The Ibis. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Twelfth Series, Volume IV.

London, British Ornithological Union, 1928. 8vo (21.8 x 14.3 cm). xlvi, 866 pp.; 43 plates (seven in full colour). Original red, embossed cloth with gilt title on the spine, and gilt vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt.

Agassiz, A.

Original handwritten letter, signed.

Paris, [not dated - after 1861]. Single leaf (20.2 x 13.3 cm).

Agassiz, A.

Original handwritten letter, signed.

Cambridge, MA, [not published], 1893. Single leaf (20.5 x 13.2 cm).

Agassiz, A.

The coral reefs of the Maldives.

Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1903. Two volumes (text and atlas) in one. 4to (29.1 x 23.8 cm). Text: xxv, 168 pp.; numerous text illustrations; Atlas: 6 pp.; 82 maps, as follows: eight folded maps [numbered 1-8], three profiles [numbered 8a-c] and 71 photographic plates [numbered 9-79]. Later green buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed front wrappers bound in.

Agassiz, [J.] L. [R.] and [A. C.] C. Vogt

Histoire naturelle des poissons d'eau douce de l'Europe Centrale [AND] Embryologie des Salmones. [The complete Atlas].

Neuchatel, Nicolet et Petitpierre et chez l'auteur, 1839-1842. Oblong Folio (31.0 x 45.3 cm). Title page to the whole work, dedication leaf, half-title and title to Embryologie (by Vogt), explanatory leaf in three languages; all 55 fine lithographed, mostly tissue-guarded plates (that of plate D a printed overlay - effectively a 56th plate), of which 20 finely hand-coloured and seven partly hand-coloured [numbered 1, 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 3a, 3b, 4, 4b, 5, 6, 7, 7a, 8, 9, 10, 10a, 11, 12, 13, 13a, 14, 15, 15a, 16, 17, 17bis; 1, 1a, 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 5, 5a, 6, 6a, 7, 7[a]; A-H, J-O]. Later brown half morocco over contemporary marbled boards; spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt and black linings and gilt title. Edges sprinkled brown.

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.

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.

Albers, J. C. [AND] Castello de Paiva, A.

Malacographia maderensis sive enumeratio molluscorum quae in insulis Maderae et Portus Sancti aut viva extant aut fossilia reperiuntur [AND] Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium Insularium Maderensium.

Berolini [Berlin], Georg Reimer, 1854 [AND] Olisipone [Lisbon], Academicis, 1867. Two works in one. 4to (26.9 x 21.3 cm). 94 pp.; 17 lithographed plates (all but one finely hand-coloured). [AND] 170 pp.; two finely hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. [AND] Four "letters" loosely inserted. Later blue buckram with gilt titles on the spine.

Alberti, B.

Über die Stammesgeschichtliche Gliederung der Zygaenidae nebst Revision einiger Gruppen (Insecta, Lepidoptera).

Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1954. 8vo (24.0 x 17.0 cm). 366 pp. [numbered 115-480]; 33 text illustrations, 62 plates (including one larger, folded). Original printed wrappers.

Amaral, A. Do

Albinismo em "Cobra Coral" (1). [AND] Três subespecies novas de Micrurus corallinus (Wied): M. corallinus corallinus, M. corallinus riesei e M. corallinus dumerilii. (2) [AND] Da invalidez da especie colubrideo elapineo Miceurus ibiboboca (Merrem) e rediscripção de M. lemniscatus (L.) (3). [AND] Sobre a Lachesis muta Daudin, 1803, especie ovipara. (4) [AND] Da invalidez da especie de colubrideo dipsadinea Sibynomorpus peruanus (Boettger). (5) [AND] Da occurrencia de albinismo em cascavel. (6) [AND] Albinismo em "dorme-dorme", Sibynomorphus turgidus (Cope, 1869). (7) [AND] Ophidios sul-americanos do Museo Carnegie e especies novas de Griffin. (8) [AND] Sobre os nomes genericos de ophidios Liophis Wagler, 1830 e Leimadophis Fitzinger, 1843. (9) [AND] Da invalidez do nome generico de ophidios Erpetodryas ou Herpetodryas. [(10)*] [AND] Sobre a pholidose dorsal da especies de colubridea, Philodryas aestivus (Dm & Bibr., 1854) e sobre a invalidez de Philodryas campicola Jensen, 1900. (11) [AND] Variações das marcas doraes de Crotalus terrificusLaurenti, 1768. (12). [AND] Bicephalia em ophidios. (13) [AND] Esudo comparativo da evolução ontogenetica de Pseudoboa claelia (Daudin, 1803) e Ps. haasi (Boettger, 1906). (14).

