F Danrigal (5 results)

Condition: Good. Original pictorial boards, richly illustrated in colour, 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English edition. Blandford Press, Poole, 1979. 144pp. Translated and edited by B. E. Picton from the original French edition, Coquillage des Côtes atlantique et de la Manche, published in 1978. Illustrated throughout with numerous colour photographs of living molluscs and their marine habitats. Original laminated pictorial boards. A clean, bright and firmly bound copy with only light shelf wear to the boards and extremities. Pages clean and unmarked. Very Good+.…

During the Napoleonic campaign to Egypt a collection of Red Sea, Mediterranean and continental mollusks was brought together by Savigny who published upon them in 1817 as folio engravings. These served as type-figures for a number of species described by 19th century malacologists, including Audouin, Ehrenberg, Deshayes, Philippi, Hupé, Landrin, Jonas, Issel, Morlet, Vaillant, P. Fischer, Tapparone-Canefri, von Martens, Weinkauff, Monterosato, Jousseaume, H. Fischer and finally Pallary. A checklist and illustrations of 86 of these original types from the Savigny collection, now in the Paris Museum, are presented, supplemented by reproductions of the unpublished color vellums of opisthobranchs and cephalopods. 16 pp., 95 figs, 4.…

Condition: new. Le visuel n'est pas forcément contractuel. Le livre vendu est bien Terre océane. Il est sous blister. Envoi avec suivi, rapide et soigné. Vendeur Pro specialiste livre depuis plus de 10 ans, produit en stock, expédié en 24 heures depuis la France, emballage soigné sous bulles (pour les envois de plus de 6 euros).…

188 pp., num. col. figs, hc folio.