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Onomasticon zoicon, plerorumque animalium differentias & nomina propria pluribus linguis exponens : cui accedunt mantissa anatomica, et quædam de variis fossilium generibus / autore Gualtero Charletono ..

Title:
Gualteri Charletoni Onomasticon zoicon
Author:
Charleton, Walter 1619-1707  Search this
Former owner:
Portland, William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of 1857-1943 DSI  Search this
Nourse, J. DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Bookseller:
Bernard Quaritch (Firm) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[20], 213, [4], 217-309 [i.e. 311], [35] p., [8] leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Type:
Pre-Linnean works
Early works to 1800
Nomenclature
Date:
1668
MDCLXVIII [1668]
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Paleontology  Search this
Animals  Search this
Color  Search this
Call number:
QH41 .C47 1668
QH41.C47 1668
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edanmdm:siris_sil_383730

Wodarch's introduction to the study of conchology : describing the orders, genera, and species of shells : with observations on the nature and properties of the animals; and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells / by J. Mawe

Title:
Wodarch's conchology
Introduction to the study of conchology
Author:
Wodarch, Charles  Search this
Mawe, John 1764-1829  Search this
Lithographer:
Crouch, Edmund A.  Search this
Engelmann  Search this
Former owner:
Innes, Harriet DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 149, [7] p., VI [i.e. 7] leaves of plates : ill. (lithograph, engravings) ; 20 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1831
Topic:
Shells  Search this
Shellfish  Search this
Call number:
QL405 .W81X 1831
QL405.W81X 1831
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384402

Encyclopaedia londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature : comprehending, under one general alphabetical arrangement, all the words and substance of every kind of dictionary extant in the English language : in which the improved departments of the mechanical arts, the liberal sciences, the higher mathematics, and the several branches of polite literature, are selected ...

Title:
Encyclopedia londinensis
Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature
Author:
Wilkes, John of Milland House, Sussex  Search this
Jones, John 1766-1821  Search this
Jones, G  Search this
Engraver:
Chapman, J (John) active 1792-1823  Search this
Pass, J.  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
24 volumes, leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 27 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1810
1829
1810-1829
Topic:
Encyclopedias and dictionaries  Search this
Mollusks  Search this
Call number:
AE5 .E5622 1810
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384403

Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi, et medici Bononiensis De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor / post-mortem ejus editi ; nempe de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis, et zoophytis

Title:
Ulyssis Aldrovandi philosophi, et medici Bononiensis De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor
De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor
Author:
Aldrovandi, Ulisse 1522-1605?  Search this
Printer:
Ferroni, Giovanni Battista 1628?-1678?  Search this
Publisher:
Bernia, Marco Antonio active 1638-1661  Search this
Author:
Aldrovandi, Francesca Fontana  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[8], 422, 421-593, [29] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (folio)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
Early works
Date:
1642
Topic:
Invertebrates  Search this
Mollusks  Search this
Crustacea  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL362 .A36 1642
QL362.A36 1642
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edanmdm:siris_sil_384410

The common objects of the sea shore including hints for an aquarium by the Rev. J.G. Wood ; with coloured illustrations from designs by Sowerby

Author:
Wood, J. G (John George) 1827-1889  Search this
Illustrator:
Sowerby, G. B (George Brettingham) 1812-1884  Search this
Engraver:
Evans, Edmund 1826-1905  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Publisher:
George Routledge and Sons  Search this
Printer:
Woodfall and Kinder  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 204, [12] pages, [12] leaves of plates illustrations 17 cm
Type:
Juvenile literature
Date:
1857
Topic:
Marine animals  Search this
Marine plants  Search this
Aquariums  Search this
Seashore biology  Search this
Call number:
QH91.16 .W66 1857
QH91.W87 1857
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384418

La conchyliologie, ou, Histoire naturelle des coquilles de mer, d'eau douce, terrestres et fossiles : avec un traité de la zoomorphose, ou, représentation des animaux qui les habitent, ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode de les diviser / par M. Desallier d'Argenville ... ; ouvrage considérablement augmenté de planches en taille-douce, qui représentent les figures de plus de de...

