Salamanders
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Dugès, A. [L.]
Recherches sur l'ostéologie et la myologie des batraciens, a leurs différens ages, présentées a l'Académie Royale des Sciences en réponse a la question suivante: déterminer, a l'aide d'observations, et démonstrer, par préparations anatomiques et des dessins exacts, les modifications que présentent, dans leur squelette et dans leurs muscles, les reptiles batraciens, tels que grenouilles et les salamandres, en passant de l'état de larve à celui d'animal parfait.
Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1834. 4to (26.5 x 21.1 cm). 216, [1] pp.; 20 folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, gilt bordered compartments and red morocco label with gilt title. Patterned endpapers.
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Ellis, J.
An account of an amphibious bipes. [AND] A supplement to the account of an amphibious bipes; by John Ellis, Esq; (art. XXII) being the anatomical description of said animal, by Mr. John Hunter, F.R.S.
London, The Royal Society, 1766 [1767]. Two papers in one. 4to (22.3 x 17.1 cm). Four pp., one large double-folded plate. Disbound.
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Eschscholtz, F.
Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten, während des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, auf der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Kriegsschlupp Predpriaetië in den Jahren 1823-1826 beobachtet von Dr. Friedr. Eschscholtz, Professor und Director des zoologischen Museums an der Universität zu Dorpat. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. [All Published].
Berlin, G. Reimer, 1829-1833. Five parts in one. Tall folio (35.6 x 22.2 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Eschscholtz; five letterpress title pages with blank versos; 103 pp.[I: iii-iv, 17; II: 13; III: 18; IV: 19; V: iii-viii, 28]; 25 engraved plates, each in original hand-colouring. 19th-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled edges.
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Rusconi, M.
Amours des salamandres aquatiques et developpement du tetard de ces salamandres depuis l'oeuf jusq'a l'animal parfait.
Milan, Paolo Emilio Giusti, 1821. Large 4to (33.5 x 23.3 cm). 73 pp. (including half title, title page); five engraved plates of which four finely hand-coloured. Five blanks in the rear. Contemporary blind boards.
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Rusconi, M.
Descrizione anatomica degli organi della circolazione delle larve delle salamandre acquitiche.
Pavia, Galeazzi, 1817. Large 4to (21.0 x 26.5 cm). 49 pp. (including title page), one hand-coloured engraved plate. Period-style blue half morocco over blue-marbled boards. Gilt title and ornaments on the spine. Endpapers renewed.
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Rusconi, M. and P. Configliachi
Del Proteo anguino di Laurenti. Monografia.
Pavia, Galeazzi, 1819. Large 4to (30.0 x 22.4 cm). Title page, [iv], 119 pp., four lithographed plates, of which two in double-suite: line drawings and lithographs, (partly) hand-coloured by the second author. Late 19th-century pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spine with polished morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers, speckled edges.
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Wurffbain, J. P.
Salamandrologia, h. e. descriptio historico-philologico-philosophico-medica salamandrae quae vulgo in igne vivere creditur, S. R. J. Academiae Naturae Curiosis exhibita, atq. Novis aliquot capitibus, experimentis, figurisq; aeri eleganter incisis, nec non rerum & verborum indice adaucta. [Complete with the rare allegorical frontispiece].
Norimbergae [Nürnberg], Georg Scheurer, 1683. Small 4to (19.6 x 15.4 cm). Engraved title page and letterpress title page with wood-engraved vignette; iv, 133, [xv] pp. (including Bericht an den Buchbinder and Errata praecipua); five folded engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled boards and skilfully renewed spine with four raised bands and red morocco label with gilt title and date.
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