Mesozoic
38 items found
Boehm, 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.
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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.
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Canavari, M. (ed.)
Palaeontologia della Somalia. Fossili raccolti dalle Missioni Stefanini-Paoli (1913) e Stefanini-Puccioni (1924) e da altri.
Pisa, Museo Geologico della R. Università di Pisa, 1931-1939 [REPRINT Bologna, Forni, 1969]. In five volumes. 4to (31.2 x 21.4 cm). 1,115 pp. [216; 192; 301; 89; 270, 47]; 111 plates [17; 24; 26; 12; 27, 5]; numerous text illustrations. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Coquand, H. [J. B.]
Synopsis des animaux et des végétaux fossiles observés dans les formations secondaires de la Charente, de la Charente-inférieure et de la Dordogne.
Marseille, Barlatier-Feissat et Demonchy [for the author], 1860. 8vo (22.6 x 14.7 cm). 146 pp.; original printed wrappers.
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Cuvier, G. [L. C. F. D.] and A. Brongniart
Description géologique des environs de Paris, par MM. G. Cuvier et Alex. Brongniart. Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on a inséré la descrition d'un grand nombre de lieux de l'Allemagne, de la Suisse, de l'Italie, etc., qui présentent des terrains analogues a ceux du Bassin de Paris. Avec 2 cartes et 16 planches représentant les coupes de ces terrains et beaucoup des coquilles fossiles qu'ils renferment, et une table alphabétique de tous les lieux décrits ou seulement cités.
Paris, G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, 1822. 4to (29.3 x 22.2 cm). ix, 428 pp.; one brightly hand-coloured geological map of the surroundings of Paris, and 17 lithographed plates, including one hand-coloured geological map of the basins of London and Paris. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt, and with two morocco labels (red and blue) with gilt title.
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Davidson, T.
A monograph of British Cretaceous Brachiopoda. [AND] M. R. Sahni, the Terebratulidae of the British Chalk. [AND] N. E. Pettitt, The Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk.
London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1854-1953. 4to (27.0 x 20.6 cm). 205 pp., 21 [12, 9] lithographed plates; 62 pp.; ten plates; 58 pp., three plates. Later half calf, spine with five raised, gilt bordered bands, and gilt titles on spine. Edges speckled red.
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Dufrenoy, [O. P. A.] and [J. B. A. L. L.] Élie de Beaumont
Explication de la carte géologique de la France. Volumes I-IV (text and atlas), and two maps. [Complete].
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, Imprimerie Nationale, 1841-1879. Four volumes in seven, and a large map in six folded sheets, each ca. 70 x 205 cm (including borders) with linen covers. Large 4to (four text volumes; ca. 27.5 x 21.0 cm); folio (two atlas volumes, 26.8 x 35.7 cm). Tome premier: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1841. Large 4to. xxii, 825 pp., 71 text engravings (mainly profiles); Tome deuxième: Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1848. Large 4to. xii, 813 pp., 105 text engravings (mainly views and profiles), one large, folded chromolithographed geological map (finished by hand) of France (printed surface: 57 x 54 cm, and consisting of 15 smaller sections, mounted on linen and folded) bound in the rear; Tome troisième. Première partie (by Dufrénoy): Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1873. Large 4to. viii, 231 pp., 18 text engravings (mainly profiles). Printed wrappers. Tome quatrième. Seconde partie. Végétaux fossiles du terrain houiller (by Zeiller): Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1879. Large 4to. 185 pp. Printed wrappers; Tome quatrième. Atlas (in two volumes). Première partie. Fossiles principaux des terrains (by É. Bayle). Seconde partie. Végétaux fossiles du terrain houiller (by Zeiller): Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1878. Folio. Title page, half title to first part. 86 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, numbered I-LXXXVI; 90 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, numbered LXXXVII-CLXXVI (the last 16 on plants), for a total of 176 plates. Volumes I, II, and IV plate volumes in near uniform contemporary dark-green pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five gilt-stippled bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. The text volumes with top edge gilt, atlases with marbled top edges. Text volumes III and IV in original printed wrappers. The large chromolithographed map in six sheets (approximately 218 x 223 cm) is contained in a contemporary, book-like crimson box with gilt-lettered spine, with raised bands and patterned paper sides.
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Eudes-Deslongchamps, E.
Études sur les étages Jurassiques inférieurs de la Normandie.
Paris, Savy [AND] Caen, Le Blanc-Hardel, 1864. 4to (27.0 x 21.7 cm). 296 pp.; three large, folded engraved geological profiles and 49 engraved text figures, mostly mounted. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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Fritsch, A. [J.]
