Zoology
632 items found
A seldom seen publication on French reptiles
Essential work on fossil turtles
Lamarck arrives in Sweden
On the oft-ignored caecilians
An essential work on Balkan molluscs
Sturany, 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.
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€100.00
An impressive and thought-provoking herpeto-geographical map
More heard than seen
A seldom-seen botanical work, with a new species, by Linnaeus
From Scotland's more dangerous times
Profusely illustrated
Medvedev, G. S. (ed.)
Opredelitel nasekomych Evropejskoj chasti SSSR [Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR). Tom IV, Chast 1: Cheshuyekrylyye [Lepidoptera].
Leningrad, Akademia Nauk SSSR, 1978. 4to (26.8 x 17.6) cm, 710, [ii] pp.; 585 (groups of) text figures. Publishers's embossed cloth with gilt title on front board and spine.
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€95.00
A very fine plate, showing huge variety in the trilobites, drawn by Ernst Haeckel
Malaco-history worth knowing
Paetel, F.
Die bisher veröffentlichten Familien- und Gattungsnamen der Mollusken.
Berlin, Gebrüder Paetel, 1875. 8vo (22.4 x 15.1 cm). Contemporary grained half morocco over shagreen boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands and gilt title. Salmon endpapers; yellow edges.
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€80.00