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One of the most esteemed works in the history of conchology View picture(s) 1 ADANSON, Michel. 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 J.B. Bauche, 1757. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf. With general title and 2 half-titles, large folding engraved map of Senegal by Ph. Buache after the author, and numerous illustrations of shells on 19 folding engraved plates by Thérèse Reboul after sketches of the author. (8), 190; XCVI, 275, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Conchology  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a treatise on shells View picture(s) 2 BRÜCKMANN, Franz Ernst. Relatio brevis physica de curiosissimis duabus conchis marinis quarum una vulva marina et altera concha venerea nominatur in chartam coniecta et cum orbe erudito communicata. Braunschweig, [no publisher], 1722. 4to. Modern boards. With 1 full-page engraved plate. 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The land shells of Australia View picture(s) 3 COX, James C. Catalogue of Australian land shells. Sydney, John Alex. Engel, 1864. 12mo. Original pink printed wrappers. 46, (4) pp. Interleaved with blank leaves Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first comprehensive work on Japanese marine shells, with 37 chromo-lithographed plates View picture(s) 4 LISCHKE, Carl Emil. Japanische Meeres-Conchylien. Kassel, for Theodor Fischer (colophon: Elberfeld, by R.L. Friderichs & Comp.), 1869-1874. 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled cloth. With 37 chromo-lithographed plates. [4], 192; [4], 184; 123, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Chromolithography  Colour Platebooks  Illustrated Books  Japan  Natural History  Shells  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The 'Wonders of Geology' in German View picture(s) 5 MANTELL, Gideon Algernon. Die Phänomene der Geologie leichtfasslich in Vorlesungen entwickelt. Deutsch herausgegeben von J. Burkart. Mit einer vorrede von Jacob Nögerath. Bonn, Henry and Cohen, 1839. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary yellow boards, burgundy labels on spines with title lettered in gold, gilt spine, sprinkled edges. With lithographed titles and 51 lithographed plates, 6 coloured by hand. 12, 371, [1]; [2], 340, 2 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Earth Sciences [Geology]  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Recently discovered shell fossils View picture(s) 6 NOULET, [Jean Baptiste]. Mémoire sur quelques coquilles fossiles nouvelles, découvertes dans la région aquitante du Bassin Sous-Pyrénéen. (1844). Contemporary grained half roan gilt, marbled boards. With illustrations of shell fossils on 6 lithographed plates by Delor (Toulouse) after L. Lacaze. 225-240 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Conchology  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Shells at the Sandwich sea shore View picture(s) 7 WALKER, Geo. & William BOYS. Testacea minuta rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris Sandvicensis, A collection of the minute and rare shells lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich. London, printed by J. March, (1784). 4to. Later purple three-quarter calf with marbled boards, spine  ribbed and gilt with title lettered in gold, frontcover with title, marbled endpapers. With 3 full-page engraved plates depicting 90 species of shells, after drawings by G. Walker and engraved by D. Mackenzie. (1, 1 blank, 1), V, 25, (3 blank pp.). Full description >> Related Subjects: Conchology  England  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A very rare poem on shells and their moral properties View picture(s) 8 [BORSSELEN, Philibert van]. Strande, oft ghedichte van de schelpen, kinckhornen, ende andere wonderlicke zee-schepselen, tot lof van den schepper aller dinghen. Aen Cornelis van Blyenburch, weerd van alle fraeyheden, ende besonder liefhebber deser vremdicheden: midsgaders aen allen mede-schelpisten. Door P.V.B. Amsterdam, Dirck Pietersz, 1614. 8vo 20th-century green morocco, gilt spine, lettered in gold, triple gilt fillets along the edges on both sides, rich inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. (Ch. DE SAMBLANI. 1914). With printer's device with the motto "Templum Dei estis vos". 55, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cabinet of Curiosities  Conchology  Dutch  Literary History  Literature  Shells  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Chinese watercolours on pith paper View picture(s) 9 [WATERCOLOURS - CHINA]. [Collection of 29 Chinese watercolours on pith paper mounted in an album]. [Canton?, ca. 1850]. Album (28.5 x 24) in 19th-century straight-grained and elaborately gilt-decorated roan, silk endpapers, spine with gilt-lettered title 'Drawings & etchings', gilt edges. Watercolours (10.8 x 8.5 to 9 x 13.9 cm) in transparent and opaque washes, each with marbled mount, mounted on 14 leaves; one mounted and loosely inserted. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  China  Ornithology  Shells  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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