Title:
Conchyliologie
Histoire naturelle des coquilles de mer, d'eau douce, terrestres et fossiles
Histoire naturelle des coquilles DSI
Author:
Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J (Antoine-Joseph) 1680-1765  Search this
Favanne de Montcervelle M  Search this
Ill:
Favanne, Jacques de 1716-1770  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Henderson, J. B (John Brooks) 1870-1923 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., LXXX [i.e. 84] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 28 cm. (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
Date:
1780
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Mollusks, Fossil  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL403 .D53 1780
QL403.D53 1780
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383672

Testacea microscopica aliaque minuta ex generibus argonauta et nautilus ad naturam picta et descripta / a Leopoldo a Fichtel et Jo. Paulo Carolo a Moll ; cum 24 tabulis æri incisis coloratis ..

Author:
Fichtel, Leopold von 1770-1810  Search this
Moll, Johann Paul Carl von 1735-1812  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xjj, [4], 123, [1] p., 24 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 30 cm.(4to)
Type:
Books
Date:
1798
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Foraminifera--Early works to 1800  Search this
Call number:
QL432 .F44 1798
QL432.F44 1798
Data Source:
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edanmdm:siris_sil_383723

Gulielmi Rondeletii doctoris Medici et medicinae ... Libri de piscibus marinis : in quibus veræ piscium effigies expressae sunt : quæ in tota piscium historia continentur, indicat elenchus pagina nona et decima : postremo accesserunt indices necessarij

Title:
Libri de piscibus marinis
Author:
Rondelet, Guillaume 1507-1566  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 parts in 1 volume : illustrations, portraits (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1554
1555
1554-1555
Topic:
Ichthyology  Search this
Fishes  Search this
Call number:
QL41 .R6X 1554
QL41.R6X 1554
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384412

New microscopical discoveries : containing observations ..

Author:
Needham, John Turberville 1713-1781  Search this
Engraver:
Roberts, Henry ca. 1710-ca. 1790  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 126, [2] p., 6 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Pre-Linnean works
Early works to 1800
Date:
1745
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Microscopy  Search this
Microscopes  Search this
Reproduction  Search this
Call number:
QH41 .N37 1745
QH41.N37 1745
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383677

Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou, Tableau général des classes, des ordres, et des genres de ces animaux : présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées : précédé du discou...

Title:
Systême des animaux sans vertèbres
Tableau général des classes, des ordres, et des genres de ces animaux
Author:
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de 1744-1829  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
viij, 432 p., [8] leaves of plates (6 folded) ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Classification
Date:
1802
An X, 1802
Topic:
Invertebrates  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Paleontology  Search this
Call number:
QL362 .L225 1802
QL362 .L225 1802
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383679

Francisci Boussueti Surregiani doctoris medici, De natura aquatilium carmen : in vniuersam Gulielmi Rondeletii ... quam de piscibus marinis scripsit historiam : cum viuis eorum imagnibus : opusculu[m] nunc primum in luce[m] emissum

Title:
De natura aquat. Epigrammata
Author:
Boussuet, Francois 1520-1572  Search this
Rondelet, Guillaume 1507-1566 Libri de piscibus marinis  Search this
Reverdy, Georges active 1531-1554  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Bayer, Frederick M. DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 pts. in 1 v. : ill., port. (woodcuts) ; 21 cm. (4to)
Type:
Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Date:
1558
Topic:
Fishes  Search this
Marine animals  Search this
Epigrams, Latin  Search this
Call number:
QL616 .B77 1558
QL616.B77 1558
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383720

Kleine Beyträge zur Testaceotheologie, oder, Zur Erkäntniss Gottes aus den Conchylien, in einigen Sendschreiben herausgegeben / von Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz ..

Title:
Kleine Beyträge zur Testaceotheologie
Zur Erkäntniss Gottes aus den Conchylien
Author:
Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus 1730-1800  Search this
Engraver:
Seligmann, Johann Michael 1720-1762  Search this
Former owner:
Shuttleworth, R. J (Robert James) 1810-1874 DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
139, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (engraving) ; 24 cm. (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1760
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Nature--Religious aspects  Search this
Call number:
QL403 .C49 1760b
QL403.C49 1760b
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383725

Die Frage, ob die Seelen der Thiere Verstand Haben? : in einer Gesellschaft guter Freunde untersucht

Author:
Winkler, Johann Heinrich 1703-1770  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
96 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Books
Date:
1742
Topic:
Animal intelligence--Early works to 1800  Search this
Call number:
QL785 .W77 1742
QL785.W77 1742
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384286

Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques : tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus : classés d'après les caractères essentiels que preśentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles : publiée par monographies / par M. le baron de Férussac ... ; et par plusieurs autres naturalistes

