Category: Invertebrates

Collection of 70 offprints on trematodes

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : 1923 - 1994

Seller ID: 1059

SPANNING THE 20TH CENTURY, 71 SCARCE OFFPRINTS ON THE BIOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF TREMATODES PARASITIZING DIVERSE VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES. 71 offprints, 1 in Spanish, 4 in French, 66 in English; some with wrappers, some not (as issued), many illustrated, author or previous owner inscription or handstamp to several covers, otherwise unmarked and very good. The papers cover the biology of the trematodes, including anatomy, physiology, reproduction, embryology, metabolism, and life cycle. A number report descriptions of new species and other aspects of taxonomy. The variety of hosts includes fi...
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The Natural History of the British Entomostraca

By: Baird, W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, The Ray Society : 1850

Seller ID: 872

1850 FINE MONOGRAPH ON TINY CRUSTACEANS INCLUDING DAPHNIA, THE WATER FLEA, ILLUSTRATED BY HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 9 inches tall hardcover, viii, 364 pp, 36 lithographic plates (14 partly hand-colored, as issued); bright gilt initials of Ray Society to blindstamped cover, expertly rebacked with original spine preserved, no library or ownership marks, binding tight, occasional light foxing, plates clean and bright, very good. WILLIAM BAIRD (1803 - 1872) was a Scottish physician and zoologist best known for his 1850 work, The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. He was a surgeon...
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Image for Beobachtungen Uber Radiaten und Wurmer in Nizza [Observations on radiata and worms in Nice] TOGETHER WITH Nachtrag zu dem Aufsatz uber Polycoryne helleri; Gastrodelphis clausii, nov. gen. et spec. [Polycoryne Helleri, a new genus of corynids; Gastrodelphis clausii, a new genus and species]

Beobachtungen Uber Radiaten und Wurmer in Nizza [Observations on radiata and worms in Nice] TOGETHER WITH Nachtrag zu dem Aufsatz uber Polycoryne helleri; Gastrodelphis clausii, nov. gen. et spec. [Polycoryne Helleri, a new genus of corynids; Gastrodelphis clausii, a new genus and species]

By: Graeffe, Eduard

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Zurich, : 1858, 1883

Seller ID: 1061

19TH CENTURY ANATOMY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES--COPY OF PROMINENT GERMAN ZOOLOGIST. 1) 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper covered boards, green cloth spine, handstamp of Dr. R. Hartmeyer to front flyleaf, 59 pp, 10 lithographed plates, dent to top of front cover, very good. 2) 9 inches tall offprint, green paper covers, 14 pp, [1], 2 lithographed plates, corners bumped, very good. GERMAN LANGUAGE. EDUARD HEINRICH GRAEFFE (1833 - 1916) was a Swiss zoologist and naturalist. From around 1860, Graeffe was in the employ of Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, a wealthy s...
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On two remarkable ciliate protozoa from the caecum of the Indian elephant

By: Kofoid, Charles A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, National Academy of Sciences : 1935

Seller ID: 1017

1935 ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF 2 NEW PROTOZOA FROM THE INTESTINE OF AN INDIAN ELEPHANT--REVEALS CO-EVOLUTION OF MAMMAL AND INTESTINAL PARASITE. 10 inches tall offprint from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 21, pp 501-506, 2 figures, 1965, stapled, with handstamp signature of author to cover, very good. CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID (1865 - 1947) was an American zoologist known for his collection and classification of many new species of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic basis. He was Chairman of the Department of Zoology of the University of Calif...
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On Pourtalesia. A Genus of Echinoidea

By: Loven, Sven

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Kongl. Boktryckeriet : 1883

Seller ID: 1060

1883 MONOGRAPH ON DEEP SEA URCHINS BY NOTED SWEDISH MARINE BIOLOGIST--ILLUSTRATED WITH 21 VERY FINE LITHOGRAPHS. 12 inches tall folio hardcover, marbled paper-covered boards, green cloth spine with paper title label, institutional handsatamps bottom of title page, contemporary ink signature top of front paste-down, 95 pp, many figures in text, 21 fine lithographed plates; wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. SVEN LUDVIG LOVEN (1809 - 1895) was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences at both Kristineb...
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Image for Traite Anatomique de la Chenille qui Ronge le Bois de Saule, augmentee d'Une Explication Abregee des Planches, et d'Une Description de l'Instrument et des Outils dont l'Auteur s'est Servi, Pour Anatomiser a la Loupe & au Microscope, & pour determiner la force de ses Verres, suivant les rebles de l'Optique, & Mechaniquement

