Ravn, J.P.J.
Molluskfaunaen i Jyllands Tertiaeraflejringer en Palaeontologisk-Stratigrafisk Undersogelse.
1907 181 p., 8 plates with explanatory text leaves, 1 map, small 4to, modern hardbound (blind spine). A very good, clean copy.Describing well-preserved tertiary faunas. Several species are new. With a six-page French summary.
Bookseller reference : MM43645
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Bouchet, P. & A. Warén
Revision of the Northeast Atlantic Bathyal and Abyssal Turridae.
1980 120 p., 281 text figures, paperbound. Very good copy.Includes excellent descriptions and illustrations of new and seldom-seen species, and important taxonomical conclusions and nomenclatural corrections.
Bookseller reference : MM43646
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Bouchet, P. & A. Warén
Revision of the Northeast Atlantic Bathyal and Abyssal Aclididae, Eulimidae, Epitoniidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda).
1986 278 p. [= pp. 298-576], 543 text figures, paperbound.With ex libris of Cor Karnekamp. Very good copy.Includes excellent descriptions and illustrations of new and seldom-seen species, and important taxonomical conclusions and nomenclatural corrections. Published as Supplemento 2 of the Bollettino Malacologico.
Bookseller reference : MM43647
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Bouchet, P. & A. Warén
Revision of the Northeast Atlantic Bathyal and Abyssal Neogastropoda, excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda).
1985 174 p. [= pp. 122-296], 442 text figures, paperbound. Very good copy.Includes excellent descriptions and illustrations of new and seldom-seen species, and important taxonomical conclusions and nomenclatural corrections. Published as Supplemento 1 of the Bollettino Malacologico.
Bookseller reference : MM43648
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Starabogatov, Ya.I. (ed.)
New Data on the Taxonomy and Ecology of Molluscs.
1985 119 p., numerous figures, paperbound. With ex libris Cor Karnekamp. In Russian with short English abstracts. A very good, clean copy.Includes eleven papers by various malacologists on various groups of continental and marine molluscs, e.g., Pisidiidae, Planorbidae, Viviparidae, Trochidae, etc.
Bookseller reference : MG43648
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Torre, C. de la & P. Bartsch
The Cuban operculate land mollusks of the family Annulariidae, exclusive of the subfamily Chondropominae [AND] The Cuban operculate land shells of the subfamily Chondropominae.
1938 / 1941 Two volumes. pp. 193-403, 131-385, i-x, Plates 7-39, 9-57, paperbound (original printed covers). Uncut. Very good, clean, and definitely uncommon in this state.Combined, these two volumes comprise the complete Annulariidae, a family nowhere as diverse as in Cuba. The leading author, Carlos de la Torre (1858-1950) was the leading Cuban malacologist during the first half of the 20th century. These are the Proceedings of the United States National Museum 3039 and 3096.
Bookseller reference : ML43650
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Torre, C. de la, P. Bartsch & J.P.E. Morrison
The cyclophorid operculate land mollusks of America.
1942 iv, 305 p., 42 plates, paperbound. Uncut. Very good copy.Although not apparent from the title, this book deals with the Cyclophoridae of Cuba (by De La Torre and Bartsch), the other West Indian islands (by Paul Bartsch alone), and the American mainland (by Bartsch and Morrison). It deals with the higher systematics within the group (e.g. introducing a new subfamily) and the species, of which many are new, or little known and illustrated for the first time. This is the United States National Museum Bulletin 181. This well-illustrated monograph has never been replaced by a more modern one. This is United States National Museum Bulletin 181.
Bookseller reference : ML43651
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Locard, A.
Les Coquilles Marines des Côtes de France. Description des familles, genres et espèces.
1891 380 p., 348 text figures, later half cloth with marbled boards, blind spine. With many annotations in two different (old) hands. Two repaired tears in the introduction part, otherwise a good copy of this classic work.Published in the Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, being the only paper in Vol. 37 of the new series; preceded by a member’s list.
Bookseller reference : MM43652
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Merklin, R.L. (ed.) [Zhidkova, L. S. et al.]
