Adanson, M.

Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53.

Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1757. 4to (24.9 x 19.0 cm). Title page with woodcut vignette, half-title to "Mollusques"; 567 pp. ([vi], 190, xcvi, 275); engraved folding map of Senegal and 19 folded, engraved plates. 19th-century half calf over mottled boards. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red. The chief zoological work by the French botanist, naturalist, and malacologist Michel Adanson (1727-1806), and the first scientific work on the tropical West African, and in particular Senegalese fauna. The greater part of the text deals with conchology, and all the plates show shells. Adanson's names, although published one year before Linnaeus's Systema Naturae (10th edition), and in French vernacular, were often validated verbatim in official nomenclature. Adanson's collection remained largely intact, and preserved in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The malacologist S. Peter Dance calls this work - the first work valuing anatomy and opercula in classification - of supreme importance to the develoment of conchology, and noted "Although he had intended to publish a monumental treatise on the country's fauna and flora only one volume of his Histoire naturel du Sénégal appeared but, fortunately for us, this was devoted entirely to the study of its molluscan fauna". Boards rubbed, spine partly perished, closed tear in the map's margin; otherwise however, very good - the book block intact and the text and plates clean except for some scattered, minimal, marginal foxing. Dance, A History of Shell Collecting, p. 44; Nissen ZBI, 27.

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Book number: 77594

Admiraal, K. [AND Hugo de Vries]

De kankerziekte der boomen. Met een voorwoord van Prof. Hugo de Vries. Verhandeling, bekroond door de Nederlandsche Maatschappij voor Tuinbouw en Plantkunde. Met 5 platen.

Amsterdam, M. M. Olivier, 1889. 8vo (23.7 x 25.3 cm). xii, 103 pp.; five lithographed plates (of which four in colour lithography, including one very large, folded) with explanatory text leaves. Slightly later blind pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. A seldom-seen, if not rare, publication on cancerous diseases in trees, with an emphasis on cultivated (fruit) trees in the Netherlands. The preface is by one of the foremost Dutch scientists, the botanist and evolutionist Hugo de Vries (1848-1935), rediscoverer of Mendel's laws. The work itself was written by a Dutch horticulturist. Old owner's inscription of A. van den Have in the top margin of the title page, next to an old cancellation stamp; a few more stamps and labels on the front free endpaper recto. Some scattered light foxing, binding a bit weak, otherwise a very good, clean copy. OCLC reports only seven copies - five in the Netherlands and two in the USA. Not recorded in any major bibliography.

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Book number: 74474

Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt

De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. [Complete, in four volumes].

Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1,636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (two showing adjacent regions). Original uniform quarter cloth over printed boards. Rare first, original edition of the Toradjas of Mid-Celebes (Sulawesi, Indonesia). A classic anthropological monograph by two Dutch anthropologists and geographers. Includes fine, full-colour illustrations of tools and jewellery. With two giant maps of the region (Central Sulawesi) in scale 1: 100,000, one smaller folded map of an adjacent region, and a third, medium-sized map of the whole of Sulawesi in 1: 250,000. A second, revised, and inferior edition was published in 1951. Tiny pictorial bookplate of a Dutch professor on the front pastedown of third text volume; boards a bit rubbed, text volume hinges weak due to the heavy book blocks. In all a very good set.

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Book number: 15672

Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt

De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. Tweede, geheel omgewerkte druk. [Complete, in five volumes].

Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1950-1951. In five volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.0 x 18.0 cm). [AND] Deel platen; octavo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). total of 1558 pp. [xii, 478; viii, 557; viii, 484; 11]. [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.2 x 27.0 cm); 159 photographs in "Deel platen"; 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and two coloured folding maps. Original uniform printed wrappers (text and platen volumes); atlas in original printed portfolio with linen spine. Uncommon complete set of the second, revised edition (first: 1912-1914) edition, by A. C. Kruyt, of a classic anthropological monograph of the Toradjas of Mid-Celebes (Sulawesi, Indonesia) by two Dutch anthropologists and geographers. The portfolio atlas includes 13 fine, large, full-colour plates of tools and jewellery, and two very large maps. Some pencilled anotations; two text volumes a bit chipped at spine tops, otherwise good, no library markings. In all a very good set.

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Book number: 75785

Agardh, C. A.

Essai sur le developement intérieur des plantes.

Lund, Gleerup, 1829. Small 8vo (16.3 x 10.0 cm). Title page, [ii], 90 pp. Original marbled wrappers. A very rarely seen essay by the great botanist, phycologist, mathematician (!) and theologist Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859). In this work, Agardh enumerates and describes several parts of which a plant is made - in particular the plant stem - and - based upon this he formulates new theories upon their functions, comparing previous ideas formulated by Grew, Duhamel, Malpighi, and others. From Grew he took the following quote, placed as motto on the title page verso: "How far I have gone? I neither judge myself, nor leave to anyone else to do it, because no man knows, how far we have yet to go, or are capable of going" (Grew, prefacae to Anatomy of plants, published in 1672). Uncut, unmarked. A very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH), p.15. Not in Stafleu and Cowan.

