Catalogue Malacology No. 12 (April 2013) - Strack Books

MG07342 RANG, S., 1829. € 165,00 Picture on our website!
Manuel de l'histoire naturelle des mollusques et leurs coquilles, ayant pour base de classification celle de M. le Baron
Cuvier; iv, 390, 36 (= advertisments) p., 6 lithographed pls, 1 folded table, contemporary half vellum with black label.
Previous owner's name on blank fly-leaf. Some slight scattered foxing but mostly clean and tight (nicely bound) copy of this
scarce title.
MG10182 RANG, S., 1829. € 150,00 Picture on our website!
Manuel de l'histoire naturelle des mollusques et leurs coquilles, ayant pour base de classification celle de M. le Baron
Cuvier; iv, 390, 90 (= advertisments) p., 8 lithographed pls, 1 large folded table, contemporary half cloth. Previous owner's
name on blank fly-leaf. Some slight scattered foxing but mostly clean and tight copy of this scarce title.
MG11456 REEVE, L., 1860. € 1200,00
Elements of Conchology. An Introduction to the Natural History of Shells and of the Animals which form them; 2 vols. viii,
260, vi, 203 p., 62 hand-coloured lithographed pls, publisher's cloth (upper end of one joint in volume 1 split). The text with a
few small, unobtrusive, scattered foxing spots, the plates clean.
Ex Libris in each volume of J.K(?) Martin (showing a palm beach with setting sun and a Strombus gigas on the foreground).
Also a blind stamp on blank end-papers of R.E. Finch, Book & Musicseller, Auckland.
MG18925 RUHOFF, F.A., 1973. € 20,00
Bibliography and Zoological Taxa of Paul Bartsch; v, 166 p., paperbound. Library stamps.
MG15350 RUSCHENBERGER, W.S.W., 1843 (1ST ED.). € 75,00
Mollusca. Elements of Conchology: prepared for the use of schools and colleges; [8], 104 p., 119 figs, frontispiece, original
printed boards. Some scattered slight foxing. Blank end-papers missing.
There was a much later edition is 1889.
MG14986 SHELL DESK DIARY, THE, 1987-1993. € 50,00
The Shell Desk Diary; Tears 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992 & 1993. Unused copies in very good condition. These diaries have
become real collectors items.
MG15091 SMITH, E.A., 1877. € 22,00
On the Shells of Lake Nyassa, and on a few Marine Species from Mozambique; 11 p., 2 lithographed pls, disbound (no
covers). Published in: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
MG07244 SMITH, E.A. ET AL., 1908 (5TH ED.). € 20,00
A guide to the Shell and Starfish galleries (Mollusca, Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, Tunicata, Echinoderma, and Worms),
Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History); iv, 133 p., 125 figs, 1 folded plan, printed boards.
MG15421 SOWERBY, G.B., 1842 (2ND ED.). € 138,00
A conchological manual; vi, [1], 313, [2] p., 98 figs, 28 pls, 2 folded tables, frontispiece, original, green embossed cloth
(rebacked, but with loss of small pieces of original spine). Previous owner's name (M.L. Jaume). Plates somewhat browned
and with offsetting on versos.
MG10286 SOWERBY, G.B., 1852 (4TH ED.). € 165,00
A conchological manual; vi, [1], 337 p., 90 figs, 28 pls, 2 folded tables, frontispiece, green embossed cloth (spine discoloured
and much worn). Ex library Bligh (1854) & Douglas R. Lodge (1941). First 10 plates with species' names written in ink, the
other 18 plates with species' names written in pencil. A one page paper by Finch pasted on rear of front cover and a small
newspaper cutting pasted at back of title-page.
MG15366 SOWERBY, G.B., 1852 (4TH ED.). € 165,00
A conchological manual; vi, [1], 337 p., 90 figs, 28 pls, 2 folded tables, frontispiece, original, green embossed cloth. Ex libris
from B. Fischer (Medical and Scientific Library). Plates somewhat foxed (mostly marginal), frontispiece foxed and offsetting
on title-page.
MG07470 SOWERBY, G.B., 1852 (REPRINT 1990). € 20,00
Sowerby’s Book of Shells; 139 p., 98 figs, 40 col. pls, 4to, hardbound (dust jacket). Reprint of the 4th edition of Sowerby’s
Conchological Manual. In addition this book contains 12 splendid col. plates from the Dictionnaire Universelle d’Histoire
Naturelle by d’Orbigny.
MG15375 SOWERBY, G.B. & H. FULTON, 1902-1906. € 48,00
Collection of 5 sale catalogues of Shells. Including: A Catalogue of Inoperculate Land Shells (April 1902) / A Catalogue
(with prices) of a few of the species of Recent Shells (August 1902) / A Catalogue of Cephalopoda, Pteropoda, Gastropoda
(marine and freshwater) and Scaphopoda (April 1903) / A Catalogue of Pelecypoda and Brachiopoda (June 1903) & A
Catalogue of Operculate Land Shells (1906); 32, 36, 56, 24, 11 p., paperbound/printed wrappers. We added: Sale catalogue of
Hermann Rolle, ca. 1900. '' Europ.-palaearct. Land -Conchylien (16 p.).
MG07319 STEP, E., 1901 (1ST ED.). € 30,00
Shell Life; 414 p., num. figs, 32 pls, decorated publisher's cloth. With interesting ex libris of Louis Pisani Burnay
(representing shell and book collection).
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