Atlas Neogenovych Molljuskov Kurilskich Ostrovov [Atlas of Neogene Molluscs of the Kurile Islands].
1972 166 p., 48 plates, publisher’s cloth. In Russian. English title added in ink on title page, otherwise very good copy.Deals with poorly known faunas from the North Pacific. Nearly all illustrations are of bivalves – a few are gastropods.
Bookseller reference : MM43653
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Yakovleva, A.M.
Pantsyrnye Mollyuski Morei SSSR [Fauna USSR, 45: Mollusca (Loricata) of the Seas of the USSR].
1952 107 p., 53 text figures, 10 plates, coloured frontispiece, original printed boards. In Russian. Bookplate of Cor Karnekamp on the front pastedown. A very good, clean copy.The uncommon, original Russian edition of this important contribution to (sub) Arctic Polyplacophora. Includes twelve new species. The quality of the plates in the later Jerusalem English translation is less good.
Bookseller reference : MM43654
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Zhidkova, L.S. et al.
Atlas Molljuskov Miotsjena y Pliotsjena Sachalina [Atlas of the Molluscs of the Upper Miocene and Pliocene of Sakhalin].
1968 179 p., several text illustrations, 50 plates, one very large folded chart with profiles, publisher’s cloth (gilt title on spine and front cover). Three typed leaves with French title and index tipped in on rear pastedown. In Russian. Very good copy.Well-illustrated work, describing little-known species. Deals mainly with bivalves from Sakhalin in the Siberian far east. Sakhalin is situated in the Pacific Ocean, sandwiched between the Sea of Okhotsk to the east and the Sea of Japan to the west. Sakhalin is located just off Khabarovsk Krai, and is north of Hokkaido in Japan.
Bookseller reference : MM43655
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Likharev, I.M. & E.S. Rammel’meier
Terrestrial Mollusks of the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. (Nazemnye Mollyuski Fauny SSSR).
1952 (translated 1962) 574 p., 420 text figures, cloth with gilt author/title on the spine. A mint copy of this English translation from the Russian.
Bookseller reference : ML43657
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Bourguignat. J.-R.
Histoire malacologique de la Colline de Sansan précédée d'une notice géologique et suivie d'un aperçu climatologique et topographique de Sansan, a l'epoque des dépots de cette colline.
1881 175 p., 8 plates and 2 double-paged view/sections (1 hand-coloured), contemporary half morocco with marbled boards, author/title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers. Original printed front cover bound in. Some slight rubbing on spine and extremities of boards, else a very good copy in a nice contemporary binding.One of only 100 copies, as with most of Bourguignat’s publications. With a handwritten dedication by Bourguignat to the French anthropologist Ernest Théodore Hamy (1842-1908). Hamy was not a malacologist but he provided the French malacologist Rochebrune with shells. Rochebrune named a cowrie species after him.
Bookseller reference : ML43659
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Pennecke, K.A.
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna der Slavonischen Paludinenschichten. I-II.
1883-1884 Two parts. 14, 30 p., 7 fine lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, large folding table, royal 4to, uniform quarter cloth over printed boards. With, on both front boards, a handwritten dedication by the author to Franz Ritter von Hauer (1822-1899) (the second partly clipped). A very good, complete set.A beautifully illustrated monograph, showing a rich and varied freshwater fauna. Both parts are a “Separat-Abdruck” (Offprint) from the Beiträge zur Paläntologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients (Mojsisovics and Neumayr, [eds.]).
Bookseller reference : ML43666
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Jansen, P.
Seashells of Central New South Wales. A survey of the shelled marine molluscs of the Sydney Metropolitan Area and adjacent coasts.
1995 xii, 129 p., 484 figures, 4to, printed wrappers. Very good copy.Privately published an iIllustrated by the author, the Australian malacologist Patty Jansen (b. 1963).
Bookseller reference : MM43676
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Landau, B.M. et al.
The Upper Miocene Gastropods of Northwestern France, 4. Neogastropoda.