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Book number: 41715

Agardh, C. A.

Essai de réduire la physiologie végétale à des principes fondamentaux.

Lund, Gleerup, 1828. Small 8vo (16.3 x 10.0 cm). Title page, [ii], 56 pp. Original marbled wrappers. A very rarely seen essay by the great botanist, phycologist, mathematician (!) and theologist Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859). In this work, Agardh explores a reductionist approach to plant sciences, larded with many examples. Uncut, unmarked. A very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH), p.15. Not in Stafleu and Cowan, but see Krok, Bibliotheca Botanica Suecana.

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Book number: 41716

Agardh, J.

Theoria systematis plantarum accedit familiarum Phanerogamanum in series naturales dispositio,

secundum structurae normas et evolutionis gradus instituta in 2 vols. Lund, Gleerop, 1858. 500p., 2 ll. and 28 engravings with 28 ll. of explanatory text. Original wrs. and containing boards. - uncut. Stafleu and Cowan, 55.

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Book number: 41856

Agassiz, A.

Calamocrinus Diomedae, a new stalked Crinoid, with notes on the apical system and the homologies of echinoderms.

Cambridge, Reports on an exploration of the West Coast of Mexico, Central and South America... by A. Agassiz on the steamer "Albatross", pt. 1, 1892. 4to. 95p., 32 lithographs, photographs or just plates (one being coloured). No wrs. - untrimmed. - This is the rare first part within the Memoirs of the Museum of Comp. Zoology at Harvard University. Most plates foxed at edges.

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Book number: 27871

Agassiz, A.

A contribution to American thalassography: Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer Blake, in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880.

Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (25.2 x 16.7 cm). 434 pp.[xxii, 314; 220]; over 550 fine - often large - text illustrations; one folded map. Original blue linen with gilt title on the spines. Top edges gilt. A well-told and profusely illustrated narrative about one of the major American marine dredging cruises of all time. The set of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020). Map in rear pocket present. A few leaves uncut. Some wear to spine ends, and remnant of library numbering on the spine foot of both volumes; inner rear joint of second volume partly split, otherwise a very good, clean and unmarked set.

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Book number: 75402

Agassiz, A. and T. Lyman and L. F.de Pourtalès [AND] Agassiz, L.

Contributions to the fauna of the Gulf Stream at great depths. (3d series, 1869). Echinoderms by Alexander Agassiz, Theodore Lyman, and L. F. de Pourtales [AND] General Report by Louis Agassiz.

Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1869. 8vo (23.9 x 15.0 cm). 134 pp. Original printed wrappers. Important series of monographs preceding later and more extensive reports on the species collected by various dredging operations under the supervision of Agassiz. The present works includes many new species and genera, and comments upon many described previously. Published on behalf of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, in their Bulletin series, numbers 9-13. As follows. 9. "Preliminary report on the echini and star-fishes dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales", prepared by Alexander Agassiz (Agassiz described the new taxa); 10. "Preliminary report on the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales", prepared by Theodore Lyman, 11. "List of the crinoids obtained on the coasts of Florida and Cuba, by the United States Coast Survey Gul Stream Expeditions, in 1867, 1868, 1869" by L. F. de Pourtales. 12. "List of Holothuridae from deep-sea dredgings of the United States Coastal Survey" by L. F. de Pourtales. And 13. "Report upon the deep-sea dredgings in the Gulf Stream during the third cruise of the U.S. Steamer Bibb, addressed to Professor Benjamin Peirce, superintendent U. S. Coast Survey" by Louis Agassiz. Old label on front wrapper, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Very uncommon.

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Book number: 63986

Agassiz, A.

The coral reefs of the tropical Pacific. Parts I-IV. [Complete].

Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1903. Four parts in four. 4to (29.0 x 20.1 cm). xxxiii, 410 pp.; two folded diagrams, 238 plates and maps (many folded; two in full colour). Original uniform printed wrappers. This forms the most important part of the huge "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 June, 1900, commander Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N. commanding", edited by Alexander Agassiz. This is the complete Part IV, written by Agassiz. it contains detailed maps of many islands and archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean, and a great number of photographic views of islands and reefs. The last two plates are beautiful chromolithographs of the "ideal coral-reef-island", exemplified by Bora-Bora and Pinaki, and drawn by H. Emerton from sketches by Agassiz and Mayer. Published in the Museum's Memoirs. Next to Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz became a great authority on the formation of atolls. However, they differed about the origin and genesis of atolls. Finally, Darwin was proven to be right. Nevertheless, this detailed study helped much in understanding the nature of coral reefs and their distribution. Uncut. Two front wrappers and one rear wrapper lacking (these where made of a rather poor grade of paper), one title page edge repaired, spine covers chipped, otherwise (internally) a very good, clean set. Cat. BM(NH) Suppl. p. 7.

