Malacology
192 items found
Williams, J. D. et al.
Freshwater mussels of Alabama & the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi & Tennessee.
Tuscaloosa, AL, The University of Alabama Press, 2008. Large, thick 4to (30.0 x 22.8 cm). xv, 908 pp.; numerous, nearly all full colour illustrations. Publisher's pictorial laminated hardcover.
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The Echo. The Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report. 1-20.
Pacific Grove, CA, The Western Society of Malacologists, 1968-1987. In 20 volumes. 8vo and 4to (28.0 x 21.7 cm). Numerous pages, several illustrations (shells, meeting participants, etc.). Original pictorial wrappers.
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 moreSturany, R. and A. J. Wagner
Ueber schalentragende Landmollusken aus Albanien und Nachbargebieten.
Wien, Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Alfred Hölder), 1914. Large 4to (30.4 x 23.2). 120 pp.; 18 plates, one coloured map. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Patterned endpapers.
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 moreGassies, J. B.
Tableau méthodique et descriptif des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce de l'Agenais.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1849. 8vo (23.0 x 15.3 cm). 209 [iv (index)] pp.; four tissue-guarded hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. Contemporary half morocco over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt four raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreTakeda, M. and T. Okutani
Crustaceans and Mollusks Trawled off Suriname and French Guyana.
Tokyo, Japanese Marine Fishery Resource Research Centre, 193. 4to (25.7 x 18.1 cm). 355 pp.; numerous full colour photographs and line drawings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title on front board and spine, in original transparent sleeve.
Read moreSpath, L. F.
Revision of the Jurassic Cephalopod Fauna of Kachh (Cutch). Part IV. [Family Perisphinctidae to Family Olcastephanidae].
Calcutta, Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1931. Folio (36.0 x 27.0 cm). Title pages, 272 pp. [279-550]; 55 plates [XLVIII-CII] with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreHoyle, W. E. and others [Albatross]
Reports on the dredging operations off the west coasts of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U.S.N., commanding. V. Report on the Cephalopoda. With twelve plates [AND]. XXVI. Report on the pteropods and heteropods collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross during the voyage from Norfolk, VA., to San Francisco, Cal., 1887-'88. [AND] Reports on the dredging operations off the west coasts of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XIII. Die Opisthobranchien. With twelve plates [AND] Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Gattungen Narica und Onustus. Mit zwei Tafeln [AND] Die Opisthobranchier der Sammlung Plate. Mit 6 Tafeln.
Five papers in one. 1893-1906. 8vo (22.8 x 15.0 cm). 311 pp. [70;16;109;14;102]; 35 plates [12; 3; 12; 2; 6], including two cephalopod plates in chromolithography, and two (one coloured) large, multi-folded maps. Greyish-blue buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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. [AND] Preis-Liste verkäuflicher Land- Süsswasser- u. Meeres-Conchylien. L. W. Schaufuss sonst E. Klocke, Naturalien- und Lehrmittel-Handlung.
Dresden, Oscar Weiske, 1869. 8vo (22.4 x 13.8 cm). xiv, 119 pp., interleaved with blanks. Contemporary marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. [AND] 8vo (23.0 x 14.2 cm). 28 pp. Loose-leaved.
Read moreHelmuth, J. H.
Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte des In- und Auslandes. Zweyte Ausgabe. Vierter Band. Beschreibung der Amphibien. Mit 36 Abbildungen. [AND] Fünfter Band. Beschreibung der Insekten. Mit 29 Abbildungen. [AND] Sechster Band. Beschreibung der Würmer. Mit 44 Abbildungen.
Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer dem Jungern, 1808. Three parts in one. 8vo (17.2 x 12.0 cm). Three title pages, 962 pp. [vi, 196; xxx, 466; xxiv, 240]; ten large, folded, engraved plates [0; 5; 5], 36 text illustrations [36; 0; 0]. Early 19th-century half calf over patterned boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title.
Read morePlinius Secundus, C. [P. C. B. Guéroult, ed.]
Morceaux extraits de l'Histoire Naturelle de Pline.
Paris, Michel Lambert, 1785. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 554 pp. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with gilt lines, floral vignettes and brown morocco label with gilt title. Gilt-lined board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
Read moreLamarck, [J. B. P. A. de Monet de]
Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les charactères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une introduction offrant la détermination des caractères essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturels; enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie. Tome premier.
Paris, l'auteur, 1815. 8vo (20.2 x 13.1 cm). xvi, 462 pp. Contemporary half calf over plain boards. Spine with gilt lines, vignettes, and title.
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 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 moreFischer, P.
Faune conchyliologique marine du Département de la Gironde et des cotes du sud-ouest de la France. [AND] Supplément. [AND] 2e Supplément.
Bordeaux, Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, 1865-1874. Three papers in one. 8vo (22.7 x 15.5 cm). Later red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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 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 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 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.
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