Malacology List 21
76 items found
Agassiz, A.
A contribution to American thalassography: Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer Blake, in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880.
Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (25.2 x 16.7 cm). 434 pp.[xxii, 314; 220]; over 550 fine - often large - text illustrations; one folded map. Original blue linen with gilt title on the spines. Top edges gilt.
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Barrande, J.
Acéphalés. Etudes locales et comparatives. Extraits du système Silurien du centre de la Bohème. Vol. VI. Acéphalés.
Prague, chez l'auteur, 1881. 8vo (24.0 x 15.2 cm). xxxii, 536 pp.; ten double-sized lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.
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Barrande, J.
Céphalopodes. Etudes générales. Extraits du système Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Vol. II, Texte V. Chap. XVII. Partie initiale de la coquille. Observations générales. Chap. XVIII. Distribution verticale des Céphalopodes, dans l'ensemble des contrées paléozoiques. Chap. XIX. Résumé général de nos études sur les Céphalopodes.
Prague, Paris, J. Barrande [the author], 1877. 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). 253 pp; four double-sized, lithographed plates with explanatory text. Original printed wrappers.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. II. Classe des mollusques, ordre des céphalopodes. Texte et 544 planches.
Prague, Musée Bohême, 1867-1877. 11 parts in 11. Large 4to and folio (32.5 x 25.5). 3,583 pp.; 545 lithographed plates (including 240bis) with explanatory text leaves. Original near uniform blind-tooled cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Barrande, J.
Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: recherches paléontologiques. Vol. III. Texte et 16 planches. Classe des mollusques. Ordre des ptéropodes.
Prague, Paris, privately published, 1867. Large 4to (32.9 x 25.9 cm). 179 pp.; 16 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original blind-tooled burgundy cloth with gilt title on spine.
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Bianchi, G. P. S. [J. Plancus]
De conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis (Venice), J. Baptista Pasqual, 1739. 4to (28.1 x 20.1 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded engraved plates. Period style half calf over marbled boards, later endpapers.
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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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Boys, W. and G. Walker
Testacea Minuta Rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris sandvicensis; Multa addidit, et omnium figuras ope microscopii ampliatas accurate delineavit. A collection of the minute and rare shells, lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich; Considerably augmented, and their figures accurately drawn, as magnified with the microscope.
London, B. White, Scatcherd & Whitaker, and Humphrey, [1784]. 4to (27.5 x 21.1 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, v, 25 pp.; three engraved plates. Iberian purple half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine and front board. Marbled endpapers.
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Bruguière, J. G.
Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.
Paris, Panckoucke, 1797. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 97 finely engraved plates (numbered 190-286), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label.
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Bruguière, J. G. [AND] Deshayes, G. P.
Encyclopedie Methodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier. Tome troisième. [Texts].
Paris, Pancoucke, 1789-1792 [AND] Mme veuve Agasse, 1832. 4to (27.8 x 21.3 cm [AND] 25.1 x 20.8 cm). 1321 (of 1915) pp. [i-vi, 1-757; 595-1152]. Original boards, and contemporary half calf over marbled boards.
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Bruguière, J. G. and Lamarck [J. B. P. A. de Monet de] and Candolle, [A. P.] de
Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.
Paris, Panckoucke, An VI [1797]. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 104 finely engraved plates (numbered 287-390), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label.
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Clerck, C. [A.]
Nomenclator extemporaneus rerum naturalium: plantarum, insectorum, conchyliorum, secundum systema naturæ linnæanum. Editus a Carol Clerck.
Stockholm, Laurentius Ludovicus Grefing, 1759. 8vo (20.1 x 12.1 cm). Title page, [ii], 67, [xii] pp. Later grey wrappers with printed title.
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Conrad, T. A.
Fossil shells of the Tertiary formations of North America, illustrated by figures, drawn on stone, from nature. Vol. 1(1)-(4). [AND] Vol. 1(3) ["republication"] Eocene fossils of the Claiborne, with observations on this formation in the United States, and a geological map of Alabama.
Philadelphia, PA, J. Dobson, 1832-1835. 8vo (23.3 x 14.2 cm). 74 pp.; 21 plates [numbered 1-14, XV-XVI, 17-21]. 20th-century black buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Dautzenberg, P. and H. Fischer
Campagnes scientifiques de S. A. le Prince Albert 1er de Monaco. Dragages effectués par l'Hirondelle et par la Princesse-Alice, 1888-1895 [AND] 1888-1896 [AND] Mollusques appartenant a la famille des Scalidae et au genre Mathildia.
