Zoology
641 items found
Entomology
All works on insects, butterflies, beetles, spiders, scorpions, etc
General Invertebrates
General Zoology
All works on animals in general: geographically, historically, etc
Herpetology
All works on lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, newts, turtles, etc
Ichthyology
All works on extant and extinct fishes, and on angling & fishing
Invertebrates (others)
All invertebrates other than specifically on molluscs, or insects, spiders and allies
Malacology
All works on shells, snails, slugs, bivalves, cephalopods, etc
Mammalogy
All works on mammals from mammuths to mice, extinct an/or living
Ornithology
All works on birds and birders, including oology, nidology, etc
Bleeker, P.
Over eenige nieuwe soorten van Notopterus van den Indischen Archipel.
Breslau and Bonn, Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher, "1852" [1854]. 4to (30.6 x 24.0 cm). Title page and 12 text pages [numbered (51)-62]; five chromolithographed plates (one much larger, folded) [numbered 6-10]. Contemporary blind blue wrappers.
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Bleeker, P. and F. P. L. Pollen
Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses Dépendances, d'apres les découvertes de Fr. P. C. Pollen et D. van Dam. 4me Partie. Poissons de Madagascar et de l'Ile de la Réunion des collections de MM. Pollen et Van Dam. [AND] Les pêches a Madagascar et es dépendances. [With six additional plates on fishery usually not present].
Leyde (Leiden), E. J. Brill, 1875. 4to (29.2 x 21.2 cm). Half-title and title to Bleeker and Pollen, title to Pollen; 195 pp. (104, [ii], 89); 27 fine, hand-coloured lithographed plates, including one map (of Mayotte), one portrait (of Antoine Rétout "Le grand Amateur-Pêcheur Créole à l'île de la Réunion"), and four plates showing fisheries and fishing techniques (from the Relation de voyage). Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands with gilt chains; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Bloch, M. E.
Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische - Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Plate CXX "Embrio squali pristis. Ein ungebohrner Soegefisch. L'embrion de la scie." [Sawfish, unborn].
Berlin, [the author], 1785. Oblong folio (23.7 x 39.3 cm). Printed on one side. Printed surface 20.8 x 36.7 cm.
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Boccone, P.
Natuurkundige Naspeuringen op proef- en waerneemingen gegrond. Zynde behalven een uitvoerige navorssing van den groey der planten, zo betreffende derzelver begin voortgang als volmaking, ook een bestipt onderzoek van den oorzaek der wonderbare versteeningen van verscheide lighamen; De wording van het Corael, de Star-steenen, de mynstoffige bezoar en het verschil van deeze met de dierlijke, de versteende vis-tanden, ammon-hoorn, schelpen, enz. Waer by komt een omstandige betooging van den aert, eigenschap der brandende en vuurbrakende bergen; inzonderheid van den Etna, door ondervindingen bevestigt en gesterkt, en uit derselzelver zelfstandigheeden opgemaeckt, alles vervat in verscheide brieven tusschen den Heer Paul Boccone, die van de Koninglyke Societeit der Weetenschappen te Londen, en de grootste geleerden van Europa als Professor Ruysch, Swammerdam, en andere gewisselt.
Amsterdam, Steeve van Esveldt, 1744. Small 8vo (16.3 x 10.9 cm). [iv], 293, [iii] pp., frontispiece, engraved title page; 16 engraved plates (some larger, folded). Original boards.
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Boehm, G.
Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koenigliche Bayerische Staates. Zweiter Band, vierte Abtheilung. Die Bivalven der Stramberger Schichten.
Cassel [Kassel], Gustav Fischer, 1883. Folio (44.2 x 31.5 cm), Title page; 18 fine, lithographed plates. In original green portfolio with printed title page mounted.
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Boettger, O.
Ad. Strubell's Konchylien aus Java I [AND] Ad. Strubell's Konchylien aus Java II und von den Molukken. [Complete].
Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1890-1891. Two parts in one. 8vo (22.1 x 15.4 cm). 115 pp. [37; 78]; four [2; 2] lithographed plates. Disbound.
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Bolk, L. and C. Winkler (eds.)
Petrus Camper. Nederlandsche bijdragen tot de anatomie. Uitgegeven door L. Bolk en C. Winkler, hoogleeraren aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. 1e - 4e deel. [Complete].
