Malacology
183 items found
Koninck, L. [G.] de
Description des animaux fossiles, qui se trouvent dans le terrain carbonifère de Belgique. Supplément.
Liège, H. Dessain, 1851. 4to (29.9 x 21.8 cm). 76 pp.; five lithographed, tinted plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands; gilt ornamental bands and title. Marbled endpapers; marbled edges.
Read moreKaempfer, E.
De beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen staat en regeering van dat Ryk.
The Hague, P. Gosse and J. Neaulme; Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1729. Folio (37.5 x 25.0 cm). 500 pp. Half-title, title page explanation, frontispiece (engraved title) by I. C. Philips, letterpress title in red and black; 48 double-sized maps and plates (I-XVII, XXX-XLV, XXIV*, A-BXXVIII, A-BXXIX). Contemporary full mottled calf; spine with six raised bands; compartments rich gilt with fine, elaborate floral ornaments, and red morocco label with gilt title; boards with double gilt roll stamped border, gilt floral corner pieces and central vignettes. Mottled edges.
Read moreSeder, A.
Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. I. Serie. Die Wasserthiere [AND] II. Serie. Vögel. [Complete]. Together with two amazing original watercolours (of plates 21 and 25) drawn by the artist himself.
Wien, Gerlach & Schenk, 1896. Two large folio portfolios (57.9 x 44.3 cm) with one page of text, one illustrated title page and 29 stunning chromolithographed plates showing animals in a fabulous Art Nouveau style. Each original quarter linen portfolios has an impressive dragon on front, with the title artistically arranged around it [AND] Two original watercolours by Seder, being the originals examples for plates 21 and 25.
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 moreHanley, S. [C. T.] and W. Theobald
Conchologia Indica: illustrations of the land and freshwater shells of British India.
London, L. Reeve, [1870]-1876. 4to (27.2 x 20.8 cm). xviii, 65 pp.; 160 hand-coloured, lithographed plates. 20th-century dark green buckram. Gilt title on the spine.
Read moreReeve, 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 with explanatory text leaves and printed index. Original "The Oast House, Brook, Ashford" pictorial wrappers.
Read moreLegrand, 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.
Read more[Letourneux, E.] Couffon, O and T. Surrault (eds.)
Collection malacologique T. Letourneux offerte au Musée d'Histoire naturelle de la ville d'Angers. Catalogue par MM. O. Couffon (Coquilles marines) Th. Surrault (coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles). Ouvrage honoré d'une subvention de M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.
Angers, Germain et G. Grassin, 1909. 8vo (21.4 x 13.6 cm). Half-title, title page, xiii, 202 pp.; two portraits. Mid-20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read morePilsbry, 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.
Read moreAdams, C. B.
Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on synonymy, station, and habitat.
New York, NY, The Lyceum of Natural History, 1852. 8vo (21.0 x 14.0 cm). 321, [1] pp. Later black half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title. Greenish endpapers; speckled edges.
Read moreBouillet, 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.
Read moreRigacci, 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.
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 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 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 moreRicketts, E. F. and J. Calvin
Between Pacific Tides. An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico.
Stanford University Press, 1939. Large 8vo (22.8 x 15.6 cm). xxii, 320 pp.; 46 numbered plates, 112 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Green endpapers.
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.
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