H a Meyer K Mobius (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the vast world of life hidden beneath the waves of the Kieler Bucht, an arm of the Baltic Sea, and one of the most thoroughly studied marine environments on the planet. The rich diversity of marine life forms within the Kieler Bucht had long been known, but it was not until scientific explorations were carried out between 1859-1865 that the full extent of its biodiversity was truly revealed. The book delves into the unique habitat of each species found throughout the many depths of the Kieler Bucht, from the shallow littoral zones to the deep and dark abyss. Drawing from the author's extensive first-hand observations, readers will gain a comprehensive insight into the lives of these creatures, their habits, and their significance within the ecosystem. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Condition: Good. , 28 plates, 2 nautical charts, 9 maps of fisheries statistics. . PB. 4to, orig wrappers, lightly soiled, stitching broken, rear wrapper of Vol. II-III torn with some loss. Some pages unopened. Internally clean. Good. Text German. An important set of reports on the North Sea, Jahrgang I comprises, 'Die Expedition zur physikalisch-chemischen u. biologischen Untersuchung d. Ostsee im Sommer 1871 auf S.M. Avisodampfer Pommerania nebst physikalischen Beobachtungen an den Stationen der preussischen Ostseeküste'. …

Berlin, Wiegand & Hempel [later Paul Parey], 1873-1893. 16 volumes in five. Folio (35.7 x 25.0 cm). Title pages, numerous text pages, plates (some in chromolithography) and maps (some larger, folded). Uniform half calf over pebbled boards. Spines with four raised bands with gilt chains, two morocco labels with gilt title and volume year; publication years at spine foot. = A rare, sumptuously bound set of the most important series on marine science of the seas of Germany. With contributions by the leading marine biologists of Germany, including Meyer, Möbius, and Ernst Haeckel. Much is on plankton, but there ara also papers on benthonic animals, chiefly Radiolaria, fish, Mollusca, etc. It includes the rare start, up to volume 6, and a continuation (volumes 12-21). The five bound volumes are as follows. 1: Volume 1, 1871 (published 1873); 2: combined Volumes. 2-3, 1872-1873 (1875); 3: combined Volumes 4-6, 1874-1876 (published 1878); 4: combined Vols. 12-16, 1882-1886 (1887); 5: combined Vols. 17-21. 1887-1891 (1893). Some minimal rubbing to board extremities. Library stamps on front free endpaper recto, and title pages. Otherwise very good, clean and free of foxing. An attractive set. Very uncommon; rare in this excellent state. Cat. BM(NH) pp. 662-663, 977.…

Leipzig, Engelmann, 1865-1872. Two parts in two. Folio (35.4 x 25.7 cm [board size: 36.1 x 26.8 cm). Two title pages (as part of a series, and as a stand-alone), 213 pp.; 46 [24; 22] chromolithographed plates, tinted lithographed map, three tables, including two large, folded; printed errata slip. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Spines with gilt title. = Rare, classic monograph on the Mollusca of the south-eastern part of the North Sea, Germany, by the German marine biologists and malacologists Heinrich Adolph Meyer (1822-1889) and Karl August Möbius (or Moebius; 1825-1908). The latter is also known as an entomologist. Very beautifully illustrated after drawings by both authors and printed at the Lithographical Press in Hamburg. This is one of the few works with numerous fine illustrations of living molluscs, including nudibranchs. It contains the classes mentioned in the titles, and a species of Chiton (Polyplacophora). The first volume with a handwritten dedication by Möbius on the front free endpaper recto, dated 21 November 1872; the second part with, in the same place, a handwritten dedication in another hand - thus probably Meyer's - to J. B. Meyer (a relative?). Provenance: a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in both second titles' top margins. Nissen, as well as the title pages, quotes a wrong number of plates. Scattered spotting throughout, as usual. A few plates, and several text leaves toned, with some offsetting. Otherwise a very good, complete set. Caprotti II, p. 40 (404); Nissen ZBI, 2805. …

xxx, 88 p., 18 handcoloured lithographed pls, 6 tinted pls (depicting anatomical details), 1 tinted map, 1 table, small folio, original green hcloth with printed boards. Some scattered foxing.