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Phone number : +33-6794392301898 [5], 54, [1], 52, [1], 11 p., paperbound. Very crisp unopened copy. Museum d'Histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas. Tome X2.
1886-1904 All disbound (no covers). Taken from: Notes from the Leyden Museum. With numerous photographic and lithographed plates.Includes the following papers with plates: On abnormal pectoral shields in Testudo ephippium (with 3 plates), Reptiles and batrachians from New Guinea (with 1 plate), On Testudo emys and its affinities (with 2 plates), Reptiles and batrachians from Surinam (with 1 plate), On Cophias wagleri and Coluber sumatranus (with 1 plate), On a collection of reptiles and fishes from the West Indies (with 1 plate), On a collection of snakes from Delhi (with 1 plate), On a new species of the genus Testudo (with 1 plate).We added from the same journal: two papers by P.N. van Kampen (on Amphibians from Indonesia, 4 and 5 p.) and one paper by J.C. Thompson (Correct status of Elaps collaris, 5 p.). Together this must be about all that was published on herpetology in the journal ‘’Notes from the Leyden Museum’’.
1937 180 p., 6 figs, 28 folded pls, paperbound.
1992 160 p., ca. 150 col. photographs, 12mo, paperbound. Very good copy, as new.
1966 [6], 112 p., 22 pls, cloth. Library stamps.
1884 4 p., 1 (partly tinted) lithographed plate, disbound (no covers). Published in: Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Scarce.
1884 4 p., 1 (partly tinted) lithographed plate, disbound (no covers). Published in: Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Scarce.
1948 92 p., 8 (some col.) figs, paperbound. Good copy of this thesis.
1858 61 p., 3 col. folded maps, disbound. Unopened copy. Published in: Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Scarce.
1929 [6], 135 p., 1 plate, boards. Unites States National Museum Bulletin.
1877 52, [32] p., 16 double-page lithographed pls, large 4to, paperbound (printed covers). Spine with some slight wear, otherwise a very good, uncut copy (without foxing) of this rare monograph on fossil crocodilians.This work contains the descriptions of two species described by Rudolph Ludwig (1812-1880): Alligator darwini and Crocodilius ebertsi. Both are thoroughly described and illustrated. The fine detailed drawings are by Ludwig himself. Not only the Alligator was named after Darwin but the whole work is dedicated to Darwin ''Herrn Charles Darwin in hochachtungsvoller Ergebenheit gewidmet von dem Verfasser''.
1946 20 p., 7 pls, stapled. First and last page slightly foxed. Published in: Boletim do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
1896 xii, 296 p., 8 (5 chromolithographs) plates, frontispiece, publisher’s decorated cloth. Edges gilt. Slight wear on extremities but a good bright and tight binding. Some pages and three plates with scattered foxing.
1912 xvi, 510 p., num. figs, 37 (4 col.) pls, publisher's cloth. Some scattered foxing. Library stamps.
2015 219 p., 88 figs, 8 col. pls, 4to, paperbound. Blumea.
1988 143 p., 33 figs, 32 tables, disbound (no covers). Published in: Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
1697 (1st ed.) [2], 10, 187, [1] p., 19 engraved pls, engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece (depicting three sleeping leopards under a tree and in front of a stone with inscription ''Importu Dormiunt''), roy. 4to (24 x 36 cm), contemporary blindstamped calf (edges and extremeties worn, covers detached, needs restauration/rebacking). Three (two old) ex libri/bookplates. Frontispiece placed in front of the plates at the end of the book. Some very slight scatted foxing, and a unobtrusive small waterstain in the upper margin of the plates and title-pages. Rare first edition (A. & J. Churchill, London)!Marcello Malpighi (1628-94), Italian physician and anatomist, was professor of physic at Pisa, Bologna, and Messina, and was physician to Pope Innocent XII. Malpighi was the founder of histology and one of the greatest microscopists. In 1660 he was the first to see the capillary anastomosis between the arteries and the veins, thus helping the completion of Harvey’s work on the circulation. He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in ''Malpighian bodies'', ''Malpighi’s layer'' of the epidermis, ''Malpighi’s (splenic) Corpuscles''» (Garrison & Morton, n. 66, p. 10).
1873 [8], 148 p., 4 double tinted pls, contemporary embossed and gilt cloth. Thesis. Library stamps (Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging), and with with the author's dedication to that institution. Scarce.
1906 94 p., 17 figs, 5 double-page pls, disbound (no covers). Unopened copy. Published in: Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. One plate with some marginal damage.
1981 Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1981 : In-8 Raisin, Cartonnage d'éditeurs. xii, 239 pp., nombreuses photos N&B et figures in-texte, un ouvrage recherché sur la pathologie des reptiles et des amphibiens en captivité Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos fané, Intérieur frais.
1916 46 p., paperbound. Unopened copy. Small dedication note of the author to Dr. Delage pasted in.
2008 51 p., 8 figs, disbound (no covers). Published in: Contributions to Zoology.
1898 152 p., 208 woordcuts after drawings from G. Mützel, E. Schmidt, R. Kretschmer, R. Koch, C. Gerber, H. Braune etc., original cloth (spine somewhat worn).
1987 Poole, Blandford Press, 1987 : In-8 Raisin, Cartonnage d'éditeurs. édition originale, 191 pp., 100 photos couleurs in-texte, un excellent guide Jaquette Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais.