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Leobener Grüne Hefte. Heft 47-49, 56-57, 60, 64, 73, 75-77, 94-96, 98-102, 104-106, 108, 110, 117, 121, 123, 125-126, 131-140, 140a, 141, 143, 145, 147-149, 151-156, 159, 162, 164-169 [1961-1977].

Kirnbauer, F. (ed.) · 1961

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.56 | ¥105,571)

Wien, Montan, 1961. 60 parts in 61. 8vo (20.5 x 14.7 cm). Thousands of pages, numerous illustrations including full-sized plates of which some in full colour. Publishers printed wrappers. = “Franz Kirnbauer (1900-1978) was a practical miner and until his death an indefatigable...

Les Roches sédimentaires de France: Roches siliceuses.

Cayeux, L. · 1929

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1929. 4to (32.2 x 24.6 cm). viii, 774 pp.; 30 fine heliogravure plates by L. Massard. No wrappers. = Published in the series, Mémoires pour servir à l'Explication de la Carte géologique détaillée de la France. A massive, beautifully illustrated wor...

Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes fondée principalement sur les collections du Musée zologique de l'Académie impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Hydraires (Hydroidea). Volumes I-II. [Complete].

Linko, A. K. [and N. V. Kudelin] · 1911

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

St.-Pétersbourg, Académie impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 1911-1914. Two volumes in three. 8vo (25.1 x 16.8 cm). Two title pages (French and Russian) each; 878 pp. (I [1911]: xlviii, 251; II[1] [1912]: [i]138, [i], II[2] [1914]139-526, [i]); 214 text figures [44; 20...

Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames.

Phillips, J. · 1871

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1871. 8vo (23.0 x 15.5 cm). xxiv, 523 pp. and 8 pp. of Clarendon Press works; 17 lithographed plates of which two hand-coloured geological maps and two hand-coloured geological profiles. Original blind-tooled cloth. Spine with gilt title and vignette. ...

Late Palaeozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region. The siliceous sponges.

Finks, R. M. · 1960

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, 1960. Large 8vo (26.9 x 19.6 cm). 160 pp.; 49 plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = The ultimate monograph on these early Porifera. Well-illustrated, and describing mostly new and poorly known specie...

Fossiles néogènes et quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides (Missions E. Aubert de la Rüe, 1934-1936).

Abrard, R. · 1947

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, Masson, 1947. 4to (28.3 x 22.9 cm). 113 pp.; five phototype plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = Rare contribution to the Miocene-Pleistocene Mollusca of the New Hebrides, situated between New Caledonia and Fiji. The faunas are well-preserve...

Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième, 2e partie: Poissons. Catalogue des principales espèces de poissons rapportées de l'Amérique méridionale.

Valenciennes, A. and A. D. d'Orbigny · 1847

€1,200.00 ($1,322.64 | £1,001.13 | ¥211,141)

Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Folio (33.8 x 25.0 cm). 11 pp.; 16 lithographed plates (numbered 1-16) in fine, original hand-colouring. Later quarter linen over printed boards. = A very important and rare monograph on the natural history of South America, b...

Étude du tithonique, du crétacé et du tertiaire du Vicentin. Précédée d'une série de notes sur les terrains tertiaires du Vicentin.

Munier-Chalmas, [C. P. E.] · 1891

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, Savy, 1891. 8vo (24.4 x 16.0 cm). xxviii, 185 pp.; 35 text engravings. Later quarter cloth over marbled boards. Spine with black label with gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in. = Written by the French palaeontologist and malacologist Charles Philippe Ernest M...

Exploration du Parc National Albert. Mission J. Lebrun (1937-1938). Fascicule 10. Cyanophycées.

Duvigneaud, P. and J. J. Symoens · 1948

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,317)

Bruxelles, Institut des Parcs nationaux du Congo Belge, 1948. 8vo (27.3 x 18.1 cm). 35 pp.; three plates. Printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen part of this series. Includes many new species. Uncut. Wrappers a bit chipped at fore edge, otherwise very good, clean and unmarked.

Les minéraux du gîte uranifère du Katanga.

Schoep, A. · 1932

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Tervueren, Musée du Congo Belge, 1932. 4to (36.5 x 28.5 cm). Half title, title page, 32 pp.; several engraved text figures. Two printed errata leaves. Loose leaved in original printed paper portfolio. = A seldom-seen work on the rich Uranium fields of Katanga, which later beca...

