Manuscripts and Letters
75 items found
Jacquemont, V.
Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont avec sa famille et plusieurs de ses amis, pendant son voyage dans l'Indie (1828-1832). Tome premier - tome deuxième. [complete].
Paris, H. Fournier, 1833. Two parts in two. 8vo (21.9 x 13.6 cm). 388, 374 pp., one large, folded map. Contemporary uniform quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands, gilt and black lines, gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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[Ant, H.]
Manuscript based on Staudinger's printed list of Palaearctic Lepidoptera.
Not published, no date [but after 1936; probably ca. 1950]. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.1 cm). 161 ruled pages with mounted strips with printed text. Mid-20th century black blind cloth over marbled boards.
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Mertens, R.
[Original manuscript on the variability of the striped kukri snake, Oligodon octolineatus (Schneider)].
[Frankfurt am Main, 1969]. Handwritten in ink on rectos of 23 uniform, loose, ruled leaves (20.8 x 14.8 cm), a photocopy of a single leaf of G. A. Boulenger's Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, volume II (1894) with a few annotations by Mertens; and another 14 leaves of several sizes, a few with printed text.
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