Conseil permanent international pour l'exploration de la mer / International Council for the Exploration of the Sea - Publications de circonstance, 1 - 20 [1903-1904]

Copenhague, F. Høst, 1903. Half-leather.. 25x17cm, (561) pp, Contemporary binder's half-leather. Leather scuffed. Spine chipped. A 5cm crack to front top & bottom exterior hinges.. 41pp plates (many folding). Binding heavily rubbed. Cracks to exterior hinges. Just Good. ¶ A 5cm chip to rear exterior hinge. Contains the first 20 monographs issued by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in the series "Publications de circonstance", bound together in a single volume. Papers run 4 to 188 pages each. Texts in English, French or German. Includes: 1) "How to Distinguish between Mature & Immature Plaice throughout the Year" [ 7 pp, 1 lithographed plate]; 2) "On the Standard-Water used in Hydrographical Research until July 1903" [9pp]; 3) "The Literature of the Ten Principal Food Fishes of the North Sea in the Form of Compendious Monographs [107pp; 10 plates]; 4/5: "Über den Gebrauch von Stickstoffbestimmungen in der Hydrographie" [13p]: 6) "On a New Form of Trawl Net" [10pp]: 7) "Über das Vorkommen von Oithona nana Giesbr. in der Nordsee" [24pp, 1 plate]: 8/9 "On the Spawning of the Cod (Gadus morrhua L.) in Autumn in the North Sea" [14pp, 1 plate]: 10) "On a New (Planktonic) Species of the Genus Apherusa" [4pp]; 12) "Catalogue des poissons du nord de l'europe avec les noms vulgaires dont on se sert dans les langues de cette region" [75pp]; 13) "Die Ostsee-Fischerei in ihrer jetzigen Lage" [ Parts 1-3, 188 pages + 41pp plates]; 14) " Oberflaechentemperaturenmessungen in der Nordsee" [10pp]; etc.