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Image for Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species Inhabiting Tahiti, 1916; Vol. 2, The Species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan, 1925; Vol. 3, The Species Inhabiting Moorea, 1932

Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species Inhabiting Tahiti, 1916; Vol. 2, The Species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan, 1925; Vol. 3, The Species Inhabiting Moorea, 1932

By: Crampton, Henry Edward

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1916, 1925, 1932

Seller ID: 767

EARLY 19TH CENTURY LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF LAND SNAILS REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF GENETICS OVER ADAPTATION. Three 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, Vol 1 bound in red buckram, gilt title to spine, with library call letters at bottom of spine, canceled institutional library bookplate and handstamp to front paste-down and title page, 311 pp, 19 plates including folding tinted maps, 15 color plates containing over 700 images of Partula. Minimal wear to covers, binding tight, occasional marginal note, pages crisp and clean. Vol. 2 with black cloth spine and marbled paper c...
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Image for An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology; contained in his Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Sans Vertebres: being a literal translation of the descriptions of the Recent and Fossil Genera, accompanied by Twenty-Two Highly Finished Lithographic Plates: in which are given Instructive Views of the various Genera, and their Divisions, drawn from Nature, from characteristic and generally well known Species.

An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology; contained in his Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Sans Vertebres: being a literal translation of the descriptions of the Recent and Fossil Genera, accompanied by Twenty-Two Highly Finished Lithographic Plates: in which are given Instructive Views of the various Genera, and their Divisions, drawn from Nature, from characteristic and generally well known Species.

By: Crouch, Edmund A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green: 1827

Seller ID: 668

1827 TWENTY-TWO HIGHLY FINISHED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES WITH NEARLY 400 FIGURES OF SHELLS TO COMPLEMENT LAMARCK'S FAMOUS NATURAL HISTORY OF INVERTEBRATES (1801). 12 inches tall hardcover, paper-covered boards, illustrated title lithogaph to cover, brown cloth spine, institutional library bookplates to front paste-down, 4 pages of publisher's ads front and back, iv, errata slip, 47 pp, 22 lithogaphic plates. Covers soiled, spine worn, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, small hole in front endpaper, light foxing to first few pages, the text and plates crisp and unmarked. Desc...
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Oysters and Disease. An account of certain Observations upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of the Oyster and other Shellfish

By: Herdman, W.A. and Boyce, Robert

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, George Philip & Son: 1899

Seller ID: 707

1899 MONOGRAPH ON DISEASES OF OYSTERS BY A ZOOLOGIST AND BACTERIOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL--ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. 11 inches tall volume, printed card covers, old pen inscription top edge of cover, cloth spine, [viii], 60 pp, 8 lithographic plates (4 in color), covers worn and browned, pages age-toned, plates bright and clean, very good. WILLIAM ABBOTT HERDMAN (1858 - 1924) was Secretary to the Challenger Expedition Commission: overseeing the deciphering of the huge catalogue of information found during this important exploration. In 1880 he became Demonstrator of Zo...
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Genesis of the Arietidae

By: Hyatt, Alpheus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1889

Seller ID: 750

1889 FIRST EDITION MONOGRAPH ON FOSSIL AMMONITES ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE HELIOGRAPH PLATES BY AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGIST ALPHEUS HYATT. 11 1/2 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, xi, 238 pp, 35 text figures, 6 large folding tables, 14 heliograph plates with facing descriptive text, cover lightly soiled with small chips to edges of front cover, spine ends rubbed, binding tight, text and plates clean and unmarked, a very good copy. In custom archival mylar cover. ALPHEUS HYATT (1838 - 1902), an American zoologist and paleontologist, co-founded the American Naturalist, serving as their editor fr...
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The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Volume II. 5. Lamellibranchiata (Part I.), with 4 plates and 5 figures in the text

By: Jensen AS;

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Bianco Luno: 1912

Seller ID: 117

1912 ATLAS OF MOLLUSCS (BIVALVES) COLLECTED IN ICELAND & GREENLAND DURING THE INGOLF EXPEDITION (1895-96). 13 inches tall hardcover, 119 pages, 3/4 gray cloth and printed paper covers, gilt leather label on spine, 4 full-page plates with facing descriptions, color map of Iceland laid in. Cover edges lightly worn, otherwise unmarked and very good. Atlas of molluscs collected in Iceland, Faeroes Islands, Jan Mayen Island, and Greenland. ADOLF SEVERIN JENSEN (1866 - 1953) was a Danish zoologist , ichthyologist and malacologist . He investigated especially the fauna of Greenland . He described fis...
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Image for Northern and Arctic Invertebrates in the Collection of the Swedish State Museum. V. Prosobranchia, 1 Diotocardia with seven plates, bound with VI. Prosobranchia. 2 Semiproboscidifera with five plates and five figures in the text

Northern and Arctic Invertebrates in the Collection of the Swedish State Museum. V. Prosobranchia, 1 Diotocardia with seven plates, bound with VI. Prosobranchia. 2 Semiproboscidifera with five plates and five figures in the text

By: Odhner N;

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Uppsala and Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksells: 1912 1913

Seller ID: 116

1912-1913 ATLAS OF SCANDINAVIAN MOLLUSCS in the SWEDISH STATE MUSEUM - 12 PLATES. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 93, 89 pages, paper covered boards, brown cloth spine with paper label. Edges of covers worn, light scattered foxing to text, not affecting plates, which have fine marginal notations idetifying species pictures; overall very good. NILS HJALMAR ODHNER (1884 û 1973) was a Swedish malacologist. He was professor of invertebrate zoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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A Conchological Manual

By: Sowerby, G.B.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn: 1851

Seller ID: 264

1852 FINE LEATHER BOUND MANUAL OF SEASHELLS BY SOWERBY, WITH 29 HAND-COLORED PLATES, COPY OF LT.-COL. H. E. SHERWIN HOLT, C.B.E. 8 1/2 inch tall hardcover, brown morocco leather binding with gilt borders to covers, spine with raised bands, compartments gilt, and gilt red leather title label, marble endpapers, all edges marbled, colored frontis, 2 folding tables, 28 fine handcolored plates with tissue guards, showing over 600 shells. Bookplate of H.E. Sherwin Holt to front paste-down. Light rubbing to covers, front hinge starting, binding tight, color plates are bright and unmarked. A beautiful...
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Category: Molluscs

Studies on the Variation, Distribution, and Evolution of the Genus Partula. Vol. 1, The Species Inhabiting Tahiti, 1916; Vol. 2, The Species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan, 1925; Vol. 3, The Species Inhabiting Moorea, 1932

Oysters and Disease. An account of certain Observations upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of the Oyster and other Shellfish

Genesis of the Arietidae

The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Volume II. 5. Lamellibranchiata (Part I.), with 4 plates and 5 figures in the text

Northern and Arctic Invertebrates in the Collection of the Swedish State Museum. V. Prosobranchia, 1 Diotocardia with seven plates, bound with VI. Prosobranchia. 2 Semiproboscidifera with five plates and five figures in the text

A Conchological Manual