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BOULENGER, G.A. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). 1909

London, printed by order of the Trustees, 1909-1916. 4 volumes. Royal 8vo (273 x 185mm). pp. xi, 373, with 270 figures; xii, 529 with 382 figures; xii, 526, with 351 figures; xxvii, 392 with 195 figures. Publisher's gilt cloth [Together with:] 351 original copper engraved blocks, all representing fishes, for the book. An interesting collection of 351 of the original copper engraved blocks (of 1198), all well preserved, of this important treatise on the fishes of Africa. All copper engravings are mounted on oakwood and have the volume number and plate number inscribed at the back. Boulenger's publication is the first major work on the fresh water fishes of Africa and together with a large collection of the original blocks, serving for the illustrations, this represents a unique occasion for any naturalist studying the ichthyological fauna of Africa. "The past decade has been productive of an enormous increase in our knowledge of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa. The explorations of the Congo and the Nile, undertaken at considerable expense... and of the great lakes of Central Africa, initiated in this country have resulted in the discovery and description of an unexpectedly large number of generic and specific forms, types of most of which are deposited in the Natural History Museum" (From the Introduction). George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who worked at the British Museum. He was famous for his monographs on amphibians, lizards and other reptiles and fishes as well as his monographs on the fishes of Africa. "Boulenger's contemporaries have noted his incredible memory for specimens, species descriptions, and for the associated literature, which was the key to the great speed at which he worked. He could read six languages well and converse in most of them, and wrote with equal facility, but his manuscripts were never typed and went straight to the typesetter in longhand. Boulenger was a tireless worker with strict self discipline, and he also had great charm: a distinguished figure in the London scientific establishment and a proper Victorian gentleman" (Adler p. 55).

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BOULENGER, G.A. Zoology of Egypt: The Fishes of the Nile. 1907

London, Hugh Rees, 1907. 2 volumes. Folio (318 x 260mm). pp. li, 578, xviii, with maps, photos and figures in the text and 97 fine lithographed plates of which many double-page and 2 coloured. Publisher's gilt green cloth. First major contribution to the fishes of the Nile. Earlier work on this subject had been done by French naturalists who accompanied Napoleon's army to Egypt. The present work forms volume 3 and 4 of Anderson's series on the 'Zoology of Egypt'. George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who worked at the British Museum. Boulenger was famous for his monographs on amphibians, lizards and other reptiles and fishes as well as his monographs on the fishes of Africa. 'The importance of this material, which, so far as the Nile species are concerned, is enumerated in this volume, will be realized from the fact that 192 species dealt with are described from 14,107 examples, 11,068 of which form part of the Mr. Loat's collection' (Preface). The excellent plates are by J. Green and P. Smith. Nissen ZBI, 492.

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Boulenger. - Vanzype, Gustave, Hippolyte Boulenger. Antwerpen, De Sikkel voor het Ministerie van Openbaar Onderwijs 1949.
Monographieen over Belgische Kunst. - Mit reichhaltigem Abbildungsteil versehene Monographie des belgischen Impressionisten. - Etw. stockfleckig.

Mit farb. Frontispiz, 1 Portrait Boulengers und 24 Abbildungen auf Tafeln. 15 S. Gr.-8vo. Neuer Pp.

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Boulenger, Jacques. MARCELINE DESBORDES - VALMORE SA VIE ET ON SECRET. Paris, Plon, 1926.
edition definitive.

Demi-veau, 13 x 18,5cm, 353pp.

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