Palaeontology
103 items found
Abendanon, E. C.
Expédition de la Célèbes Centrale. Voyages géologiques et géographiques à travers la Célèbes Centrale (1909-1910). Volumes I-III (text), atlas. [Complete].
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1916. Three text volumes in three. 8vo (27.3 x 19.1 cm). 1615 pp. [xxviii, xvi, xxii,1549]; 183 plates and maps, 140 text figures. [AND] atlas folio (55.0 x 38.0 cm). Text with eight photogravures, 138 photographs, maps, numerous figures [AND] atlas with title page (double, French/Dutch) one coloured explanatory chart (36 different colours) and 17 mostly coloured folded geological maps and/or profiles (numbered 1, II, 3-11, 12a, 12b, 13-16). Original uniform black and gilt printed olive cloth (text), original printed portfolio (atlas).
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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; severaltables incuding one larger, double-folded. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards; front board with printed title mounted.
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Ameghino, F.
Contribucion al conocimiento de los mamiferos fósiles de la República Argentina.
Buenos Aires, Pablo E. Coni é Hijos (Jacobo Peuser, ed.), 1889. In two volumes (text and atlas). 4to and folio (35.2 x 25.4 cm). Text volume: xxxii, 1,027 pp.; Atlas: xi pp.; 98 lithographed plates, with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary uniform quarter calf over blindstamped burgundy boards. Spines with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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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.
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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Belgrand, [M. F.] E.
Histoire générale de Paris. La Seine. I. Le bassin Parisien aux âges antéhistoriques.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1869. In three parts (Texte, Atlas de Paléontologie, and Planches de Géologie et de Conchyliologie). Large 4to and folio (33.8 x 23.9 cm). Texte: cvi, 289 pp., four double-sized coloured maps, 36 engraved text figures, five tissue-guarded plates (four profiles and one with stone age axes); Atlas: 82 [46, a-d] pp.; seven text engravings, 86 plates [1-79, 29bis, 48bis, 53bis, 59bis, 59ter, 62bis, 62ter, 78bis) being tissue guarded heliogravures of mammalian bones, including human skulls, etc., and stone age tools. Géologie and Conchyliologie, 32 pp. Three lithographed plates of shells, three very large folded, coloured geological profiles (numbered 5-7, being a suite to the maps in the text part). All in original green, printed boards or wrappers. Not in Nissen, ZBI.
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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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Broeck, [J.] E. van den [vanden Broeck]
Esquisse géologique et paléontologique des dépôts pliocènes des environs d'Anvers. [Author's copy - interleaved, with handwritten additions and emendations].
Bruxelles, G. Mayolez, 1876-[1878]. 8vo (25.0 x16.3 cm). 296 pp. (printed), 296 pp. (ruled, partly annotated); folded and coloured topographical map of Antwerp and surroundings and one folding table. Original printed boards.
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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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Catullo, T. A.
Trattato sopra la costituzione geognostico-fisica dei terreni alluviani o postdiluviani delle provincie Venete.
Padova, Cartallier e Sicca, 1838. 8vo (21.2 x 13.3 cm). Title page with engraved vignette, [iv], 512 pp.; several tables in the text. Mid-19th-century pebbled cloth. Gilt title on the spine.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossil shells of the Tertiary formations of North America, illustrated by figures, drawn on stone, from nature. Vol. 1(1)-(4). [AND] Vol. 1(3) ["republication"] Eocene fossils of the Claiborne, with observations on this formation in the United States, and a geological map of Alabama.
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1832-1835. 8vo (23.3 x 14.2 cm). 74 pp; 21 plates [numbered 1-14, XVXVI, 17-21]. 20th-century black buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossils of the Tertiary formations of the United States. Illustrated by figures, drawn from nature.
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1838. 8vo (21.1 x 15.6 cm). viii, 80, [vi] pp; 51 plates [numbered 1-32, 34-50, followed by two without number] (Plate 45 pencilled). Later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossils of the Tertiary formations of the United States. Illustrated by figures, drawn from nature. [Fossils of the Medial Tertiary of the United States 1-2; Fossils of the Miocene formation of the United States 3-[4].]
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1838-1861. Four parts in one. 8vo (23.1 x 14.2 cm). xvi, 89 pp; 52 plates (numbered 1-32, 34-49 [Plates 3, 7, 11, and 19 in two widely different states; 24-25, 46-47 without number; 48 wrongly numbered 47, 33 not used]). 20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original brown, printed wrappers bound in.
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Cossmann, M.
Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. I - XIII. [Complete].
Paris, privately published, 1895-1925. 13 parts in seven. Large 8vo (26.3 x 16.7 cm). 3,296 pp.; 624 text engravings, 119 plates. Uniform contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five gilt-lined, raised bands; and gilt title.
