Palaeozoic
17 items found
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.
Céphalopodes. Etudes générales. Extraits du système Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Vol. II, Texte V. Chap. XVII. Partie initiale de la coquille. Observations générales. Chap. XVIII. Distribution verticale des Céphalopodes, dans l'ensemble des contrées paléozoiques. Chap. XIX. Résumé général de nos études sur les Céphalopodes.
Prague, Paris, J. Barrande [the author], 1877. 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). 253 pp; four double-sized, lithographed plates with explanatory text. 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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Brongniart, C. [J. E.] and [H.] É. Sauvage
Études sur le terrain houiller de Commentry. Livre troisième. Faunes ichthyologique et entomologique.
Saint Étienne, Théolier (for the Société de l'Industie Minérale), 1888. In two parts. Small folio (32.5 x 24.9 cm; text), and folio (50.2 x 32.5 cm). Text volume: 38 pp.; 15 text illustrations, six very large, folded or double-folded lithographed plates [numbered I-VI]. Original printed wrappers. Plate volume: explanatory leaf to plates I-XVI; lithographed plates I-XVI. Printed wrappers to the 3rd series in general, and to the first part, on fish.
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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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Fritsch, A. [J.]
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); Volume III (1895): 132 pp.; 42 plates [several (much) larger; numbered 91-132], 122 text engravings (numbered 189-310); Volume 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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Roemer, [C.] F. [von]
Lethaea Erratica oder Aufzählung und Beschreibung der in der norddeutschen Ebene vorkommenden Diluvial-Geschiebe nordischer Sedimentär-Gesteine.
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1885. Large 4to (30.2 x 23.6 cm). Title page, 173, xii pp; 11 lithographed plates with accompanying explanatory text leaves. Original limp blind boards, with stamp.
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Schmidt, F.
Miscellanea Silurica I-III. I. Über die Russischen Silurischen Leperditien mit Hinzuziehung einiger Arten aus den Nachbarländern (Baltikum); II. Über einige neue Baltisch-Silurische Petrefacten; III. I. Nachtrag zur Monographie der Russischen Silurischen Leperditien [AND] II. Die Crustaceenfauna der Eurypterenschichten von Rootziküll auf Oesel.
St. Petersbourg, Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 1873-1883. Four papers in one. 4to. 167 pp. (26; 48; iv, 88, [i]); 14 lithographed plates (1; 4; 9 [numbered I-VII, IIIa and Va; some folded and tinted], a few text engravings. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Speckled edges.
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Trenkner, [F.] W. [T.]
Paläontologische Novitäten vom Nordwestlichen Harze. I. Iberger Kalk und Kohlengebirge von Grund.
Halle, H. W. Schmidt, 1867. 4to (28.1 x 22.3 cm). 60 pp.; four lithographed plates showing molluscs and other invertebrates; one large, folded plate with profiles. Patterned quarter cloth over marbled boards. Green diamond-shaped label with gilt title mounted on the front board. Speckled edges.
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[Various authors]
Report of the scientific expedition in the Mount Jolmo Lungma Region (1966-1968). Palaeontology. I-III.
Beijing, Science Press, 1975-1976. Three parts in three. Large 8vo (25.9 x 18.8 cm). 1439 pp. [425; 462; 552]; 295 [87; 100; 108] plates, numerous text illustrations; folding map, folding table. Uniform pictorial soft covers. Gilt title on front boards and spines.
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Waagen, W. H.
Serie XIII. Salt-Range Fossils. I. Productus-Limestone fossils: i. Pisces - Cephalopoda [AND] 2. Pisces - Cephalopoda Supplement. Gasteropoda. [AND] iii. Pelecypoda.
Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1879-1881. Three parts in three. Folio (36.0 x 26.5 cm). pp. [i: 1-72; 2 (1880): 73-183 (184 blank); iii: 185-328]; 24 fine, lithographed plates [i: I-VI; 2: VII-XVI; iii: XVII-XXIV]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Willis, B. (ed.)
Research in China. In three volumes and atlas. 1(1). Descriptive topography and geology; 1(2). Petrography and zoology; 2. Systematic geology; 3. The Cambrian faunas of China. A report on Ordovician fossils collected in eastern Asia in 1903-04. A report on Upper Paleozoic fossils collected in China 1903-04; [4.] Geographical and geological maps. [Complete].
Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1907-1913. In five parts (four text and plate volumes, one atlas). 4to (29.8 x 24.0 cm). Text; 101 plates, including six chromolithographs of birds, and geological maps; folio atlas (52.7 x 45.0 cm) with 42 mostly coloured geological and topographical maps (some with explanatory text or figures). Original printed wrappers.
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Wright, J.
The British Carboniferous Crinoidea. Volumes I-II [FULL COMPLETE SET in ten original parts].
London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1950-1960. Two volumes in ten. 4to (27.8 x 21.7 cm). xxx, 347 pp.; 83 plates. Uniform original blue/grey wrappers with printed paper label on front wrappers.
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