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Monographie Gattung Pomatias Studer.
1897 68 p., 10 lithographed plates, large 4to, later quarter cloth over blind boards. With the bookplate of Cor Karnekamp on the front pastedown. A good copy.Well-illustrated and with several new species. Published in the academy’s Denkschriften der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Neogene paleontology of the northern Dominican Republic, 24. Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae of the Cibao Valley.
2011 195 p., 18 plates, 4to, paperbound. Ex library H. Dijkstra (with his stamp).
Conchs, Tibias and Harps.
1980 191 p., num. figs, num. col. photographs, 82 maps, hardbound. Library stamps.
Conchs, Tibias and Harps.
1980 191 p., num. figs, num. col. photographs, 82 maps, hardbound. Library stamps (Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam).
Conchs, Tibias and Harps.
1980 191 p., num. figs, num. col. photographs, 82 maps, hardbound. Ex library Dr. H.P. Wagner (with his ex libris). Very good copy.
Conchs, Tibias and Harps.
1980 191 p., numerous figures, numerous coloured photographs, 82 maps, hardbound. Very good copy.
Cowries.
1975 (1st ed.) 287 p., num. figs & col. photographs, hardbound. Library stamps (Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam). Includes the large folded ''Identi-Chart''.
Caribbean Seashells. A Guide to the Marine Mollusks of Puerto Rico and Other West Indian Islands, Bermuda and Lower Florida Keys.
1962 xx, 348 p., 34 figs, 44 (4 col.) pls, 19 distribution maps, paperbound. Good copy.
Die Entwicklung der Kiemen bei Cyclas cornea und andere Acephalen des süssen Wassers.
1910 78 p., 3 double-sized plates, paperbound (partly loose, no covers). With several old library stamps.
The Living Volutes. A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae.
1970 xv, 375 p., 45 figs, 79 col. pls, roy. 4to, cloth.
The Living Volutes. A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae.
1970 xv, 375 p., 45 figures, 79 colour plates, large 4to, cloth. Good copy of this classic book on Volutes.
Foreign Land and Fresh Water Shells. From All Parts of the World Except the United States and Canada.
1948 183 p., 73 plates (depicting 1400 species), publisher’s cloth. On the first paste-down is information taped on another book by Webb ‘’Handbook for Shell Collectors’’ (can be removed if wanted).
Handbook for shell collectors. Revised edition.
1960 264 pp., 112 plates, cloth (plastified dustjacket).Inscribed by Guide Poppe. A few annotations, otherwise very good.
Late cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela.
1962 672 p., 48 plates with explanatory text leaves. paperbound.This extensive work does include new and poorly known Pliocene, Pleistocene and recent gastropods (the latter inclusion being a little known fact) including many not usually treated in other works. The work has an unusual extensive detailed list of references. Very useful. Old owner's signature on front wrapper, otherwise a good copy.
Distribution and variation of Achatinella mustelina Mighels in the Waianae Mountains, Oahu. Honolulu.
1938 164 p., 13 plates, several text figures including maps, blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the title page. A very good copy.A seldom-seen bound copy of very detailed study on an amazingly diverse group of landsnails showing micro-evolution on a grand scale, only to become a legacy of times gone by, as the species group became entirely extinct in just a few decades due to human carelessness and stupidity. Published as the Museum's Bulletin 152. Do not confuse with several similarly titled works on other achatinellids by the same author.
Seashells of Western Australia.
1986 (1st ed.) 207 p., 13 figs, 74 col. pls, paperbound. Good copy.
Seashells of Western Australia.
1988 (2nd ed.) 207 p., numerous b/w text illustrations, 74 full-colour plates, paperbound. A very good copy.The much less common revised edition of a work first published in 1986.
Sea slugs of Western Australia.
1993 (revised ed.) 207 p., 13 figs, 74 col. pls, paperbound. A very good, clean copy. Includes a short handwritten note from John Taylor (The Natural History Museum, London) to Malcolm Edmunds.
A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh.
1889-189 ii, 344 p., 32 lithographed plates [I-XXXI, VIIIa], 4to. Slightly later green pebbled cloth with gilt title on spine.An important basic work on these faunas with Gastropoda, Polyplacophora, and Bivalvia. With excellent figures of new and little known species that are often quite well-preserved. Fishes and trilobites and some other arthropods are included too but occupy only four plates. One of the rarer parts of the Palaeontographical Society monographs. Outer ends spine worn, first free end-paper chipped, library stamps on title page, otherwise a good clean copy.
A review of the fossil Ostreidae of North America.
1884 and a comparison of the fossil with the living forms. With appendices by Prof. Angelo Heilprin and Mr. John A. Ryder; 158 p., 49 pls, disbound (no covers, part of plates loose). A few pages frayed. Working copy only.
British Caenozoic Fossils (Tertiary and Quaternary).
1959 vi, 130 p., 44 plates, col. frontispiece, contemporary brown cloth. Gilt title on the spine. Printed covers bound in.A well-bound copy of this finely illustrated work. Most plates depict mollusca. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some pencil markings. Otherwise very good.
Seashells of the Pacific Northwest.
1976 viii, 127 p., numerous b/w and col. figures. Pictorial softcover. Signed and dated by Guido Poppe on title. Otherwise a very good, clean copy.
Gasteropoda and Cephalopoda of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey.
1892 402 p., 2 figs, 50 pls, 4to, cloth (worn, hinges weak, contents clean & tight).
Collection of 20 papers on Opisthobranchs.
1976-1995 Mostly on New Zealand and Australian opisthobranchs.