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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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Cuvillier, J.
Revision du nummulitique Égyptien. [AND] Nouvelle contribution à la paléontologie du nummulitique Égyptien. [AND] Étude complémentaire sur la paléontologie du nummulitique Égyptien. [Complete].
Le Caire, Institut d'Egypte, 1930-1935. Three parts in three. 4to (27.5 x 22.0 cm). 530 pp. [371; 76; 83]; 37 plates [24; 8; 5], one folded map. Original, uniform printed front wrappers.
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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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Devèze de Chabrol, J. S. and J. B. Bouillet
Essai géologique et minéralogique sur les environs d'Issoire, département du Puy-de-Dôme, et principalement sur la Montagne de Boulade.
Clermont-Ferrand, Thibaud-Landriot, 1827. Folio (41.0 x 26.2 cm). xii, 104 pp.;hand-coloured lithographed geological map and hand-coloured profile, and 30 lithographed plates depicting vertebrates and several tables, including one very large, folded in the text. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
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[Dezallier d'Argenville, A. J. D.]
l'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, l'Oryctologie, qui traite des terres, des pierres, des métaux, des minéraux, et autres fossiles. Ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode Latine & Françoise de les diviser, & une notice critique des principaux ouvrages qui ont paru sur ces matières.
Paris, De Bure, 1755. 4to (28.6 x 21.1 cm). Engraved frontispiece, [6], xvi, 560 [1] pp.; 26 engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, richly floral gilt spine with five raised bands and gilt lettered red morocco label. Marbled endpapers, edged red.
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Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.)
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres mis en ordre par Mons. Diderot. Histoire naturelle. Règne mineral.
Paris, Diderot et d'Alembert, 1768. Folio (43.2 x 27.2 cm). 4 pp., 130 plates (partly folded). Disbound.
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Elles, G. L. and E. M. R. Wood
A Monograph of British Graptolites. [AND] A Synoptic Supplement to "A monograph of British Graptolites by Miss G. L. Elles and Miss E. M. R. Wood".
London, Palaeontographical Society, 1901-1918, 1971. In three volumes. Thick 8vo (27.1 x 21.3 cm). Text volume: Title page, 719 pp. ([e]-m, clxxi, 539); 359 text illustrations; Atlas volume: Title page, 52 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves; Supplement: Title page, 130 pp. Uniform red buckram with black title on the spines.
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Ellis, B. F. and A. R. Messina
Catalogue of Index of Foraminifera. 1-3. [Complete].
New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, 1965-1967. Three volumes in three. Thick, small folio (26.9 x 21.0 cm). Uniform red pebbled cloth binders with silver title on the spines. Marbled endpapers.
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Ettingshausen, C., von
Die Fossile Flora des Tertiär-Beckens von Bilin. I Theil. (Enthaltend die Thallophyten, Kryptogamischen Gefässpflanzen; Monokotyledonen, Coniferen, Julifloren und Oleraceen).
Wien, Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1867. 4to (29.6 x 23.1 cm). 95 pp.; 30 tinted lithographed plates. Later boards, printed label mounted on front board.
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Fritsch, A.
Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation Böhmens. Band I-IV. [Complete].
Prag, Selbstverlag and F. Řivnáč, 1879-1899 [1901?]. Four volumes in four. Folio (34.0 x 25.5 cm). 459 pp.; lavishly illustrated with 167 mostly chromolithographed plates (several double-sized or larger, folded), and over 400 text engravings, of which some plate-sized. Volume I (1883): 182 pp., 48 plates (some larger, folded, a few plain), 160 text engravings; volume II (1889): 114 pp., 44 plates (several larger, folded; numbered 49-90, 80b, 81b), 79 text figures (numbered 117-188); vol. III (1895): 132 pp., 42 plates [several (much) larger; numbered 91-132], 122 text engravings (numbered 189-310); vol. IV (1901): 101 pp., full colour frontispiece, of a landscape with "Miriopoden"; 33 plates (numbered 133-165), 64 text engravings (numbered 311-394, and including phototypes of fossil animals and tracks, freshwater bivalves, and, e.g. the author at work). Original uniform brown cloth sumptuously embossed with black floral borders, and gilt vignettes depicting Permian amphibians, reptiles and fish. Marbled edges.
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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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[Geological map]
Geognostische Karte von Württemberg [AND] Begleitworte zur geognostischen Specialkarte von Württemberg.
