Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Museo do Dundo no. 13. Estudos Diversos (V).

various authors · 1952

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Lisboa, 1952. 4to. 95 pp., several text figures. Original printed wrappers. = Contains contributions by L. Fage, D. Keith McE. Kevan, R. F. Lawrence, M. Cameron and J. Pagés.

Führer für Forschungsreisende. Anleitung zu Beobachtungen über Gegenstände der physischen Geographie und Geologie.

Richthofen, [P. W.] F. Freiherr Von · 1886

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Berlin, Robert Oppenheim, 1886. 8vo (20.4 x 13.3 cm). xii, 745 pp.; 111 text engravings. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Floral endpapers. Edges red. = An important geomorphological explorer's guide in a contemporary binding. See DS...

Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe.

Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P. and G. Michelotti · 1864

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, 1864. 4to (29.5 x 23.3 cm). 124 pp.; 25 (mostly hand-coloured) lithographed plates. Original blind blue wrappers. = Important early monograph on the rich sponge fauna of the tropical western Atlantic with the detailed description and illustration of ...

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, par Leclerc de Buffon; augmentée de notes, d'additions considérables, et mise au courant des connoissances actuelles; avec les figures de tous les oiseaux connus, gravées d'après les dessins de Barraband. Ouvrage formant une ornithologie complette. Par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Tomes 1-28. [The complete ornithology].

Sonnini C. S. (ed.) [Buffon] · 1801

€1,450.00 ($1,598.19 | £1,209.70 | ¥255,129)

Paris, F. Dufart, An IX-XIII (1801-1805). 28 parts in 28 [Complete]. 8vo (19.3 x 12.0 cm). Over 10,000 pp.; 257 finely engraved plates. Uniform contemporary polished tree-calf with empire style gilt borders and ornaments. Red and black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled e...

Geology. A poem in seven books.

Watson, J. S. · 1844

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

London, William Pickering, 1844. 8vo (16.8 x 10.7 cm). [iv], 209 pp. Contemporary green cloth with paper label on the spine. = A very little known work by the reverend, writer, translator, and murderer John Selby Watson (1804-1884). The work is dedicated to Charles Lyell "with...

Le perroquet. Histoire naturelle, hygiène, maladies.

Percheron, G. · 1878

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, P. Asselin, 1878. 8vo (19.7 x 12.5 cm). xi, 208 pp.; 20 (one double sized) hand-coloured wood-engravings. Later half-vellum over marbled boards. Title in red and black on the spine. = Rare example of a book with hand-coloured wood-engravings. The author, Gaston Perchero...

Teori funktjii komplek?sago peremtshennago [Theory of functions of a complex variable: Lectures]

Savich, S. E. · 1906

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

St. Petersburg, Akademia Nauk, 1906. 8vo (25.0 x 17.0 cm). 205 pp.; 43 text figures. Original printed wrappers. = Interesting treatise on complex functions, with illustrations, by the Russian mathematician Sergei Evgenievich Savich (1864-1936). Uncut. A very good clean copy. R...

13 taxonomic/systematic and index papers on Crustacea and French scientific campaigns published between 1973-1989.

Forest, J. [et al.] · 1973

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Paris, Masson [and others], 1973-1989. 13 papers in one. 4to (26.5 x 21.5 cm). Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Many pages, plates and text figures. Spine with five raised bands amd gilt title. = The "complete quarto Forest" between 1973 and 1989. The papers incl...

Die elegante Stickerin oder Pracht-Muster im neuesten Modegeschmack zum Sticken und Weissnähen nebst dem vollständigen Alphabet in lateinischer und gothischer Schrift, und einer Anweisung, wie eine Stickerin, ohne zeichnen zu können, sich selbst jedes Muster ab - und aufzeichnen und fortführen kann. Ein Geschenk für das schöne Geschlecht.

[Anonymous] · 1820

€850.00 ($936.87 | £709.13 | ¥149,558)

Meissen, F. W. Goedsche, no date, but circa 1820. 8vo. 4 pp. instruction leaf; 13 leaves with floral patterns (four double-sized). In original marbled paper covered slipcase (22.2 x 13.2 cm) with mounted pictorial title leaf. = A charming "Biedermeier" style pattern book, bein...

Portrait. Oval engraving by Weger.

