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BIANCHI, Giovanni. De Conchis minus notis, Venice: typis J. B. Pasqual, 1739, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding engraved plates (perforation stamp on title and one text leaf, ink stamp on verso of plates), later cloth-backed boards (backstrip torn with loss) [Nissen ZBI 356] Provenance: JCL -- Jacob Theodor KLEIN (1685-1759). Descriptiones Tubulorum Marinorum, Danzig & Leipzig: Gleditschiana, 1773, 4°, second edition, 10 engraved plates, 2 folding (blind-stamp on title, title lightly soiled), modern cloth-backed boards [Nissen ZBI 2203] Provenance: Berlin Collection -- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm HERBST. Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse, Berlin & Stralsund: Lange, 1782-90, 3 volumes in one, plates loose in cloth box, 4°, engraved portrait, 21 folding hand-coloured plates only (of 62, these being the plates to the first part only, perforation stamp on title), contemporary half calf (rubbed, rebacked in cloth preserving part of old spine) [Nissen ZBI 1896] Provenance: Berlin Collection; and one other volume. (5)