Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Rapport der Commissie uit de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen benoemd in de vergadering der Afdeeling Natuurkunde ... betreffende de levenswijze en de werking van Limnoria lignorum.

Hubrecht, A. A. W. et al. (eds.) · 1893

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Amsterdam, J. Müller, 1893. 4to (27.3 x 18.5 cm). vi, 103, xcvi pp.; seven plates (five large, folded, tinted lithographs of the animal), one with photos, one lage folded chart, many tables. Later grey cloth with original printed front wrapper mounted. = Detailed report on th...

Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier prince souverain de Monaco publié sous sa direction avec le concours de M. Jules Richard Docteur ès-sciences, chargé des travaux zoologiques à bord. XVIII. Hydraires provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1886-1888).

Pictet, C. and M. Bedot · 1900

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

[Monte Carlo], Imprimerie de Monaco, 1900. 4to (35.5 x 28.2 cm). 58 pp.; ten (tinted) plates. Original translucent printed wrappers. = Important contribution the knowledge of the Hydrozoa of the northeastern Atlantic, including species from deeper water, some of which are new...

Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier prince souverain de Monaco publié sous sa direction avec le concours de M. Jules Richard Docteur ès-sciences, chargé des travaux zoologiques à bord. XI. Contribution à l'étude des stellérides de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Açores, Terre-Neuve).

Perrier, E. · 1896

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

[Monte Carlo], Imprimerie de Monaco, 1896. Large 4to (36.0 x 28.3 cm). 57 pp., four tissue-guarded lithographed plates (one tinted). Original printed wrappers. = A finely illustrated taxonomical work that includes several species described by the French zoologist (chiefly mala...

Die Bryozoen der weissen Schreibkreide der Insel Rügen.

Marsson, T. [M.] · 1887

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1887. Large 4to (30.1 x 23.4 cm). 112 pp.; ten lithographed plates. Publisher's blind stiff wrappers, with stamp. Plates lose in pocket, as issued. = Richly illustrated monograph by the German botanist and palaeontologist Theodor M. Marsson (1816-1892). O...

Über Aepyornis.

Burckhardt, R. · 1893

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1893. Large 4to. 21 pp., two text engravings, four lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Interesting monograph on the elephant bird of Madagascar which became extinct in historical times. Uncut. Separately paginated offprint from the series, P...

Neue Ansichten und Erfahrungen über Racebildung.

Schmalz, [J.] F. [L.] · 1848

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Königsberg, Gebrüder Bornträger, 1848. Small 8vo (21.0 x 12.4 cm). x, 94 pp., contemporary marbled boards. Hand-written paper label on the spine. = Interesting work on the breeding and variability in domesticated mammals, including horses, cattle and dogs. The author, the Germ...

Zur biologischen und landschaftsökologischen Bedeutung der Hecken in schutzwürdigen Teilen der Lüneburger Elbmarsch.

Horst, K. and E. Koch and R. A. Stamm · 1981

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Lüneburg, Naturhistorische Verein Lüneborg 35, 1981. 8vo. 66 pp.; 11 tables, 33 text figures. Printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen ecological study. Offprint from the society's Jahrbuch. Small previous owner's stamp, from the German malacologist and ecologist Herbert Ant, on the...

Die Dinosaurier, Crocodiliden und Sauropterygier des norddeutschen Wealden.

Koken, E. [H. F.] · 1887

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.43 | ¥48,387)

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1887. 4to (30.3 x 23.8 cm). 111 pp.; 30 text figures, nine fine lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Publisher's stamped wrappers. Plates loose in pocket [as issued]. = Rare and important monograph on Mesozoic reptilians by the German palaeontol...

Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. V. Tertiäre Wirbeltiere. 2. Die Welse des ägyptischen Alttertiärs nebst einer kritischen Übersicht über alle fossile Welse.

Peyer, B. · 1928

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

München, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (R. Oldenbourg), 1928. 4to. 61 pp., 16 text figures, six double-sized plates. Original printed wrappers. = A basic monograph of fossil catfish with descriptions of fairly well-preserved fossils. Published in the academy's Abhandl...

Das natürliche System der Elasmobranchier auf Grundlage des Baues und der Entwicklung ihrer Wirbelsäule. Eine morphologische und paläontologische Studie.

