Zoology
631 items found
Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (ed.). a. o.
Reports of the collection made by the British Ornithologists' Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1913.
London, Francis Edwards, 1916. In two volumes. Large 4to (33.2 x 25.6 cm). Text; 41 plates of which 13 in chromolithography; 76 text figures; two fine, coloured, double-sized maps. Original uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreNikolsky, A. M. [Nikolski, Nikolskii]
Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes fondée principalement sur les collections du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd. Reptiles (Reptilia). Volumes I-II. [Complete].
Petrograd, Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd, 1915-1916. Two volumes in two. 8vo (25.0 x 16.6 cm). 884 [534; 350] pp.; 133 [69; 64] text engravings, 17 [9; 8] plates. Uniform original printed wrappers.
Read moreSturany, R. and A. J. Wagner
Ueber schalentragende Landmollusken aus Albanien und Nachbargebieten.
Wien, Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Alfred Hölder), 1914. Large 4to (30.4 x 23.2). 120 pp.; 18 plates, one coloured map. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Patterned endpapers.
Read moreElliot, D. G.
A review of the primates. I-III. [Complete].
New York, NY, The American Museum of Natural History, "1912" [1913]. Three parts in three. 4to. 1,351 pp. [cxxvi, 317, xxxviii; xviii, 382, xxvi; xiv, 262, clxviii]; one full colour frontispiece by Fuertes, 27 full colour plates by Smit, Wolf, and Keulemans, 125 photographs mostly of crania. Contemporary full pebbled calf. Spines with five raised bands, gilt title and gilt floral vignettes. Boards with gilt-lined borders. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt.
Read moreNikolski, A. M. [Nikolsky, Nikolskii]
Presmykaiushchisi i zemnovodnyia Kavkaza (Herpetologia caucasica).
Tiflis [Tbilisi], Tipografiia kantseliarii Namiestrika E.I.V. na Kavkazie, 1913. 8vo (23.1 x 16.0 cm). 272 pp.; four (groups of) text figures, three lithographed plates of which one in chromolithography. Near contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards.
Read morePfurtscheller, P.
Amphibia. Anura. Rana I [AND] Rana II. [Frog]. Tab. 26-27.
Wien, Pichler's Witwe & Sohn, ca. 1912. Two charts in two. Very large broadsides (140 x 130 cm each). Each single sheet lithographed on two half-sheets, combined into one. Printed in chromolithography on one side.
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 moreBerg, 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.
Read moreMéheut, M.
Études d'animaux. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].
Paris, Albert Lévy, 1911. Two parts in two [and an addition, described below]. Folio (44.0 x 34.0 cm). Title page in red and black, pp. 5-9 (introduction), index leaf; second title page in red and black, half-title; 100 [42; 58] loose, unnumbered plates in original, printed passepartouts. Uniform quarter cloth portfolios (45.0 x 35.0 cm); front boards with large vignette and printed title.
Read moreSjöstedt, Y.
Die Tierwelt der Steppen und Berge. Die Mkulumusi-Höhlen bei Tanga, die Bevölkerung des Kilimandjaro-Meru-Gebiets.
Stockholm, P. Palmquist, 1910. 4to (30.2 x 24.0 cm). 80 pp.; 13 photographic plates, one map. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-lined, bands and gilt title. Speckled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreRothschild, M. de and H. Neuville
Recherches sur l'okapi et les girafes de l'est Africain.
Paris, Masson, 1910-1911. Two parts in one. Large 8vo (23.8 x 15.3 cm). Title page, hand-coloured frontispiece, 279 [93; 186] pp., 78 [27; 51] groups of text figures, 11 [5; 6] double-sized plates, of which one partly coloured. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreWade, H. T.
With boat and gun in the Yangtze Valley (second edition) by Henling Thomas Wade (with special chapters by valued contributors).
Shanghai, Shanghai Mercury, 1910. 4to (27.8 x 21.8 cm). vi, 284 pp.; eight maps and plates, numerous text figures. Original full cloth with printed text on the front board. Purple endpapers.
Read moreKobelt, W. et al.
Festschrift zum siebenzigsten Geburtstag von Wilhelm Kobelt am 20. Februar 1910. Mit einem Porträt, 28 Tafeln und 51 Abbildungen im Text.
Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1910. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.7 cm). Frontispiece portrait; [iv], 463 pp.; 28 mostly lithographed plates (11 in chromolithography; three in b/w photography, one a coloured map), 51 text figures. Later green buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreGiesbrecht, W.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte herausgegeben von de zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 33. Monographie: Stomatopoden. Erster Theil. [All published].
Berlin, R. Friedländer, 1910. 4to (33.5 x 27.1 cm). Title pages, vii, 239 pp.; 12 text engravings, 11 fine, large, folded lithographed plates (of which the first in chromolithography), with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreSpengel, J. W. (ed.)
Ergebnisse und Fortschritte der Zoologie. Erster - Vierter Band.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1909-1914. Four volumes in four. 8vo (22.9 x 16.1 cm). 2416 pp. [I: 596; II: 585; III: 593; IV: 642]; numerous text illustrations, several plates. Uniform pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Speckled edges.
Read moreHoulbert, C. et al.
Faune Entomologique Armoricaine. Publiée par la Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes. Tome I-II.
Rennes, Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes, 1909-1912. Three parts in three. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 624 pp. [viii, 97; 140; 111-311; vi, 172]. 600 text illustrations [146; 149; 150-237; 217]. Near uniform original wrappers.
Read moreSeitz, [F. J.] A.
The Macrolepidoptera of the World. [A complete, fully bound set]
Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1909-1954. 20 volumes in 29. 4to (31.5 x 25.0 cm). Text and 1,458 chromolithographed plates. Uniform publisher's - and later, matching half calf. Spines with gilt ornamental bands, gilt lepidopterological vignettes, and coloured shield with gilt titles.
Read more[Letourneux, E.] Couffon, O and T. Surrault (eds.)
Collection malacologique T. Letourneux offerte au Musée d'Histoire naturelle de la ville d'Angers. Catalogue par MM. O. Couffon (Coquilles marines) Th. Surrault (coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles). Ouvrage honoré d'une subvention de M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.
Angers, Germain et G. Grassin, 1909. 8vo (21.4 x 13.6 cm). Half-title, title page, xiii, 202 pp.; two portraits. Mid-20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreSeitz, [F. J.] A.
Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. [Complete as published].
Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1909-1954. 20 volumes in 34. 4to (31.3 x 24.8 cm). Text and 1458 chromolithographed plates in 10-14 colours. Publisher's uniform half calf, spines rich gilt with vignettes and gilt morocco labels (25 parts). The other parts are unbound in recent portfolios (9 parts).
Read morePierantoni, U.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Naepel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 31 Monographie: Protodrilus.
Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1908. Large 4to (33.2 x 27.0 cm). vii, 226 pp.; 13 text engravings, 11 lithographed plates, all but one larger, mostly double-sized; three in fine chromolithography, one tinted. Original printed wrappers.
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