Albers, J. C. [AND] Castello de Paiva, A.
Malacographia maderensis sive enumeratio molluscorum quae in insulis Maderae et Portus Sancti aut viva extant aut fossilia reperiuntur [AND] Monographia molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium Insularium Maderensium.
Berolini [Berlin], Georg Reimer, 1854 [AND] Olisipone [Lisbon], Academicis, 1867. Two works in one. 4to (26.9 x 21.3 cm). 94 pp.; 17 lithographed plates (all but one finely hand-coloured). [AND] 170 pp.; two finely hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. [AND] Four "letters" loosely inserted. Later blue buckram with gilt titles on the spine.
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Belgrand, [M. F.] E.
Histoire générale de Paris. La Seine. I. Le bassin Parisien aux âges antéhistoriques.
Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1869. In three parts (Texte, Atlas de Paléontologie, and Planches de Géologie et de Conchyliologie). Large 4to and folio (33.8 x 23.9 cm). Texte: cvi, 289 pp., four double-sized coloured maps, 36 engraved text figures, five tissue-guarded plates (four profiles and one with stone age axes); Atlas: 82 [46, a-d] pp.; seven text engravings, 86 plates [1-79, 29bis, 48bis, 53bis, 59bis, 59ter, 62bis, 62ter, 78bis) being tissue guarded heliogravures of mammalian bones, including human skulls, etc., and stone age tools. Géologie and Conchyliologie, 32 pp. Three lithographed plates of shells, three very large folded, coloured geological profiles (numbered 5-7, being a suite to the maps in the text part). All in original green, printed boards or wrappers. Not in Nissen, ZBI.
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Berg, 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.
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Bernardi, A. [C.]
Monographie du genre Conus. Accompagnée de deux planches coloriées faisant suite aux monographies de Reeve, Kiéner et Sowerby.
Paris, J. Rothschild, [1858]. 4to (27.5 x 20.2 cm). 25 pp.; two finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. 20th-century quarter cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Original printed wrappers and publisher's lists bound in.
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Blanford, H. F. [AND] Stoliczka, F.
Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India. The fossil Cephalopoda of the Cretaceous rocks of Southern India: Belemnitidae-Nautilidae by Henry F. Blanford, Ammonitidae, with revision of the Nautilidae, &c. by Ferd. Stoliczka.
Calcutta, Geological Survey Office, [1861]-1865. Folio (33.1 x 25.0 cm). Title page with printed wrapper mounted on blank verso. vii, 216, xiii pp.; 95 lithographed plates (numbered I-XCIV, LXVIa; including several larger, folded) with explanatory text leaves. Near contemporary half calf with blind-tooled borders over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt lines, and two red morocco labels with gilt title. Printed errata leaf tipped in.
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Bleeker, P.
Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises. Publié sous les auspices du gouvernement colonial Néêrlandais. IV. Murènes, synbranches, leptocéphales.
Amsterdam, Fredrik Muller, 1862. Folio (45.9 x 33.2 cm). 132 pp.; 49 large, superbly chromo-lithographed plates. Contemporary half linen over grained boards with original printed front wrapper mounted on the front board.
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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. [With two original, signed letters by Bourguignat].
Paris, D. Dumoulin, 1891. 8vo (23.6 x 15.5 cm). ix, 256 pp. Green buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Bourguignat, J. R.
Malacologie de l'Algérie, ou histoire naturelle des animaux mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, recueillis jusqu'à ce jour dans nos possessions du Nord de l'Afrique.
Paris, Challamel ainé, 1863-1864. In two volumes. Folio (36.9 x 28.0 cm; board size 38 x 30 cm). 686 pp. [xii, 294; 380]; 58 [32; 26] lithographed plates of which ten fully or partly hand-coloured, several heightened with gum arabic; five maps of which four hand-coloured. 20th-century black buckram. Spines with gilt-bordered red leather label with gilt title. Speckled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Bourguignat, J. R.
Malacologie de la Grande-Chartreuse.
Paris, F. Savy, 1864. 8vo (23.8 x 16.0 cm). 103 pp.; frontispiece and eight other lithographed plates with sceneries; eight numbered plates of which six in double suite (tinted and finely hand coloured) depicting land snails (for a total of 23 plates). Near contemporary blue morocco over blue-marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; gilt title, author, and date. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Bourguignat, J. R.
Mollusques nouveaux, litigieux ou peu connus. Centuries 1-12. [All Published].
Paris, Savy, 1863-1870. Two volumes in one. Thick 8vo (23.4 x 17.5 cm). Half-title, title page, 12 decade titles, 379 pp. [324; 55]; nine text figures (mounted), 49 [45; 4] lithographed plates of which four (plates 7, 22, 29, and 34) finely hand-coloured. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
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Brown, T.
Illustrations of the fossil conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with descriptions and localities of all the species.
London, Smith, Elder, [1837]-1849. Large 4to (31.3 x 25.1 cm). vii, 274 pp.; 117 originally hand-coloured engraved plates. [numbered, in Roman numerals, 1-98, 3*, 20*, 20**, 21*, 29*, 33*, 37*, 52*, 53*, 54*, 55*, 56*, 61*, 61**, 61***, 66*, 66**, 72*, 74*]. Contemporary, probably publisher's, half morocco over double gilt-bordered marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments rich gilt with conchological vignettes and floral borders, and gilt title. Top edge gilt.
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