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1857ML258401857-1860 12 papers in two. Numerous text pages, 157 fine lithographed plates, royal 4to, new half cloth over marbled boards. Printed paper label on spine. One page with lower (blank) margin chipped, otherwise a very good set with very clean plates.Isaac Lea (1792-1886) was by far the most prolific 19th century American writer on fresh water molluscs. His American and other fresh water molluscan papers are numerous, diverse, and notoriously difficult to collate. The number of new species is sheer endless. The papers mainly come in three versions. (A). The original very short Latin descriptions in many small papers in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia (ANSP) (8vo size, without illustrations). (B). The expanded illustrated descriptions in the Journal of the ANSP (4to); C. The offprints of (B), with additional title pages, etc., titled ''Observations on'' (4to). The latter were combined, usually in pairs, into Volumes. There are 13 such volumes in all. Priority in many cases has not been established. All papers are listed and separately numbered in Scudder, the bibliographer of Lea. (Scudder 150, 170, 215, 222, 245, and 259).
1855MG259361855-1870 685 p., 64 lithographed plates. Contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards. Rare, if not unique collection on palaeontology and micropalaeontologie of this famous Austrian geologist. Some foxing, mainly to the first few leaves and the rear end-paper and adjacent plate verso, otherwise a very good clean set.Mainly on Foraminifera but also including many new descriptions of Mollusca and some other groups (e.g. Cirripedia). Contains: Ueber Koprolithen im Rothliegenden Böhmens / Beiträge zur Charakteristik der Tertiärschichten des nördlichen und mittleren Deutschlands / Ueber die geognostischen Verhältnisse des Rakonitzer Beckens in Böhmen / Ueber kurzschwänzige Krebse im Jurakalke Mährens / Die Foraminiferen des westphälischen Kreideformation / Ueber fossile Lepadiden / Die Foraminiferen des norddeutschen Hils und Gault / Entwurf einer systematischen Zusammenstellung der Foraminiferen / Die fossilen Mollusken der tertiären Süsswasserkalke Böhmens (includes new terrestrial molluscs) / Ueber die fossile Gattung Acicularia d'Arch. (on fossil Clausiliidae) / Beiträge zur Kenntniss der tertiären Foraminiferen-Fauna / Die fossile Fauna der Steinsalzablagerung Wieliczka in Galizien (with well-preserved new marine gastropods and bivalves, including genera like Alvania, but also Pectinidae) / Zur fossilen Fauna der Oligocänschichten von Gaas / Les Foraminiferes du Crag d'Anvers.
1862ML258331862-1863 Title page, 77 p., 12 finely hand-coloured plates, 4to (28.0 x 21.2 cm, wrappers somewhat larger), partly loose in original printed wrappers.Rare part of the largest and longest-running malacological series, started by the German malacologist Heinrich Carl Küster (1807-1876, also the author of this part) in 1837 and abandoned in 1920. According to the front wrapper, this is the Limnaeacea, or Liefung I. 17. According to the collation given in "2400 years of Malacology" (Annex 2: p. 19) this is the complete part I(17)(b). It contains the descriptions and illustrations of the then known species of Lymnaeidae, including many that were new. Many of these were attributed to other authors, but are actually manuscript names and the true validations date from this work. Small label with the handwritten text "388/Bibliothek/Prof. A. Mousson" in the lower inner corner of the front wrapper verso. Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson(1805-1890) was a French-born, Swiss malacologist. Species described by him are included in this work. Some very slight foxing in the text, but plates very clean, a good copy. Nissen ZBI, 2723.
18551264331855 Paris, Chez J.-B. Baillière, Librairie de l'Académie Impériale de Médecine - 1855 - Complet en 2 tomes et 1 Atlas - In-8, demi-chagrin, plats percaline, dos à 5 nerfs portant titre et tomaison en doré, tranches mouchetées rouges - 416 + 646 + 92 pages et 54 planches hors texte en N&B
1847ML340151847-1852 xxi, 737 p., 31 lithographed plates, 1 folded table, 4to, paperbound in six parts as issued (original printed covers). One spine worn, uncut. Some scattered foxing. With author’s dedication to A. carbonneau on all six parts.[couvertures grises imprimées de l'éditeur. Bon état, couvertures défraichies avec un dos fendu, non coupés, brunissures et rousseurs affectant certaines planches, envoi de l'auteur à A. Carbonneau sur les 6 fascicules].
