Manuscripts and Letters
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On oysters and their parasites
Robert Mertens handwritten concept of a paper on snakes
Where to go?
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
On taxonomy and nomenclature
America versus Europe: the battle of the oysters
Between to parasitologists and malacologists: request for a book
With a little help of a friend
On books and a library
Robert Mertens's handwritten draft on a mysterious snake
A fine letter from Tunisia
Dedication copy of the rare, updated, separate edition
What species of cowry is this?
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
An entomological manuscript by the malacologist, ecologist and entomologist Herbert Ant
[Ant, H.]
Manuscript based on Staudinger's printed list of Palaearctic Lepidoptera.
Not published, no date [but after 1936; probably ca. 1950]. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.1 cm). 161 ruled pages with mounted strips with printed text. Mid-20th century black blind cloth over marbled boards.
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€250.00
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
One of North America's most colourful butterflies: a fine watercolour drawing
Robert Mertens at work: thoughts on snakes
Robert Mertens at work: a revealing Robert Mertens pondering on Oligodon
Mertens, R.
[Original manuscript on the variability of the striped kukri snake, Oligodon octolineatus (Schneider)].
[Frankfurt am Main, 1969]. Handwritten in ink on rectos of 23 uniform, loose, ruled leaves (20.8 x 14.8 cm), a photocopy of a single leaf of G. A. Boulenger's Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, volume II (1894) with a few annotations by Mertens; and another 14 leaves of several sizes, a few with printed text.
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€275.00
On whales and shells
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs
A fine Chinese watercolour of shells on rice paper
A fine example of 18th-century Louis XV style flower designs