Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Description du coq-des-roches Americain, qoiseau d'une merveilleuse beauté, tres peu connu encore; apporté de Surinam, pour le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime, monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, stadhouder héreditaire, gouverneur, capitaine géneral et amirail des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.

Vosmaer, A. · 1769

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1769. 4to (27.4 x 21.1 cm). Eight pp. (including title page and rear blank); one engraved plate. Disbound. = Vosmaer was director of the menagerie of Prince Willem V of the Netherlands. Many strange animals were captured and sent to the zoo by Dutch t...

Über die malagassischen Lemuriden-Gattungen Microcebus, Opolemur und Chirogale.

Forsyth Major, C. I. · 1894

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Tring, Zoological Museum Tring. 1894. 4to (28.5 x 19.5 cm). 38 pp., two tissue-guarded plates of which one a hand-coloured lithograph by J. Smit. Disbound. = Major (no pun intended) contribution to the knowledge of the lemurs by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843-1923), a Sw...

On a collection of humming-birds from Ecuador and Mexico.

Hartert, E. and C. Hartert · 1894

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,437)

Tring, Zoological Museum Tring. 1894. 4to (28.6 x 19.8 cm). 22 pp.; two plates of which one a hand-coloured lithograph by Keulemans. Disbound. = Rare paper extracted from Novitates Zoologicae Volume 1(1) with a beautiful hand-coloured lithograph by the famous 19th-century illu...

Monographie des espèces du genre cerf. Première partie. généralités.

Pucheran, [J.] · 1852

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1852. Large 4to (32.3 x 24.5 cm). 226 pp.; eight plates (of which six finely hand-coloured). Later boards with facsimile of the volume's title page mounted. = A very rare paper on deer, this being the general introduction, which is all that was publis...

Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes.

Milne-Edwards, H. and J. Haime · 1851

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1851. Large 4to (30.3 x 24.0 cm). 488 pp.; 20 mounted photographs. 19th century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Disbound. = A large and important taxonomical paper, dealing with coral systematics and...

Description d'une espèce rare de singe d'Amerique à longue queuë, nommé quatto, par les naturels de païs, et, par les Hollandais, bosch-duivel, (diable des bois,) ou slinger-aap, (singe voltigeur;) reçu de la colonie Hollandoise de Surinam; et conservé dans le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime, monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Stadhouder héreditaire, gouverneur, capitaine géneral et amirail des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.

Vosmaer, A. · 1773

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1773. 4to (27.3 x 21.0 cm). 12 pp. (including title page); one engraved plate with contemporary colouring. Disbound. = Aernout Vosmaer (1720-1799) was director of the menagerie of Prince Willem V of the Netherlands. Many strange animals were captured ...

Notes sur quelques crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus conservés dans la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.

Milne Edwards, [H.] · 1853

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1853. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.0 cm). 48 pp, eight engraved plates. Later printed wrappers. = An important taxonomical paper, dealing with crabs of which the majority is described as new and beautifully illustrated. The plates have Roman numbers...

Nouvelles études sur les rhinocéros fossiles.

Duvernoy, [G. L.] · 1853

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1853. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.0 cm). 144 pp.; eight lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Important study on fossil pachyderms with the description and illustration of new species and new specimens of species already known with implications o...

Podostemacearum monographia.

Tulasne, L. R. · 1852

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, [1852]. Large 4to (32.2 x 24.9 cm). 208 pp.; 13 engraved plates of which five partly hand-coloured or tinted. Original printed wrappers. = Important contribution to the knowledge of river weeds (or riverweeds) by the great French botanist an...

Nouvelles recherches sur l'organe électrique du malaptérure électrique Lacép. (Silurus electricus Linn.).

Valenciennes, A. · 1841

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1841. Large 4to (30.6 x 23.5 cm). 41 pp.; three engraved plates of which one finely hand-coloured. Later wrappers with printed label on front wrapper. = An early study on the "electric" organ of the African electric catfish, Malapterurus ele...

Description des crustacés nouveaux ou peu connus et remarquables par leur organisation, conservés dans la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.

Audouin, [J. V.] and [H.] Milne Edwards · 1841

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1841. Large 4to (30.5 x 23.8 cm). 41 pp.; three engraved plates of which one originally hand-coloured. Later wrappers with printed label. = An important taxonomical paper, dealing with the genera Serolis and Astacus. Of the latter, the speci...

