Paul, H.Livre Rare Book
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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.
1886MG257691886-1893 Two parts in two. 302 p., 3 double paged chromolithographed plates, and 1 plain lithographed plate, roy. 4to, hardbound (blue new boards). A very good, well-bound clean copy.
1770MM435201770 [6], 530, [2] p., 8 folded engraved plates, contemporary paperbound (marbled paper). Spine worn. Extremities a little worn.This volume constitutes part of the invertebates (with one plate depicting seaslugs, and another plate cephalopods) of this well known Dutch work based on the writings of Linnaeus. Included in this volume are also the starfish, anemones and wormlike groups.
1889PM258061889 xi, 238 p., 6 folding tables, 14 mostly heliographed plates, 4to. Later olive cloth with printed title on the spine.A richly illustrated work with much attention to the phylogeny and structural development of these Jurassic ammonites. Published in the series Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Ex library copy from the Crerar library with small stamps on verso of plates (not shining through).The work is preceded by two smaller papers and of the first the margins are brittle. Hyatt's contribution however is good and clean.
1879ML258271879 106 p., 8 lithographed pls, 4to (22.2 x 28.6 cm), paperbound (partly loose, no front cover). Published in: Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.The first half of this rare monograph on, partly new, land and freshwater gastropods of Japan (here Hyalina, Helix, Pupa, and Clausilia are treated and depicted). The second half (not present here) contains another 63 pages and 15 plates.
1980MJ437021980-1992(=1993) In issues. Missing Anno III. Ex library J.J. van Aartsen (with his annotations). Includes three original photographs of figures published in the Notiziario.Mainly on Mediterranean marine molluscs.
1877ML345151877 16 p., 15 plain plates, new blue cloth (with original front cover laid down). Text in French. Ex library Dr. A.C. van Bruggen (with his signature). Scarce.
1994ML174281994 [4], 212, [17] p., 74 pls, num. tables, paperbound. Venus Supplement 2. New copy.
PM256851898 (reprint 1966) 179 p., 13 plates with explanatory text leaves, large 4to, paperbound.The paper describes and illustrates this highly diverse group of extinct gastropods. Includes new taxa and an extensive list of species not found in France. This is the society's Mémoire 22 in the scarce 1966 Swets & Zeitlinger reprint. A good clean copy.
1852MG257491852 210 p., 9 (some folded, some col.) pls (numbered 1-13 as three have double numbers, plate 10 missing), 4to. Disbound.The French zoologist Georges Louis Duvernoy (1777-1855) was a pupil, assistant and successor of Georges Cuvier. The present work is entirely in Cuvier's tradition, with extensive detailed descriptions of the anatomy of bivalves, whereas Cuvier principally worked on gastropods. Species include Panopea australis, Anadonta cygnea, and the "living fossil", Trigonia (now Neotrigonia) australis. Contents clean. Plate 10 missing. Rare.
1967MG437271967 150 p. (= pp. 5-154), 128 fine text illustrations, 14 plates, publisher’s printed boards. In Russian.A seldom-seen work on a poorly explored region, and, therefore, containing many new species. Well-illustrated. Published together with nine other papers (mostly on land and freshwater molluscs), but this is by far the most comprehensive. Another paper included, by I. M. Likharev and Y. I. Starobogatov, is on the land mollusc fauna of Afghanistan (39 pp., 19 text figs) and also contains new species. Published under the general title: Molluscs and their role in biocenosis and faunal formation.
1899MM435751899 Three papers in one. 164 p. [92, 45, 17]; 80 [49, 9, 22] fine text engravings, 8vo (24.0 x 15.3 cm), green buckram with gilt author/title on the spine. Original uniform printed wrappers bound in. A small map of the tropical Pacific region is mounted on the front board. In the top margin of the title page, a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020). Some foxing to the endpaper margins, the top outer corner of the first text leaf margin, above Johnson's stamp, clipped. The two other first leaves have, in exactly the same spot, a red stamp "With C. Hedley's Compliments".The complete Mollusca, rarely found together (often the Supplement is lacking!). Many species are described as new. Even very small shells are illustrated in great detail. Fanafuti (Tuvalu) is an island in an atoll north of Tahiti, and nowadays an independent state. Written by the British born Australian malacologist Charles Hedley (1862-1926).
1936MG259101936 1206 p., numerous figs & pls. Later brown cloth with gilt title on spine (original printed covers bound in).Paul Pelseneer was one of the leading Belgian malacologists before WWII. His "Festschrift" deals mainly with molluscan subjects, including papers by Lameere (Histoire de la classification des mollusques), Yonge (the evolution of the swimming habit in the Lamellibranchia), Lamy, Steenberg, Adam & Leloup (Les Crepidula de la cote occidentale de l'Afrique), Dollfus, de Selys Lonchamps, Odhner (Nudibranchia Dendronotacea. A revision of the system; this being a large paper with new genera and species) and many others. Title page and dedication page spotted, otherwise very good. Copies in original wrappers are often broken as the binding is too weak for such a big volume. This copy, however, has a tight, sound binding.
2009MM436832009 651 p., several mostly coloured text figures, 203 full colour plates showing shells & 64 full colour plates showing living animals in their habitat, large 4to, hardbound. Very good copy.A fantastic monograph, profusely illustrated.
057348Paris Rueff et Cie, éditeurs 1897 in 8 (28x18,5) 1 volume reliure demi basane verte de l'époque, dos à nerfs, 187 pages, avec 157 figures dans le texte, dont 7 en couleurs, des rousseurs sur les marges. Traité de zoologie publié sous la direction de Raphaël Blanchard, fascicule XVI. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
2000MM000012000 156 p., 50 col. pls, 4to, hardbound. New book. Offers the first full-colour general overview of the molluscan class Polyplacophora. Over 500 species (including 61 types) are illustrated and briefly described in this book.
2014MM0344802014 197 p., 37 figs, 81 col. pls, 4to, hardbound. Good copy.
2015MJ437502015-2020 In issues. Four complete volumes and three extra issues.
1968MM261121968-1988 Many papers with author's dedication to Dr. Malcolm Edmunds.