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Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Tome 1er Pélécypodes. Tome 2e Scaphopodes, Gasteropodes, Brachiopodes, Céphalopodes et supplément.
1904-1913 34 [12 (i), 21] p., 110 [45, 65] plates with explanatory text leaves, folio (32.0 x 25.0 cm). Original printed wrappers.Rare complete set in the original wrappers of this famous atlas of Eocene molluscs (and brachiopods) from the Paris Basin. Mainly from Lutetien, Bartonien and Cusien stages, these faunas are known to be extremely rich and well preserved. A few species are introduced here as valid names, in particular on the last plate of volume 1 "supplément". Around 1900, the French palaeontologist and malacologist [Alexandre Édouard] Maurice Cossmann (1850-1924), was the leading expert on the Eocene Mollusca. He had an enormous amount of material at his disposal which accounts for the quality of the photographed specimens. Pissarro was responsible for the fine photographs. A smaller, printed leaf, "Avis aux souscripteurs" has been added. A few short tears in the wrapper edges, otherwise a very good, clean set.
Les mollusques. Introduction a l'étude de leur organisation, dévellopement, classification affinités et principaux types. A l'usage des candidats à la license [d]ès sciences naturelles. Primier fascicule. Acéphales - Scaphopodes - Amphineures.
1892 deuxième fascicule. Gastéropodes; troisième fascicule.Ptéropodes - Céphalopodes (complete); vii, 261 p., 342 text figures, contemporary half calf over mottled boards, gilt lines and title on spine, marbled endpapers. A good introduction to the Mollusca. Several light pencil notes in the text, spine a bit rubbed. With the small stamp of Herbert Ant on the front flyleaf and title page, otherwise good.
La faune malacologique de la Tarentaise.
1929 79 p., disbound (no covers). Unopened copy. Published in: Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon.
The Scallop. Studies of a shell and its influences on humankind.
1957 135 p., num. col. photographs, 4to, decorated cloth.
Proceedings of the First International Malacological Congress. London, 1962.
1965 iii, 266 p., paperbound. Small stamp (Herbert Ant) on front wrapper and half title. A good copy.
A Monographic Revision of the African Land Snails of the Genus Burtoa (Mollusca-Achatinidae).
1959 35 p., 3 plates, paperbound. Annales Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren.
Nouvelle contribution à la paléontologie du Nummulitique Egyptien.
1933 viii, 77 p., 8 fine plates with explanatory text leaves, 4to, new black boards. Paper label with title on the spine.Important contribution to the fossil (Eocene) malacology of Egypt, with several new species. Published in the 22nd volume of the institute's Mémoires. The French geologist Jean Cuvillier (1899-1969), who worked as a teacher in Cairo, published more in this series but this work seems to be the rarest. A very good, clean copy.
Contribution à l’écologie des Littorinidae (Mollusques Gastéropodes Prosobranches): recherches écophysiologiques chez quatre espèces: Littorina neritoides, L. saxatilis, L. littorea et L. littoralis.
1975 [8], 400 p., 156 figs, 16 pls, 4to, paperbound Thesis. With author’s dedication. Scarce.
A monograph of the molluscan fauna of the Orthaulax pugnax Zone of the Oligocene of Tampa, Florida.
1915 xv, 173 p., 26 plates, black half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt author/title on spine. A very clean and attractively bound copyAn essential work on a well-preserved lower Miocene (not Oligocene, as it turned out later) molluscan fauna..
Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", during 1891. XXXVII. / Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904, to March, 1905. XIV. The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda.
1891-1904 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.
Reports on the results of dredging operations of the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", during 1891 / Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904, to March, 1905. The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda.
1908 283 p., 22 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, including 3 (1 col.) large, folded maps, later half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title.The complete bivalve, gastropod and scaphopod section (and the brachiopods) of one of the most important zoological dredging operations along the tropical coasts of Central and South America. Massive numbers of, often spectacular, new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. Nearly all species are new. A very good clean copy. Scarce.
Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake" / Report on the Mollusca. Part I. Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda / Part II. Gastropoda and Scaphopoda.
1886-1889 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.
The Encyclopedia of Shells.
1974 288 p., num. col. photographs, cloth (dust jacket). Library stamps.
The Encyclopedia of Shells.
1974 288 p., num. col. photographs, cloth. Ex library Dr. A.C. van Bruggen (with his signature).
Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. 1. famille Terebridae, 2. famille Mitridae, 3. famille Conidae.
1935-1937 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.
Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, Prince Souverain de Monaco. Fascicule LXXII. Mollusques provenant des campagnes scientifiques du Prince Albert de Monaco dans l’Océan Atlantique et dans le Golfe de Gascogne.
1927 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.
Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Conidae.
1937 284 p., 3 col. pls, roy. 4to, paperbound. Unopened copy. Published in: Mémoires du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle.
Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Terebridae. Mitridae.
1935 208 p., several figs, 4 col. pls, roy. 4to, new red cloth (original printed covers bound in, front cover somewhat foxed and chipped). Uncut copy and well bound copy. Published in: Mémoires du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique.
Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Terebridae. Mitridae.
1935 208 p., several figs, 4 col. pls, roy. 4to, paperbound (upper end spine taped, lower end spine missing small piece of paper covering). Published in: Mémoires du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique.
Récoltes malacologiques du docteur J. Bequaert dans le Congo Belge
Imp. Hayez, Bruxelles, 1914. Extrait de la Revue zoologique africaine (Vol. 4, fasc. 1). Publié sous la direction du Dr H. Schouteden. Grand in-8 br. 73 pages. 4 planches. hors texte en noir.
Exemplaire de travail
Récoltes Malacologiques du Docteur J. Bequaert dans le Congo Belge.
1914 73 p., 4 phototype plates, paperbound (original printed covers).Seldom-seen offprint from the Revue Zoologique Africaine, Vol. 4. Old inscriptions and stamps (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and personal library of the zoologist [Jean] Abel Gruvel [1870-1941]) on front cover and first text leaf.
Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Gastéropodes marins. Famille Terebridae, famille Mitridae, famille Conidae, Prosobranchia et Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda-Pulmonata, Scaphopoda et Bivalvia.
1935-1939 Four parts in two. 208, 284, 209, 126 p., 22 (9 coloured) plates, 1 map, roy. 4to, modern grey cloth with gilt lettered leather labels on spines.Well-illustrated paper based on material collected during a scientific expedition in what is now Indonesia. Published in: Mémoires du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle. One plate with repaired marginal tear, else very good set with original covers bound in. Ex library Guido Poppe (with his signature).
Essai sur la constitution géognostique de la Province de Liège, en réponse à la question proposée par l'Académie Royale des Sciences....
1833 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.
The Morphology and Natural History of Pleurocera acuta and Goniobasis livescens (Gastropoda: Cerithiacea: Pleuroceridae).
1965 80 p., 11 figs, 8 pls, stapled. Published in: Malacologia. With author’s dedication. Ex libraries Prof. Dr. C.R. Boettger & Herbrt Ant (with their stamps).
Les gastéropodes mésozoïques de la région Libanaise / Pectinidés miocènes, pliocènes et quaternaires de Syrie / Listes raisonnées des faunes du Pliocène et du Miocène de Syrie et du Liban / Les Céphalopodes crétacés des massifs côtiers Syriens. Deuxième partie.
1939-1940 4 volumes (in one). x, 291, 24, 48, 62 p., 190 text figures, 11, 2, 5, 9 plates with explanatory text leaves, 4 maps, 4to, paperbound (original printed covers). Spine weak. A volume of palaeo-malacological papers on the faunas of Syria and Lebanon, including well-preserved Tertiary faunas.