Traite Anatomique de la Chenille qui Ronge le Bois de Saule, augmentee d'Une Explication Abregee des Planches, et d'Une Description de l'Instrument et des Outils dont l'Auteur s'est Servi, Pour Anatomiser a la Loupe & au Microscope, & pour determiner la force de ses Verres, suivant les rebles de l'Optique, & Mechaniquement

By: Lyonet, Pierre

Price: $950.00

Publisher: The Hague, Amsterdam, Pierre Gosse & Daniel Pinet; Marc Michel Rey : 1762

Seller ID: 684

1762 LYONET'S EXQUISITE STUDY OF THE GOAT MOTH CATERPILLAR, ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON ANATOMY EVER PUBLISHED. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, recent cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, inscribed presentation verso front flyleaf Presented by Miss Broomfield/ ex libris Er. W. A. Broomfield/ August 1852, title page with red and black lettering, xxii, [ii contents], frontis plate of microscope, 616 pp, 18 folding copper plates. Corners bumped, binding tight, bottom of title page has been restored with no loss of text,...
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Image for Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, TOGETHER WITH 4 additional monographs on medusae by A. G. Mayer

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, TOGETHER WITH 4 additional monographs on medusae by A. G. Mayer

By: Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough and Agassiz, Alexander

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology : 1894 - 1906

Seller ID: 1051

1894-1906 FIVE MONOGRAPHS ON MEDUSAE WITH SUPERB PLATES BY PIONEERING EXPERT IN THE BIOLOGY (AND BEAUTY) OF JELLYFISH. 5 monographs on medusae in printed paper covers: 1) A. Agassiz and A. G. Mayer. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Medusae, [ii], (139-) - 175, 13 color lithographed plates, 1 large folding color map, 1902; 2) A. G. Mayer. Memoirs of Natural Sciences Vol. I No. 1. Medu...
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Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals, Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons

By: Owen, Richard

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Gree, and Longmans : 1855

Seller ID: 546

SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON INVERTEBRATES BY ONE OF DARWIN'S FIERCEST CRITICS. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped, expertly rebacked with original spine conserved, bookplate and booksellers ticket to front paste-down, embossed stamp to title and dedication pages, Presented by the Publishers, viii, 689 pp, 235 wood engravings in text, errata, publisher's adverts. RICHARD OWEN (1804 - 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding natur...
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Image for Hydraires provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1886-1888); Fascicule XVIII, Resultats des Campagnes Sceintifiques Accomplis sur son Yacht par Albert 1er Prince Souverain de Monaco

Hydraires provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1886-1888); Fascicule XVIII, Resultats des Campagnes Sceintifiques Accomplis sur son Yacht par Albert 1er Prince Souverain de Monaco

By: Pictet, C. and Bedot, M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Monaco, Imprimerie de Monaco : 1900

Seller ID: 592

LARGE FOLIO MONOGRAPH ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES COLLECTED IN 1886-1888, PRINTED BY ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHS, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Large folio, 11 x 14 inches tall printed transparent paper wraps over card covers which include the coat-of-arms of the Prince of Monaco. Gray tape binding, text printed on heavy rag paper, 55 pp, bibliographic index, 10 lithographed plates with tisue guards. Text in French. Cover edges with edge tears, light soiling, small institutional handstamp lower front cover, inscribed front free endpaper a Monsieur Alphonse Picket/ Hommage res...
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Alcyonaires provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1886-1888)

By: Studer, Theophile

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Monaco, Imprimerie de Monaco : 1901

Seller ID: 593

SCARCE LARGE FOLIO MONOGRAPH ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES COLLECTED IN 1886-1888, PRINTED BY ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. Large folio, 11 x 14 inches tall printed transparent paper wraps over card covers which include the coat-of-arms of the Prince of Monaco. text printed on heavy rag paper, 64 pp, 11 lithographed plates with tisue guards, 9 of which are printed in full color on a black background. Text in French. Cover edges age-toned, small institutional handstamp lower front cover, text clean and unmarked, plates bright and clean with only scattered light ...
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Collection of 14 offprints on sea anemones and jellyfish published between 1932 and 1937

By: Uchida, Tohru

Price: $75.00

Publisher: : 1932-1937

Seller ID: 602

1930s RARE COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS BY NOTED JAPANESE MARINE BIOLOGIST, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 10 inches tall hardcover, red cloth covers, red leather spine with gilt title, bound collection of 14 offprints by Japanese biologist Tohru Uchida. 2 colored plates, numerous text-figures, and several maps. signature of W.J. Rees and institutional library handstamp on front free endpaper, author's signature on front wrapper of 5 papers, signature of W.J. Rees on front wrapper of all but 1 paper. TOHRU UCHIDA (1897-1981) was born and educated in Japan, and studied with Richard Goldschmidt in Ber...
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Category: Invertebrates