Malacology
184 items found
Bourguet, [L.]
Traité des pétrifications. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée.
Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1778. 8vo (19.7 x 12.3 cm). Half-title, title page, 349 pp. (xvii, 326, [vii], and 4; 16 with advertisements); 441 engravings on 60 plates. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled 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 moreBosc, L. A. G.
Histoire naturelle des coquilles contenant leur description, leurs moeurs des animaux qui les habitent et leurs usages. Avec figures dessinées d'apres nature. Tome premier - II - III - IV - V. [Complete].
Paris, Deterville, an X [1802]. Five parts in five. 12mo (12.4 x 8.3 cm). Five titles and half-titles, 1501 pp. [343; 330; 292; 280; 256]; one folded table, " tableau des vers", and 44 [1; 2-12,15; 13-14, 16-28; 29-36; 37-44] engraved plates after Desève. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards; gilt title and ornamental lines on spines. Green speckled endpapers.
Read moreBory 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.
Read moreBoehm, G.
Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koenigliche Bayerische Staates. Zweiter Band, vierte Abtheilung. Die Bivalven der Stramberger Schichten.
Cassel [Kassel], Gustav Fischer, 1883. Folio (44.2 x 31.5 cm), Title page; 18 fine, lithographed plates. In original green portfolio with printed title page mounted.
Read moreBlanford, W. T. [AND] H. H. Godwin-Austen [AND] G. K. Gude [AND] H. B. Preston
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Mollusca. Parts I-IV. [Complete].
London, Taylor & Francis, 1908-1921. Four parts in four. 8vo (22.8 x 15.8 cm). More than 1,500 pp.; two plates, numerous text figures. Uniform red cloth with gilt titles on spines. Black endpapers (white in Vol. II).
Read more[Bertrand, B. N.]
Elemens d'oryctologie ou distribution méthodique des fossiles.
Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1773. 8vo (18.8 x 11.5 cm). xxxix, 137, xxii pp.; 16 double, folded tables. Contemporary full calf. Spine with four raised bands. Rich gilt floral compartments, red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red.
Read moreBarrande, 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.
Read moreBarrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. VI. Classe des mollusques, ordre des acéphales. Texte et 361 planches. [Bivalvia].
Prague, Musée Bohême, 1881. Four parts in four. Large 4to (32.8 x 26.0 cm). xxiv, 342 pp.; 361 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original uniform blind-tooled black cloth with gilt title on the spines.
Read moreAnnandale, [T.] N.
Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12.
Calcutta, The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, 1912-1918. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). pp. 1-77, 191-410, 493-621 [of 629] pp., errata leaf; plates I-V, XVI-XXVII, XXXVIII-LIV [of 57] (mostly lithographs and photogravures), several text illustrations. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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