Natural History / Shells & other Invertebrates

VÉRANY, Jean Baptiste. Mollusques Méditeranéens première partie. Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée.
Genoa, imprimerie des Sourds-Muets, [1847]-1851. Large 4to (35.5 x 27.5 cm). With 45 (numbered as 41) lithographed plates (44 chromolithographed), by Armanino after Verany. Unbound, uncut and deckles intact, with separate uncut original tinted lithographed wrappers. In modern cloth box. XVI, 132 pp. Full description

WALKER, George and 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, J. March, [1784]. 4to. With 3 engraved plates depicting 90 species of shells. Later purple, gold-tooled half morocco. [1], [1 blank], [1], V, 25, [3 blank] pp. Full description

WARREN, John. The conchologist.
Boston, Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. Small 4to. With a lithographed frontispiece showing 2 shells and XVI numbered lithographed plates of shells and related items showing 71 figures. Modern (21st-century?) green calf. [4], 204 pp. Full description

WEINKAUFF, Heinrich Conrad. Die Conchylien des Mittelmeeres, ihre geographische und geologische Verbreitung.
Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1867-1868. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red painted edges, red endpapers. XIX, [1], 301, [1 blank]; VI, 512 pp. Full description

WODARCH, Charles. An introduction to the study of conchology, describing the orders, genera, and species of shells; their most prominent characteristics, and usual mode of classification. With observations on the nature and properties of the animals; and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne, 1820. 8vo. With 4 handcoloured engraved plates of shells. Modern black cloth, title in gold on spine. pp. xxiv, 120. Full description

ZEKELI, Lukas Friedrich Die Gastropoden der Gosaugebilde in den nordöstlichen Alpen. [...] Aus den Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. 1. Band. 2. Abtheilung, Nr. 2. Mit 24 lithographirten Tafeln.
Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei bei Wilhelm Braumüller, 1852. Folio. With engraved coat-of-arms of the Austrian Empire flanked by two eagles on the title-page and 24 numbered full-page plates of (snail-) shells with more than 400 figures, lithographed by J. Strohmaijer, Zehner, Heinrich Backer and A. Paschinger. Contemporary half calf. [4], 124 pp. Full description