Premier mémoire sur les kaolins ou argiles a porcelaine, sur la nature, le gisement, l'origine et l'emploi de cette sorte d'argile [AND] Second mémoire sur les kaolins ou argiles a porcelaine, sur la nature et l'origine de cette sorte d'argile.

Brongniart, A. · 1839

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Paris, Gide, 1839-1840. In two parts. Large 4to (30.8 x 24.0 cm). 99 [59; 40] pp.; five hand-coloured engraved plates, several tables. Disbound. = A rare and finely illustrated monograph of this economically important clay type, written by the French chemist, mineralogist, geo...

Mémoire sur la famille de lardizabalées, précédé de remarques sur l'anatomie comparée de quelques tiges de végétaux dicotylédonés.

Decaisne, J. · 1839

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Paris, Gide, 1839. Large 4to (30.8 x 24.0 cm). 71 pp.; four engraved plates. later wrappers with printed label on the front wrapper. = A rare and well-illustrated paper on this family of flowering plants. Published in the first volume of the Archives of the Museum d'Histoire N...

Reptiles (Lacertilia, Chelonia and Emydosauria) [collected by Dutch expeditions to South-West New Guinea during the years 1904, 1907, 1909, and 1912].

Rooij, [P. J.] N. De · 1919

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1919. Large 4to (31.5 x 25.1 cm). 21 pp., ten (groups of) text figures. Disbound. = Rare publication which includes the description and illustration of several new and poorly known species. De Roooij is sometimes spelled as De Rooy. The title page of the i...

Beiträge zur Anatomie des Elephanten und der übrigen Pachydermen.

Mayer, C. · 1847

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Breslau and Bonn, Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae, 1847. 4to. Title page, 88 pp.; nine engraved plates (one double, folded). Disbound. = A detailed anatomical study. Published in the academy's Verhandlungen, volume 14. Some spotting to the plates, otherwise a very good...

Mémoire sur le moyen hippopotame fossile de Cuvier, replacé au genre des dugongs.

Christol, J. De · 1834

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Paris, Crochard, 1834. 8vo (23.0 x 15.2 cm). 20 pp.; large, folded, engraved plate. Disbound. = Rare paper published in two parts in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, serie 2, volume 2. The plate with some light damp stains, otherwise a good copy.

Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes fondée principalement sur les collections du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd. Reptiles (Reptilia). Volumes I-II. [Complete].

Nikolsky, A. M. [Nikolski, Nikolskii] · 1915

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

Petrograd, Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd, 1915-1916. Two volumes in two. 8vo (25.0 x 16.6 cm). 884 [534; 350] pp.; 133 [69; 64] text engravings, 17 [9; 8] plates. Uniform original printed wrappers. = Important contribution to the very rich ...

Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte. Die Amphibien.

Wilhelm, G. T. · 1818

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Wien, the "Herausgeber", 1818. 8vo (18.1 x 11.1 cm). Frontispiece, [xvi], 328 pp.; 40 hand-coloured plates with 70 images. Contemporary tree-calf resembling paper covered boards. Spine with gilt lines, vignette, and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges dyed yellow. = Part ...

Il chelonio veronese (Protosphargis veronensis, Cap.) scoperto nel 1852 nel Cretaceo superiore presso Sant'Anna di Alfaedo in Valpolicella.

Capellini, G. · 1884

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Roma, Salviucci, 1884. 4to (29.9 x 22.1 cm). 30 pp., seven photographic and lithographed plates (one double sized). Disbound. = A detailed study of this remarkable Mesozoic turtle with fine illustrations. Published in the Atti delle Reale Accademia dei Lincei, volume 18, with ...

Description de l'ichneumon indien, qui tuë le crocodile; apporté vivant, du Bengale, dans la ménagerie de son altesse sérénissime, monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, stadhouder héreditaire, gouverneur, capitaine géneral et amirail des Provinces Unies des pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.

Vosmaer, A. · 1772

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1772. 4to. 10 pp. (including title page), one engraved plate. Disbound. = This treatise deals with the Egyptian mongoose in particular on the history of the knowledge of this and related species of mongoose, and as indicated by the title, it contains ...