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1881EG106681881 73 p., disbound. Unopened copy. Published in: Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. With extensive lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Scarce.
1860MM101401860 118 p., 11 lithographed pls, roy. 4to (24 x 31 cm), new hcloth. Plates with some slight foxing. Published in: Denkschriften Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Rare.Gustav Schwartz von Mohrenstern (1809-1890) wrote two works on molluscs, of which this is the most important.
1860MM259631860 118 pp., 11 lithographed plates, contemporary boards (spine missing, boards loose). A few plates with tiny, unobtrusive spots, some marginal foxing. Two stamps (Museum d’Hist. Naturelle) and ex library F.Jousseaume - Ed. Lamy. In the book were two handwritten sheets of notes and two handwritten file-cards probably by Jousseaume or Lamy.The first revision of the rissoinids with descriptions and fine illustrations, including those of new species, and fossil species. Published in: Denkschriften Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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.
1892MM313301892 75 p., 2 lithographed pls, roy. 4to, disbound (no covers). Unopened copy. Published in: Nova Acta. Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher.
1898MM103341898 46 p., 3 folded pls, disbound (no covers). Published in: Jenaischen Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft.
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.
1840MM36664no date (ca. 1830-1840) 20 p., large 4to (21 x 34 cm), loose in paper cover with hand written title. Neatly handwritten document on a collection of German fossils. It includes Echinoderms and Brachiopods, and Molluscs are on pages 8-20. It gives, number, species name, stratigraphic layer, locality and number of specimens.
1882W120923Bruxelles, Weissenbruch 1882 16pp., signé avec dédicace par l'auteur au baron Van Ertborn, 25cm., extrait des Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique (t.XVII), brochure originale (dos renforcé), bon état, W120923
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.
1816MM153591816 [10], 168 p., 9 pls of which the last 5 are hand-coloured (the first 4 showing the terminology of shell parts were never coloured), new green cloth. Ex libris Grimsby Public Library. Library stamp and markings on blank verso title-page.
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).
1880ML288251880 xxxii, 208 p., 3 figs, 11 pls (numbered 1-6, 6bis, 7-10), blue publisher’s decorated cloth. Lower right corner of front cover discoloured. Previous owner’s names on half-title (Garner) and title-page (Berverly Davis). With most species are notes by one of the previous owner’s giving the localities were he/she found specimens.
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.
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.
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.
1880W120930s.l., 1880 [23] pp. (i.e. les pages 391-413) + 2 planches hors-texte (figurant 38 coquilles fossiles), signé avec dédicace à m. Van Ertborn, 25cm., brochure originale (dos renforcé), extrait du "Bulletin de la société géologique de France" 3e serie t.8, bon état, W120930
1882SO383751882 2, 1 p., small 4to, disbound (no covers). Published in: Comptes Rendus des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Vey small chip out of (blank) right margin of first page (not Marey’s paper).In a complete issue (pages 677-752) of the ‘’Comptes Rendus des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences, Séance du lundi 13 mars 1882’’. Contains many other scientific contributions by Berthelot, Huggins, Jourdain, Clémandot, Raffray, Duclaux, etc.This might well be the first mention of Marey’s famous ‘photographic gun’ (’’j’ai réussi enfin à construire, dans le format d’un fusil de chasse, un instrument qui donne aisément douze images successives par seconde’’). In 1890 he authored a well-illustrated, technical book on the flight of birds, ‘’Physiologie du mouvement. Le vol des oiseaux’’, based on photos made with his 1882 invention of the ‘’photographic gun’’.
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.
1882MG185511882 viii, 312 p., 22 pls, new blue cloth. The map is missing.First volume of this famous introduction to molluscs and malacology by Tryon. This volume includes the following chapters: Primary Divisions of the Animal Kingdom / Classes of the Malacozoa / Anatomy of the Mollusca / Habits and Economy of the Mollusca / Geographical Distributuion of the Mollusca / Distribution of the Mollusca in Time / Nomenclature / Classification / On Collecting Shells.
1900MM437051900 135 p., 15 chromolithographed or heliographic, tissue-guarded plates (many plates double-paged), small folio (28 x 36 cm), paperbound (original printed paper and transparent covers). As very often the thin transparent covers with some tears. Uncut. A few heliographic plates with some marginal foxing, but the chromolithographed plates clean.A magnificent work on octopus and squid by the French cephalopod specialist Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (1861-1935) with some spectacular illustrations. This includes the genus Grimalditeuthis, named for the Monacan royal family, and new species. The chromolithographed plates are quite beautiful.
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.
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.
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.
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).
