Pfeiffer, Christoph Ludwig Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. 1.-3. Abtheilung in 1 Band. Mit 24 kolorierten Kupfertafeln. Weim

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  Zoologie - Conchologie Pfeiffer, Christoph Ludwig Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. 1.-3. Abtheilung in 1 Band. Mit 24 kolorierten Kupfertafeln. Weimar, in Commission des Großherzogl. Sächs. privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1821-1828. 29,5 x 24 cm. Etwas späterer Halblederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und etwas Rückenvergoldung (Kapital und Kanten etwas bestoßen, Rücken berieben). Erste und vollständige Ausgabe des seltenen Werkes über nicht maritime Mollusken. - Nissen 3151 - Dance, Shell collecting S. 122 und 130/40. - Die erste Abteilung mit einem zweiten Titel: "Systematische Anordnung und Beschreibung deutscher Land- und Wasserschnecken, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die bisher in Hessen gefundenen Arten. Ein Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte der Weichthiere". - "The Germans have always shown great interest in non-marine molluscs and wrote the most important works on them up to the last quarter of the 19th century. Emil Adolf Rossmässler began to publish his Iconographie der Land- und Süsswasser Mollusken in 1835 after the first affords of Louis Pfeiffer. Nearly a hundred years, thirty volumes and several editions later, it was still being issued, setting a record for the time taken to publish a conchological work. ... Few students and collectors of land shells are not familiar with the name of Louis Pfeiffer. Benefiting largely from his close acquaintance with Hugh Cuming he was able to describe many hundreds of new species, chiefly from tropical regions, and his eight-volume Monographia Heliceorum viventium listed and described all the Helices then known. While this was being issued Pfeiffer began to publish a more ambitious work, the Novitates Conchologicae, the first five volumes of which are devoted to non-marine molluscs and all of them replete with beautiful coloured illustrations. ... Louis Pfeiffer, a leading authority on land shells, made frequent trips to London to consult the Hugh Cuming collection, he described a great number of Cuming's shells and his characteristic spiky handwriting is still preserved on many of the labels associated with Cumingian specimens today." (Dance). - Die Tafeln in schönem Altkolorit zeigen insgesamt 481 Arten von Muscheln und Schnecken. - Teil 1 papierbedingt etwas gebräunt, Teile 2-3 und die Tafeln teilweise etwas stockfleckig, Sammlerstempel auf Vortitel. Zoology. - Conchology. - With 24 colored copper plates. First and complete edition of the rare work on non-marine mollusks. The plates in beautiful old color show a total of 481 species of bivalves and gastropods. - Part 1 somewhat browned due to paper, parts 2-3 and the plates partly somewhat foxed, collector's stamp on pre-title. *
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