1860Best.-Nr. MM101401860 118 p., 11 lithographed pls, roy. 4to (24 x 31 cm), new hcloth. Plates with some slight foxing. Published in: Denkschriften Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Rare.Gustav Schwartz von Mohrenstern (1809-1890) wrote two works on molluscs, of which this is the most important.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich220,00 €

Sowerby, G.B.Livre Rare Book

Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of recent shells. Monographs of the Genera Petricola, Venerupis, Cyprina, and Astarte.

1854Best.-Nr. MM114061854 29 p., 5 beautifully handcoloured pls, loose in original printed wrappers (margins chipped). All plates accompanied by a separate page with the names of each depicted species written in a bold but elegant period handwriting.All parts of the Thesaurus Conchyliorum are quite rare and much sought after.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich225,00 €

Dall, W.H.Livre Rare Book

Reports on the results of dredging operations of the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", during 1891 / Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904, to March, 1905. The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda.

1908Best.-Nr. MM256961908 283 p., 22 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, including 3 (1 col.) large, folded maps, later half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title.The complete bivalve, gastropod and scaphopod section (and the brachiopods) of one of the most important zoological dredging operations along the tropical coasts of Central and South America. Massive numbers of, often spectacular, new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. Nearly all species are new. A very good clean copy. Scarce.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich240,00 €

Moazzo, P.G.Livre Rare Book

Mollusques Testacés marins du Canal de Suez.

1939Best.-Nr. MM251731939 287 p., 15 (1 col.) pls, 4 large folded maps, 4to (28.2 x 22.5 cm), paperbound. Mémoires de l'institut d'Égypte. With authors dedication: '' à Mr Max Desjardin souvenir amical Georges Moazzo''. Rare.The opening in 1869 of the Suez Canal had important zoogeographical implications because two faunas separated for millions of years became reconnected. This is the most important of the earliest studies of the fauna of th Suez Canal. A good thorough and well illustrated study of the mollusc fauna living in the canal at that time by the Greek malacologist Georgi Polychronis Moazzo (1893-1975).

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich240,00 €

LOCARD, ArnouldLivre Rare Book

Etudes sur les variations malacologiques d'après la faune vivante et fossile de la partie centrale du bassin du Rhône (Tome Premier et Second)

1880Best.-Nr. 1263781880 Lyon, Librairie Henri Georg / Paris, Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils - 1880 - Complet en 2 volumes in-8; reliure demi-chagrin; plats percalines; dos à 4 nerfs portant titre, auteur, fleurons et tomaison en doré; toutes tranches mouchetées - 5 planches hors-texte en N&B in fine du tome premier

Librairie Le Père Pénard · Lyon, Frankreich245,00 €

-MareMagnum

La conchiglia. The shell.

1969Roma, 1969/1998, n° 1/298, in-4to ril. in bal. blu (fino al 1994 compreso, poi fascicoli sciolti). La collezione completa della rivista con fascicoli in italiano, mancante solamente dei n. 22/48 (1971/1973). Uniti quattro "Annuari" (o "Yearbook") : 1995/1998. I coni del Senegal - Mediterranea - Volute (La collezione Doute) - Reunion)

Libreria Piani · Italien250,00 €

AMATIUS PaschalisMareMagnum

Marco Elephantutio comiti et ravennatium senatori amplissimo libellum de restitutione purpurarum. Tertio editum emendatum et auctum Paschalis Amatius sabinianensis jurisconsultus d.d.d.

1784In 4, pp. VIII + CXXXII. Inc. al f. raff. tre monete. Br. Saggio edito per la prima volta nel 1781 (Borroni, I/II 1736; Cicognara, 1557) dedicato alla fabbricazione della porpora ricavata presso gli antichi romani da alcuni molluschi.

Libreria Antiquaria Coenobium · Italien250,00 €

BURROW E.I. (Edward John) -MareMagnum

Elementi di Conchiologia Linneana. Illustrati da XXVIII tavole in rame.

1836Milano, Carlo Branca, 1836, 8° (cm. 14 x 21) brossura originale (minimi difetti al dorso), pp. XXXI-368 con 1 tabella ripiegata e 28 tavole incise in rame fuori testo. Un compendio di accurate descrizioni di univalve, bivalve e multivalve, secondo il sistema di classificazione di Linneo, corredato con un glossario di termini tecnici, un'ampia bibliografia e varie tavole, che chiariscono le differenze tra il sistema di Linneo e quello di Lamarck. Edizione originale. Agassiz, I, 500.

Libreria Piani · Italien250,00 €

Cossmann, M.Livre Rare Book

Contribution à l'étude de la faune de l'étage Bathonien en France. (Gastropodes).

1885Best.-Nr. PM256831885 374 p., 18 heliogravure plates (tissue-guarded), with explanatory leaves, 4to, paperbound with original printed covers. Société Géologique de France.A fine study of a well-preserved Mesozoic (mid-Jurassic) fauna, by the great French palaeo-malacologist Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann (1850-1924) - he never used his first two names. Includes numerous new species. The plates are drawn by the author, and are excellent - far better than those he made in his later years. Must be rather rare as we never had it before. Spine perished and covers chipped at edges. Contents, however, very good, clean.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich250,00 €

DA COSTA Emanuel Mendes -MareMagnum

Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae, or, The British Conchology; containing The description and other Particulars of Natural History of the Shells of Great Britain and Ireland.