Darwin, Charles · 1880

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Leipzig, [Weger], after a photograph of ca. 1880. Print size 20.0 x 15.0 cm (paper size 30.1 x 39.6 cm). = Engraved portrait by August Weger (1823-1892). The portrait, "nach ein Photographie" show Charles Darwin in old age with his iconic beard. His autograph is printed below....

Osteografia di un mastodonte angustidente.

Sismonda, E. · 1851

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Torino, Accademia reale delle Scienze di Torino, 1851. 4to (26.5 x 22.7 cm). 63 pp.; six engraved, folded plates (one larger). Contemporary blind wrappers. = Rare paper by the Italian zoologist Eugenio Sismonda (1815-1870) on a well-preserved fossil elephant with detailed illu...

Documents relatifs à la mammalogie du Gabon.

Pucheran, [J.] · 1858

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, 1858. Large 4to. (31.6 x 24.7 cm). Drop head title, 33 pp., four finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Disbound. = Important paper on the mammals of west-central Africa with the descriptions and illustrations of new species includin...

Krebse von Süd-Georgien nach der Ausbeute der Deutschen Station 1882-83. 2. Teil. Die Amphipoden.

Pfeffer, G. · 1887

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Hamburg, Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Anstalten, 1887. Large 8vo (26.3 x 17.8 cm). Title page, 66 pp.; three lithographed plates. Disbound. = Contains the description and illustration of many new and rarely seen amphipod crustaceans. Slight age-toning, otherwise a very good ...

Développements asymptotiques dans les equations différentielles linéaires à paramètre variable. [AND] Développements asymptotiques dans les equations différentielles linéaires à paramètre variable. Errata et addenda. [Inscribed by the author].

Noaillon, P. · 1912

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Bruxelles, Hayez, 1912. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). 208 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A rarely seen copy, dated and dedicated by the author. Paul Noaillon (1875-1940) was an important scientist and mathematician in Paris between 1920 and 1940. His father, Alexandre Noaillon (1843...

Das electrische Organ des Zitterwelses, anatomisch beschrieben.

Bilharz, T. [M.] · 1857

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥65,982)

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1857. Folio (34.3 x 25.1 cm). 58 pp.; four tinted lithographed plates. Contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards. Original printed wrappers bound in. = Theodor Maximilian Bilharz (1825-1862) was a German physician and an important pioneer in...

Metingen over Kerr's verschijnsel bij magnetisatie evenwijdig aan het spiegelend oppervlak.

Sissingh, R. · 1890

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1890. 4to (28.1 x 22.3 cm). 65 pp., one large, folded plate. Disbound. = The plate shows the measuring-device used to obtain the data. Published on behalf of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences) in their Verha...

De geslachtsgeneratie der Gleicheniaceeën.

Rauwenhoff, N. W. P. · 1890

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1890. 4to (28.2 x 22.4 cm). 54 pp., seven plates (of which four partially tinted). Disbound. = A rare work, dealing with the fork ferns, a small, mainly tropical fern family. Published on behalf of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal D...

Anthropologische Studien aus Insulinde.

Hagen, B. · 1890

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1890. 4to (28.0 x 22.6 cm). 149, [34] pp.; four plates (one larger, folded), of which one partially in full colour. Original printed boards. = Deals with the anthropology, and in particular the great variety in hair types, of tribes in the former Du...

Narodovoletz. 1.

Bourtzeff, V. [Burtsev] · 1897

€3,250.00 ($3,582.15 | £2,711.39 | ¥571,841)

London, privately printed by the author, 1897. 8vo (18.2 x 12.3 cm). 40 pp. Contemporary strip of paper to spine. = Anarchist paper (title meaning: the will of the people) inciting the assassination of Czar Nicolas II. The author, Vladimir Bourtzeff (later often spelled Burtse...

The marine decapod Crustacea of California with special reference to the decapod Crustacea collection by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer "Albatross" in connection with the biological survey of the San Francisco Bay in 1912-1913.

Schmitt, W. L. · 1921

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1921. Large 8vo. 470 pp.; 165 text figures, 50 plates, two folded maps. Original printed wrappers. = The rare original; neither the 1972 reprint nor one of those much inferior "on demand" reprints. Excellent for identifications. Un...