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Book number: 30005

Agassiz, A.

The coral reefs of the tropical Pacific. Parts I-IV. [Complete].

Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1903. Four parts in four. 4to (27.6 x 19.2 cm). xxxiii, 410 pp.; two folded diagrams, 238 plates and maps (many folded; two in full colour). Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spines. This forms the most important part of the huge "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 June, 1900, commander Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N. commanding", edited by Alexander Agassiz. This is the complete Part IV, written by Agassiz. it contains detailed maps of many islands and archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean, and a great number of photographic views of islands and reefs. The last two plates are beautiful chromolithographs of the "ideal coral-reef-island", exemplified by Bora-Bora and Pinaki, and drawn by H. Emerton from sketches by Agassiz and Mayer. Published in the Museum's Memoirs. Next to Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz became a great authority on the formation of atolls. However, they differed about the origin and genesis of atolls. Finally, Darwin was proven to be right. Nevertheless, this detailed study helped much in understanding the nature of coral reefs and their distribution. Bookplate on front paste-downs. Boards rubbed, bindings shakey, volume III with spine ends chipped. Contents very good. A good, complete set. Cat. BM(NH) Suppl. p. 7.

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Book number: 44631

Agassiz, L.

Iconographie des coquilles Tertiaires, réputées identiques avec les espèces vivantes ou dans différens terrains de l'époque Tertiaire, accompagnée de la description des espèces nouvelles.

Neuchatel, Henri Wolfrath (for the Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles), 1845. Large 4to (32.4 x 25.0 cm). 64 pp.; 15 lithographed plates (numbered 1-14, A). Later quarter cloth over plain blue boards. Spine with paper label with printed title. Original printed wrappers bound in. An important paper on bivalve systematics, with fine illustrations of new and poorly known species, by the Swiss-American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe "Louis" Agassiz (1807-1873). Published in the Society's Nouveaux Mémoires, Volume VII, before Agassiz left for America. Offprint with new pagination. Pictorial, allegorical bookplate of the Academiae Harvardianae Sigillum, "From the Donation Fund of MDCCCXLII" on the front pastedown, and in the top margin of the front free endpaper and title page the stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020). Uncut. Spine top a bit abraded; otherwise very good, clean, no foxing or toning. A very good copy indeed. Caprotti II 6 [170]; Nissen ZBI, 40.

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Book number: 75382

Agassiz, G. R. (ed.)

Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz, with a sketch of his life and work.

Boston, MA, and New York, NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 8vo, 461 pp., one portret as frontispiece (tissue guarded), two folded maps in pockets of the expeditions of Alexander Agassiz and 14 plates. Original cloth with gilt title and Agassiz' autograph on front board. Top edge gilt. A very good biography with much attention to his scientific researches and expeditions, edited by his son. Topics include his work on Echinodermata, and his theory on the origin of atolls and other coral reefs, with is his correspondence with Charles Darwin. Spine ends a bit rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down, otherwise a very good copy.

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Book number: 59370

Agassiz, L. et al.

Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel. Tome I. Avec planches.

Neuchatel, Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchatel [Petitpierre et Prince], 1853. Large 4to. 199, 40 pp.; 18 fine lithographed and engraved plates of which ten hand-coloured; severaltables incuding one larger, double-folded. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards; front board with printed title mounted. Rare first volume of this Swiss natural history journal. The society itself was founded in 1832 by Louis Agassiz and five other naturalists. Agassiz contributed to this volume with several papers, including his Description de quelques espèces de cyprins du Lac de Neuchatel, qui sont encore inconnues aux Naturalistes (with two plates), and Notice sur les fossiles du terrain crétacé du Jura Neuchatelois with one lithographed plates of new fossil echinoderms, as well as his Prodrome d'une monographie des radiaires ou echinodermes. And three hand-coloured engraved maps on Lyell's Figures relations au mémoire de Mons. Lyell sur le soulevement de la Suède. Other papers include Coulon's Description de quelques animaux nouveaux ou peu connus qui se trouvent au Musée de Neuchatel, with six nicely hand-coloured engraved plates of squirrels, and one "perruche". And a translation of a work by Lyell includes one fine plate with fossils. Fore edge uncut. Some light spotting, mostly on the half-title, plates clean; private owner's stamp of the Swiss geologist [César] Eugène Wegmann (1896-1982) on the title page, otherwise unmarked. A very good copy. Cat. BM(NH) p. 1413; Dean I, p. 7 [for Agassiz's cyprins].

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Book number: 25379