1778London, 1778. In-4° tutta tela, pp. XII-254-VII + 17 tav. inc. rame f.t. Testo bilingue inglese/francese. Le, pp. 139/254-VII sono mancanti e fornite in fotocopia.

Libreria Piani · Italien250,00 €

DA COSTA Emanuel Mendes -MareMagnum

Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae, or, The British Conchology; containing The description and other Particulars of Natural History of the Shells of Great Britain and Ireland.

1778London, 1778. In-4to tutta tela, pp. XII-254-VII + 17 tav. inc. rame f.t. Testo bilingue inglese/francese. Le, pp. 139/254-VII sono mancanti e fornite in fotocopia.

Libreria Piani · Italien250,00 €

FANTUZZI Marco - AMATI Pasquale -MareMagnum

Libellum de restitutione purpurarum. Tertio editum, emendatum, et auctum Paschalis Amatius.

1784Cesena, typis Gregorii Blasinii, 1784, 4° legatura cartonata coeva, con bella incisione in rame al frontespizio (monete romane) pp. CXXXI, capolettera e finali xilografici. Qualche gora, e carta un pò brunita. Esemplare ad ampi margini.

Libreria Piani · Italien250,00 €

Kobelt, W.Livre Rare Book

Catalog der im europäischen Faunengebiet lebenden Binnenconchylien. Zweite, vollständig umgearbeite Auflage.

Best.-Nr. ML258261881 (2nd ed.). xvi, 295 p. Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, compartments rich gilt, with date and title. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. The first edition was published in 1871. This edition contains the author's view on the Eurasian zoogeographical provinces. It lists names, sources (of the original descriptions), and species' distributions, as well as several taxonomical notes. Title page with old French society stamp, small stamp of Herbert Ant and the written name and date of former owner Herbert Lutz. A very nice, bound copy. Rare.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich250,00 €

Lehmann, R.Livre Rare Book

Die lebenden Schnecken und Muscheln der Umgegend Stettins und in Pommern mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihres anatomischen Baues.

1873Best.-Nr. ML258421873 328 p., 22 lithographed plates of which the first five are hand-coloured. Contemporary half cloth over grey marbled boards.Rather rare illustrated descriptive mollusc catalogue reporting on 106 species from around Stettin and Pommern, now in Poland. Preface by Eduard von Martens. The coloured plates of slugs are by Louise Von Martens. Uncoloured copies are more common. Joints weak, a few stamps to the title page, one on a few, scattered text pages and on the verso of the plates.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich250,00 €

Toula, F. / J. Von PiaLivre Rare Book

Die Acanthicus-Schichten im Randgebirge der Wiener Bucht bei Geisshübl (Mödling WNW) / Untersuchungen über die Gattung Oxynoticeras und einige damit zusammenhängende allgemeine Fragen.

Best.-Nr. PM260071907 / 1914 120, 179 p., 5 figs, 19, 13 plates, red cloth. Gilt title on spine. Published in the Anstalt's Abhandlungen. Title page fore edge with a small, repaired tear; small piece of the top corner of the front board missing, upper end spine with some wear, and a repaired tear in the spine cover. Otherwise a very good, internally clean, copy.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich250,00 €

TRYON George W. - PILSBRY Henry A. -MareMagnum

Manual of conchology, structural and systematic with illustrations of the species. Stomatellidae, Scissurellidae, Pleurotomariidae, Haliotidae, Scutellinidae, Addisoniidae, Cocculinidae, Fissurellidae. Vol. XII.

1890Philadelphia, 1890, 8vo tutta tela, titolo al dorso, pp. 519 con 67 tav. lit.

Libreria Piani · Italien250,00 €

Gras, A.Livre Rare Book

Description des mollusques fluviatiles et terrestres de la France et plus particulièrement du département de l'Isère, précédée de notions élémentaires sur la conchyliologie.

1846Best.-Nr. ML435671846 82, [1], 27 p., 6 lithographed plates, 16mo (20.0 x 12.5 cm), modern green half linen over plain green boards. Author/title in gilt on spine. From the library of American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) with his stamp on the top margin of the front board and half-title. Some slight cattered foxing throughout, otherwise a very good, unique copy.One of several mid to late19th century regional catalogues of non-marine molluscs. Almost every French département had its own keen malacologist tackling the local malacofauna. This one, by Claude Joseph Albin Gras (1808-1856) deals with the malacofauna of the Alpine department of Isère, in south-eastern France. With a handwritten 8-page index combining both the main work and the supplement, and including plate references and a tally of all the figured and unfigured species. This index a bit shaved at the fore edge, with some loss.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich260,00 €

Institute of MalacologyBiblio.com

Malacologia. vols. 6-7 10 1967/68-1970

1967Best.-Nr. ZB252087Institute of Malacology 1967. volumes 6-7 101967/68-1970 mostly original paper wrappers ex library good price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Institute of Malacology unknown

Zubal Books · Vereinigte Staaten296,87 $≈ 264,71 €

Pilsbry, H.A.Livre Rare Book

Manual of conchology. Structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 24. [Pupillidae, Gastrocoptinae].

