Write to the booksellers-
Language
French (797)
Latin (1)
-
Century
18th (3)
19th (151)
20th (527)
21st (60)
-
Countries
Belgium (8)
Côte d'Ivoire (1)
France (789)
-
Syndicate
ILAB (6)
SLAM (6)
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.
Résultats scientifiques de la Campagne du "Caudan" dans le Golfe de Gascogne (aout-septembre 1895). Introduction / Echinodermes / Mollusques testacés et brachiopodes / Mollusques nus / Céphalopodes.
1896 [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.
Paläontologie der USSR. Band X, Teil 2. Sarmatische Mollusken.
1935 507 p., 42 figures, 33 plates, one section, 6 maps (5 coloured), paperbound. With printed errata leaf. In Russian with an 8-page German abstract. Some wear on outer ends spine and with a library stamp, else good copy of this scarce work.An important contribution to the Tertiary fossil marine and brackish molluscs of the region around the present Black Sea, and includes new species. Written by the Russian palaeontologist Vladimir Prokofevich Kolesnikov (1902-1948).
Paläontologie der USSR. Band X, Teil 2. Sarmatische Mollusken.
1935 507 p., 42 figures, 33 plates, one section, 6 maps (5 coloured), paperbound. With printed errata leaf. In Russian with an 8-page German abstract. Some wear on outer ends spine and with a library stamp, plastied. With the ex libris of Cor Karnekamp. Scarce.An important contribution to the Tertiary fossil marine and brackish molluscs of the region around the present Black Sea, and includes new species. Written by the Russian palaeontologist Vladimir Prokofevich Kolesnikov (1902-1948).
Molluskenfauna des Bleskový Pramen bei Drnava. Nor, Westkarpaten.
1973 234 p., 33 plates, small 4to, publisher’s cloth. A very good copy.A well-illustrated monograph with many new species of Mesozoic shells from Slovakia. Ammonites form the largest part. There are separate chapters on bivalves and gastropods (with 10 plates). Written by the Slovakian palaeontologists and ammonite specialist Vanda Kollárová-Andrusovová (1921–2004), and Mária Kochanová (1933-2017).
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.
Entwicklungsgeschichtliche und neuro-histologische Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sehorgane am Mantelrande der Pecten-Arten, mit anschliessenden vergleichend-anatomischen Betrachtungen.
1915 312, [1] p., several figures, paperbound (new plain covers). Thesis. Ex library H. Dijkstra (with his ex libris and stamp). Lacks the 8 plates at the rear.
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.
Memoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris.
1802-1809 (reprint 1978) ca. 250 p. (irregularly paginated), 28 plates, new green buckram with gilt author/title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. Ex library of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) with his stamps on the top margin of the front free endpaper and on front cover.The scarce PRI-reprint. Reduced in size and with a new preface.