2019 81 p., 62 “plates” (i.e., groups of figures), 4to, paperboun. Published in: Cainozoic Research 19 (2). Very good copy.Deals with Neogastropoda, in particular Cysticidae, Volutidae, Cancellariidae, Columbellidae, Fasciolariidae, Pisaniidae, Nassariidae, Costellariidae, Mitridae. With many new species. The whole Cainozoic Research 19 (2), with 3 smaller papers (two on molluscs, including one on Eocene Columbariidae by Vermeij and Pacaud).
Bookseller reference : MM43677
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Zelinskaya, V.A. et al.
Paleontologicheskii Spravochnik. Volume 1. Bivalves of the Paleogene and Miocene of Ukraine.
1968 297 p., 73 plates, publisher’s cloth. In Russian. A very good copyA scarce complete copy of this authoritative and well-illustrated work on Ukrainian fossil marine bivalves.
Bookseller reference : MM43678
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Roth, F. & K. Hoedemakers (eds)
The Marine Gram Formation at Gram, Denmark: Late Miocene geology and palaeontology Part 1.
2005 190 pp., 32 text figures, 16 plates, 4to, paperbound. Very good copy, as new.A collection of six papers. By far the largest is K.I. Schnetler’s work on the Mollusca (128 p., 6 text figs, 11 plates). This is Palaeontos 7. The plates show well-preserved shells; SEM photos show protoconchs and microscopic species. Several species are new.
Bookseller reference : MM43679
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Seguenza, G.
Le ringicole Italiane ovvero ricerche speciologiche e stratigrafiche intorno alle ringicole. Raccolte negli strati terziari d’Italia.
1881 50 p., 2 tinted lithographed plates, large 4to, later blind black quarter cloth over boards with printed title laid on. With the ex libris of Cor Karnekamp. A very good copy.A contribution to the knowledge of the rich and varied family Ringiculidae in the Mediterranean region. 26 species are recognized, including several that are new. Offprint from the Memorie of the Reale Academia dei Lincei, Vol. 278.
Bookseller reference : MM43680
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Wagner, A.J.
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.
Bookseller reference : ML43681
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Lueger, J.P.
Die Landschnecken im Pannon und Pont des Wiener Beckens. I. Systematik. II. Fundorte, Stratigraphie, Faunenprovinzen.
1897 124 p., 6 text figures, 16 plates 4to, paperbound. Very good copy.Describing and illustrating mostly well-preserved shells, including nine new and many poorly known species. Written by the Austrian palaeontologist Josef Paul Lueger (b. 1955). Published by the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Denkschriften, Vol. 120.
Bookseller reference : ML43682
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Lorenz, F. & D. Fehse
The Living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae.
2009 651 p., several mostly coloured text figures, 203 full colour plates showing shells & 64 full colour plates showing living animals in their habitat, large 4to, hardbound. Very good copy.A fantastic monograph, profusely illustrated.
Bookseller reference : MM43683
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Hemmen, J.
Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae.
2007 428 p., hundreds of illustrations, large 4to, hardbound. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A mint copy.Illustrating type specimens and/or type figures of almost all extant Cancellariidae.
Bookseller reference : MM43684
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Bruyne, R. et al. (eds)
Schelpdieren van het Nederlandse Noordzeegebied. Ecologische atlas van de mariene weekdieren (Mollusca).
2013 414 p., hundreds of full-colour text figures and distribution maps, large 4to, hardbound. Very good copy, as new.Includes over 250 species found in the North Sea, including nudibranchs and cephalopods. With a distribution map for each species, and several photos of shells and, often, living animals.
Bookseller reference : MM43685
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Hak, C.J.D. & C. Karnekamp
Ontsluitingen in het Eoceen, Bekken van Parijs. I-V.
1978-1980 26 p. [5, 8, 4, 4, 5], 19 plates [3, 6, 2, 4, 4], 4to, blind half cloth over plain boards. Published in: De Kreukel. In Dutch.Well-illustrated by Cor Karnekamp. The initial paper titled differently: Twee zeer goede ontsluitingen in het Lutetien (Eoceen) N.W. van Parijs. In the rear three more papers on molluscs from the Parisian Lutetien (by Karnekamp, and by Van Nieulande, with another 11 plates.
Bookseller reference : MM43688
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Gemert, L.J.
