Étude sur les espèces d'Unios et d'Anodontes qui habitent la Suisse.

By
A. Brot
(1874, unpublished)

This unique compilation around a manuscript
recently recovered in the
Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève
contains:

 

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I Portrait of A. Brot

II Circulaire de la Societé helvétique des sciences naturelles de 1872 (4 pp.)

III Handwritten manuscript "Étude sur les espèces d'Unios et d'Anodontes qui habitent la Suisse". 218 pp. (2 in two-colour-print), 49 pls. (I-XL, 9 additional pls.), 22 of these in four-colour-print (sample), 22 in two-colour-print and 5 in b/w. The plates show 332 figures (32 lifelike coloured drawings, 23 watercoloured sketches, 52 carefully done crayon-drawings (sample) und 158 outline-sketches in pencil) with an indication of the collecting localities of all figured specimens.

Earlier notes and scetches:

IV Note "Nayades des lacs de Suisse" (35 pp., 11 unnumbered scetches of plates with 23 crayon-drawings, 37 outline-scetches in pencil und 7 photos, extraordinarily at this time)

V Note "Notes sur les Naiades du Canton de Vaud d'après les échantillons communiqués par Blanchet" (6 pp. with pencil-drawings)

VI "Extrait des notes de Mortillet" (1 p.)

VII 25 pp. of handwritten text-sketches (sample), synonymy-lists and excerpts

Additionally included in the binding which is produced in close cooperation between ConchBooks and the Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, Munich:

VIII Reprint of an excerpt, published in Kobelt (1910): Rossmässler’s Iconographie, N. F., vol. 17 (1/2 ), pp. 12-13.

IX Reprint of the publication "Étude sur les coquilles de la famille des Nayades qui habitent le bassin du Léman" (1867) (cover page) facing the plain plates of the original edition with a set of handcoloured plates (sample). 56 pp., 9 four-coloured + 9 plain pls. The hand-coloured set was carried out exclusively for the author and is probably unique. It originates from the estate of E. Handschin in the library of S. G. A. Jaeckel, now stored in the "Haus der Natur, Cismar".

 

 

 

The available printversion is headed by

i Titlepage, individually numbered and impressed with the name of the subscriber
ii Table of contents
iii Preface by G. Falkner & P. Glöer (2 pp.)

The book contains:

Altogether 352 pp., 78 plates (31 four-colour plates, 22 two-colour plates, 25 plain plates), printed on art-paper 135 grs/sqm, size 21 x 29,5 cms, bound in half-cloth, provided with handmade oil-paper, spine embossed in gold.

 

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You are invited to participate in a strictly limited edition (30 books!) of the very first printing of a manuscript, recently recovered in the Musée d’Histoire naturelle de Genève and produced in close cooperation between ConchBooks and the Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft, Munich:

Price for orders after June 30th 2001 ** 400,00 Euro
A special edition bound in beautiful half-morocco is available 490,00 Euro

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