Cossmann, M.Livre Rare Book
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1895MM241431895-1899 62, 55 p., 3 (2 folded), pls, disbound (partly loose, no covers, but added are the issue's title-pages and the page indicating the exact date of publication of each part). Rare.Two installments of this major work, comprising the second half of Tome 1. Published in: Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France.
1983MG257991983 xviii, 510 p., numerous text figures and graphs, publisher’s cloth. Small stamps of Herbert Ant, otherwise a very good copy.The first paper, by R. Seed, is titled "Structural organisation, adaptive radiation, and classification of molluscs", the the other ten papers are mainly on physiological aspects. Out of print.
2006PM144122006 Endomocerataceae: Pulchelliidae. Fossilium Catalogus Animalia 141; vii, 278 p., paperbound. Crisp new copy.
2006PM152752006 Endomocerataceae: Pulchelliidae. Fossilium Catalogus Animalia 141; vii, 278 p., paperbound. Crisp new copy.
1896MM435761896 [2], 270, [1] p.; seven lithographed plates, of which four double-sized and one in chromolithography; six steel-engravings in the text, including a large map of the itinerary up and down the Bay of Biscay, 8vo (24.6 x 16.1 cm), blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Edges speckled red. Provenance: stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper and title. Spine faded to olive-green; a few text leaves spotted; otherwise, a very good, clean copy. Deals with the deeper water invertebrates of the Bay of Biscay, and includes a general introduction with a description of the research vessel and its scientific instruments by the expedition leader, the French echidermatologist Jean Baptiste François René Koehler (1860-1931). The largest sections are on echinoderms (by Koehler), with four plates; shelled molluscs, by the French malacologist Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard (1841-1904), with two plates; and nudibranchs, by their compatriot Albert Jean-Baptiste Marie Vayssière (1854-1942). Shorter chapters deal with Cephalopoda (by Louis Joubin) and Bryozoa (by Calvet), with one plate. Locard's contribution includes several Brachiopoda, and a long table, titled Récapitulation des espèces suivant leurs habitats. Several species are new. Offprint. With new pagination.
2002PM144092002 xviii, 375 p., 238 figs, hardbound. Crisp new copy.
1869MM434501869-1909 (reprint 1982-1984) Three volumes (of four). 1182 p., numerous figures, portrait, paperbound. With the editor’s (Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli) dedication (and signed by 8 other Italian malacologists) to J.J. van Aartsen on the free endpaper of volume one.
1890MG258981890 256, xxxii p., contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt ornamental lines and title on spine. Printed endpapers. All edges dyed red, but corners and parts adjoining the spine gilt. Interleaved copy.The last issue, published after Paetel's death. This section deals with Bivalvia and Brachiopoda. With several annotations. The small stamp of Herbert Ant on the title page. Boards rubbed especially at the corners, small corner of upper end spine missing. The edges of this book are very peculiar, it is the only book we have ever seen of which the edges are partly gilt, partly dyed red.
1948ML259221948 287 p., 20 coloured plates and maps, 91 figs, later blue cloth with gilt title on spine (original printed covers bound in).Imprtant study on Schistosomiasis, a disease involving fresh water Pulmonata. Small stamp of Dwight W. Taylor on front paste-down and title page. Well bound. Scarce.
1878ML436951878 16 p., 15 lithographed plates of which 14 with fine, original hand-colouring, later black cloth with original printed front cover laid on. Small stamp of Cor Karnekamp in the top margin of the front free endpaper. One plate with the lower (blank) margin a bit toned, otherwise a spotless copy.Beautifully illustrated.
1966ML437001966 261 p., 91 text illustrations, 14 plates, quarter cloth over pictorial boards. Printed title on the spine. In Russian. Plastified and with the Ex libris (bookplate) of Cor Karnekamp in the top margin of the front pastedown. A good, clean copy.An very important work, with many new, well-illustrated species.
