The Carlsberg's Foundation's Oceanographical Expedition round the World 1928-30 and previous "Dana" Expeditions. [Introduction and Mollusca].

Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, [Later: Fred Høst & Søn], 1934-1953. 14 parts in three. 4to (30.7 x 23.3 cm). 733 pp.; 453 text figures, 49 plates. Uniform dark blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. All printed wrappers bound in; one volume in original printed wrappers. = This set contains in the first volume the Introduction to the Reports, with a foreword by P. Jespersen and Å. Vedel Tåning, and a list of stations, and the following numbered parts, which are all the published parts on molluscs. 1, 8, 11, 20, 24, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, and 38. In detail, the first bound volume contains No. 1. Joubin, A. (1937) Les octopodes de la crossière du "Dana" 1821-22. 49 pp.; 53 text figures; No. 11. Pruvot-Fol, A. (1942). Les gymnosomes I. 54 pp.; 47 text figures; No. 20. Bruun, A. F. (1943) The biology of Spirula spirula L. 42 pp.; 13 text figures, three plates; No. 28. Tesch, J. J. (1946). The thecosomatous pteropods I. The Atlantic. 80 pp.; 34 text figures, eight plates; No. 29. Pickford, G. E. (1946). Vampyroteuthis infernalis Chun. An archaic dibranchiate cephalopod. I. Natural history and distribution. 40 pp.; eight text figures. The second volume includes No. 30. Tesch, J. J. (1948). The thecosomatous pteropods II. The Indo-Pacific. 45 pp.; 34 text figures, three plates; No. 32. Pickford, G. E. (1949). Vampyroteuthis infernalis Chun. An archaic dibranchiate cephalopod. II. External anatomy. 132 pp.; 75 text figures, partly on nine plates; No. 33. Thore, S. (1949). Investigations on the "Dana" Octopoda. Part I. Bolitaenidae, Amphitetridae, Vitreledonellidae, and Alloposidae. 85 pp.; 69 text figures and charts; No. 34. Tesch, J. J. (1949). Heteropoda. 53 pp.; 44 text figures, five plates; No. 36. Tesch, J. J. (1950 [1962]). The Gymnosomata II. 55 pp.; 37 text figures; and no. 38. Laursen, D. (1953). The genus Ianthina. A monograph. 40 pp.; 41 text figures, one plate. added, loose in its original printed wrappers is No. 8. Kerr, J. G. (1931). Notes upon the Dana specimens of Spirula and upon certain problems of cephalopod morphology 36 pp.; eight text figures, 20 plates. Part 36 is in an unaltered reprint; even the paper of the wrappers is the same. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper rectos and wrappers. Wrappers of No. 8 split at spine and detached; otherwise a very good, rarely seen complete set.