Palaeontology
115 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; several tables, incuding one larger, double-folded. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards; front board with printed title mounted.
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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.
Acéphalés. Etudes locales et comparatives. Extraits du système Silurien du centre de la Bohème. Vol. VI. Acéphalés.
Prague, chez l'auteur, 1881. 8vo (24.0 x 15.2 cm). xxxii, 536 pp.; ten double-sized lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
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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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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. V. Classe des mollusques, ordre des brachiopodes. Trois chapitres de texte et planches.
Prague, privately published, 1879. Two parts in two. Large 4to (33.0 x 25.7 cm). Two title pages, xv, 226 pp., 153 [1-71; 72-153] lithographed plates with explanatory text-leaves. Publisher's uniform blind-tooled dark brown cloth with gilt title on spine.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: recherches paléontologiques. Vol. III. Texte et 16 planches. Classe des mollusques. Ordre des ptéropodes.
Prague, Paris, privately published, 1867. Large 4to (32.9 x 25.9 cm). 179 pp.; 16 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original blind-tooled burgundy cloth with gilt title on spine.
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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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Beneden, P. J. Van
Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers. Quatrième partie (planches). Cétacés genre: Plesiocetus.
Bruxelles, F. Hayez (Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique), 1885. Oblong imperial folio (39.2 x 57.0 cm), half-title, title page, 30 engraved plates. Uniform original printed boards.
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