1931MG259961931-1935 Two volumes (complete). vi, 1165 p., 897 text figures, publisher's cloth.Important and influentual handbook on shells (not long ago an English translation was published), in the original edition. Inner joints of part I a bit weak, internally clean.
ML260131840 (2nd ed.) ix, 324, 32 p., 12 hand-coloured plates, original embossed pictorial cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt vignette on front board (some slight wear on extremities).Deals with land, fresh water and brackish water molluscs. With the appendix. Several owner's inscriptions on front endpapers, otherwise a good copy in the original binding. The second edition has twice as much pages and two coloured plates more than the first edition.
1898PM257211898 69 p., 19 plates, small folio, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled end-papers.Important study which includes the descriptions of several new species. Nicely bound. With broad margins. Paper-covering front cover somewhat worn with some marginal loss of marbled paper, but else a good copy.
2004MM367722004 318 p., 2190 coloured photographs, 1 coloured map, 4to, hardbound. In English and Italian. Very good copy, as new.
1982MM261151982-2000 Several papers with author's dedication to Dr. Malcolm Edmunds.
1936ML436271936 492 p., 17 plates, new blue cloth, spine with red and silver title label. A good, bound copy.The third part (and a stand-alone work) of the malacological results of the Voyage Zoologique d'Henri Gadeau de Kerville en Syrie & Asie-Mineure (1908-1912). This part deals with the continental molluscs of Turkey and a few adjacent regions. Contains fine photos of even the smallest species, and includes many new taxa. Also dealing with many little-known taxa, described by, for instance, Bourguignat.
1850MG100281850 xvi, 614, [1], [8] p., 102 figs, modern cloth. Several small (repaired) tears. Paper somewhat brittle. Blank corner of half-title cut out and replaced.
1904BG226881904-1905 2 volumes. vi, [1], 570, v, [1], 601 p., 141, 56 figs, frontispiece (portrait), hcloth. Library stamps.
1935MM437091935 507 p., 42 figures, 33 plates, one section, 6 maps (5 coloured), paperbound. With printed errata leaf. In Russian with an 8-page German abstract. Some wear on outer ends spine and with a library stamp, plastied. With the ex libris of Cor Karnekamp. Scarce.An important contribution to the Tertiary fossil marine and brackish molluscs of the region around the present Black Sea, and includes new species. Written by the Russian palaeontologist Vladimir Prokofevich Kolesnikov (1902-1948).
1924MM154041924-1927 1187 p., 167 pls, paperbound (spines worn). The original edition which is of much better quality than the 1978 reprint.
1958MM261111958-1990 Rare collection of papers, mostly reprints (some taken out of journals). Many papers with author's dedication to Dr. Malcolm Edmunds. Includes: Jamaican Opisthobranch Molluscs I-II (64 p., 46 figs) / Dorid nudibranchs from easternAustralia (41 p., 6 figs) / Note sur les Opisthobranches du Bassin d'Arcachon (35 p., 19 figs) etc. etc.
1913877941913 Paris, Doin (Encyclopédie Scientifique), 1913, 2 volumes in 12 reliés pleine percaline décorée de l'éditeur, 420 et 374 pages.
1910MM260571910 92 p., 14 text figures (some on heavier paper and page-sized, i.e. plates), 3 chromolithographed folded plates, frontispiece, 4to, paperbound (spine missing, covers detached and margins front cover much chipped). Small vague stamp on title page.A detailed study with clear, multi-coloured drawings and a nice frontispiece showing a model of the external and internal anatomy. Should be rebound but very scarce.
1863MG281151863 [4], 117 p., 4 folded lithographed pls, 4to, paperbound (original printed covers). Partly loose, first plate somewhat foxed. Partly unopened. With author’s dedication to Paul Gervais (the French zoologist and palaeontologist François Louis Paul Gervais, 1816-1879). Rare.Rare treatise on the reproduction of gasteropods, with very well executed figures of the reproduction anatomy of several species, like: Helix pomatia, H. aspera, Planorbis corneus, Lymnaea stagnalis, Doris tuberculata etc.