Germain, L.Livre Rare Book
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1921ML436251921 iv, 495 p., 42 figures, 13 plates of which one chromolithographed, and 5 double-sized, quarter cloth over marbled boards (original printed front cover laid on). Red cloth label over spine foot with author/title written by hand on it. Good copy in a simple binding.This work deals with the highly endemic malacofaunas of the tropical Indian Ocean islands Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues. Published as a supplement to the Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France. Includes the (semi) marine Neritidae, Neritiliidae and Ellobiidae.
1936MG296541936-1940 ca. 900 p., num. figs, 4 pls, contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, gilt title on spine, marbled end-papers. Some original covers bound in. Very good copy.Collection of about 50 bound papers (offprints) by the (co)workers at the national natural history museum of Paris. The vast majority of papers is on Mollusca. Contains: Les Récifs de coraux / Catalogue des Pectinidae vivants du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle / Le genre Chamostrea de Roissy / Note sur un Céphalopode géant (Architeuthis harveyi) capturé dans le Golfe de Gascogne / Faune et flore marine de la région malouine en 1935 / Oncidiella celtica Cuv. aux îles Chausey / Contributions à la faune malacologique de l'Afrique équatoriale / Note sur le Cytherea Callosa Conrad (Lamellibr.) / Le Cypraea existe-t-il sur la côte occidentale de l'Afrique ? / Liste des mollusques recueillis par la mission Franco-Belge à l'île de Pâques (1934) / Notes sur les espèces lamarckiennes d'Anomalocardia (Lamellibr.) etc. etc.
MM368021997 (1st ed.) 258 p., 118 col. pls, 4to, hardbound (dust jacket).
MM368031997 (1st ed.) 258 p., 118 col. pls, 4to, hardbound (dust jacket).
1998ML434061998 288 p., 658 figures & maps, 12 coloured plates, 4to, hardbound (dust jacket). Very good copy.
2007MM436842007 428 p., hundreds of illustrations, large 4to, hardbound. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A mint copy.Illustrating type specimens and/or type figures of almost all extant Cancellariidae.
2016MM435332016 463 p., 555 figures (many on coloured plates), 4to, hardbound. The present volume includes six major taxonomic paper, together documenting 213 species 137 of which are new to science, highlighting the extraordinary biodiversity of the South and West Pacific, in particular the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia. Includes the following papers: Bouchet et al., How many species of molluscs are there in the world's oceans, and who is going to describe them? / Sirenko, New, rare bathyal leptochitons (Polyplacophora) from the South and West Pacific / Glover & Taylor, Lucinidae of the Philippines: highest known diversity and ubiquity of chemosymbiotic bivalves from intertidal to bathyal depths (Bivalvia) / Marshall et al., Deep-sea wood-eating limpets of the genus Pectinodonta Dall, 1882 (Gastropoda) from the tropical West Pacific / Vilvens & Williams, New genus and new species of Solariellidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and French Polynesia / Monsecour & Monsecour, Deep-water Columbellidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia / Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria (Gastropoda) and related genera.
1891MM436521891 380 p., 348 text figures, later half cloth with marbled boards, blind spine. With many annotations in two different (old) hands. Two repaired tears in the introduction part, otherwise a good copy of this classic work.Published in the Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, being the only paper in Vol. 37 of the new series; preceded by a member’s list.
PM135591941 (reprint 1974) 348 p., paperbound. Crisp new copy.
PM156941941 (reprint 1974) 348 p., paperbound. Crisp new copy.
1859ML436131859 title-page, 2 hand-coloured plates with explanatory text leaves (4 p.), large 4to, printed covers. A very good, clean and well-coloured copy.The genus Pirena belongs to the Cerithioidea, freshwater family Pachychilidae.The Conchologica Iconica was written between 1843 and 1878 and consists of 20 volumes. Lovell August Reeve (1814-1865) started this series, and G.B. Sowerby II (1812-1884) took over when Reeve died (volume 15 onwards). The plates were drawn and lithographed by Sowerby. Each volume consist of a collection of Monographs (each treating a separate genus).
1866MM436191866 title-page, 2 hand-coloured plates with explanatory text leaves and index (5 p.), large 4to, printed covers. A very good, clean and well-coloured copy.Lampania is a junior synonym of Batillaria W. H. Benson, 1842.The Conchologica Iconica was written between 1843 and 1878 and consists of 20 volumes. Lovell August Reeve (1814-1865) started this series, and G.B. Sowerby II (1812-1884) took over when Reeve died (volume 15 onwards). The plates were drawn and lithographed by Sowerby. Each volume consist of a collection of Monographs (each treating a separate genus).
