Malacology
220 items found
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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Agassiz, L.
Iconographie des coquilles Tertiaires, réputées identiques avec les espèces vivantes ou dans différens terrains de l'époque Tertiaire, accompagnée de la description des espèces nouvelles.
Neuchatel, Henri Wolfrath (for the Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles), 1845. Large 4to (32.4 x 25.0 cm). 64 pp.; 15 lithographed plates (numbered 1-14, A). Later quarter cloth over plain blue boards. Spine with paper label with printed title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Agassiz, L. et al.
Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel. Tome I. Avec planches.
Neuchatel, Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchatel [Petitpierre et Prince], 1853. Large 4to. 199, 40 pp.; 18 fine lithographed and engraved plates of which ten hand-coloured; several tables, incuding one larger, double-folded. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards; front board with printed title mounted.
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Albers, J. C. [AND] Castello de Paiva, A.
Malacographia maderensis sive enumeratio molluscorum quae in insulis Maderae et Portus Sancti aut viva extant aut fossilia reperiuntur [AND] Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium Insularium Maderensium.
Berolini [Berlin], Georg Reimer, 1854 [AND] Olisipone [Lisbon], Academicis, 1867. Two works in one. 4to (26.9 x 21.3 cm). 94 pp.; 17 lithographed plates (all but one finely hand-coloured). [AND] 170 pp.; two finely hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. [AND] Four "letters" loosely inserted. Later blue buckram with gilt titles on the spine.
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Arthaber, G. Von
Lethaea geognostica. Handbuch der Erdgeschichte. Mit Abbildung der fur die Formationen bezeichendsten Versteinerungen. Mesozoikum. Band 1. Trias. Lieferung 3. Die alpine Trias des Mediterrangebietes.
Stuttgart, 1905. Large 8vo (25.6 x 18.0 cm). 249 pp.; 67 text figures, 27 lithographed and photographic plates. Contemporary blue pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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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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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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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. II. Classe des mollusques, ordre des céphalopodes. Texte et 544 planches.
Prague, Musée Bohême, 1867-1877. 11 parts in 11. Large 4to and folio (32.5 x 25.5). 3,583 pp.; 545 lithographed plates (including 240bis) with explanatory text leaves. Original near uniform blind-tooled cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: recherches paléontologiques. Vol. III. Texte et 16 planches. Classe des mollusques. Ordre des ptéropodes.
Prague, Paris, privately published, 1867. Large 4to (32.9 x 25.9 cm). 179 pp.; 16 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original blind-tooled burgundy cloth with gilt title on spine.
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Basilewsky, S.
Ichthyographia Chinae borealis scripta a Doctore Medicinae Stephano Basilewsky.
Moscou, Université Imperiale, [1852]-1855. 4to (28.2 x 22.5 cm). Title page to the work, 45 pp. [numbered 218-263]; eighth finely engraved and hand-coloured plates, where appropriate heightened with silver. Later green cloth with the original green, printed front wrapper mounted.
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