Catalogue illustré de la collection Lamarck. Premier Partie. Fossiles. Avec 117 planches.

Genève, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 1918. Folio (31.8 x 24.3 cm). Title page, [ii] pp.; 14 phototype plates, each with four pp. descriptive text (not numbered). Original printed wrappers. = A single part of a rare series, this part containing the "Mollusques trachélipodes fossiles", and covering the Lamarckian (and Linnaean) genera Ampullaria, Ancillaria, Bulimus, Cassis, Cerithium, Conus, Cyclostoma, Delphinula, Lymnaea, Melania, Murex, Natica, Neritina, Oliva, Pyrula, Scalaria, Terebellum, and Turritella; together illustrating and discussing type material of 66 species, mainly - if not all - Tertiary (Eocene) species from the Paris Basin. This work was compiled by the Swiss palaeontologist and malacologist Ernest Favre (1845-1925). Published over a long period, and containing other groups of animals too. Complete copies with all 177 plates, are very rare: we found not a single auction record. A supposed "Deuxième Partie" was never published. We assume that it would have dealt with Lamarck's recent shells, which are in the Geneva museum too. Wrapper split at spine fold, and with some short tears. Otherwise very good; plates and text in excellent condition. Cat. BM(NH) Suppl., pp. 361, 598.