Overzicht van de Literatuur over Schelpen van de Rode Zee. Survey of Literature on Shells from the Red Sea.
1978-1980 58 p., 4to, quarter cloth over original printed wrappers and transparent plastic cover. Very good copyA valuable contribution to Red Sea malacology. Published in De Kreukel 46. In Dutch with English summary. This is the whole volume, with some other malacological works.
Bookseller reference : MM43689
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Mitteilungen der Deutsche Malako-zoologische Gesellschaft
Mitteilungen der Deutsche Malako-zoologische Gesellschaft 1-8.
1962-1966 148 p., 4to, in issues in portfolio.A very good, clean set from the start of this series.
Bookseller reference : MJ43690
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Collection of letters to Cor Karnekamp
Collection of 17 letters to Cor Karnekamp (Dutch malacologist, 1926-2021).
1971-1980 Letter from H.E. Coomans to Cor Karnekamp. Amsterdam, Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam (on the Museum’s stationery), 1980. Single leaf, A4-size, signed and dated, 30.VII.1980). On Conidae from Australia. Handwritten by the Dutch malacologist and head of the Mollusca department of the Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam, Henny Coomans (1929-2010). Attached (stapled), a neatly handwritten locality label by Cor Karnekamp, of the same specimens.Three letters from H.K. Mienis to Cor Karnekamp. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (on the University’s stationery), 1974. Single leaf, A4, signed and dated, 9.V.1974. Written by the Dutch malacologist Henk Klaas Mienis (b. 1941). On Mienis’s contribution to the De Kreukel Jubileumboek, a paper dealing with Cymatium ranzanii. Second letter (1976) dealing with various malacological subjects, and third letter (1976) on Dutch molluscs (M. praemorsa and Theodoxus fluviatilis).Two small letters from G. Spaink to Cor Karnekamp. Haarlem, Rijks Geologische Dienst (on the Dienst’s stationery), 1973. Two single leaves, A5, signed and dated, 4.X.1973 / 14.VI.1973. Written by the Dutch malacologist and palaeontologist Gerard Spaink (1928-2005). Dealing with various malacological subjects.Added are 3 letters from Bram Breure (1971-1974), 2 letters from Louis Butot (1976-1978), 1 letter from J. Drijver (with a copy of Karnekamp’s answer), and 5 other letters.
Bookseller reference : MG43691
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Andrussov, N.
Geology of Russia. The Pontian Stage.
1917 41 p., 2 figures, 2 plates, 1 map, paperbound (original printed covers). Library stamp on title-page, paper label on verso title-page. In Russian. Rare.Written by the Dean of Russian palaeomalacology, Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov (1861–1924), who was born and lived in Odesa. Deals with Pliocene brackish water bivalves (Cardiidae, etc.), including new species.
Bookseller reference : MM43692
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Boussac, J.
Essai sur l’évolution des cérithidés dans le Mésonummulitique du Bassin de Paris.
1912 (reprint 1978) 93 p., 15 plates (a few double-sized), paperbound.
Bookseller reference : MM43694
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Shuttleworth, R.J. [P. Fischer]
Notitiae Malacologicae oder Beiträge zur Näheren Kenntnis der Mollusken. II. Heft, enthaltend: I. Monographische Versuche: Paryphanta, Retinella, Mesomphix, Macrocyclis, Patera, Columna, Streptostyla, Rhynchocheila und Trochatella. (Explication des planches inédites de Shuttleworth par le Dr. P. Fischer).
1878 16 p., 15 lithographed plates of which 14 with fine, original hand-colouring, later black cloth with original printed front cover laid on. Small stamp of Cor Karnekamp in the top margin of the front free endpaper. One plate with the lower (blank) margin a bit toned, otherwise a spotless copy.Beautifully illustrated.
Bookseller reference : ML43695
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Dautzenberg, Ph. & L. Germain
Récoltes Malacologiques du Docteur J. Bequaert dans le Congo Belge.
1914 73 p., 4 phototype plates, paperbound (original printed covers).Seldom-seen offprint from the Revue Zoologique Africaine, Vol. 4. Old inscriptions and stamps (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and personal library of the zoologist [Jean] Abel Gruvel [1870-1941]) on front cover and first text leaf.