1843MM436201843 title-page, 2 hand-coloured plates with explanatory text leaves (4 p.), large 4to, printed covers. A very good, clean and well-coloured copy.This bivalve genus name is a synonym of Trapezium Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811.The Conchologica Iconica was written between 1843 and 1878 and consists of 20 volumes. Lovell August Reeve (1814-1865) started this series, and G.B. Sowerby II (1812-1884) took over when Reeve died (volume 15 onwards). The plates were drawn and lithographed by Sowerby. Each volume consist of a collection of Monographs (each treating a separate genus).
ML259681889 / 1891 Two papers in one. 325 [91, 224] p., 11 [4, 7] mostly chromolithographed plates, 3 chromolithographed maps, roy. 4to, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher.Two major, thorough, zoological-anatomical papers, with new species. The first paper is the rarest. The second paper is a major zoogeographical revision, well-illustrated with fine colour lithographs of living specimens and anatomical details. With the Jugendstil malacological bookplate (naked lady standing on top of an upside down Clausilidae and helding the zodiac in her arms) of Paul Ehrmann on the front paste-down, his name and that of Simroth and Herbert Ant written on the front flyleaf recto, as well as a hand-written title index, the autographs of Walter Wächtler and Herbert Ant on the title page of the first paper. Boards rubbed, spine missing and taped. Plate IV of the first paper partly browned, otherwise a good copy.
1931MG434781931-1935 Two volumes (complete). vi, 1165 p., 897 text figures, publisher's cloth. Some wear on upper end spine of volume one, else a good set.Important and influentual handbook on shells, in its original edition.
1848MM437111848-1856 (reprint ca. 1980) Three volumes (complete). 872 p. [208, 342, xxxi, 231, ii, 58]; 63 plates, uniform mottled leatherette (hardbounr) with gilt title on the spines. Originally published over a long period in the Society’s famous Monographs series. The good reprint in uniform artificial leather bindings. The work deals with rich and varied Pliocene-Pleistocene faunas. The later parts are based on more, new research and a re-evaluation of taxa included in the earlier parts. The part on bivalves contains an appendix with new information on additional gastropods.
2001ML199252001 xxii, 394 p., num. figs, 2 pls, cloth. Library stamps, else very good copy.
1880ML256681880 53 pp., 8 lithographed plates, 4to, disbound. Rear wrapper present.A detailed study of this brackish to fresh water fauna with many new species including several Cardiidae with fine illustrations. Published in the Atti delle Reale Accademia dei Lincei, volume 5(3), with the issue's rear wrapper. Uncut, wide margins. wrapper soiled, otherwise a very good clean copy. Rare.
1933MM256931933 viii, 77 p., 8 fine plates with explanatory text leaves, 4to, new black boards. Paper label with title on the spine.Important contribution to the fossil (Eocene) malacology of Egypt, with several new species. Published in the 22nd volume of the institute's Mémoires. The French geologist Jean Cuvillier (1899-1969), who worked as a teacher in Cairo, published more in this series but this work seems to be the rarest. A very good, clean copy.
1964MM203661964-1976 Collection of 54 parts + introduction and bibliography. Numerous figs & photographs (many coloured). In loose folder-like parts as issued. Possibly not complete but difficult to collate. We added a similar venture: B. Sabelli & G. Spada, 1977-1985. Guida illustrata all'identificazione delle conchiglie del Mediterraneo (21 loose folder-like parts).
1907NG226891907 157, [1] p., 3 portraits, contemporary hcloth. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, T. XI. Library stamps. Scarce.
1898PM257201898 69 p., 19 plates, small folio, original portfolio with printed front board.Important study which includes the descriptions of several new species. Preserved in original portfolio, thus with the widest margins. Boards rubbed, cloth spine missing, small repaired tear in half-title but otherwise a good copy of this scarce title.
ML258391870 (4th and final ed.) 190 p., roy. 4to, half cloth with original printed covers (upper end spine damaged). Perforation stamp and ex libris (bookplate) of the John Crerar Library (discarded).Copy with broad margins. Important study by this well-known conchologist who wrote the famous: Observations on the genus Unio in 13 volumes, incl. the large index on all species and bibliography.
1974MM437191974 220 p., 45 plates, publisher’s cloth. In Russian. Very good copy. Rare.This well-illustrated monograph by the Azari palaeontologist Ashraf Abdulovich Alizade (1911-1985) is devoted to the stratigraphy and malacofauna of the Sarmatian (Miocene) stage in Azerbaijan (brackish and hypersaline Paratethys). It provides a detailed description of the sections of the Sarmatian deposits and their subdivision into the corresponding substages. The mollusc fauna of the Sarmatian of Azerbaijan is described extensively and comprehensively for the first time. Several new species are described.
1816MM153591816 [10], 168 p., 9 pls of which the last 5 are hand-coloured (the first 4 showing the terminology of shell parts were never coloured), new green cloth. Ex libris Grimsby Public Library. Library stamp and markings on blank verso title-page.