Die Reptilien und Fische der böhmischen Kreideformation.
Prag, Verlag des Verfassers (Fr. Řivnáč), 1878. Large 4to (33.5 x 25.1 cm). [ii], 44, [ii] pp.; 66 text engravings; ten lithographed plates of which nine tinted, and two larger, folded. Original blind quarter linen over printed boards.
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Gabb, W. M.
Description of a collection of fossils, made by Doctor Antonio Raimondi in Peru.
Philadelphia, PA, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, "1877" [1881]. Large 4to (33.1 x 25.5 cm). Drophead title; 74 pp. [numbered 263-336]; nine lithographed plates [numbered 35-43]. Later black buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Hochstetter, [C. G.] F. [Ritter] von
Reise der oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Geologischer Theil. Erster Band: Erste Abtheilung, Geologie von Neu-Seeland [AND] Zweite Abtheilung, Paläontologie von Neu-Seeland.
Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1864-1865. In two volumes. 4to (31.0 x 24.2 cm). Volume 1 (1864): Half-title and title page; tissue-guarded frontispiece; xlvii, 274 pp.; two unnumbered chromolithographed plates (tissue-guarded); six large, folded, full-colour tissue-guarded maps [Tafeln 1-6]; five plates with engraved or tinted views [Tafeln 7-11]; numerous text engravings; volume 2 (1865): half-title and title page, sectional titles; pp. v-vii, 1-318; 26 lithographed plates [numbered I-XXVI], of which several tinted, and each with explanatory text leaves. Original uniform, printed wrappers.
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Jäger, G. [E.]
Über eine neue Species von Ichthyosauren ( Ichthyosaurus longirostris Owen & Jäger), nebst Bemerkungen über die übrigen in de Liasformation Würtembergs aufgefundenen Reptilien.
Breslau und Bonn, Eduard Weber, 1855. Folio (29.6 x 22.5 cm). Title page, 30 pp. (including errata page); one large, folded, lithographed plate. Contemporary blue pebbled cloth over marbled boards.
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Leymerie, A. [F. G. A.]
Description géologique et paléontologique des Pyrenées de la Haute-Garonne accompagnée d'une carte topographique et géologique à l'echelle 1:200.000 et d'un Atlas...
Toulouse, Privat, 1878, 1881. In two volumes. Text (1881) 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). Atlas (1878) oblong 4to (23.5 x 31.5 cm). 1,027 pp.; 51 lithographed plates of which 11 tinted or coloured (and of which 30 are on fossils), including a large folded transection of the Pyrenees, Haute Garonne, and the large coloured geological map (with 20 colours) mounted on linen. Original printed wrappers (text) and boards (atlas).
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Leymerie, 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.
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Meyer, C. E. H. von
Ueber den Nager von Waltsch in Böhmen [AND] Physichthys Höninghausi aus dem Uebergangkalke der Eifel [AND] Schildkröte und Vogel aus dem Fischschiefer von Glarus [AND] Helochelys Danubia, aus dem Grünsande von Kelheim in Bayern [AND] Trachyteuthis ensiformisaus dem lithographischen Schiefer in Bayern.
Cassel [Kassel], Palaeontographica, 1855. Six papers in one. 4to (31.0 x 23.2 cm). 35 [5; 4; 12; 10; 4] pp.; six engraved plates [1; 1; 2 (one shared); 2 (one shared); 1], the two turtle and one cephalopod plate double-sized. Contemporary wrappers with the title added in script.
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Meyer, H. von
Ueber den Archegosaurus der Steinkohlenformation [AND] Fische, Echinodermen und andere Versteinerungen aus dem Muschelkalk Oberschlesiens [AND] Sphyraenodus aus dem Tertiärsande von Flonheim.
Cassel, Palaeontographica, 1849. 4to (29.2 x 23.0 cm). 76 [5; 68; 3] pp.; four engraved plates. Contemporary wrappers with the titles added in a neat old hand.
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Newton, E. T. [AND] [J. F.] J. von Haast
On the remains of a gigantic species of bird ( Gastornis klaassenii, n. sp.) from the Lower Eocene Beds near Croydon [AND] On Megalapteryx hectori, a new gigantic species of apterygian bird [AND] On Dinornis oweni, a new species of Dinornithidae, with some remarls on D. curtus.
