1817 LANDMARK TREATISE ON MOLLUSCS BY GEORGES CUVIER, LEADING FRENCH COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST--35 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVED PLATES. 10 inches tall hardcover, recent burgundy cloth binding, gilt title on black leather label to spine, new endpapers, viii, 496 pp, 35 plates. Binding fine, institutional handstamp to half title and title pages, scattered foxing, old water stain to lower corner of some pages, overall good+. Notably, the memoire on the barnacles is inserted between memoires XXI and XXII in the table of contents, but not listed therein. Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan T... View More...
UNIQUE BOUND COLLECTION OF SIGNED OFFPRINTS BY ALPHEUS HYATT INSCRIBED TO HIS COLLEAGUE ALPHEUS PACKARD--BOTH LEADING NEO-LAMARCKIAN AMERICAN ZOOLOGISTS. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards, expertly rebacked in black cloth with black leather label title gilt, bookplate of Bowdoin College Library--withdrawn to front paste-down (no other library marks), hand-lettered title page, wood engraving of Prof. Alpheus Hyatt cut out from journal affixed to verso of Emerson obituary. Contains 23 key offprints by Alpheus Hyatt collected and bound in chronol... View More...
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... View More...
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. View More...
