Amaral, A. Do

Notas de ophiologia.

São Paolo, Museu Paulista, 1926. 8vo (23.0 x 15.7 cm). 41 pp (1-40, 40bis). Original printed wrappers. Rare paper on snakes, with a supplemental page with corrections. This is a first series of four numbered "notas", mainly on taxonomy and nomenclature. Edges a bit frayed, otherwise very good. Adler I, pp. 88-89; Vanzolini II, p. 54.

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Book number: 70266

Amaudrut, A.

La partie antérieure du tube digestif et la torsion chez les mollusques gastéropodes.

Paris, Masson, 1898. 8vo (25.2 x 16.1 cm). 291 pp., 55 text figures, ten fine lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. Torsion is one of the most peculiar aspects of gastropod and cephalopod ontogeny and phylogeny. This is an early, detailed thesis on this subject. Very well illustrated. This is the author's thesis. Wrappers spotted and with a small chip at the lower margin. Internally a few light spots but mostly clean and unmarked. A very good copy. Rare.

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Book number: 28297

Ameghino, F.

Contribucion al conocimiento de los mamiferos fósiles de la República Argentina.

Buenos Aires, Pablo E. Coni é Hijos (Jacobo Peuser, ed.), 1889. In two volumes (text and atlas). 4to and folio (35.2 x 25.4 cm). Text volume: xxxii, 1,027 pp.; Atlas: xi pp,; 98 lithographed plates, with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary uniform quarter calf over blindstamped burgundy boards. Spines with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. A rare, massive work by the famous Argentine palaeontologist and vertebrate zoologist Florentino Ameghino (1853-1911). "From 1887 until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino (1865-1936) who, between 1887 and 1902, made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and collected numerous fossil faunas and made important stratigraphic observations" (Wikipedia). The present work summarizes all that was written on South American fossil mammals, including works by De Blainville, Burmeister, Charles Darwin, Alcide d'Orbigny, etc., with many additions - including new species - and corrections by Ameghino. Published in the Actas de la Academia Nacinal de Ciencias en Córdoba, as the complete volume VI. Inscribed in pencil on the title page by J. W. Romero (dated Junio 1890), and on the first blank recto by the Australian palaeontologist and malacologist Jeffrey Darl Stilwell, with acquisition date. Boards of the atlas volume with some abrasion and superficial worming, especially of the rear board corners, internally a few worm holes restricted to the lower margin and lower inner gutter of the endpapers and the first and last two plates; tear in first blank of the atlas volume. Some spotting, mainly to the first and last few leaves and generally quite clean. All all a very good set. Cat. BM(NH) Supplement p. 18; Nissen ZBI, 6527. Not in Wood.

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Book number: 76019

American Philosophical Society

Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art

in the possession of The American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1961. 173 pp including plates and figures. First edition hardcover, some wear to dust jacket. Good condition and an important catalogue.

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Book number: 41909

Amiet, J. L.

Recherches sur le peuplement entomologique de l'étage montagnard guinéo-équatorial du Mont Nimba (Guinée).

Lille, Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Lille, 1963. 4to (26.9 x 21.3 cm). 187 pp.; ten plates, seven text figures. Original printed wrappers. Second thesis leaflet loosely inserted. The author's thesis. Jean-Louis Amiet (born 1936) was a herpetologist and entomologist, and an assistent at the Faculty of Sciences. He graduated under the great French entomologist Henri Heim de Balsac (1899-1979) and later became a professor at the university of Yaoundé, Cameroun. Minimal shelf-wear; otherwise a very good copy. Uncommon, especially in such a good state as this one.

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Book number: 71793

Ampferer, O. and W. Hammer

Geologischer Querschnitt durch die Ostalpen vom Allgäu zum Gardasee.

Wien, Geologische Reichsanstalt, 1911. 8vo (25.0 x 18.0 cm). 180 pp.; 50 text figures, three folded maps, including the 345 cm long full-colour profile in rear pocket. Later blue cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. The core of this paper is formed by the very large profile of a large section of the Alps; it took the authors five years to complete and brought them to view the Alps as a "Gesamterscheinung, als einen Bewegungssorganismus". Published in the Anstallt's Jahrbuch, and neatly bound for its former owner, the Austrian geologist Alexander Tollmann (1927-2008). His small, pencilled, name is above the drophead title. A very good copy; rare in this state. Several book dealers offer this work at a very low price, but, apparently, these cheap copies lack the humongous profile.

