Monte Carlo, Institut Océoanographique, 1913. 8vo (23.8 x 16.2 cm). 16 pp.; one page-sized map, and one very large, tinted and partially hand-coloured, multi-folded map (ca 100 x 80 cm). Contemporary blind boards.

A rare work, part of a series by the French malacologist Louis [Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard] Joubin (1861-1935), describing fishing grounds for edible molluscs. The large, detailed map, covering the French Mediterranean coast from the Spanish border to Agde (southwest of Montpellier), is quite spectacular. Title written in a neat old hand on the front board. Provenance: on the front board a stamp ("Dr. R. Hartmeyer") of the German zoologist, marine biologist and curator at the Zoological Museum of Berlin, Heinrich Hermann Robert Hartmeyer (1874-1923). "Rejecting a university career tied to teaching, he began his first marine studies in Messina, Naples and Rovigno in 1899. In 1900 he became a research assistant and in 1908 curator at the Berlin Zoological Museum, where he worked until his death and completely redesigned the departments of tunicates, bryozoans and echinoderms. Research trips between 1900 and 1908 aimed to clarify animal geographical and phylogenetic questions. In 1901 he accompanied Ludwig Plate to the Aegean and Red Seas, took part in the Hamburger Südwestaustralischen Forschungsreise with W. Michaelsen in 1905 and travelled to the West Indian islands and museums in the USA with Willy Kükenthal in 1906-07" ( Deutsche Biographie, emend.). Below Hartmeyer's stamp, and above the drophead title a stamp of the American malacologist and malaco-historian Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020). Map with short tears at a few folds; otherwise, very good, clean.