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BLAINVILLE, VILLA, COUSIN, and others

Natural Science: Group of Books and Monographs including Reports of Expeditions, 1841-1957

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Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. Disposition méthodique des espèces récentes et fossiles des genres pourpre, ricinule, licorne et concholépas de m. de Lamarck, et description des espèces nouvelles ou peu connues, faisant partie de la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. [Paris]: [Impr. de J. Didot l'ainé], 1832. 75 pages, 4 plates, no’s. 9-12; 26 cm.  Title page and explanation of the plates (4pp) added in a clear hand. Bound in black cloth.Caption title./ "Extrait des Nouvelles annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, t. Ier, p. 189 et suiv."/ "Lue à l'Académie des sciences de l'Institut, le 26 mars 1832."

Bound together with a scarce 1918 study of the Collection by Ed.  LAMY. (12p.) Lamy, Ed., 1918. - Notes sur quelques espèces de Purpura déterminées par Blainville dans la collection du Muséum de Paris. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. [1]-12.  

Villa, Antonio. Dispositio Systematica Conchyliarum Terrestrium Et Fluviatilium Quæ Adservantur in Collectione Fratrum A. Et J. B. Villa ... Conspectu Abnormitatum Novarumque Specierum Descriptionibus Adjectis. Mediolani: publisher not identified, 1841. Pp. 64. Title page has an excised section.

An Account of the Petrological, Botanical, and Zoological Collections Made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez During the Transit of Venus Expeditions, Carried Out ... in the Years 1874-75. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1879.  Contains only Rodriguez’s sections, with handwritten changes to the title and contents pages.  Illustrated.

Grasset, J P. A. Index Testaceorum Viventium Quoe in Collectione J.p.a. Grasset Extant. Alger: Imprimerie Casabianca, 1884. 324 pages, original printed wrappers retained; Latin text.  30 cm

Cousin, Auguste. Faune Malacologique De La République De L'equateur. Paris: Au siège de la société,1887. 110 p., 2 plates; printed wrappers retained.

O'Donoghue, C. H. 1929. Report on the Opisthobranchiata. Zoological Results of the CambridgeExpedition to the Suez Canal, 1924. (Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.)

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