Asia
152 items found
Veth, P. J. and A. De Grijs
Insulinde. Twaalf tafereelen uit Nederlandsch Indië, volgens teekeningen en studiën naar de natuur door A. de Grijs, geëtst door C. L. Van Kesteren met tekst van P. J. Veth, hoogleeraar te Leiden.
Amsterdam, S. Warendorf [or C. L. Van Kesteren], [1879-1882]. Folio (43.7 x 32.0 cm). Half-title, title page, text; 12 original etchings. Original light blue pictorial cloth with gilt title on spine. Floral patterned endpapers.
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Vosmaer, A.
Description de deux petits alcyons des Indes Orientales, très-beaux, a queuë courte, ayant deux doigts devant, & un derrière; admirable, n'ayant presque point de queuë, pourû de deux doigts de devant, & de deux derrière; lesquels se conservent dans le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Stadhouder héréditaire, gouverneur, capitaine général et admiral des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.
Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1768. 4to (27.1 x 21.0 cm). Title page, 7 pp.; text vignette, one finely engraved plate in contemporary hand-colouring. No wrappers issued.
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Wait, W. E.
The distribution of birds in Ceylon and its relation to recent geological changes in the island. [AND] Notes on Ceylon rails, waders, gulls, and terns. [AND] Notes on Ceylon water birds part II. [AND] Rough draft of Ceylon pigeons and game birds.
Colombo, The Colombo Museum, [1914]-1920. Four papers in one. 8vo (23.3 x 14.8 cm). 207 [32; 82; 60; 33] pp.; 4 [0; 2; 1; 1] plates. Contemporary half calf over red cloth boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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Wall, F.
A popular treatise on the common Indian snakes. [Complete in 29 parts].
Bombay, The Bombay Natural History Society, 1905-1919. 29 parts in one. 8vo (24.5 x 16.5 cm). 472 pp.; 28 chromolithographed plates; 27 engraved "diagrams" (i.e., engraved plates - some partially coloured), 19 distribution maps (of which 16 partly coloured). Later dark blue half calf over warm grey paper boards. Spine in five compartments, rich gilt with floral corner pieces, gilt vignettes and gilt title. Blue endpapers. First printed wrapper bound in.
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Wall, F.
Chart to tell whether an Indian snake is poisonous or harmless.
Bombay [Mumbai], The Bombay Natural History Society, [1917]. Leporello binding (17.6 x 10.6 cm) with text and nine illustrations (in red and black) on a five-folded (concertina) linen-backed paper leaf (16.5 x 49.1 cm). Brown linen boards with black title.
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Wall, F.
Notes on snakes collected in Upper Assam. Part I, [AND] Part II. With a Plate. [Complete]. [AND] A new snake from Assam, Oligodon erythrorhachis (with a plate).
Bombay, The Bombay Natural History Society, 1925. Two papers in three. 8vo (24.5 x 16.6 cm). 38 [16; 20; 2] pp.; 2 (0; 1; 1) lithographed plates, several text illustrations and tables. Combined extracts. Marbled paper spine cover.
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Wilken, G. A. [F. D. E. van Ossenbruggen (ed.)]
De verspreide geschriften van Prof. Dr. G. A. Wilken verzameld door Mr. F. D. E. Van Ossenbruggen. Deel I. Levensbericht. Monographie over de Alfoeren van Boeroe. Geschriften op het gebied van vergelijkende rechtswetenschap. Deel II. Geschriften op het gebied van vergelijkende rechtswetenschap. Deel III. Geschriften over Animisme en daarmede verband houdende geloofsuitingen. Deel IV. Geschriften over animistische geloofsuitingen, andere ethologische onderwerpen en geographische pathologie. Korte boekbeoordeelingen. Aanhangsel. Registers. [Complete].
Semarang, G. C. T. van Dorp, 1912. Four volumes in four. Large 8vo (23.9 x 16.0 cm). 2515 pp. [I: xvii, 628; II: xiii, 514; III: ix, 579; IV: xiii, 742]; frontispiece portrait of Wilken (tissue guarded). Uniform blind-stamped green cloth. Gilt title on the spines. Patterned endpapers. Edges green.
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Willis, B. (ed.)
Research in China. In three volumes and atlas. 1(1). Descriptive topography and geology; 1(2). Petrography and zoology; 2. Systematic geology; 3. The Cambrian faunas of China. A report on Ordovician fossils collected in eastern Asia in 1903-04. A report on Upper Paleozoic fossils collected in China 1903-04; [4.] Geographical and geological maps. [Complete].
Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1907-1913. In five parts (four text and plate volumes, one atlas). 4to (29.8 x 24.0 cm). Text; 101 plates, including six chromolithographs of birds, and geological maps; folio atlas (52.7 x 45.0 cm) with 42 mostly coloured geological and topographical maps (some with explanatory text or figures). Original printed wrappers.
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