1855ML456161855 hald-title, title-page, 92 p., 54 coloured engraved plates, large 8vo, modern green half cloth with marbled boards and black label on spine (original printed covers bound in). Marbled endpapers. Text foxed, first plate slightly foxed, the remainder very clean.The rare coloured atlas in which the shells are coloured and the detailed anatomical figures are left uncoloured. The 92 pages are captions to the plates. Alfred Moquin Tandon (1804-1863) was far ahead of its time by describing and showing radula, genitalia and nervous sytems, thus providing a taxonomic accuracy matched by none of his contemporaries. The plates were drawn by the author and engraved by Marie Nicolas Oudet. The printing was done by Narcisse Rémond who used his expensive full colour printing technique, that equals even the best hand-colouring in quality.
1860MM000081860 48 p., 10 (7 hand-coloured) lithographed pls, small folio (27 x 34,5 cm), contemporary quarter calf (lower end spine repaired). The first plate (plain plate on anatomy) with waterstain, plates 3 & 5 with slight offsetting. 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.
1843MG456781843 [8], 271, 70 p., 40, 13 hand-coloured plates, original embossed and gilt pictorial cloth (with large gilt Pecten on front cover). A few small holes (cloth covering missing) on the lateral (joint) sides of the spine, else still a good binding. The bindings of this series were delicate and most copies encountered were or rebound or quite worn.Important contribution to the Mollusca of the northeastern U.S.A. with the inclusion of several new and rare species. This is the hand-coloured edition (40 plates for the Mollusca section) which is less common than the plain edition. Gilt vignette still very good. The title-page and first few pages with some scattered foxing. The plates clean although some are age-toned.
1897ML180751897-1898 2 vols (complete). viii, 344, x, 368 p., hcloth. Library stamps and number on lower end spines. Although the title suggest a more general work, about 75% of it is on land and freshwater molluscs!This copy was first in the private library of Dr. Max Weber (with his name written in free end-paper of volume I and his stamp in vol II). Max Wilhem Carl Weber (1852-1937) was professor in zoology in Amsterdam, and well known as the leader of the famous Dutch Siboga Expedition to Indonesia. This set became later part of the library of the Zoological Museum Amsterdam (with their stamps). Rare.
1819ML257101819-1821. xlviii, 27, 110, [1] p., small folio (32.3 x 22.4 cm), plain modern boards with marbled covers.The first part contains Férussac's important posthumously published table of the higher systematics (genus - family - order - class - "section", i.e. phylum). This is followed by a 27 pp. "Tableau systématique de la famille des limaces, servant de supplément provisoire a notre histoire naturelle de ces animaux" and this is subdivided in two parts, limaces, and limaçons, cochleae. This is followed by a catalogue des espèces, which includes many systematical changes and new species. There are references to plates but these were issued later and are not included. Waterstaining to the first six leaves and to a few other pages, some pages with some slight foxing, two leaves with two repaired tears at the inner margin, otherwise a good copy of this very important work.
1886MM256971886-1889 Two parts in one. 640 [148, 492] p., 49 [9, 40] lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, later half cloth over marbled boards (original printed front covers bound in). Spine with gilt title. Old stamp on front covers, some pencil underlining in the preface to the first part, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Rare.The complete bivalve, gastropod and scaphopod section of the most important zoological dredging operation in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, an area of depths over 25 fathoms previously only incidentally investigated (e.g. a few stations by the Challenger expedition; and earlier by a few others, as recorded by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1847). Massive numbers of often spectacular new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. Nearly all the molluscs are described in this work. These two papers of the Museum's Bulletin series contain a sizable part of Dall's new molluscan taxa.
1824MM257301824 392, 28 p., 65 lithographs, 4to, new red cloth, gilt title on the spine.This finely illustrated monograph contains the descriptions and illustrations of many new species of mostly Eocene bivalves. Bivalves have always been Deshayes' chief objects of study. All plates have a small library stamp on recto including the title (mostly marginal, never touching a figure). Strip of title page (bottom two cm) removed, repair to first explanatory leaf. Plate 20 in very good photocopy. Some slight foxing. About half of the plates have a water stain in lower right corner. Rare.
1847ML257481847-1852 Five parts in five (of six), 594 p. (of the main text), and 24 (of 31) lithographsed plates. Original printed wrappers.The pages 107-108 were reprinted in fascicule II with slightly different text. Part III contains the "Catalogus extramarinorum galliae testaceorum", being a complete list of all the genera treated in the whole work, plus the original diagnoses/descriptions of all of Dupuy's new species in the first three parts of this work, which therefore all date at least from 15 February 1849. Some plates lightly spotted, a few with marginal staining, not reaching the figures. Wrappers frayed on spine, one with paper of spine missing. Inscribed on front wrappers by former owners Walter Wächtler and Herbert Lutz, and the minuscule stamp of Herbert Ant on the title page.