Paris, Société Zoologique de France, 1896-1897. Three papers in two. 212 pp. [104; 95; 13 (numbered 395-498; 139-234; 62-74)], 14 [8; 5, 1] phototype plates. Near uniform half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, gilt title and gilt ornamental head and foot pieces. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Deyrolle, É. (ed.)
Le Naturaliste. Journal des échanges et des nouvelles. Volume I-III [no's 1-66].
Paris, Émile Deyrolle, 1879-1881. Three volumes in one. Folio (31.5 x 23.8 cm). 532 pp. Numerous illustrations. Contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title.
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Dezallier d'Argenville, A. J. D.
l'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre; ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode Latine & Françoise de les diviser: augmenté de la zoomorphose, ou representation des animaux a coquilles, avec leurs explications. Nouvelle édition. Enrichie de figures dessinées d'après nature.
Paris, De Bure, 1757. 4to (28.5 x 22.8 cm). Title in red and black, with woodcut vignette, xxii, 394 pp.; half-title, second title in red and black, 84, cvii pp.; engraved frontispiece (plate 1) and another 40 [2-29, 1-3, 1-9] engraved plates (i.e., a total of 41 plates). Contemporary mottled calf with gilt-lined edges. Spine with five raised bands, compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and brown morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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Dru, [V. E.] L. and [E. C. P. A.] Munier-Chalmas
Extraits de la Mission de M. le Commandant Roudaire dans les Chotts Tunisiens (1878-1879). I. hydrologie, géologie et paléontologie. II. Paléontologie. Description des espèces nouvelles.
Paris, Georges Chamerot, 1881. 8vo (25.0 x 16.2 cm). 79 pp.; one large, triple-folded, tinted map, one very large, multi-folded and hand-coloured profile from Chott Rharsa to the Mediterranean coast, five lithographed plates with shells. Original printed front wrapper in near contemporary wrappers.
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Dujardin, F. [AND d’Archiac, AND others]
Mémoire sur les couches du sol en Touraine et descriptions des coquilles de la craie des faluns.
Paris, Strasbourg, F.-G. Levrault, 1837. 4to (29.0 x 23.6 cm cm). 100 pp.; 6 engraved plates [numbered XVI-XX] and a very large, folded, and originally hand-coloured map, titled "Carte géologique de la Touraine", additionally containing a coloured profile. Original printed wrappers.
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Dunker, G. [= W. (B. R. H.)]
Mollusca Japonica descripta et tabulis tribus iconum illustrata.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1861. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.5 cm) [Board size 32.5 x 26.0 cm] 36 pp.; three finely hand-coloured lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed boards.
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Eilenburg, C. H.
Kurzer Entwurf der königlichen Naturalienkammer zu Dresden.
Dresden and Leipzig, Walther, 1755. Folio (27.8 x 20.9 cm). Title page with engraved armorial vignette; 102 pp.; two very large, multi-folded engraved plans; several engraved pictorial headpieces and woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title in gilt, ornamental border; boards with ruled borders. Colour-stamped floral endpapers. Edges marbled blue.
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Férussac, [A. É. J. P. J. F. d'Audebert de] (Baron) and G. P. Deshayes
Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles. Tant des espèces qui l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels qui présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. [Large paper copy. Text and atlases, complete].
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1820-1851. In four volumes. Folio (42.5 x 30.0 cm). Four half-titles, four title pages, 950 pp.; (I: [v-viii, 402; II: xvi, [1]-184, 96a-z [i.e., 25; letter w omitted], 96α-96λ [i.e., 11], 96.1-96.24 (i.e., 24), 260, 22, [ii]); 248 engraved plates on paper stubs [Atlas I: 1-69K; Atlas II: 70-166, 1-5; 127A, 127B, 127A-127B], mostly printed in colour, some finished by hand. One plate plain, as intended. Uniform 19th-century half brown morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five raised bands, and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt.
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Fischer, P. [H.] and [J. C.] H. Crosse
Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, ouvrage publié par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur et par les soins du Ministre de l'Instruction publique. Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune d'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique publiées sous la direction de M. Milne Edwards. Septième Partie. Études sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatemala.
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1870-1902. Two parts in three. Large 4to and matching folio (35.1 x 26.7 cm). Title pages to the zoology part, the volume, the text, and the atlas; 702; 731 [1-376, 377-731] pp.; 72 lithographed plates of which 46 finely and accurately hand-coloured. Uniform dark blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. All 17 original printed wrappers bound in. The wrappers list the year of publication, and the included plates and feuilles by number.