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Book number: 67256

Andel, T. van

Non-timber forest products of the North-West District of Guyana. [Part I & II, complete.]

Utrecht, Tropenbos-Guyana Series 8A & 8B, 2000. 8vo. 320 pp. and 341 pp., numerous graphs, tables, and illustrations by H. Rypkema. 42 colour photos. Wrappers with pictorial front. Ex library copy with small stamp on title page. Otherwise as new.

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Book number: 53777

Andelkovic, M. Z.

Amoniti iz Slojeva sa Aspidoceras acanthicum stare planine (Istocna Srbija). Die Ammoniten aus den Schichten mit Aspidoceras acanthicum des Gebirges Stara Planina in Ostserbien (Jugoslavien).

Zagreb, Jugaslavenska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti, 1966. 4to (28.7 x 20.4 cm). 136 pp.; 106 text illustrations, 31 plates, five large, folded tabels. Original printed wrappers and orginal printed dust jacket. Includes descriptions and illustrations of new species. With a large (20 pp.) summary in German. Published in the series Palaeontologia Jugoslavica. Wrapper and dust jacket edges with a few, very short tears, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 72158

Anderson, F. M.

Cretaceous deposits of the Pacific Coast.

San Francisco, CA, The California Academy of Sciences, 1902. Large 8vo (24.3 x 17.9 cm). 154 pp.; 12 large, folded, lithographed plates. Original blue, pebbled cloth. Spine with gilt lines and title. Speckled edges. Light yellow endpapers. Rare original edition of a well-illustrated work, mainly describing Cretaceous faunas, and in particular molluscs, including many that are new. The fine plates show generally well-preserved ammonites, as well as some gastropods. The author, Frank Marion Anderson (1863-1945) was an American palaeontologist and malacologist. This is one of his earlier and most important works. Stamp (cancelled) on front pastedown and title, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Modern reprints are no match.

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Book number: 73505

Andersson, G. (ed.)

Die Veränderungen des Klimas seit dem Maximum der letzten Eiszeit. Eine Sammlung von Berichten [unter Mitwirkung von Fachgenossen in verschiedenen Ländern] herausgegeben vom dem Executiv-Komitee des 11 internationalen Geologenkongress durch dessen Generalsekretär.

Stockholm, Generalstaben Litografiska Anstalt, 1910. 4to (26.7 x 20.3 cm). 518 pp., five maps mostly folding and coloured and several text figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-lined bands and brown morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed stiff wrapper preserved. Deals with the highly important current problem of the change of climate. The work is particularly interesting in view of the recent thoughts about climate change. Published as results of a Swedish "International Congress" dealing mostly with Europe. Include a section about glaciers. Light shelf-wear to the boards; former owner's name written in top margin of the front wrapper, otherwise clean and in a very good condition.

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Book number: 19595

André, E.

Révision des mutilles de l'Égypte.

Le Caire, Société Entomologique d'Égypte, 1910. 4to (30.0 x 20.4 cm). 94 pp.; three fine, chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. A rare work on Egyptian ant-like velvet wasps by the French entomologist Ernest André (1838-1914), also renowned for his earlier Monographie des Mutillides d'Europe et d'Algérie. Wrappers split at spine; fore edge of plates a bit creased with a tiny tear, otherwise an excellent, clean copy.

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Book number: 72879

Andreae, A.

Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Elsässer Tertiärs. Text, Atlas [Complete].

