Wolff, J. F.

Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].

Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (25.2 x 20.1 cm). First title page (verso blank), [ii (preface)], [iv], [ii], [iii-iv; vii-viii; v-[vi], 208 pp. (with second title [1801], third title [1802], fourth title [1804], and fifth (last) title [1811]); 20 finely engraved plates with beautiful original hand-colouring. Later 19th-century full embossed cloth. Spine with gilt ornaments and title; boards with blind-stamped ornamental borders. Marbled edges.

€1,850.00

A very good copy of the earliest binominal shell book of Great Britain

Costa, E. Mendes da

Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French.

London, for the Author, 1778. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.3 cm). xii, 254, viii pp. 17 finely engraved plates in excellent original hand-colouring. 19th-century French red half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral vignette and title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

€1,500.00

The rare complete Mollusca section of a magnificent work

Orbigny, A. [C. V.] 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. Tome cinquième. 3.e Partie: Mollusques.

Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1834-[1847]. In two volumes (text and atlas). Large 4to and folio (33.0 x 25.4 cm). Half-title to the Voyage, title to the Mollusques, half-title to the Mollusques; xliii, 758 pp.; 86 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-85; 41bis; plates 83-85 not coloured, as always]. Uniform period style half calf over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

€5,900.00

'Without women, victory will tarry The start of women massively joining the workforce

[Women's Liberation] [André Citroën]

Application de la main-d'oeuvre féminine au travail des obus. [AND] Usines André Citroën. Vues photographiques des usines André Citroën de mars a ocobre 1915 [at] 143 quai de javel, Paris.

€6,800.00

Rare, only edition of an early work on invertebrate blood

Carus, C. G.

Von den äussern Lebensbedingungen der weiss- und kaltblütigen Thiere.

€350.00

Agassiz's most important malacological work

Agassiz, L.

Iconographie des coquilles Tertiaires, réputées identiques avec les espèces vivantes ou dans différens terrains de l'époque Tertiaire, accompagnée de la description des espèces nouvelles.

€400.00

Including a handwritten letter by Bland

Bland, T.

Thomas Bland, The complete works.

€450.00

The rarely seen original edition

Blanford, W. T. [AND] H. H. Godwin-Austen [AND] G. K. Gude [AND] H. B. Preston

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Mollusca. Parts I-IV. [Complete].

€750.00

Bosc's attractive five-volume edition of the malacology of "Buffon"

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 [1; 2-12,15; 13-14, 16-28; 29-36; 37-44] engraved plates after Desève. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards; gilt title and ornamental lines on spines. Green speckled endpapers.

€300.00

The rare second, enlarged edition