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Very rare catalogue of mollusc specimen, classifying them more than a decade before Linnaeus

SCALI, Pietro Paolo. Catalogus omnium animalium testaceorum.
(Colophon:) Geneva, ex typographica Haer. Cramer & Fratrum Philibert, 1746. 4to. With a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments on the first page. Later brown paper wrappers, with the manuscript title and author on the front wrapper in a semi-opaque protective coated paper dust jacket. 43, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Shells & other Invertebrates
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Newly discovered shells from the Arabian Gulf, Taiwan, China and Japan, with a chromolithographed plate

SMITH, Edgar. Descriptions of five new shells from the Island of Formosa and the Persian Gulf, and notes upon a few known species.Including: BOCK, Carl. Descriptions of two new species of shells from China and Japan.
[London], 18 June 1878. With a chromolithographed plate depicting 14 shells. Modern paper wrappers. 727-732 pp. Full description
€ 850
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States China Colour Printing / Chromolithography Faunas & General Zoology Formosa / Taiwan Iran / Persia Japan & Far East Shells & other Invertebrates
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British land and fresh-water shells, with 12 hand-coloured plates

TURTON, William and John Edward GRAY (editor). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 324 pp. Full description
€ 250
Shells & other Invertebrates UK - United Kingdom
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Fine set of one of the most important early works on the East Indies, with 2 extra plates

VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën.
Dordrecht, etc., J. van Braam, etc., 1724-1726. Folio. 5 parts in 8 vols. Engr. frontispiece, folding engr. portrait, engr. dedication, 8 folding tables, 289 engr. plates , 2 extra double-page engr. plates. Modern half calf. Together ca. 3500 pp. Full description
€ 25,000
Anthropology & Ethnography Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Shells & other Invertebrates Southeast Asia Southern Africa VOC
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Expert work on the fossils of snails and slugs (gastropods) found
in the Gosau-area located within the northeastern Alps in Austria

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
€ 750
Earth Sciences Fossils / Palaeontology Shells & other Invertebrates
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