Paetel, F.Livre Rare Book
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1888MG259001888-1889 Three volumes in three. 1453 [(i), 639; xii, 505; viii, 256, xxxii] p., contemporary cloth. Marbled endpapers.The fourth, largest, and final edition of this influentual catalogue. It was the most complete list of molluscan names available at that time. The first two sections deal with all but the bivalves. The third part, with Bivalvia and Brachiopoda. An intensively used copy with many annotations. Spines of first two volumes perished, boards and spine third part detached, and gatherings in the second volume near-detached, and with some old amateurish repairs to the inner hinge. At present a working copy only, should be rebound.
TE086611793 (1st ed.) With a View of the Revolutions in Asia and Africa. In a Series of Letters to a Young Nobleman; viii, [1], 491, [4] 492 p., full contemporary calf with red label (joints weak). Front and back cover with gilded stamp of the ''Society of Writers to the Signet''. The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is the oldest legal society in the world. It is a private society of Scottish solicitors. The Society dates back to 1594.The only two volumes that were published by Russell before his death.
1975MM261091975-2008 Rare collection of papers, mostly reprints (some taken out of journals). Several papers with author's dedication.
1847ML435731847 [4],104 p., 8vo (23.7 x 15.0 cm), contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt author/title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. With a hand-written, signed dedication by the author to the great French malacologist Gérard Paul Deshayes (1796-1875). From the library of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020), with his stamp. Boards worn at edges, otherwise a very good copy. A seldom-seen work by the French malacologist Ernest Puton (1806-1856), dealing with the recent, and fossil (Pleistocene and Tertiary) molluscs of the département Vosges in northeastern France.
1930ML258671930 xii, 583 p., 87 text figures, contemporary burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on spine.With detailed descriptions of, in particular, genitalia and radulae (using formulae). Published on behalf of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève. Small stamps of Caesar Boettger and of Herbert Ant on title page. A nicely bound clean copy. Rare.
1860MM086701860 7 hand-coloured lithographed pls, small folio (35 x 27 cm), loose but with the original printed front cover. The complete collection of coloured plates, the 3 remaining plates were plain and depicted the anatomy. Some slight foxing in the blank margins but mostly clean.The plates are of an exceptional quality and except one all drawn and lithographed by Eugène Levasseur, the colouring was done by Madame Veuve Delarue and the retouches were done by the author himself.
1939MM257271939-1940 4 volumes (in one). x, 291, 24, 48, 62 p., 190 text figures, 11, 2, 5, 9 plates with explanatory text leaves, 4 maps, 4to, paperbound (original printed covers). Spine weak. A volume of palaeo-malacological papers on the faunas of Syria and Lebanon, including well-preserved Tertiary faunas.
1842MM257541842 x, 437 p. many text engravings, 17 plates (ten larger, folded, nine hand-coloured), 4to. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignette on the front board and gilt title on the spine.First geological, palaeontological and topographical research of the "second geological district", being that part of the state north of and including the Mohawk Valley, thus including the Adirondacks and the plains towards Canada. From the latter area a marine boreal fauna is described with on two plates a number of Pleistocene molluscs. Meosozoic and older molluscs and some other invertebrates are figured in text engravings. The other plates are maps, views, and profiles, many large and folded, many handcoloured. Old library bookplate on the front paste-down, rather vague blindstamp on all the plates, touching figures but not quite obtrusive, some light wear to the boards, otherwise a good clean copy.
1841MM041211841 xiii, 373 p., 15 pls (213 figs), contemporary hcalf. Good and well bound copy with only some slight scatterd foxing. Pages 1-320 on molluscs only, the plates depict molluscs (and a few barnacles).
1993MG434511993 22, 693, 13, 148 p., 2 portraits, cloth (in slipcase). With 11-page Correction & Addition of Systematic List (Polyplacophora). In Japanese. Ex libris on first pastedown, else very good copy.
ORD-9331Mit vorzüglicher berücksichtigung arten der Europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten arten. Forgesetzt von Dr. W. Kobelt. Neue Folge. Siebenter Band. Dritte und vierte lieferung. Mit zeh tafeln. Schwarze Ausgabe. Wiesbaden. C. W. Kreidel's Verlag. 1894. In-8 (190 x 265mm) en feuilles sous chemise cartonnée dos toile noire, titre sur grande étiquette jaune collée, 104 pages de texte (incomplet des pages 25 à 32), complet des 30 planches numérotées de 181 à 210. Assez bon exemplaire.
1889PM260471889-189 ii, 344 p., 32 lithographed plates [I-XXXI, VIIIa], 4to. Slightly later green pebbled cloth with gilt title on spine.An important basic work on these faunas with Gastropoda, Polyplacophora, and Bivalvia. With excellent figures of new and little known species that are often quite well-preserved. Fishes and trilobites and some other arthropods are included too but occupy only four plates. One of the rarer parts of the Palaeontographical Society monographs. Outer ends spine worn, first free end-paper chipped, library stamps on title page, otherwise a good clean copy.
