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Giant Clams. A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tridacnid Clams.
1996 255 p., num. figs & col. photographs, hardbound.
Handbuch der Blütenbiologie. III. Band, Die bisher in aussereuropäischen Gebieten gemachten Blütenbiologischen Beobachtungen. 1.Teil: Cycadaceae bis Cornaceae. 2. Teil: Clethraceae bis Composita.
1904-1905 2 volumes. vi, [1], 570, v, [1], 601 p., 141, 56 figs, frontispiece (portrait), hcloth. Library stamps.
Catalog der im europäischen Faunengebiet lebenden Binnenconchylien. Zweite, vollständig umgearbeite Auflage.
1881 (2nd ed.). xvi, 295 p. Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, compartments rich gilt, with date and title. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. The first edition was published in 1871. This edition contains the author's view on the Eurasian zoogeographical provinces. It lists names, sources (of the original descriptions), and species' distributions, as well as several taxonomical notes. Title page with old French society stamp, small stamp of Herbert Ant and the written name and date of former owner Herbert Lutz. A very nice, bound copy. Rare.
Fauna Japonica Extramarina. Nach den von Professor Rein gemachten Sammlungen.
1879 106 p., 8 lithographed pls, 4to (22.2 x 28.6 cm), paperbound (partly loose, no front cover). Published in: Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.The first half of this rare monograph on, partly new, land and freshwater gastropods of Japan (here Hyalina, Helix, Pupa, and Clausilia are treated and depicted). The second half (not present here) contains another 63 pages and 15 plates.
Sudien zur Zoogeographie. I. Die Mollusken der Palaearktichen Region. II. Die Fauna der meridionalen Sub-Region.
1897-1898 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.
On belemnites from Maastrichtian, Campanian and Santonian sediments in the middle Vistula valley (central Poland).
1962 140 p., 21 pls, wrps.
Catalogue of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic holotypes in the collection of plant fossils in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden.
2004 CD-ROM. Disc in plastic case.
Ammoneae Devonicae. Fossilium Catalogus Animalia 138.
2002 xviii, 375 p., 238 figs, hardbound. Crisp new copy.
Collection of 12 papers on Opisthobranchs.
1968-1992 Including her Thesis: ''Untersuchungen zur Histologie, Autotomie und Regereration dreier Doto-Arten Doto coronata, D. pinnatifida, D. fragilis (71 p., 29 figs 4 pls). Most of the papers with author's dedication.
Differences in density and growth in a cockle population in the Dutch Wadden Sea.
1957 103 p., 26 figs, 3 pls, paperbound. Thesis. Very good copy.
Ammonoids of the Late Scythian (Lower Triassic).
1969 392 p., 50 figs, 71pls, paperbound. Library stamps.
Ammonoids of the Late Scythian (Lower Triassic).
1969 400 p., 71 plates, paperbound. A few pages text pages in xerox copy.
Illustrated catalogue of Japanese shells. Volume I.
1949-1953 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.
Glossophora triadica II. Fossilium Catalogus Animalia 81.
1972 (reprint) vi, 236 p., paperbound. Crisp new copy.
Die Kultur der Auster.
1930 118 p., 54 figs, paperbound. Ex library Dr. C.R. Bottger & Herbert Ant (with their small stamps). Published in: Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden.
Die Molluskengesellschaften des mitteldeutschen Hügellandes.
1966 112 p., 26 figs, paperbound. Ex library Herbert Ant (with his stamp). With author's dedication. Published in: Malakologische Abhandlungen.
Entwicklungsgeschichtliche und neuro-histologische Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sehorgane am Mantelrande der Pecten-Arten, mit anschliessenden vergleichend-anatomischen Betrachtungen.
1915 311 p., 8 folded lithographs (some tinted). paperbound (original printed covers). Thesis. Plates at the rear detached, margins of covers chipped due to low quality paper used.
Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. In Verbindung mit Dr. Philippi, Dr. L. Pfeiffer und Dr. Dunker neu herausgegeben und vervollständigt. Die Gattungen Limnaeus, Amphipeplea, Chilina, Isidora und Physopsis.
1862-1863 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.
Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Opisthobranches et Silicodermés (Oncidiades) / Prosobranches parasites.
1934 115 p., 55 figs, 1 pl., roy. 4to, paperbound. Unopened copy. Published in: Mémoires du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle.
Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises. Opisthobranches et silicodermes (oncidiades) / Prosobranches parasites.
1934. Two parts in one. 115 p., 39, 16 (groups of) text figures, 1 plate, roy. 4to, paperbound (original printed covers). Small piece of outer end spine missing. Unopened copy.Well-illustrated paper based on material collected during a scientific expedition in what is now Indonesia. Includes descriptions and illustrations of new and poorly known species. A very good, clean copy.
Mémoire sur l'anatomie et l'embryologie des vermets (Vermetus triqueter et V. semi-surrectus Phil.).
1860 xiii, 88 [209-296] p., 6 lithographed plates (numbered 4-9). Unbound (loose, no covers).Rare work on Vermetidae or worm shells. Offprint from the Annales des Sciences Naturelles comprenant la Zoologie...etc., published by Audouin and Milne-Edwards (as far as the zoology is concerned). This is a fine, clean, unopened copy from the publishers remainders.
Discours d'Ouverture (An VIII, An X, An XI et 1806).
1907 157, [1] p., 3 portraits, contemporary hcloth. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, T. XI. Library stamps. Scarce.
Mélanges Paul Pelseneer.
1936 1206 p., numerous figs & pls. Later brown cloth with gilt title on spine (original printed covers bound in).Paul Pelseneer was one of the leading Belgian malacologists before WWII. His "Festschrift" deals mainly with molluscan subjects, including papers by Lameere (Histoire de la classification des mollusques), Yonge (the evolution of the swimming habit in the Lamellibranchia), Lamy, Steenberg, Adam & Leloup (Les Crepidula de la cote occidentale de l'Afrique), Dollfus, de Selys Lonchamps, Odhner (Nudibranchia Dendronotacea. A revision of the system; this being a large paper with new genera and species) and many others. Title page and dedication page spotted, otherwise very good. Copies in original wrappers are often broken as the binding is too weak for such a big volume. This copy, however, has a tight, sound binding.
Cephalopods from Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary Interval on the Atlantic Coastal Plain with a description of the Highest Ammonite Zones in North America. Part III: Manasquan River Basin Monmouth County New Jersey.
2007 122 p., 54 figs/pls, col. frontispiece, paperbound. Crisp new copy.