British Museum (Natural History). Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29. Scientific Reports. Volume I. Preliminary account of the expedition and physiological researches ("The Leader's Party").

Yonge, C. M. et al. · 1930

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

London, The British Museum (Natural History), 1930-1940. 13 parts in one. 4to (30.3 x 23.1 cm). 391 pp.; 100 text figures, 32 plates. Contemporary blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. = The complete first volume (of six). Definitely one of the rarest volumes of this seri...

British Museum (Natural History). Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29. Scientific Reports. Volume IV.

Various authors · 1931

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

London, The British Museum (Natural History), 1931-1934. Fifteen parts in one. 4to (30.3 x 23.1 cm). 664 pp.; 243 text figures, 26 plates. Contemporary blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. = The complete fourth volume (of six). This volume entirely dealing with invertebr...

Études de systématique et de géographie botaniques sur la flore du Bas- et du Moyen-Congo. Tome III.

Wildeman, É. [A. J.] De · 1909

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Bruxelles, Museum du Congo, 1909-1912. Three parts in three. Large 4to (37.0 x 27.5 cm). [iv], [iv], vii, 533 pp.; 68 plates. Uniform original, printed portfolios. = A massive work, published over a rather long period in the series, Annales du Musée du Congo publiées par ordr...

Reise der oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Geologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Erste Abtheilung, geologische Beobachtungen. [AND] Zweite Abtheilung, paläontologische Mittheilungen.

Hochstetter, [C. G.] F. [Ritter] von · 1866

€360.00 ($396.79 | £300.34 | ¥63,342)

Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1866. 4to (29.4 x 22.6 cm). Title page, half-titles, iii-xvi, 268 pp.; three maps and views, of which one larger, folded, and two in chromolithography; seven lithographed plates showing fossil corals and foraminifers, several fine text illustrations...

A handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Volume II.

Hsiao, T. Y. et al. · 1981

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Beijing, Science Press, 1981. 8vo (26.0 x 18.7 cm). iv, 654 pp.; 1724 text illustrations, 85 plates with another 841 individual illustrations. Publisher's green, printed wrappers. = A massive, well-illustrated and taxonomically important monograph. Co-authored by specialists ...

A handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Volume I.

Hsiao, T. Y. et al. · 1977

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Beijing, Science Press, 1977. 8vo (26.0 x 18.7 cm). [i], iii, 330 pp.; 1399 text illustrations, 52 plates with another 680 individual illustrations. Publisher's green printed wrappers. = A massive, well-illustrated and taxonomically important monograph. Co-authored by speciali...

Vingt deux années d'exploration dans le Nord de la Chine, en Manchourie, en Mongolie et au Bas-Tibet. (1914-1935).

Licent, É. · 1936

€750.00 ($826.65 | £625.71 | ¥131,963)

Tientsin [Tianjin], Musée Hoang ho Pai ho, [1936]. Folio (30.9 x 23.0 cm). 42 pp.; numerous illustrations; one very large, double-folded map in two colours showing the itineraries of Licent's expeditions. Original pictorial wrappers. = The author's copy. Written by the French ...

Études sur la faune mammalogique du Congo. Tome II, fascicule I. Le sanglier noir de l'Ituri "Hylochoerus ituriensis".

Matschie, P. · 1906

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Bruxelles, Spineux [for the État Independeant du Congo, Musée du Congo, Tervueren], 1906. Folio (37.1 x 28.0 cm). 22 pp.; six large text illustrations, five plates [three in phototype, two chromolithographed]. Original printed portfolio. = A seldom seen contribution to the mam...

L'ittiofauna del "Tripoli" del Miocene superiore de Bessima (Enna).

Leonardi, A. · 1959

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Pisa, Giuseppe Stefanini, 1959. Large 4to (31.8 x 24.3 cm). 59 pp.; six plates, 4 text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen work on Miocene fish from Italy. The state of preservation is fairly good. Published in the series, Palaeontographia Italica, but th...

Les types de poissons fossiles du Monte-Bolca au Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris.

Eastman, C. R. · 1905

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1905. Large 4to (32.5 x 25.0 cm). 33 pp.; five plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = A rarely seen work on the superbly preserved Eocene fish from the famous site at Monte-Bolca in Italy. The illustrations are ex...