Peter Coomans (3 results)

weicher Einband. Ohne Seitenangaben, Lexikonformat, kartoniert. Einband berieben, oben ca. 2 cm eingerissen. Angestaubt, nachgedunkelt. Gutes bis befriedigendes Exemplar. Katalog Bonnefantenmuseum Maastrich, Auflage 2000 Stück. Wahrscheinlich 70-er Jahre. Schicke gerne ein Foto. Sprache: Niederländisch (unbesetzt) 318 gr. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 82 pp., index. In 1668, a small band of Jesuit priests established a mission in the Mariana Islands with the aim of converting their indigenous Chamorro inhabitants to the Catholic faith. What followed was thirty years of intermittent warfare as Chamorro communities throughout the archipelago fought unsuccessfully to retain their culture and traditions. This book documents the first half-decade of mission operations and provides details of some of the important events of a turbulent period of the archipelago's history, as well as several previously unrecorded aspects of traditional Chamorro culture. While modest in size, this volume should be of interest to students of Marianas history.…

Quarto,158 pp.,full colour photographs, a fine copy in dustwrapper. The first book since 1888 to cover all recent species of the world. In the family Pectinidae, almost 300 species and subspecies are treated, of which more than 200 are illustrated. Of the mainly deepwater Propeamussiidae, more than 100 species are discussed and the common ones figured. The system of the genera and subgenera is based on the modern taxonomy of the families. Synonyms are given, many forms are mentioned, and a glossary of terms for the morphology of scallop shells is added.…