1853110101853 1 Paris, Baillère, 1853-1857, gd in-4° carré de 1 f. (titre)-77 pages + 110 planches, relié demi-toile rouge à coins, dos lisse, titre or sur pièce de toile verte ; dos légèrement passé et poussiéreux, des rousseurs, annotations au crayon bleu en marge de quelques planches.
189017010Paris, Baillière, 1890 ; in-16 ; 383 pp., (1) p. ; premier plat de couverture conservé.
1862ML436171862 title-page, 8 hand-coloured plates with explanatory text leaves and index (17 p.), large 4to, printed covers. A very good, clean and well-coloured copy.Showing diversity in a tropical Asian land shell genus belonging to the family Cyclophoridae.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).
1883ML434721883 162 p., 4 lithographed plates, 2 double-paged maps (1 coloured), new blind cloth. Ex library Dr. Hartwig Schütt (with his stamp). Rare.
1860ML434731860 178, [1] p., 2 lithographed plates, new blue cloth, author/title in gilt on spine (original printed covers bound in). With author’s dedication to Paul Fischer. Ex library Dwight W. Taylor (with his stamp). Rare (only 100 copies were printed).
1846ML435671846 82, [1], 27 p., 6 lithographed plates, 16mo (20.0 x 12.5 cm), modern green half linen over plain green boards. Author/title in gilt on spine. From the library of American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) with his stamp on the top margin of the front board and half-title. Some slight cattered foxing throughout, otherwise a very good, unique copy.One of several mid to late19th century regional catalogues of non-marine molluscs. Almost every French département had its own keen malacologist tackling the local malacofauna. This one, by Claude Joseph Albin Gras (1808-1856) deals with the malacofauna of the Alpine department of Isère, in south-eastern France. With a handwritten 8-page index combining both the main work and the supplement, and including plate references and a tally of all the figured and unfigured species. This index a bit shaved at the fore edge, with some loss.
1885PM256831885 374 p., 18 heliogravure plates (tissue-guarded), with explanatory leaves, 4to, paperbound with original printed covers. Société Géologique de France.A fine study of a well-preserved Mesozoic (mid-Jurassic) fauna, by the great French palaeo-malacologist Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann (1850-1924) - he never used his first two names. Includes numerous new species. The plates are drawn by the author, and are excellent - far better than those he made in his later years. Must be rather rare as we never had it before. Spine perished and covers chipped at edges. Contents, however, very good, clean.
1873ML258421873 328 p., 22 lithographed plates of which the first five are hand-coloured. Contemporary half cloth over grey marbled boards.Rather rare illustrated descriptive mollusc catalogue reporting on 106 species from around Stettin and Pommern, now in Poland. Preface by Eduard von Martens. The coloured plates of slugs are by Louise Von Martens. Uncoloured copies are more common. Joints weak, a few stamps to the title page, one on a few, scattered text pages and on the verso of the plates.
18801263781880 Lyon, Librairie Henri Georg / Paris, Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils - 1880 - Complet en 2 volumes in-8; reliure demi-chagrin; plats percalines; dos à 4 nerfs portant titre, auteur, fleurons et tomaison en doré; toutes tranches mouchetées - 5 planches hors-texte en N&B in fine du tome premier
1854MM114061854 29 p., 5 beautifully handcoloured pls, loose in original printed wrappers (margins chipped). All plates accompanied by a separate page with the names of each depicted species written in a bold but elegant period handwriting.All parts of the Thesaurus Conchyliorum are quite rare and much sought after.
1881ML436591881 175 p., 8 plates and 2 double-paged view/sections (1 hand-coloured), contemporary half morocco with marbled boards, author/title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers. Original printed front cover bound in. Some slight rubbing on spine and extremities of boards, else a very good copy in a nice contemporary binding.One of only 100 copies, as with most of Bourguignat’s publications. With a handwritten dedication by Bourguignat to the French anthropologist Ernest Théodore Hamy (1842-1908). Hamy was not a malacologist but he provided the French malacologist Rochebrune with shells. Rochebrune named a cowrie species after him.
1891MM435611891-1904 283 p., 22 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves, including three large, folded, maps (one colour-printed), 8vo (23.0 x 14.6 cm), later green buckram. Spine with gilt authortitle. Original printed wrappers bound in. Right margin front cover taped. Some pencil annotations in the text. From the library of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020), however, without his stamp. A good copy of this scarce publication.The complete bivalve, gastropod and scaphopod section (and the brachiopods) of one of the most important zoological dredging operations along the tropical coasts of the Gulf of California, Central and South America. Massive numbers of, often spectacular, new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. Nearly all species are new.