Title:
Histoire des mollusques
Author:
Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard baron de 1786-1836  Search this
Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard baron de 1786-1836 Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des céphalopodes acétabulifères vivants et fossiles  Search this
Former owner:
Winckworth, Ronald DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
ix, [2], 12-95, [1] p., 83 leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. (some col.) ; 43 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1834
1835
1834-1835
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Call number:
QL404 .F42 1835
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_389058

A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville : arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system : together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species / by G.B. Sowerby ; illustrated with several coloured plates

Title:
Sowerby's catalogue of the Earl of Tankerville's collection of shells, with descriptions of 100 new species
Author:
Sowerby, George Brettingham 1788-1854  Search this
Lithographer:
Scharf, George 1788-1860  Search this
Fahey, J.  Search this
Printer of plates:
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph 1789-1850  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Subject:
Tankerville, Charles Bennet Earl of 1743-1822  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 92, xxxiv p., [9] leaves of plates : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 23 cm
Type:
Catalogs and collections
Date:
1825
Topic:
Shells  Search this
Call number:
QL406.2 .S69 1825
QL406.2.S69 1825
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384414

Poems on conchology and botany : with plates and notes / by Sarah Hoare

Author:
Hoare, Sarah 1777-1856  Search this
Inscriber:
Hoare, Sarah 1777-1856 DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Trickett, Helen Maria DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
iv, 106 p., [5] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 19 cm
Type:
Poetry
Date:
1831
Topic:
Shells  Search this
Botany  Search this
Call number:
QL405 .H67 1831
QL405.H67 1831
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383681

A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 : and the thirty-seven following days, at twelve o'clock, Sundays, and the 5th of June, (the day his Majesty's birth-day is kept) excepted : at her late dwelling-house, in privy-garden, Whitehall : by order o...

Corporate body:
Skinner and Co. (London, England)  Search this
Engraver:
Grignion, Charles 1721-1810  Search this
Illustrator:
Burney, Edward Francis 1760-1848  Search this
Author:
Lightfoot, John 1735-1788  Search this
Author:
Dance, S. Peter DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
American, J. I. DSI  Search this
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI  Search this
Deshayes, G. P (Gérard Paul) 1795-1875 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Subject:
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck Duchess of 1715-1785 Library  Search this
Portland Museum  Search this
Physical description:
viii, [1], 4-194 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Catalogs
Catalogs and collections
Auction catalogues
Engravings
Early works
Place:
England
London
Date:
1786
Topic:
Auction catalogs  Search this
Natural history  Search this
Zoological specimens--Catalogs and collections  Search this
Art objects  Search this
Shells--Catalogs and collections  Search this
Booksellers' catalogs  Search this
Call number:
QH72 .S62 1786
QH72.P85 1786
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384293

A conchological manual / by G.B. Sowerby, Jun. ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred figures

Author:
Sowerby, G. B (George Brettingham) 1812-1884  Search this
Former owner:
Mörch, O. A. L. (Otto Andreas Lowson) 1828-1878 DSI  Search this
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[2], v, [1], 130, [6] p., [24] leaves of plates : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 22 cm
Type:
Handbooks, manuals, etc
Date:
1839
Topic:
Shells  Search this
Call number:
QL406 .S73 1839
QL406.S73 1839
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384413

Kleine Beyträge zur Testaceotheologie, oder, Zur Erkäntniss Gottes aus den Conchylien, in einigen Sendschreiben herausgegeben : nebst einem Anhang von denen berühmtesten Naturalien sonderlich Conchylien- Sammlungen zu Wien

Title:
Kleine Beyträge zur Testaceotheologie
Zur Erkäntniss Gottes aus den Conchylien
Author:
Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus 1730-1800  Search this
Engraver:
Seligmann, Johann Michael 1720-1762  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- ,- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
139, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engraving) ; 25 cm. (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1760
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Nature--Religious aspects  Search this
Call number:
QL403 .C49 1760
QL403.C49 1760
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383727

Leçons élémentaires sur l'histoire naturelle des animaux : précédées d'un aperçu général sur la zoologie. Conchyliologie / J.C. Chenu

Title:
Conchyliologie
Author:
Chenu, Jean Charles 1808-1879  Search this
Illustrator:
Prêtre, Jean Gabriel  Search this
Printer:
Rémond, N.  Search this
Former owner:
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman) 1887-1984 DSI  Search this
Donor:
Roper, Clyde F. E. 1937- DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[4], viii, 364 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings, engravings) ; 27 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Date:
1847
Topic:
Mollusks  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
QL403 .C52 1847
QL403.C52 1847
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384278

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