Pleistocene - Diluvium
14 items found
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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Canavari, M. (ed.)
Palaeontologia della Somalia. Fossili raccolti dalle Missioni Stefanini-Paoli (1913) e Stefanini-Puccioni (1924) e da altri.
Pisa, Museo Geologico della R. Università di Pisa, 1931-1939 [REPRINT Bologna, Forni, 1969]. In five volumes. 4to (31.2 x 21.4 cm). 1,115 pp. [216; 192; 301; 89; 270, 47]; 111 plates [17; 24; 26; 12; 27, 5]; numerous text illustrations. Original uniform printed wrappers.
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Catullo, T. A.
Trattato sopra la costituzione geognostico-fisica dei terreni alluviani o postdiluviani delle provincie Venete.
Padova, Cartallier e Sicca, 1838. 8vo (21.2 x 13.3 cm). Title page with engraved vignette, [iv], 512 pp.; several tables in the text. Mid-19th-century pebbled cloth. Gilt title on the spine.
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Granö, J. G.
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Eiszeit in der Nordwestlichen Mongolei und einigen ihrer südsibirischen Grenzgebirge. Geomorphologische Studien aus den Jahren 1905, 1906, 1907 und 1909.
Helsingfors, J. Simelii [for the Geographical Society of Finland], 1910. Large 8vo (24.9 x 16.5 cm). iv, 230 pp.; seven large, folded coloured maps, 19 photographic plates. Later quarter calf over pictorial boards.
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Lydekker, R.
Indian Tertiary and post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. II. Part 1. Siwalik Rhinocerotidae. Part 2. Supplement to Siwalik and Narbada Proboscidia.
Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1881. Two parts in one. Folio (36.0 x 26.0 cm). 66 pp.; 11 fine, lithographed plates [I-X, IIA] by Schaumburg. Original printed wrappers.
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Newton, E. T. [AND] [J. F.] J. von Haast
On the remains of a gigantic species of bird ( Gastornis klaassenii, n. sp.) from the Lower Eocene Beds near Croydon [AND] On Megalapteryx hectori, a new gigantic species of apterygian bird [AND] On Dinornis oweni, a new species of Dinornithidae, with some remarls on D. curtus.
London, The Zoological Society of London, 1886. Three papers in one. Very large 4to (32.0 x 25.6 cm). 40 pp. [143-160; 161-169; 171-182]; five lithographed plates [28-29; 30 (larger, folded); 31-32]. Original printed wrappers.
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Philippi, R. A.
Los fósiles terciarios i cuartarios de Chile.
Santiago de Chile, Gobierno de Chile, 1887. Large 4to (31.3 x 26.4 cm). 256 pp.; 58 fine lithographic plates. Publisher's embossed black cloth; boards with rich gilt-ornamented borders and title. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Inner dentelles. Endpapers with floral pattern. All edges marbled.
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Schmidt, R. R.
Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands.
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart (Nägele und Dr. Sproesser), 1912. Very large 4to (35.5 x 30.0 cm). xiii, 283 pp.; 47 engraved or heliogravure plates with explanatory text leaves, loose in rear pocket. Original quarter vellum over cloth boards. Gilt title on front board; gilt-lettered morocco label on the spine.
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Tokunaga, S. et al.
Report of the First Scientific Expedition to Manchoukuo. Under the leadership of Shigeyasu Tokunaka. June - October 1933. Section II [Geology]. Part I-IV. [Complete].
Tokyo, Asahi, 1934-1939. Four volumes in four. 4to (26.0 x 19.0 cm). Ca. 700 pp. with 124 plates and three folding coloured maps. Original uniform printed stiff wrappers.
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Walkhoff, [F.] O.
Menschenaffen (Anthropomorphae) Studien über Entwickelung und Schädelbau herausgegeben von Dr. Emil Selenka Professor in München. Sechste Lieferung: Die diluvialen menschlichen Kiefer Belgiens und Ihre Pithekoiden Eigenschaften.
Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel 1903. 4to. [ii], 43 pp. (numbered [373]-415); 24 text figures (mostly [x-ray] photos). Original printed wrappers and original quarter linen portfolio over printed boards.
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