São Paulo, Museo Paulista, 1927. 14 papers in one. 8vo (23.0 x 15.5 cm). 111 pp.; with several plates and text figures. Original printed wrappers.

Amaral, A. Do

Estudios sobre ophidios Neotropicos XVII-XXII.

São Paulo, Instituto Butantan, 1929. 4to (26.4 x 18.3 cm). 337 pp.; with several plates and text figures. Original printed wrappers.

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.

[Anonymous]

Japanische Vogelstudien. 12 Blätter.

Wien, K.K. Österreichischen Handels-Museum, 1895. Folio (45.0 x 33.0 cm). Lithographed pictorial title, and 12 full-colour mounted lithographed plates. Portfolio with pictorial boards.

[Anonymous]

Xenopus rothschildi [lithographed plate of an undescribed frog]

London, no publisher, ca. 1910. Single sheet (31.9 x 25.3 cm). With eight lithographed images of Xenopus species.

[Anonymous but probably J. Sturm]

Four proof plates for Monographiae Insectorum XVIII. In valle Plauensi delectorum. Verzeichnis der merkwürdigsten Insecten welche in Plauischen Grunde gefunden werden. In: W. G. Becker (1799). Der Plauische Grund bei Dresden, mit Hinsicht auf Naturgeschichte und schöne Gartenkunst.

[Nürnberg, Frauenholzische Kunsthandlung, 1799]. Four loose plates. Folio (24.3 x 18.5 cm or slighly larger). Each finely engraved and carefully hand-coloured.

[Anonymous entomologist]

[Lijst van Nederlandse Lepidoptera].

[unknown place and publisher], after 1901. Two copies in two. 8vo (21.0 x 13.5 cm). 31 pp. Uniform early 20th-century (contemporary) half cloth over marbled boards.

[Ant, H.]

Manuscript based on Staudinger's printed list of Palaearctic Lepidoptera.

Not published, no date [but after 1936; probably ca. 1950]. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.1 cm). 161 ruled pages with mounted strips with printed text. Mid-20th century black blind cloth over marbled boards.

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.

Attems, C. Graf

System der Polydesmiden. I Theil - II Theil. [Bound copies; complete].

Wien, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1897-1899. In two volumes. 4to (29.7 x 23.2 cm; 28.5 x 23.0 cm). 448 [1-262; 251-436] pp., 17 [11; 6] lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Near uniform contemporary and somewhat later black blind half cloth over black marbled boards.

Audebert, J. B.

Histoire naturelle des singes, peints d'après nature. [AND] Histoire naturelle [des singes et] des makis. [Complete].

Paris, l'Auteur, [AND] H. J. Jansen, 1797-[An 8 = 1799]. Two volumes in one. Folio (49.2 x 31.8 cm). Three half-titles, two title pages; 178 pp. [24, 4, 4, 10, 4, 8, 10, 24, 14, 8, 10, 8, 44, iv, 2]; 63 engraved plates of which 61 finely colour-printed, with additional original hand-colouring, and two plain, as intended. Contemporary, empire style, full calf. Boards with triple gilt borders and embossed floral vignettes, central vignette of a lyre. Spine with seven raised bands, gilt vignettes (vases) and morocco label with gilt title. Later marbled endpapers.

