Zoology
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Rathbun, M. J. and J. E. Benedict a.o. [B. W. Evermann (ed.)]
Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico. Second Part.
Washington, DC, United States Fish Commission, 1902. 4to (26.8 x 18.7 cm). viii, 431 pp., 72 plates (heliotypes, photographs, two fine chromolithographs of crabs), numerous text figures. Contemporary red pebbled half calf over red pebbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Red marbled endpapers, red marbled edges.
Read moreLudwig, R.
Fossile Crocodiliden aus der Tertiärformation des Mainzer Beckens.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1877. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.7 cm). [i], 52 pp.; 16 double-sized lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, gilt title and floral vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Sprinkled edges.
Read moreSchaeffer, J. C.
Die Blumenpolypen der süßen Wasser beschrieben und mit den Blumenpolypen der salzigen Wasser verglichen.
Regensburg, Emanuel Adam Weiss, 1755. 8vo (22.7 x 18.7 cm). Title page, [iv], 54 pp.; three originally hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers.
Read moreMüller, H. [L. H.]
Alpenblumen, ihre Befruchtung durch Insekten und ihre Anpassungen an dieselben.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, [1880]-1881. 8vo (22.7 x 15.3 cm). iv, 612 pp.; 173 (groups of) text engravings. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Speckled edges.
Read moreVan Denburgh, J.
The reptiles of western North America. An account of the species known to inhabit California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. [AND] Volume II. Snakes and turtles. [Complete].
San Francisco, CA, California Academy of Sciences, 1922. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (26.5 x 18.0 cm). 1,028 pp.; 128 plain plates. Uniform, near contemporary red buckram. Spines with gilt titles.
Read moreFowler, H. W. [AND] V. [F. M.] Fitzsimons
Scientific Results of the Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition, March to September 1930. The Freshwater fishes. [AND] Reptilia and Amphibia.
Cambridge, The University Press, 1935. Two papers in one 8vo (25.0 x 16.1 cm). 147 [44; 103] pp.; 6 [4, 2] plates; 48 [18; 30] text figures. Original pictorial wrappers.
Read moreMcCoy, F.
Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Decade XX. [Complete Decade].
Melbourne, Government Printers, 1890. 4to (27.0 x 18.1 cm). Two title pages; [ii], 47 [numbered 329-375], (xxxiv [indexes]) pp.; ten chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
Read morePagenstecher, A. [A. F.]
Lepidopteren. [In; Kükenthal, Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo].
Frankfurt am Main, Moritz Diesterweg, 1897. Folio (30.0 x 23.2 cm). 117 pp. [numbered 353-469]; three finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Atlas. Zoologique. Mammifères. Plate 3. Cebus fulvus var.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1840-[1847]. Folio-size (33,9 x 25,3 cm). Hand-coloured engraving with printed caption.
Read moreOrbigny, A. D. d'
Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Atlas. Zoologique. Mammifères. Plate 5. Callithrix donacophilusd'Orbigny.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1840-[1847]. Folio-size (33,9 x 25,3 cm). Hand-coloured engraving with printed caption.
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