000 et d'un Atlas...
Toulouse, Privat, 1878, 1881. In two volumes. Text (1881) 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). Atlas (1878) oblong 4to (23.5 x 31.5 cm). 1,027 pp.; 51 lithographed plates of which 11 tinted or coloured (and of which 30 are on fossils), including a large folded transection of the Pyrenees, Haute Garonne, and the large coloured geological map (with 20 colours) mounted on linen. Original printed wrappers (text) and boards (atlas).
Read moreLeymerie, A. [F. G. A.]
Mémoire sur le terrain a nummulites (épicrétacé) des corbières de la Montagne Noire.
Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1846. Folio (35.0 x 25.9 cm). 39 pp.; six lithographed plates, of which one a hand-coloured map and the others showing fossils, mainly molluscs. Near contemporary blind quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards. Original blind blue wrappers bound in.
Read moreLinnaeus, 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).
Read moreLischke, 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.
Read moreLocard, [E. A.] A.
Conchyliologie française. Les coquilles marines des cotes de France. Description des familles, genres et espèces. [AND] Les coquilles des eaux douces et saumatres de France. Description des familles, genres et espèces. [AND] Les coquilles terrestres de France. Description des familles, genres et espèces. [AND] Les coquilles marines au large des côtes de France. Faune pélagique et faune abyssale. Description des familles, genres et espèces. [AND] Les coquilles marines des cotes de Corse (co-authored by É. Caziot).
Paris, J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1892-1900. Five volumes in five. Large 8vo (25.5 x 16.7 cm). 1,576 pp. (384;327;370;297;198); 1165 text figures (348; 302; 515; 0; 0). Uniform blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. Speckled edges.
Read moreLocard, [E. A.] A.
Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques terrestres, des eaux douces et des eaux saumâtres. [AND] Mollusques marins.
Lyon, Henri Georg, Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1882-1886. In two volumes. Large 8vo (27.0 x 18.6 cm). 1,256 pp. [vi, 462; x, 778]. Uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands; compartment with gilt vignettes and titles. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreLycett, 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). [iv], 245 pp.; plates [numbered I-IX, 10-40, XLI], numerous text illustrations [the main work]; [iv] 19 pp.; four text figures, four plates [the 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.
Read moreMartens, [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.
Read moreMartens, [K.] E. von
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Land and freshwater Mollusca.
London, Taylor and Francis, 1890-1901. 4to (31.3 x 25.2 cm). xxviii, 706 pp.; 44 lithographed plates, of which plates 1-28 finely hand-coloured and partly heightened with gum arabic. Slightly later green buckram with gilt title on the spine.
Read moreMartens, [K.] E. von
Ueber vorderasiatische Conchylien nach den Sammlungen des Prof. Hausknecht.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1874. 4to (29.0 x 23.2 cm). vi, 127 pp.; nine fine, hand-coloured lithographed plates. Near contemporary half cloth over marbled board. Spine with gilt title on the spine. Edges sprinkled red.
Read moreMartens, [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.
Read moreMartini, [F. H. W.] (ed.)
Beschäftigungen der Berliner Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde. Zweeter Band.
Berlin, Joachim Pauli, 1776. 8vo (19.2 x 11.2 cm). Title page with finely engraved vignette; xl, 607 pp.; 14 folded, engraved plates of which ten in original hand-colouring (plates numbered I-XIII, IXA). Original speckled paper covered boards with paper label on the spine. Speckled edges.
Read moreMenegazzi, L.
Malacologia Veronese.
Verona, Accademia di Agricoltura Commercio et Arti, 1855. 8vo (22.3 x 14.3 cm). Half-title, two title pages; xiii, 335 pp.; two plates, of which one in chromolithography and the second engraved and hand-coloured. Contemporary black pebbled half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers; marbled edges.
Read moreMenke, C. T.
Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum aerum, quae in Museo Menkeano adservantur; cum synonymia critica et novarum specierum diagnostibus. Editio altera, auctior et emendatior.
Pyrmont, Georg Uslar, 1830. 8vo (19.9 x 11.8 cm. xvi, 169 pp. Contemporary grained, blind-stamped boards. Gilt title on spine. Marbled edges.
Read morePhilippi, R. A.
Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Fortgezetzt von Hofrath Dr. G. H. v. Schubert und Professor Dr. J. A . Wagner. In Verbindung mit Dr. Philippi, Dr. L. Pfeiffer und Dr. Dunker neu herausgegeben und vervollständgt von Dr. H. C. Kuster. Zweiten Bandes vierte Abtheilung. Die Gattungen Delphinula, Scissurella und Globulus. In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen von Dr. R. A. Philippi.
Nürnberg, Bauer & Raspe, 1853. 4to (28.3 x 21.8 cm). 57 pp.; eight lithographed plates of which seven finely hand-coloured, and one intentionally plain. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreTryon, 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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