Zoology
593 items found
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.
Read moreGravenhorst, J. L. C. [C.]
Über die im zoologischen Museum der Universität Breslau befindlichen Wirtelschleichen (Pseudosaura), Krüppelfüssler (Brachypoda), und einige andere, denselben verwandte Reptilien aus den Zünften der Schleigen und Dickzüngler.
Breslau, Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae, 1847. 4to (29.6 x 22.6 cm). Title page, 102 pp.; 19 engraved plates. Later blind green cloth boards, printed paper label on the spine.
Read moreOberthür, C.
Études d'entomologie. Faunes entomologiques. Descriptions d'insectes nouveaux ou peu connus. I. Étude sur la faune des lépidoptères de l'Algerie.
Rennes, Oberthür et fils, 1876. 4to (27.9 x 18.8 cm). 74 pp.; four nice hand-coloured engraved plates. Slightly later half cloth over marbled boards. Dark green morocco strip with gilt title mounted on spine. Original printed wrappers preserved.
Read moreOberthür, C.
Études de lépidopterologie comparée. Volume I.
Rennes, F. C. Oberthür, 1904. 8vo (24.4 x 15.8 cm). 77 pp.; plates I-V; all finely hand-coloured, one heightened with silver, one in double suite; an extra, handwritten plate explanation to plates I-IV bound in the rear. Later blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read morePruvot-Fol, A.
Étude de quelques opisthobranches de la Côte Atlantique du Maroc et du Sénégal.
Tanger, Éditions Internationales, 1953. 8vo (24.2 x 16.1 cm). 105 pp.; 35 (groups of) text illustrations, three double-sized full-colour plates. Brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers and printed errata leaf bound in.
Read moreCourtiller, A.
Éponges fossiles des Sables du terrain Crétacé supérieur des environs de Saumur. Étage Sénonien de d'Orbigny suivies des nullipores a squelette silicieux de l'étage Sénonien.
Paris, Savy, 1874. Very large 8vo (27.0 x 18.8 cm). 54 pp. (including two half-titles and title page), 109 [98, 8bis, 21bis, 22bis; 8] lithographed plates, including one very large, triple-folded. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with gilt floral vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Sprinkled edges.
Read moreSteindachner, F.
Zur Fisch-Fauna des Magdalenen-Stromes [AND] Über einige neue und seltene Fisch-Arten aus den k. k. zoologischen Museen zu Wien, Stuttgart und Warschau. [AND] Zur Fisch-Fauna des Cauca und der Flüsse bei Guayaquil. [AND] Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerikas I, II, III, IV. [AND] Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fische Afrika's und Beschreibung einer neuen Sargus-Art von de Galapagos Inseln. [AND] Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fische Afrika's (II) und Beschreibung einer neuen Paraphoxinus-Art aus der Herzegowina.
Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1878-1882. Nine papers in one. Large 4to (29.6 x 23.2 cm). Nine titles with blank versos, 348 pp.; 72 finely lithographed plates (three larger, folded). Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt floral vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreEhrenberg, C. G.
Zur erkenntniss der Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Zweiter Beitrag. Entwicklung, Lebensdauer und Structur der Magenthiere und Räderthiere oder sogenannten Infusorien, nebst einer physiologischen Characteristik beider Klassen und 412 Arten derselben. Vorgetragen in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin im Jahre 1831.
Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (F. Dümmler), 1832. Very large 4to (38.1 x 26.5 cm). Title page, 154 pp.; four engraved plates, of which two hand-coloured. Near contemporary marbled boards.
Read moreSemon, R. [W.] (ed.)
Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und den Malayischen Archipel. Mit Unterstützung des Herrn Dr. Paul von Ritter ausgeführt in den Jahren 1891-1893 von Richard Semon. Zweiter Band: Monotremen und Marsupialier. Mit 39 lithographischen Tafeln und 86 Abbildungen im Text.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1894-1897. Two parts in two [text and atlas]. Large 4to and folio (both 35.6 x 27.6 cm). 433 pp.; 39 lithographed plates of which many tinted or in chromolithography, and all with explanatory text leaves, 86 text engravings. Uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreAnnandale, [T.] N.
Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12.
Calcutta, The Director of the Zoological Survey of India, 1912-1918. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). pp. 1-77, 191-410, 493-621 [of 629] pp., errata leaf; plates I-V, XVI-XXVII, XXXVIII-LIV [of 57] (mostly lithographs and photogravures), several text illustrations. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreHorsfield, T.
Zoological researches in Java and the neighbouring islands.
London, Kinsbury, Parbury & Allan, [1821]-1824. Large 4to (29.4 x 22.8 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, preface (2 pp.), and General Catalogue of Javanese Birds (8 pp.); 72 lithographed plates of which 64 finely hand-coloured, and eight plain, as intended. All with explanatory text leaves and tissue-guarded. Contemporary straight-grained morocco; spine with four broad, flat, raised bands, blind-tooled and with gilt ornaments; compartments with large symmetrical scalloped vignettes; boards with Greek key blind-tooling, broad gilt floral outer border, and inner border with elaborate gilt corners; gilt-rolled edges and inner dentelles; green endpapers. All edges gilt.
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