1916Best.-Nr. ML259161916-1918 380 p., 40 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.Part of the last attempt to describe, in a single series, all the known Recent molluscs. Henry Pilsbry who took over from the founder of the series, George Tryon, nearly managed to do so for the land pulmonates. This part, being issues 93-96 of the series, contains the Pupillidae and in particular the notoriously diverse and conchologically difficult genus Gastrocopta and related genera including Hypselostoma and Abida (Gastrocoptinae). In four parts. Uncut, unopened. A very good clean set. Scarce.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich275,00 €

Bourguignat, J.-R.Livre Rare Book

Histoire malacologie de l’Abyssinie.

1883Best.-Nr. ML434721883 162 p., 4 lithographed plates, 2 double-paged maps (1 coloured), new blind cloth. Ex library Dr. Hartwig Schütt (with his stamp). Rare.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich280,00 €

Bourguignat, J.-R.Livre Rare Book

Malacologie terrestre et fluviatile de la Bretagne.

1860Best.-Nr. ML434731860 178, [1] p., 2 lithographed plates, new blue cloth, author/title in gilt on spine (original printed covers bound in). With author’s dedication to Paul Fischer. Ex library Dwight W. Taylor (with his stamp). Rare (only 100 copies were printed).

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich280,00 €

Septenville, P. deLivre Rare Book

A beautiful watercolour painting of Ranella olearium.

1903Best.-Nr. MM435321903 On a sheet measuring 9.7 x 14.2 cm, handwritten caption reads: Paul de Septenville fecit 2 Dec. 1903. Paul de Septenville (1836-1912) was a French malacologist and shell collector.

Hermann L. Strack · Loguivy Plougras, Frankreich285,00 €

BOSC L.-A.-G.-Livre Rare Book

Histoire naturelle des Coquilles, contenant leur description, les murs des animaux qui les habitent, et leurs usages; Avec Figures dessinées d'après nature.-

Best.-Nr. ORD-20050Paris. Roret. 1830. Seule édition complète des Suites à Buffon. 5 volumes in-18 (95 x 153 mm), dos lisses veau caramel joliment ornés de fleurons et de frises dorés, plats ocellés, gardes bleues. Tome I: 2ff., CXXXVI, 336 pages. Tome II: 2ff., 326pp et 1 tableau replié. Tome III: 2ff., 28.7pp. Tome IV: 2ff., 263pp. Tome V: 2ff., 228pp., 1f. (avis au relieur) et 35pp. catalogue de l'éditeur. 44 planches h.-t. en noir et blanc. Plats du tome I et dos du tome V lgt frottés. Rousseurs éparses mais assez bel exemplaire dans une élégante reliure d'époque.

Librairie Les Vieux Ordinaires · Toulon, Frankreich300,00 €

BOSC L.-A.-G.-Livre Rare Book

Histoire naturelle des Coquilles, contenant leur description, les murs des animaux qui les habitent, et leurs usages; Avec Figures dessinées d'après nature.-

Best.-Nr. ORD-20072Paris. Roret. 1830. Seule édition complète des Suites à Buffon. 5 volumes in-18 (95 x 153 mm), dos lisses veau caramel joliment ornés de fleurons et de frises dorés, plats ocellés, gardes bleues. Tome I: 2ff., CXXXVI, 336 pages. Tome II: 2ff., 326pp et 1 tableau replié. Tome III: 2ff., 28.7pp. Tome IV: 2ff., 263pp. Tome V: 2ff., 228pp., 1f. (avis au relieur) et 35pp. catalogue de l'éditeur. 44 planches h.-t. en noir et blanc. Plats du tome I et dos du tome V lgt frottés. Rousseurs éparses mais assez bel exemplaire dans une élégante reliure d'époque.

Librairie Les Vieux Ordinaires · Toulon, Frankreich300,00 €

BURROW A. M.MareMagnum

Elementi di conchiologia linneiana illustrati da XXVIII tavole in rame del Signor E. I. Burrow A. M. membro della soc. linn., della soc. Reale e della soc. geologica di Londra. Opera volgarizzata sulla seconda edizione inglese dal nobile signor Marchese Francesco Baldassini da Pesaro coll'aggiunta di copiose ed erudite note. Ed. diligentemente accurata dal Prof. Claro Giuseppe Malacarne

1836In 8. Pp. XXXI + 368 con 28 tavv. f. t. di cui 18 con coloritura all'acquarello coeva e 2 tavv. sinottiche f. t. piu' volte rip. M. tl. coeva con scritte e fregi in oro al d. Buon esemplare con lievi bruniture sparse. Ed. originale in lingua italiana. Non comune trattato di conchiologia che si conclude con un' ampia bibliografia (30 pagine) intitolata : Catalogo degli scrittori di conchiologia.

Libreria Antiquaria Coenobium · Italien300,00 €