London, The Zoological Society of London, 1886. Three papers in one. Very large 4to (32.0 x 25.6 cm). 40 pp. [143-160; 161-169; 171-182]; five lithographed plates [28-29; 30 (larger, folded); 31-32]. Original printed wrappers.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Jurassiques. I. Cephalopodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1842-1849. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.3 x 13.8 cm [texte]; 22.2 x 15.6 cm [atlas]). 642 pp.; 234 lithographed plates. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised, stipple-gilted bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Jurassiques. II. Gasteropodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1850-1860. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.3 x 13.2 cm [text]; 22.1 x 14.6 cm [atlas]). 623 pp.; 198 lithographed plates, numbered 235-431, 237bis. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Orbigny, A. [C. V.] D. d'
Paléontologie Française. Description des mollusques et rayonnés fossiles. Terrains Jurassiques. II. Gasteropodes. Texte, Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Victor Masson, 1850-1860. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm [text]; 22.0 x 15.7 cm [atlas]). 623 pp.; 198 lithographed plates, numbered 235-431, 237bis. Contemporary uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Orbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. 4.e Partie: Paléontologie.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1842. Folio (34.0 x 25.9 cm). Title page, half-title, 182 pp.; 22 finely lithographed plates. Spine with gilt lines and title. Later blind linen spine over contemporary boards. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Owen, R.
Monograph of the fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations.
London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1871. 4to (27.0 x 21.2 cm). vi, 115 pp.; four engraved plates with explanatory text leaves, 26 steel-engravings in the text. Contemporary half morocco over pebbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Olive endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Passy, A. [F.]
Description géologique du département de la Seine-Inférieure. [Text and Atlas].
Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1832. Two parts [text and atlas] in one. 4to (26.7 x 21.3 cm). 402 pp. [xvi, 371; 15]; 20 engraved plates (several double-sized), of which 15 in original hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards; spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Pervinquière, L.
Études de paléontologie Tunisienne - I - Céphalopodes des terrains secondaires. Texte - Atlas. [Complete].
Paris, F. R. De Rudeval [for the Regence de Tunis - Protectorat Français, Direction générale des Travaux Publics], 1907. Two parts in two. Large 4to/Folio (31.0 x 23.0 cm). v, 438 pp. 158 text illustrations, 28 heliotype plates (several double-sized). Uniform printed wrappers.
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Sauvage, [F.] C. and [N.] A. Buvignier
Statistique minéralogique et géologique du département des Ardennes.
Mézières, Trecourt, 1842. 8vo (21.0 x 13.0 cm). xlv, 554 pp.; five lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with blind-stamped and gilt ornamental borders. Marbled endpapers.
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Stoliczka, F.
Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India. Vol. III. The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known genera of this class, fossil and recent.
Calcutta, Geological Survey Office, 1871. Folio (37.0 x 25.1 cm). Title page, xxii, 538 pp.; 50 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Near-contemporary half calf with blind-tooled borders over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt lines, and two red morocco labels with gilt title.
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Terquem, O.
Observations sur le Lias du Département de la Moselle. Première Partie - Deuxième Partie. [Complete].
[Metz, Société d'Histoire naturelle du Département de la Moselle, 1847]. 8vo (22.3 x 14.3 cm). 60 pp., three engraved plates. Contemporary blind quarter cloth over paper-covered boards.
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Tokunaga, S. et al.
Report of the First Scientific Expedition to Manchoukuo. Under the leadership of Shigeyasu Tokunaka. June - October 1933. Section II [Geology]. Part I-IV. [Complete].
Tokyo, Asahi, 1934-1939. Four volumes in four. 4to (26.0 x 19.0 cm). Ca. 700 pp. with 124 plates and three folding coloured maps. Original uniform printed stiff wrappers.
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[Various geologists and palaeontologists]
Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Volumes I-V. [IINCLUDING Société Linnéenne de Calvados].
Caen, Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 1824-1835. Five volumes in six. 8vo (volumes I-IV, 21.0 x 13.2 cm), 4to (volume V, 27.6 x 22.0 cm), and oblong folio (atlas to volumes II-IV, 22.5 x 31.0 cm). Title pages; 15 lithographed (partly folded) plates in volume I, one hand-coloured geological map, 39 lithographed plates in the atlas volume, mainly depicting lichens by Delise, and geological maps (11 hand-coloured). Uniform later half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title.
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Williston, S. W.
The University survey of Kansas. Vol. IV. Paleontology. Part 1. Upper Cretaceous.
Topeka, KS, Geological Survey of Kansas, 1898. Large 8vo (26.0 x 19.0 cm). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 594 pp.; 120 plates. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board.
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