1881ML437651881 175 p., 8 plates and 2 double-paged view/sections (1 hand-coloured), contemporary half cloth with marbled boards, label author/title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers. Original printed front cover bound in. Some slight rubbing on label else a good copy in a good contemporary binding.One of only 100 copies, as with most of Bourguignat’s publications. With a handwritten dedication by Bourguignat to an unknown recipient (when bound the upper part with the name was cut off). This copy lacks pages 19-20 and 29-30, but the 19 century owner included hand written copies of these four pages and they are bound in. At the end are bound two extra copies each of pages 51-52 and 61-62, these apparently were faulty pages as with pencil is written on the first of these pages “Anciennes mauvaises pages refaites”
1859ML257451859. 110 p., 4 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, paperbound (modern plain brown paper covers).With a long introduction and several new species. Published in the society's Mèmoires, 23. Simultaneously or shortly after it was published in Paris too (by Baillière). Plates with some slight foxing, text clean. A good copy.
1921ML437101921-1922 Two volumes. 767 p. [523, 243]; 118 text figures, 23 plates (2 in chromolithography), folding map, uniform later black cloth with gilt lines and author/title on the spines. Original printed front covers bound in. A very good set.The complete molluscan part of the results of the Voyage Zoologique d'Henri Gadeau de Kerville en Syrie (avril-juin 1908). Includes several new species.
MM257821928 (2nd ed.). vi, 281 p., 14 text figures, 11 plates, paperbound (original printed covers).This is the expanded edition of the (also 1928) first edition. In contrast to the latter, this new edition has photos of many shells. A considerable number of new species are introduced here. Peitaiho (Beidaihe) is situated in northeastern China; someone has written the coordinates 34º49' degrees north and 119º28' east in the top margin of p. 1. Although chiefly a cold-water fauna, there are several subtropical elements, for instance some Terebridae. Inscribed and dated on the front cover by co-author Sohtsu Gee King; a dedication to the British shell-collector Hugh McClelland (1864-1943). Front wrappers with a few damp spots, otherwise a good, clean copy. Rare.
1874ML258131874. 352 p., 11 fine large lithographic plates, large 4to, disbound, preserved in marbled portfolio. Published in the Nova Acta vol. 37. With many new and previously unfigured species. Includes the brackish water Rissoidae and Melampidae. Unopened copy. One page with small (repaired) tear. Some light, mostly marginal foxing.
2015MM43746no date (ca. 1980-2015) One A4 portfolio full of original line (pen) drawings. Over 60 sheets with drawings of the gastropod genus Acteocina, both of fossil and recent specimens. With pencil annotations on the sheets and separate sheets with information on the localities, geological formation and number of specimens. Added are 6 sheets of original drawings of other gastropod groups.Cor Karnekamp (1926-2021) was a Dutch malacologist.
1880MG288441880-1887 xxiv, 1369, [23] p., 1138 figs, 23 engraved pls, 1 col. folded map, frontispiece, contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Foxing on first few and last few pages, and also on last 3 plates.
1878ML206941878 16 p., 30 (15 partly coloured by hand), hcloth (with original front cover laid down). Text in French. There are 2 times 15 plates (15 partly coloured and the same 15 plates in uncoloured state). Scarce.We added a photocopy of: Shuttleworth, R.J., 1856. Notitiae Malacologicae. I. Heft. (Gründsätzliche Bemerkungen zur Systematik und Nomenclatur der Mollusken. Monographische Versuche: Limicolaria, Orthalicus, Porphyrobaphe, Perideris und Pseudachatina) (90 p., 9 pls - clothbound photocopy).
ML259881914 / 1915 120 p., 18 plates, 1 map / 70 p., 24 plates, 4to. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Faint library stamp of Dr. Otto Guglia (Wien).Two beautifully produced monographs on malacology of the Balkans published in the Denkschriften of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, and nicely bound together. Contains the descriptions and excellent figures of many new and little-known species. The first monograph is written by Sturany and Wagner, the second by Wagner alone.
1904MM436341904-1906, 1921 Half-titles, 328 p. [1-208, xliv; 1-76], 8 text figures, 23 plates with explanatory transparent text leaves, uniform quarter cloth over marbled boards. Original printed front wrapper bound in. Title written on spine and on a label on front cover. Published in: Société des Sciences Naturelles de l’Ouest de la France.A well-illustrated work, with descriptions of many new species of bivalves, and, in supplement, a few gastropods and brachiopods. The first (unnumbered) supplement forms part of the 3rd fascicule; the second supplement was published separately. The plates of the supplements are irregularly numbered. Together these are the bivalve parts and all supplements to all groups.
1905MM257651905-1914 In six parts. Incl. numerous maps (many folded and coloured) and plates, folio. Original printed wrappers.May be the largest monograph ever published on the Dutch, and especially the Zealand, mussels and oysters. Wrappers partly chipped and split, otherwise good.
1906MJ436301906-1912 ca. 1400 p., ca. 60 plates, uniform half calf over pebbled boards, spines with two raised bands, gilt squares and title, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With a small stamp of a former Dutch owner (J. H. J. van de Laar). Some rubbing on spines in earliest volumes, else a very nice run. The earlier volumes are quite scarce.An attractively bound, uninterrupted run of seven volumes from a period when circulation was low. The important wrappers with pages in Roman numbering – often discarded by bookbinders – are included at rear. Authors include Dall, Pilsbry, Henderson, Simpson, Maxwell Smith, Clapp, F.C. Baker, Preston, De la Torre, etc.
1827ML260161827 42 p., One folded lithographed plate. Contemporary marbled boards.Rare early paper by Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Unger (1800-1870), here named "F.F. Unger", on the anatomy of the European fresh water mussel Anadonta cygnea. The folded plate shows the shell, the gross anatomy and several anatomical and histiological details. Some slight foxing. Library stamps on verso title page, last page, and plate verso, and with the autograph and compliments of the author inside the front board. Rare