Hasse, [J.] C. [F.] · 1879

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1879-1885. Three parts in five. Large 4to (36.0 x 28.0 cm). 394 pp. [76; vi, 285; 27]; 47 lithographed plates of which four coloured [4; 40; 3], 6 text figures [6; 0; 0]. Original near uniform printed wrappers, except Besonderer Theil III, which has blind...

Darstellung der geologischen verhältnisse der am Nordrande des Schwarzwaldes hervortretenden Mineralquellen mit einer einleitenden Beschreibung der naturhistorischen Verhältnisse des zu Rothenfels bei Baden entdeckten Mineralwassers. Mit einem topografischen Plan und einer Zeichnung.

Walchner, F. A. · 1843

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Mannheim, F. Bassermann, 1843. 8vo (22.4 x 13.6 cm). Dedication page, 72 pp., one large multi-folded and partly coloured map, one coloured profile. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen, detailed and well-illustrated study by the German geologist Friedrich August Walchner...

Etudes locales. Extraits du système Silurien du centre de la Bohème. Vol. V. Brachiopodes.

Barrande, J. · 1879

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Prague, chez l'auteur, 1879. 8vo (23.1 x 15.1 cm). xv, 356 pp., seven double-sized lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = The present work contains three publications, viz. I. Variations observées parmi les brachiopodes siluriens de la B...

A study of the phytosaurs with description of new material from western North America.

Camp, C. L. · 1930

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,317)

Berkeley, CA, The University Press, 1930. Very large 4to. x, 161 pp., 49 text figures, several maps, six plates with explanatory text leaves, including one large, double-folded. Original printed wrappers. = A fine descriptive, zoogeographical and phylogenetical monograph, whic...

Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents.

Mitchell, S. W. and E. T. Reichert · 1886

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1886. 4to (30.4 x 23.5 cm). ix, 186 pp., five fine chromolithographed plates. Contemporary burgundy cloth with gilt title on the spine. = An important early contribution by the first serious researcher of snake venoms, the American physicia...

Über das vorderhirn einiger Reptilien.

Meyer, A. · 1892

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1892. 8vo (22.5 x 14.2 cm). 73 pp., two large folded, tinted plates. = Thesis of the Swiss - later American - medical doctor, anatomist and herpetologist Adolf Meyer (1866-1950) - not to be confused with the herpetologist Adolf Bernard Meyer (1840-1...

Le Muséum d'Histoire naturelle. Histoire de la fondation et des développements successifs de l'établissement. Biographie des hommes célèbres qui y ont contribué par leurs découvertes. Histoire des recherches, des voyages, des applications utiles aux quels le Muséum a donné lieu, pour les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture. Description des galeries, du jardin, des serre set de la ménagerie.

Cap. P. A. · 1854

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, L. Curmer, 1854. Two parts in one. Large 8vo (28.5 x 19.7 cm). 418 pp. [180; 238]; 16 portraits (medaillons), 21 other plates (of which 16 in full colour, including a frontispiece), four maps of which two double-sized, numerous text engravings of various sizes. Original...

Des lois de l'embryogénie ou des règles de formation des animaux et de l'homme."

[Serres, A. É.. R. A.] · 1845

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, [1845]. 4to (31.6 x 24.5 cm). 68 pp., nine lithographed plates. Disbound. = A seldom seen paper on ontogeny, in particular on embryonic development, by the French naturalist Antoine Étienne Rénaud Auguste Serres (1787-1868), but published an...

Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres mis en ordre par Mons. Diderot. Histoire naturelle. Règne mineral.

Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.) · 1768

€2,000.00 ($2,204.40 | £1,668.55 | ¥351,902)

Paris, Diderot et d'Alembert, 1768. Folio (43.2 x 27.2 cm). 4 pp., 130 plates (partly folded). Disbound. = Part of the massive, famous and notoriously complex Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert, being the first true encyclopaedia. This is most if not all published on minin...

Quelques propriétés nouvelles des racines des fonctions de Bessel de première espèce.

Gegenbauer, L. · 1899

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Bruxelles, F. Hayez, 1899. 8vo (24.7 x 16.1 cm). 8 pp. (including printed front wrapper). = Rare paper (offprint), by the Viennese mathematician Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer (1849-1903) whose name and fame is substantiated by, e.g. the Gegenbauer functions, Gegenbauer transform...

On the development of the skull in Lepidosteus osseus.

Parker, W. K. · 1882

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

London, The Royal Society, 1882. 4to. 50 pp.; nine duotone lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = An extremely detailed study of the head anatomy of this enigmatic North American fish species. Published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions, this being an offp...