Audubon, J. J.

Account of the habits of the Turkey Buzzard ( Vultur aura), particularly with the view of exploding the opinion generally entertained of its extraordinary power of smelling.

Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1827. 8vo (22.5 x 14.4 cm). 13 pp. [numbered 172-184]. Original printed wrappers.

Baehr, M.

Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian region. 1. The previous genera Sphallomorpha Westwood and Silphomorpha Westwood. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae).

München, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 1992. 8vo (24.0 x 16.9 cm). 440 pp.; full colour frontispiece, 553 text illustrations. Laminated pictorial softcover.

Bairei, K.

Bairei hyakucho gafu. Bairei's Album of one hundred birds.

Tokyo, (circa 1881-1882). Two volumes (of three). Japanese stitched binding (24.8 x 16.5 cm). With 67 coloured woodblock prints and text in Japanese. Original stitched wrappers.

Barboza du Bocage, J. V.

Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies.

Lisbonne, Imprimerie Nationale, 1895. Very large 8vo (27.0 x 17.6 cm). xx, 203 pp.; 20 plates (numbered I-XIX, X.A). Contemporary rich gilt Iberian-style quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments rich gilt-patterned or with gilt fleur de lis vignette, and with gilt title. Patterned endpapers.

Bargmann, H. E.

The morphology of the central nervous system in the Gastropoda Pulmonata.

London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1930. Large 8vo (26.0 x 17.5 cm). 60 pp.; four text figures, five plates; table. Original printed wrappers.

Barkow, J. C. L.

Disquisitiones recentoires de arteriis mammalium et avium.

Halle, Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 1843. 4to (29.0 x 22.3 cm). 112 pp.; eight lithographed plates (one partly coloured). 20th-century blind blue boards.

Barnes, W. [D.] and J. [H.] McDunnough

Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala.

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, 1918. Very large 4to (35.7 x 28.1 cm). 47 pp.; 22 plates of which 17 in fine chromolithography. Original printed wrappers.

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.

Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]

Mésange azurée, Cyanistes cyanus. [Original watercolour].

[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single sheet (24.9 x 18.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of dark blue paper (32.5 x 25.0 cm).

Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]

Mésange sultane ou Melanochlora sultanea. [Original watercolour].

[Unpublished], [19]43. Single sheet (24.1 x 17.8 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of brown paper (32.8 x 25.1 cm).

Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]

Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].

[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single, oblong sheet (17.5 x 24.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of greyish-brown paper (25.0 x 32.5 cm).

Basilewsky, S.

Ichthyographia Chinae borealis scripta a Doctore Medicinae Stephano Basilewsky.

Moscou, Université Imperiale, [1852]-1855. 4to (28.2 x 22.5 cm). Title page to the work, 45 pp. [numbered 218-263]; eighth finely engraved and hand-coloured plates, where appropriate heightened with silver. Later green cloth with the original green, printed front wrapper mounted.

Basse de Ménorval, E.

Letter to R. P. Dollfus.

Paris, 1958. Single leaf (21.2 x 21.1 cm). Typed letter with handwritten signature.

Basse, E. [de Ménorval]

Contribution a l'étude du Jurassique Supérieur (faciès Corallien) en Éthiopie et en Arabie méridionale.

Paris, Société Géologique de France,1930. Large 4to (32.7 x 25.4 cm). 44 pp.; two plates. original printed wrappers.

Bavay [A. R. J. B.]

Letter to Édouard Lamy.

1916. Original handwritten letter, signed on a single leaf (22.2 x 17.2 cm), folded to 4 pp. (11.1 x 17.2 cm).

Bédé, P. [E.]

Letter to R. P. Dollfus.

Sfax, 1935. Single printed leaf (21.5 x 27.1 cm), folded. Handwritten, signed and dated.

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.

Bell, T.

A history of British reptiles.

