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De mosselteelt in de Waddenzee.
1960 39 p., 8 plates (mostly large maps, folded), 4to, paperbound (stiff, printed covers). This is a "Rapport aangeboden aan het College van Gedeputeerde Staten van de provincie Friesland". Spine a bit fraye, faint stamp on front cover, otherwise very good. Scarce.
Die Mollusken-Fauna von Budapest mit besonderer Rücksichtnahme auf die embryonalen und biologischen Verhältnisse ihrer Vorkommnisse.
1881 ix, 101, 187 p., 15 lithographed plates, of which 4 are chromolithographs, contemporary half cloth with gilt title on spine, original printed front cover bound in. Rare and well-illustrated paper containing several new taxa, including Amalia (now Tandonia) budapestensis. Most plates show shells, others show radulae, living snails or both. Originally published in parts in the Malakozoologische Blätter, this being an "Extra-Abdruck". Dated inscription on front wrapper, by the author, with his autograph, to P. Hesse. Small stamp of Herbert Ant and autograph of P. Hesse on front flyleaf. Plates with some foxing, mostly in the margins, otherwise a good copy of this rare and important work.
The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part I. Gasteropoda / Part II. Pelecypoda and Brachiopoda / Supplement.
1899 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).
Über die Verbreitung der Thierwelt im Tiroler Hochgebirge. I. Abteilung.
1881 73 p., disbound. Unopened copy. Published in: Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. With extensive lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Scarce.
Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae.
2007 428 p., hundreds of illustrations, large 4to, hardbound. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A mint copy.Illustrating type specimens and/or type figures of almost all extant Cancellariidae.
Bibliographia Atlantica.
1989. 74 p., half calf with gilt title on front board, original stiff wrappers bound in.Includes nearly 1,500 titles (although numbered up to 3,009) and dedicated by the author to the Portuguese malacologist Antonio Nora. An exceptionally nice bound copy.
Die Nephropneusten in systematischer und phylogenetischer Hinsicht.
1926 152 p., 2 pls, paperbound (spine damaged, back broken, front cover loose). Library stamps. Abhandlungen des Archiv für Molluskenkunde. Ex library Dr. T. van Benthem Jutting. Added is an anatomical pencil (coloured) drawing and (verso) a pen drawing of a shell, probably made by Dr. T. van Benthem Jutting.
A Systematic List of Molluscan Shells from the Japanese Is. and the Adjacent Area.
1993 22, 693, 13, 148 p., 2 portraits, cloth (in slipcase). With 11-page Correction & Addition of Systematic List (Polyplacophora). In Japanese. Ex libris on first pastedown, else very good copy.
The Mollusca. Volume 1. Metabolic biochemistry and molecular biomechanics.
1983 xviii, 510 p., numerous text figures and graphs, publisher’s cloth. Small stamps of Herbert Ant, otherwise a very good copy.The first paper, by R. Seed, is titled "Structural organisation, adaptive radiation, and classification of molluscs", the the other ten papers are mainly on physiological aspects. Out of print.
Some Venezuelan and Caribbean Mollusks.
1927 (reprint 1965) 160 p., 40 pls, cloth. Ex libris B.M. Landau. Published in: Bulletins of American Paleontology. A Kraus Reprint 1964.Includes also (bound in at the back): Wood, Some Early Tertiary Rhinoceroses and Hyracodonts (104 p., 7 pls).
Ammonite biostratigraphy (of the uppermost Tithonian, Berriasian and lower Valanginian) along the Rio Argos (Caravaca, SE Spain).
1982 81 p., 2 figs/maps, 6 pls, paperbound. Scripta Geologica, vol. 65. Without the enclosures.
Overzicht van de literatuur op de oester en haar cultuur betrekking hebbende.
1881 103 p., printed boards. A bibliography of the edible oyster (Ostrea edulis). Spine perished, boards detached. Tape marks on spine, stamp on front board. Internally clean, good. Scarce.
Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss fossiler Binnenfaunen (Süsswasserschichten unter den sarmatischen Ablagerungen am Marmorameer).
1876 28 p., 1 lithographed plate, disbound (no covers). Unopened copy. Published in: Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Scarce.
Die Harpoceraten der Murchisonae-Schichten des Donau-Rhein-Zuges.
1909 75 p., 15 text figures, 8 plates (numbered IX-XVI). Printed front wrapper.A dissertation, with very good illustrations. Apparently also published in the Mitt. d. Bad. geol. Landesanstalt band VI. A few spots to some text page margins, no rear wrapper. Otherwise a very good copy.
Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar. Part I-II (complete).
1909-1916 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.
Les Muricidae d’Afrique occidentale. The West African Muricidae. I-II.
1997 69, 45 p., 262 figures on 11 plates & 162 figures on 21 plates, 4to, stapled/wrappers. Published in Apex.
Living Muricidae of the World - Muricinae - Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus.
2014 197 p., 37 figs, 81 col. pls, 4to, hardbound. Good copy.
Natuurlijke Historie of uitvoerige beschrijving der dieren, planten en mineraalen, volgens het samenstel van de Heer Linnaeus. De Wormen en Slakken.
1770 [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.
Landsnails of Taiwan.
2006 (2nd expanded ed.) 277 p., hundreds of col. illustrations, paperbound.. Ex library Dr. A.C. van Bruggen (with his signature). In Chinese.
Collection of 4 papers on Opisthobranchs.
1965-1967 Includes: The Egg Masses and Veligers of Thirty Northeast Pacific Opisthobranchs (3431 figs, 13 pls) & Studies on the Structure and Function of the Feediing Apparatus of Philine aperta (67 p., 31 figs).
Genesis of the Arietidae.
1889 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.
Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos. Volume 29.
2016 463 p., 555 figures (many on coloured plates), 4to, hardbound. The present volume includes six major taxonomic paper, together documenting 213 species 137 of which are new to science, highlighting the extraordinary biodiversity of the South and West Pacific, in particular the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia. Includes the following papers: Bouchet et al., How many species of molluscs are there in the world's oceans, and who is going to describe them? / Sirenko, New, rare bathyal leptochitons (Polyplacophora) from the South and West Pacific / Glover & Taylor, Lucinidae of the Philippines: highest known diversity and ubiquity of chemosymbiotic bivalves from intertidal to bathyal depths (Bivalvia) / Marshall et al., Deep-sea wood-eating limpets of the genus Pectinodonta Dall, 1882 (Gastropoda) from the tropical West Pacific / Vilvens & Williams, New genus and new species of Solariellidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and French Polynesia / Monsecour & Monsecour, Deep-water Columbellidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia / Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria (Gastropoda) and related genera.
Die Nephropneusten in systematischer und phylogenetischer Hinsicht.
1929 232 p., paperbound (spine damaged, back cover loose). Library stamps. Abhandlungen des Archiv für Molluskenkunde. Ex library Dr. T. van Benthem Jutting.
Phylogenie und System der Mollusken.
1922 116 p., paperbound (spine damaged, front cover loose). Library stamps. Abhandlungen des Archiv für Molluskenkunde. Ex library Dr. T. van Benthem Jutting (with her signature).