Haarlem, De Erven F. Bohn, 1902-1907. Four volumes in four. Large 8vo (25.4 x 16.1 cm). Three title pages; 2346 pp. [1(1902: (ii), 586; 2(1904) 570; 3[1905]: 598; 4(1907): (ii), 586]; 56[24;10;9;13] plates (several larger, some coloured); numerous text figures. Uniform burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands and title. Floral endpapers.
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Bond, J.
Birds of the West Indies. An account with full descriptions of all the birds known to occur or have occurred on the West Indian Islands. [The rare true first edition].
Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936. 8vo (19.0 x 13.0 cm). xxv, 456 pp.; full colour frontispiece, numerous fine engravings. Original grey buckram with gilt title on the front board and spine. Map on front endpapers.
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Bons, J.
Les lacertiliens du sud-ouest Marocain. Systematique - Repartition geographique - Ethologie - Ecologie.
Rabat, Institut Scientifique Chérifien, 1959. 8vo (25.1 x 16.1 cm). Half-title, title page, 130 pp.; nine plates, four tinted double-sized maps, 22 text figures. Original printed wrappers.
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Boone, [P.] L.
Scientific results of the World cruises of the yachts "Ara" 1928-1929, and "Alva" 1931-1932, "Alva" Mediterranean cruise 1933, and "Alva" South American cruise 1935, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Crustacea: Anomura, Macrura, Euphausiacea, Isopoda, Amphipoda, and Echinodermata: Asteroidea and Echinoidea.
Huntington, NY, Privately Published, 1935. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 264 pp.; 96 plates. Original dark green buckram with gilt title on the spines and front boards.
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Boone, [P.] L.
Scientific results of the World cruises of the yachts "Ara" 1928-1929, and "Alva" 1931-1932, "Alva" Mediterranean cruise 1933, and "Alva" South American cruise 1935, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Marine algae, Coelenterata, Annelida, Echinodermata, Crustacea, Mollusca.
Huntington, NY, Privately Published, 1938. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 372 pp.; 152 plates. Original dark green buckram with gilt title on the spine and front boards.
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Bosc, L. A. G.
Histoire naturelle des coquilles contenant leur description, leurs moeurs des animaux qui les habitent et leurs usages. Avec figures dessinées d'apres nature. Tome premier - II - III - IV - V. [Complete].
Paris, Deterville, an X [1802]. Five parts in five. 12mo (12.4 x 8.3 cm). Five titles and half-titles, 1501 pp. [343; 330; 292; 280; 256]; one folded table, " tableau des vers", and 44 [I: 1; II: 2-12,15; III: 13-14, 16-28; IV: 29-36; V: 37-44] finely engraved plates after Desève. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards; gilt title and ornamental lines on spines. Green speckled endpapers.
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Bose, C. and [J.] H. Menz
Generatio paradoxos in Rana. Conspicua et. sub praesidio Friderici. Menzii disputata a Casparo. Bosio. Die IV. Mart. MDCCXXIV.
Lipsiae, Immanuel Titius, 1724. 4to (19.0 x 16.4 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, index and corollaria.; 24 pp.; engraved plate. Without wrappers, as published.
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Böttger, O. [Boettger, O.]
Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagascar. I. Studien über Reptilien aus Madagascar. [AND] Erster Nachtrag.
Frankfurt am Main, Senkenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1877-1878. Two parts in two. 4to (29.0 x 22.8 cm). 67 [53; 14] pp.; two [1; 1] lithographed plates. Original printed front wrapper and matching rear wrapper.
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Bouillet, J. B.
Catalogue des espèces et variétés de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés jusqu'a ce jour a l'état vivant, dans la Haute et la Basse-Auvergne (départemens de Cantal, du Puy-de-Dôme et partie de celui de la Haute-Loire); suivi d'un autre catalogue des espèces fossiles recueillies récemment dans les diverses formations tertiaires des mêmes départemens. [AND] Coquilles fossiles du calcaire d'eau douce du Cantal.
Clermont-Ferrand, Thibaud-Landriot, 1834-1836. Two papers in one. 8vo (21.6 x 13.7 cm). 166, [i] pp.; 16 pp.; two lithographed plates. 20th-century half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Original printed wrappers of the first paper bound in.
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[Bourguignat, J. B.] Servain, G. (ed.)
Oeuvres scientifiques de M. J.-R. Bourguignat. Précédés d'une préface biographique par le Dr. Georges Servain. Président de la Société malacologique de France.
Paris, D. Dumoulin, 1891. 8vo (23.6 x 15.5 cm). ix, 256 pp. Original printed wrappers.
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