London, John van Voorst, 1839. 8vo (21.8 x 13.9 cm). xxiv, 142 pp.; numerous fine woodcuts. Contemporary polished calf. Spine rich gilt with five raised bands, floral vignettes and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with triple-gilt borders and corner pices; gilt-lined edges and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.

Bellardi, L.

Saggio di ditterologia Messicana. [With the rare supplement].

Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1859-1862. Three parts in three. 4to (29.6 x 22.5 cm). 207 pp.; five fine, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.

Berg, L. S.

Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes fondée principalement sur les collections du Musée zologique de l'Académie impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Poissons (Marsipobranchii et Pisci). Volume III. Ostariophysi. Livraison 1 - 2 - 3. [Complete].

St.-Pétersbourg, Académie impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg [AND Akademii NAUK SSSR], 1912-1933. Three parts in three. 8vo (25.1 x 16.8 cm). Two title pages each, 846 pp. (1 [1912]: [1]-336; 2 [1914]: 337-704; 3 [1933]: [705]-846); six [2; 4; 0] plates (two larger, folded), 172 [1-27; 28-139; 140-172] text illustrations. Original uniform printed wrappers.

Bergquist, P. R.

The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part I, II, III.

Wellington, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, 1968-1980. Three parts in three. Large 4to (28.0 x .21.5 cm). Full colour (1) and b/w (1) frontispieces; 233 pp. [105; 85; 43]; 37 text figures [30; 3; 4], 51 plates [14; 20; 17]. Original uniform printed softcovers.

Berlese, A.

Complete acarological works. Acari Myriopoda and Scorpiones (1882-1903) in 12 volumes [AND] Collected acarological papers from "Redia" (1903-1923) in five volumes [AND] Complete acarological works. Varia (1881-1923) in two volumes. [Complete].

Firenze [REPRINT, The Hague, 1977-1982]. In 19 volumes. 8vo (18 parts: 23.1 x 15.6 cm), 4to (one part: 29.7 x 20.8 cm). Over 7000 pages and numerous plates (some folded). Uniform full dark brown cloth with gilt titles on front boards and spines.

Bertuch, [J.] F. J.

Bilderbuch für Kinder, enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten, Mineralien.... [12 herpetological plates].

Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, ca. 1800. Folio (ca. 23.5 x 19.0 cm, mounted on larger sheets). Collection of 12 hand-coloured engravings from Bilderbuch für Kinder, showing reptiles and amphibians. All framed and with their description in German added.

Bianchi, G. P. S. [J. Plancus]

De conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.

Venetiis (Venice), J. Baptista Pasqual, 1739. 4to (28.1 x 20.1 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded engraved plates. Period style half calf over marbled boards, later endpapers.

Bischoff-Ehinger, Andreas [Albumen print portrait]

[Portrait of an entomologist]

Basel [?], ca. 1875. Albumen print of a retouched photograph, mounted on board with printed caption. Board size 21.8 x 14.3 cm; print size 14.1 x 9.7 cm.

Blanford, W. T.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. [Annotated copy].

London, Taylor and Francis, [1888]-1891. 8vo (21.6 x 15.6 cm). xx, 617, [ii] pp.; 199 steel engravings. Contemporary brown, pebbled cloth. Spine with gilt lines and title.

Blanford, W. T. [AND] H. H. Godwin-Austen [AND] G. K. Gude [AND] H. B. Preston

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Mollusca. Parts I-IV. [Complete].

London, Taylor & Francis, 1908-1921. Four parts in four. 8vo (22.8 x 15.8 cm). More than 1,500 pp.; two plates, numerous text figures. Uniform red cloth with gilt titles on spines. Black endpapers (white in Vol. II).

Bleeker, P.

Collected fish papers of Pieter Bleeker. Collected and edited by W. H. Lamme. Volumes I-XIV. [Complete].

The Hague, W. Junk, 1973-1979. In 14 volumes. 8vo (22.2 x 15.0 cm). Frontispiece portrait, numerous text pages and plates. Uniform printed cloth.