Author: Leschke, M.
Title: Mollusken der Hamburger Südsee-Expedition 1908/09 (Admiralitätsinseln, Bismarckarchipel, Deutsch-Neuguinea). [AND] Zur Molluskenfauna von Java und Celebes.
Description: Hamburg, Lucas Gräfe & Sillem [for the Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten], 1912-1914. Large 8vo (25.2 x 17.3 cm). Two papers in one. Title pages, 164 pp. [84; 80]; two lithographed plates [1; 1]. Red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. = Two rarely seen papers by the German zoologist (principally malacologist) Ingo Max Ottokar "Max" Leschke (1878-after 1916). The plates are very good, and depict many new and rarely observed species. Both papers are offprints from the Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum. In the top margin of the front free endpaper, first front wrapper, and title page, a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020). A very good, well-bound and clean item.

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