Stuttgart, Das Königliches Statistisch-topographisches Bureau, Kohlhammer, Kleeblatt, 1863-1892. With 54 chromolithographed folded geological maps, all mounted on linen, numbered 1-48, 50-55, in two original, uniform burgundy boxes with gilt title on the lid. [AND] the "Begleitworte" 34 parts in one. Large 8vo (25.7 x 19.5 cm). Stuttgart, Königlich Statistischen Landesambt, (1865-1892). ca. 1,000 pp., and five hand-coloured wood-engraved or lithographed maps or geological profiles, and four wood-engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title, ornaments, and the Württemberg coat-of-arms; patterned endpapers, and marbled edges.
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Gmelin, J. F. [Linnaeus]
Des Ritters Carl von Linne Königl. Schwedischen Leibarzes & c. vollständiges Natursystem des Mineralreichs nach den zwölften lateinischen Ausgabe in einer freyen und vermehrten Uebersetzung. Erster - Vierter Theil. [Complete].
Nürnberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1777-1779. Four volumes in four. 8vo (19.3 x 12.0 cm). Title pages, 2274 pp. (I [1777]: [ii], 652; II [1778]: [xiv], 496, [viii]; III [1778]: [xiv], 486; IV [1779]: lxiv, 528, [x]); 57 finely engraved plates [1-5; 1-9; 1-9, 5B, 5C, 6B, 7B; 10-36, 16b, 20b, 21b]. Contemporary boards with two, burgundy and near-uniform brownish morocco labels with gilt or black, embossed title and volume number. Edges red. One volume with a contemporary binding in half-vellum-over-speckled-boards beneath.
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Granö, J. G.
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Eiszeit in der Nordwestlichen Mongolei und einigen ihrer südsibirischen Grenzgebirge. Geomorphologische Studien aus den Jahren 1905, 1906, 1907 und 1909.
Helsingfors, J. Simelii [for the Geographical Society of Finland], 1910. Large 8vo (24.9 x 16.5 cm). iv, 230 pp.; seven large, folded coloured maps, 19 photographic plates. Later quarter calf over pictorial boards.
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Gregorio, A. de
Mammiferi quaternari di Sicilia. Parte I-IV [AND] Mammiferi quaternari di Sicilia. Deposito ossifero di Castellana (Bellolampo) e della quarta grotta della Favorita. Deposito ossifero della vetta di Monte Pellegrina.
Palermo, [the author], 1924-1925. Five parts in five. Large 4to (35.2 x 25.2 cm). 73 pp. [13; 11; 17; 13; 19]; 91 plates [15; 26; 22; 18; 10] (several double-sized). Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Gregorio, A., De
Monographie de la faune Éocénique de l'Alabama et surtout de celle de Claiborne de l'étage Parisien (horizon à Venericardia planicosta Lamk.). Avec 46 pl. (contenant 1480 figures de 751 espèces et mutations).
Palermo, Librairie International L. Pedone Lauriel (Charles Clausen), 1890. Folio (33.2 x 24.0 cm). 316 pp.; 46 fine lithographed plates. Original printed boards.
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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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Holtedahl, O. (ed.)
Report of the scientific results of the Norwegian Expedition to Novaya Zemblya 1921.
Kristiania [Oslo], Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania (The Society of Arts and Sciences of Kristiania), 1922-1930. 45 parts in three. Large 8vo (27.2 x 18.0 cm). Over 1500 pp.; 160 plates and maps. Indexes to the three volumes. Uniform near contemporary full buckram with gilt title on the spines.
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Huene, F. Von
Los saurisquios y ornitisquios del Cretáceo Argentino.
La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1929. Folio (36.2 x 27.0 cm). 224 pp.; 133 text illustations, 44 lithographed plates. Contemporary pebbled half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and ornaments on the spine.
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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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Klein, J. T.
Tentamen methodi ostracologicae sive dispositio naturalis cochlidum et concharum in suas classes, genera et species. [AND] Lucubratiuncula de formatione, cremento et coloribus testarum, quae sunt cochlidum et concharum, [AND] Commentariolum in locum Plinii Hist. Natur. Libr. IX. Cap. XXXIII. [AND] Sciagraphia methodi ad genus Serpentium ordinate digerendum.
Leiden, G. J. Wishoff, 1753. Three works in one volume. 4to (24.7 x 19.6 cm). [3], [5], 177, [5]. [18], [4]; [6], 44; 16, (2) pp.; 12 engraved plates (to first work), and one engraved plate in the text (in second work), a few text vignettes. Contemporary mottled half calf over speckled boards, spine with five raised bands, gilt linings and gilt and black lettered morocco and vellum labels. Edges marbled.
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Koninck, L. [G.] de
Description des animaux fossiles, qui se trouvent dans le terrain carbonifère de Belgique. Supplément.
Liège, H. Dessain, 1851. 4to (29.9 x 21.8 cm). 76 pp.; five lithographed, tinted plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands; gilt ornamental bands and title. Marbled endpapers; marbled edges.
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