Ortea, J.Livre Rare Book
804 résultats
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.
1959MM086651959-1973 contains the following monographs: Vasidae, Turridae 1-2, Pinnidae, Tridacnidae, Gabrielona, Littorinidae, Patellidae, Harpidae, Cassidae, Strombus, Terebellum, Lambis, Cypraea (Zoila), Drupa. In the original blue cloth binders, 4to. For certain groups still the most thorough and important reference work for the region.
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.
2005PM144102005 x, 484 p., paperbound. Crisp new copy.
2005PM152672005 x, 484 p., paperbound. Crisp new copy.
1833MM257051833 295 p., 9 folded lithographed plates showing fossils, 4to, original blind blue boards with paper label on spine.Important monograph on the geology of Liège (Belgium). Five plates show molluscs and brachiopods, one depicts an elephant molar. A nice clean copy. Ward and Carozzi, 611.
1893ML258451893 327 p., 302 text figures, large 8vo (26.4 x 17.5 cm). Original printed wrappers.Containing the many species described by the "nouvelle école". Well-illustrated. Uncut. An excellent, complete, clean copy. Not often seen, especially not in such an exceptionally good state.
1890PM257181890 102 [numbered 81-174, (8)] p., 9 lithographed plates, 4to (30.0 x 23.3 cm). Contemporary limp marbled boards, cloth spine with gilt title. original printed wrappers bound in. This study, published in the society's Mémoires volume 17, deals with a well-preserved Jurassic gastropod-fauna. This is the second part only, as an offprint with additional title page. It contains a supplement to the first part, with several new species, which are beautifully lithographed by A. Birkmaier. the author, Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol Le Fort (1828-1908) was a Swiss palaeontologist specialized in Mollusca and Echinodermata. The Koby contribution is in another part. Boards and spine rather worn. The original front wrapper with pencil annotations in Japanese. The rear wrapper lists the contents of all previous issues of the Abhandlungen. Small Japanese booksellers label on the front board verso. Some light, marginal spotting, otherwise a very good copy. Rare.
1850ML259831850 viii, 120 p., 3 lithographed plates with 73 figures, contemporary boards, red morocco label with gilt title on spine.A rare publication listing some 400 species. Dedicated to J. C. Albers, who wrote on helicides. The stamps and written names of former owners is a who's who of German malacology. On the title page are the small stamps of Ferdinand Roemer, Breslau, and Herbert Ant, on the front fly leaf those of Ehrmann (1917), Schmierer (1938), and Lutz (1964). Joints rubbed, otherwise a good clean copy.
1935MM257031935-1937 Two volumes in two. 492 [208, 284] p., 7 [4, 3] full colour plates, roy. 4to. Original uniform printed wrappers.Includes some of the most beutiful and collectable families. Uncut. Stamps on front wrappers, edges a bit frayed, as usual; internally clean. A very good set.
1927MM437061927 401 p., 9 plates with explanatory text, small folio (28 x 36 cm), paperbound (original printed paper and transparent covers). As very often the thin transparent covers with damage (back only), else a good copy. Uncut.. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, Prince Souverain de Monaco. Fascicule LXXII.A massive work. Well-illustrated, and including several new species.
2006ML437042006 Two volumes (complete). 861 p., numerous text figures, 61 plates, 4to, paperbound.Well-illustrated and text illustrations include shells and distribution maps, plates show fossil land and freshwater shells.
1935MM437081935 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, else good copy of this scarce work.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).
1949MM258321949-1953 26 issues in 26. Title page, 233 p., 30 plates, numerous text figures, in stapled parts as issued (not bound)Rare series of publications on Japanese molluscs, mostly - but not all - written by the Japanese malacologist Tadashige Habe (1916-2001). Most but not all deal with marine taxa. Many new species are introduced here, and many are well-figured. Issues 7 and 8 are combined, the title page and index were issued separately. A very good, complete set of volume 1.
1860ML436181860-1861 title-page, 3 hand-coloured plates with explanatory text leaves (6 p.), large 4to, printed covers. A very good, clean and well-coloured copy.On North American freshwater snails.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).
1843MM436211843 title-page, 3 hand-coloured plates with explanatory text leaves and index (5 p.), large 4to, printed covers. A very good, clean and well-coloured copy.Placunonomia is a genus within the bivalve family Anomiidae.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).
1877MM208091877 129, [1] p., 9 lithographed pls, 4to, paperbound (printed covers). Unopened copy. Top right corner of front cover repaired. With author's dedication to Prof. Joly. Published as a separate book but originally published in: Mémoires de l"Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier. Rare.Armand Sabatier was professor in zoology and comparative anatomy at the Université of Montpellier, and in this work elucidated many unknown features of the circulatory system of the common mussel.
1985MJ160851985-1988 Nos 1-12 + 14. In all 11 issues (some are double issues) + index. A peculiar journal published by Luigi Raybaudi Massilia, and contains a strange mixture of papers and price-lists on/of the most collectable seashells (Cypraea, Conus, Voluta). Many full colour photographs.
45791Paris Octave Doin et Fils, Editeurs 1913 in 12 (18x12,5) 2 volumes reliures pleine percaline ocre de l'éditeur, dos et plats supérieurs titrés. Tome 1: Amphineures. Gastéropodes Opisthobranches, Hétéropodes. Marséniades et Oncidiidés. XI et 418 pages [1] XII, avec 42 planches en noir et blanc dans le texte. Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière. Tome 2: Gastéropodes pulmonés et prosobranches terrestres et fluviatiles. III et 374 pages XII, avec 25 planches en noir et blanc dans le texte. Louis Germain, 1878-1942. Encyclopédie scientifique. Ensemble en bél état ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1965MG189271965-1970 6 parts (complete). 112, 105, 82, 108, 152, 185 p., roy 4to, cloth (front covers laid on). Library stamps.
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.
1877ML365761877 122 p., 4 lithographed plates, roy. 4to, paperbound (plain covers). Very good unopened copy.
1909MM196571909-1916 ix, [1], 148, xii, 165 p., num. figs & pls, 2 frontispieces, roy. 4to, publisher's cloth. Library stamps.Includes several interesting malacological contributions: Hornell, Establishing a Pearl Fishery / Hornell, Report upon the Anatomy of Placuna placenta (with 5 pls) / Eliot, Report on the Nudibranchs / Hornell, The Indian Conch (Turbinella pyrum) and its relation to Hindu life and religion (with 7 pls).Furthermore there important papers on Crustaceans, Sponges and Alcyonarians.