Bookseller reference : ML43696
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Sowerby, G.B.
Thesaurus Conchyliorum or Monographs of Genera of Shells. Monograph of the genus Cancellaria. With an update of G. B. Sowerby's Monograph of the Cancellaria by A. Verhecken.
1849 (reprint 1985) 25, 11 p., 5 full-colour plates loosely inserted in rear pocket, printed wrappers. A very good, clean copy.Reprint of the 1849 edition.
Bookseller reference : MM43697
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Schileyko, A.A.
Fauna USSR. Terrestrial molluscs of the superfamily Helicoidea.
1978 384 p., 467 (groups of) text figures, 21 photographic plates, publisher's black, embossed cloth. White title on spine and front board. In Russian. A very good, clean copy.A very well-illustrated monograph, containing quite a number of new taxa (on all levels) and reclassifications. This part on Helicoidea – almost exclusively – contains the families Helicodontidae, Bradybaenidae, Hygromiidae, and Helicidae; as well as Polygyroidea.
Bookseller reference : ML43698
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Popova, S.M.
Cenozoic Continental Malacofauna of Southern Siberia and Adjacent Territories.
1981 188 p., 40 plates, paperbound. In Russian. An excellent copy, as new. Scarce.A seldom-seen, well-illustrated work treating continental and brackish water gastropods and bivalves from Siberia.
Bookseller reference : ML43699
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Steklov, A.A.
Terrestrial Neogene Molluscs of Ciscaucasia and their Stratigraphic Importance.
1966 261 p., 91 text illustrations, 14 plates, quarter cloth over pictorial boards. Printed title on the spine. In Russian. Plastified and with the Ex libris (bookplate) of Cor Karnekamp in the top margin of the front pastedown. A good, clean copy.An very important work, with many new, well-illustrated species.
Bookseller reference : ML43700
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Butot, L.J.M. & F.W. Welter-Schultes
Bibliography of the mollusc fauna of Greece, 1758-1994.
1994 160 p., paperbound. Published in: Schriften zur Malakozoologie, Heft 7. A very good copy.
Bookseller reference : MG43701
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Notiziario C.I.S.MA.
Notiziario C.I.S.MA. Centro Italiano Studi Malacologici. Anno I(1)-XIV.
1980-1992(=1993) In issues. Missing Anno III. Ex library J.J. van Aartsen (with his annotations). Includes three original photographs of figures published in the Notiziario.Mainly on Mediterranean marine molluscs.
Bookseller reference : MJ43702
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Malacologia Mostre Mondiale
Malacologia - Mostra Mondiale - Cupra Marittima.
1989-2009 Nos 2-3, 6-8, 12-17, 27-29, 62 & 65. Together 16 issues.
Bookseller reference : MJ43703
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Frank, C.
Plio-pleistozäne und Holozäne Mollusken Österreichs. Teil 1-2.
2006 Two volumes (complete). 861 p., numerous text figures, 61 plates, 4to, paperbound.Well-illustrated and text illustrations include shells and distribution maps, plates show fossil land and freshwater shells.
Bookseller reference : ML43704
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Joubin, L.
Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, Prince Souverain de Monaco publiés sous sa direction avec le concours de M. Jules Richard Docteur ès-sciences, chargé des travaux zoologiques à bord. XVII. Céphalopodes provenant des campagnes de la Princesse-Alice (1891-1897).
1900 135 p., 15 chromolithographed or heliographic, tissue-guarded plates (many plates double-paged), small folio (28 x 36 cm), paperbound (original printed paper and transparent covers). As very often the thin transparent covers with some tears. Uncut. A few heliographic plates with some marginal foxing, but the chromolithographed plates clean.A magnificent work on octopus and squid by the French cephalopod specialist Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (1861-1935) with some spectacular illustrations. This includes the genus Grimalditeuthis, named for the Monacan royal family, and new species. The chromolithographed plates are quite beautiful.
Bookseller reference : MM43705
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Dautzenberg, Ph.
Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, Prince Souverain de Monaco. Fascicule LXXII. Mollusques provenant des campagnes scientifiques du Prince Albert de Monaco dans l’Océan Atlantique et dans le Golfe de Gascogne.
1927 401 p., 9 plates with explanatory text, small folio (28 x 36 cm), paperbound (original printed paper and transparent covers). As very often the thin transparent covers with damage (back only), else a good copy. Uncut.. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, Prince Souverain de Monaco. Fascicule LXXII.A massive work. Well-illustrated, and including several new species.
Bookseller reference : MM43706
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Kobelt, W. et al.
Festschrift zum Siebenzichste Geburtstag von Wilhelm Kobelt.
1910 [ii], 463 p., 28 mostly lithographed plates (11 coloured), frontispiece (= nice photographic portrait of Kobelt), large 4to, paperbound (original printed covers). Plastified. Small waterstain to right margin of plates 22-28 (becoming large in last two plates 27-28 and on back cover). Rare.A well-illustrated and varied Festschrift for one of Germany's most prominent malacologists, with contributions by Kobelt himself, and by Pallary, von Jhering [Ihering] (two papers), Haas, A. Wagner, Rolle, Schmalz, Geyer, Lindholm, Borcherding, Künkel, Hesse, Simroth, Thiele, Hoyle, Stein, Ehrmann, Jickeli, and Oscar Boettger. All papers deal with continental molluscs (land and fresh-water molluscs) only, except Hoyle's contribution which is on cephalopods, and Stein's (5 p.) which is non-malacological.
Bookseller reference : ML43707
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Kolesnikov, V.P.
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).
Bookseller reference : MM43708
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Kolesnikov, V.P.
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).
Bookseller reference : MM43709
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Germain, L.
Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles de Syrie. Tome premier. Introduction et Gastéropodes. Tome second. Pélécypodes.
1921-1922 Two volumes. 767 p. [523, 243]; 118 text figures, 23 plates (2 in chromolithography), folding map, uniform later black cloth with gilt lines and author/title on the spines. Original printed front covers bound in. A very good set.The complete molluscan part of the results of the Voyage Zoologique d'Henri Gadeau de Kerville en Syrie (avril-juin 1908). Includes several new species.
Bookseller reference : ML43710
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Wood, S.V.
A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca: with descriptions of shells from the upper Tertiaries of the British Isles.
1848-1856 (reprint ca. 1980) Three volumes (complete). 872 p. [208, 342, xxxi, 231, ii, 58]; 63 plates, uniform mottled leatherette (hardbounr) with gilt title on the spines. Originally published over a long period in the Society’s famous Monographs series. The good reprint in uniform artificial leather bindings. The work deals with rich and varied Pliocene-Pleistocene faunas. The later parts are based on more, new research and a re-evaluation of taxa included in the earlier parts. The part on bivalves contains an appendix with new information on additional gastropods.
Bookseller reference : MM43711
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Buschmeyer, H. (ed.)
70 Jahre Molluskenkunde (1869-1938).
1938 108 p., paperbound.A list of all papers published between 1869 and 1938 in Die Senckenberg-Zeitschriften für Mlluskenkunde by the Senkenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft.
Bookseller reference : MG43712
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Backhuys, W.
Zoogeography and Taxonomy of the Land and Freshwater Molluscs of the Azores.
1975 362 p., 32 plates, 97 distribution maps, paperbound. Thesis. Very good copy.Still the most important work on the land and freshwater molluscs of this isolated archipelago in the Eastern Atlantic. The clear descriptions and fine illustrations include many endemic species. This copy comes with the additional printed thesis description, with an identical size and cover (12, iii pp.), a loosely inserted printed list of “stellingen” (propositions), and a printed invitation card.
Bookseller reference : ML43714
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Cossmann, M.
Note sur un Gisement d’Age Charmouthien à Saint-Cyr-en-Talmondois (Vendée).
1908 21 p., 2 fine phototype plates with explanatory text leaves, new plain wrappers. Very good copy.On well-preserved Jurassic gastropods including new species. Published in the Société Géologique de Normandie. Bulletin 27.
Bookseller reference : MM43715
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