Strassburg, R. Schultz, 1884. Folio (32.2 x 24.5 cm). Large 8vo (28.0 x 19.2 cm), and Folio (33.3 x 25.0 cm). 332, vii pp.; ten text figures, 12 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, however, one being a double-sized map with profiles and with the plate explanation in the plate; and one partly coloured map. Uniform printed wrappers (text) and printed boards (atlas portfolio). A finely illustrated paper, written by the German zoologist, malacologist and palaeontologist Achilles Andreae (1859-1905), depicting fossil freshwater molluscs, but also marine species, as well as mammalian teeth and bones, and some plant remains. Five plates show Foraminifera. Many species are new. This work seems to be connected to the author's thesis, "Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Elsässer Tertiärs. Teil 2:. Die Oligocänschichten im Elsass. Abhandlung zur Erlangung der venia legendi an der Universität Heidelberg" (1884), but the latter publication is said to have only nine plates. This is Abhandlungen zur geologischen Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen. Band II, Heft III. Spine cover of the text perished, partly split due to the weak binding, otherwise very good, clean. Rare. Cat. BM(NH), p. 45.

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Book number: 75969

Andreone, F. and R. Sindaco (eds.)

Erpetologia del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta. Atlante degli Anfibi e dei Rettili.

Torino, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, 1998. Large 8vo (24.1 x 17.0 cm). 283 pp., numerous full colour figures and distribution maps. Laminated pictorial cloth with full colour dustjacket. A very scarce, nicely produced work with very good photographs of living animals and very clear and detailed coloured illustrations with emphasis on important taxonomical characters. It contains 21 taxa of amphibians and 17 of reptiles. With summaries in English and French. Stamp on title page, otherwise truly a mint copy.

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Book number: 27955

Andreossy, [A.] F.

Histoire du Canal du Midi, connu précédemment sous le nom de Canal de Languedoc.

Paris, F. Dufart, An VIII [1799 or 1800]. 8vo (19.6 x 12.4 cm). Half-title, title page, 415 pp. (numbered [i]-xl, 41-414,[i]); one very large, multi-folded map and five folded charts including one very large, multi-folded). 19th-century polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. A rarely seen first edition of a monograph describing arguably 17th-century France’s greatest feat of hydraulic engineering, namely the creation of a waterway between the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Written by Comte Antoine-François Andréossy (1761-1828), Général de Division et Inspecteur-Général du Corps de l'Attilerie. His function underscores both the commercial and military value of this intercoastal waterway. Andréossy was a Franco-Italian nobleman, who also served as a French diplomat and parliamentarian. He served under Napoleon Bonaparte, to whom this work is dedicated. "He was a great-grandson of the celebrated civil engineer and architect of the Canal du Midi, François Andréossy (1633-1688). The latter was a French engineer, cartographer, and a citizen of Narbonne. After completing his engineering studies in Paris, Andréossy went to Italy in 1660 to study Italian canal technology in Lombardy and Padua. He returned from the trip and sought out Pierre-Paul Riquet as a patron. Riquet was beginning his investigation into the possibility of building a canal across southern France from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Andréossy supplied the technical expertise that Riquet lacked and became Riquet's right-hand man throughout the construction of the canal. He was also responsible for the levelling and the drawing of maps. He monitored the construction and assisted Riquet until Riquet's death. Andréossy continued to work at the canal and serve the family of Riquet until he died in Castelnaudary on 3 June 1688. Andréossy's descendants continued like him for a century. His great-grandson, the general Antoine-François Andréossy, argued in his Histoire du Canal du Midi that his ancestor should be considered the father of the Canal du Midi, instead of Riquet" (Wikipedia). This work includes a fine, large map of southern France, including the canal from the river Garonne to the French Mediterranean coast. Provenance: the name C. A. de Bruijn handwritten in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto. Slight wear to the boards, two tables a bit browned, but the text, map and other tables clean. A simple library stamp of five characters in the top margin of the title page, and a worn label on the spine foot, otherwise a very good, clean copy. We found only one auction record, of a poor copy. In 1804 a second edition was published. Of this first edition, OCLC reports a few copies in European libraries and none outside Europe.

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Book number: 74386

Andrews, R.

Auf der Fährte des Urmenschen.

Abenteuer und Entdeckungen dreier Expeditionen in die mongolische Wüste. Leipzig 1927. 288p., 1 portrait, 54 photographs amongst which the "Baluchitherium grangeri", "Andrewsarchus" and "Dino-eggs", 2 maps. Pictorial cloth and nice flyleaves. An interesting study on "early" man and beast in Mongolia. First english edition was 1926.

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Book number: 35003