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Gabb, W, M. [and others]
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Volume 11. 1859. [Complete].
Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1859. Loose in issues. 8vo (24.8 x 15.2 cm). xi, xxiv, xii, 353, 20, 20 pp.; four lithographed plates including two that are finely hand-coloured. Without wrappers (not issued), as published.
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Gilson, H. C. (ed.)
The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Lake Titicaca in 1937 under the leadership of Mr. H. Cary Gilson, M.A.. Reports 1-6, VII-XII, XIII-XX. [Complete].
London, The Linnean Society of London, 1939-1955. 20 papers in three. Large 4to (31.4 x 25.0 cm). 357 pp.; numerous plates and text illustrations. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Goldfuss, G. A.
Petrefacta germaniae oder Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Petrefacten Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Länder, unter Mitwirkung von Herrn Grafen Georg zu Münster.
Düsseldorf, Arnz, 1826-1844. Two parts (text and atlas) in two. Folio (45.7 x 29.1 cm). Title page to the work, three title pages to the parts. 704 pp. [I (vi), 252; II: (ii) 312; III: iv, 128]; 201 lithographed plates [I-CIXC; two without number]; plate part with several extra blanks in the rear. Uniform contemporary gilt-bordered half-morocco over grained boards. Spines with four trebled, gilt-rolled bands; compartments with gilt arabesques and titles. Marbled endpapers.
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Goodrich, C.
Calvin Goodrich. Complete occasional papers.
Ann Arbour, MI, The University of Michigan, 1921-1944. 27 papers in one. 8vo (22.5 x 15.0 cm). 334 pp.; eight plates (including one map and one portrait), several text illustrations. Red buckram with gilt bands and title on the spine.
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Guiart, [P. L.] J. [A.]
Contribution à l'étude des gastéropodes opisthobranches et en particulier des céphalaspides.
Lille, Le Bigot Frères, 1901. 8vo (22.8 x 15.1 cm). 219 pp.; 119 text illustrations, one large, multi-folded chart, seven lithographed plates. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Edges speckled red. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Heude, P. M.,
Notes sur les mollusques terrestres de la vallee du Fleuve Bleu. Part I.
Chang-Hai, Pères de la Compagnie Jésus (Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique), 1882. Very large 4to (34.9 x 25.6 cm). [ii], 87 pp.; ten lithographed plates (numbered XII-XXI) with explanatory text leaves. Later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt-stippled, raised bands, gilt ornamental bands and title. Marbled endpapers.
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Hudleston, W. H.
A monograph of the British Jurassic Gasteropoda. Gasteropoda of the Inferior Oolite. Parts 1-9. [Complete].
London, Palaeontographical Society, 1886-1896. Nine parts in one. 4to (27.5 x 21.4 cm). General title, titles to the years (different for each part), and for the parts; 514 pp.; 44 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Later brown buckram. Spine with dark brown morocco label with gilt lines and title.
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Joubin, L.
Gisements de Mollusques Comestibles des Cotes de France. La Méditerranée: de Cerbère à l'embrouchure de l'Hérault. (Avec une Carte).
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.
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Jousseaume, [F. P.]
A collection of nine rare offprints on marine molluscs.
Paris, various publishers, 1869-1898. Nine papers in six (ca. 24.0 x 16.0 cm; two ca. 22.0 x 14.0 cm). 143 pp.; six lithographed plates of which three in original hand-colouring. Original printed wrappers (to six papers), and protective blind wrappers.
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Körnig, G. et al. (eds.)
Die Weichtiere (Mollusca) des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Arten der Anhänge zur Flora-Fauna-Habitat-Richtlinie sowie der kennzeichnenden Arten der Flora-Fauna-Habitat-Lebensraumtypen
Halle (Saale), Landesamt für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt, 2013. Large 4to. 336 pp.; numerous full colour illustrations. Full colour pictorial softcover.
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Langenhan, A.
Versteinerungen der deutschen Trias (des Buntsandsteins, Muschelkalks und Keupers). auf Grund eigener Erfahrungen zusammengestellt und auf Stein gezeichnet.
Friedrichroda, Privately published, 1915. Folio (34.5 x 25.0 cm). Title page, frontispiece; 10, [iv] pp.; 32 plates (27 numbered; three double-sized or larger) with explanatory text leaves Plain wrappers.
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