Antiquariaat Schierenberg

De la végétation aux Iles Canaries des plantes de pays tempérés et des plantes des regions intertropicales et physionomie générale de leur agriculture.

Pérez, V. and P. [A.] Sagot · 1876

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1876. 8vo (22.7 x 14.1 cm) 59 pp., printed wrappers. = Rare paper on the botany of the Canary Islands, with lists of species that grow or can be cultivated on these islands. Published by the Libraire-Commissionnaire pour l'Algerie et les Colonies, and an...

Etudes géologiques sur le Maroc Central et le Moyen Atlas Septentrional.

Termier, H. [F. É.] · 1936

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Rabat, Service des Mines et de la Carte Géologique, 1936. 4to (28.2 x 22.0 cm). 1566 pp. [I: 741; II: 743-1082; III: 1083-1566]; 31 Roman numbered plates, mostly fine photogravure plates; 17 large, mult-folded profiles and maps ("numbered" A-Q); 25 Roman numbered charts and ta...

Geocome - I. First geological congress of the Middle East.

Öngür, T., N. Babacan, B. M. Ürgün [Eds.] · 1982

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Ankara, Mineral Research and Exploration Institute, Geological Society of Turkey, 1982. 4to (28.2 x 20.2 cm). 650 pp.; numerous figures, plates, maps and tables. Original printed wrappers. = The first geological congress of the Middle East was held in Ankara between 4 and 7 Se...

Studi e richerche sui Tentaculiferi nei quadro della biologia generale.

Canella, M. F. · 1957

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Ferrara, Universita degli studi di Ferrara 1957. 1957. 8vo (24.5 x 17.0 cm). 458 pp., 17 plates. Printed wrappers. = Seldom-seen monograph on Protozoa, Ciliophora. Very detailed and well-illustrated. With a dedication of the author on the cover. Light creasing to a few leaves;...

Catalogue of double stars. Read December 9, 1784.

Herschel, W. · 1785

€1,000.00 ($1,102.20 | £834.28 | ¥175,951)

London, The Royal Society, 1785. Large 4to (25.5 x 19.0 cm). Engraved title page, vii, 212 pp. Original grey front wrapper. = After discovering moons around Saturn and Uranus, Herschel turned his attention from the planets to the stars, and drew up two catalogues of double sta...

Observations of a comet, made with a view to investigate its magnitude and the nature of its illumination. To which is added, an account of a new irregularity lately perceived in the apparent figure of the planet Saturn.

Herschel, W. · 1808

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

London, The Royal Society, 1808. Large 4to (29.2 x 23.0 cm). pp. 146-163; one plate. = Tewo papers in one, by the famous astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822). His observations on the 1807 comet - discussed here - are thought-provoking regarding the conundrum, are comets ill...

On the Nature and Construction of the Sun and Fixed Stars.

Herschel, W. · 1794

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

London, The Royal Society, 1794. Large 4to (26.7 x 20.8 cm). pp. 46-72. Disbound. = This paper by the famous astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822) is of interest as it contains the remark, quoted, abridged, in Gaither' s Dictionary of scientific quotations, "The sun is the c...

Observations on the two lately discovered celestial bodies.

Herschel, W. · 1802

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥21,994)

London, The Royal Society, 1802. Large 4to (29.1 x 22.8 cm). pp. 213-232. Disbound. = An original astronomical contribution, taken from the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1802 (not from the later, abridged edition). In this work, Herschel discusses two moons discovere...

Itinerario. Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naar Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, 1579-1592. Derde deel. Beschijvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea, Manicongo, etc. Volght noch de beschrijvinghe van West-Indien met haere caerte.

Burger, C.P. and F.W.T. Hunger. · 1934

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Den Haag, Linschoten Vereeniging, 1934. Large 8vo. xxxiv, 337 pp. one portrait, three large folded maps and 15 text figures. Original decorated and blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt vignette on front board. = This is vol 39 of "De Linschoten Vereeniging" in...

Journaal van Dircq van Adrichem's hofreis naar den Groot-Mogol Aurangzeb, 1662.

Bernet-Kempers, A. J. · 1941

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

's-Gravenhage, M. Nijhoff, 1941. 8vo (24.5 x 16.3 cm). xx, 275 pp.; 22 plates and one folded map. Original half cloth with decorated boards. = In excellent condition. Adrichem was a delegate of the VOC who travelled to Mogol court in New Delhi trying to obtain trading concessi...

Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West passage and of a residence in the Artic Regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the reports of commander, now captain, James Clark Ross, and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole.

Ross, J. · 1835

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Brussels, Ad. Wahlen, printer to the court, 1835. 8vo (19.4 x 12.4 cm). xxvi, 542 pp.; one folded map and five smaller engraved maps (one in two colours) lithographed by Thierry frères in Paris. Contemporary blind-embossed half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised,...

Farbige Flächendecorationen im modernen Stil. Serie 1.

Wolfrum, F. [Publisher] · 1902

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.56 | ¥105,571)

Vienna and Leipzig, Wolfrum, no date [ca. 1902]. Folio (42.5 x 29.9 cm). Portfolio, containing title page and 17 (of 18) coloured plates. Original cloth and paper portfolio with title and fine Jugendstil logo of the printer. = A very rare portfolio of Art Nouveau designs by Cl...

Tapisserie de haute-lisse des Gobelins [BOUND WITH] Tapisserie de basse-lisse des Gobelins.

Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (Ed.). · 1770

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Paris, ca. 1770. Two parts in one. Folio (39.5 x 26.0 cm). 2 + 3 pp.; 31 plates (seven double sized). Later plain wrappers. = Two suites, on tapestry and weaving, from the great French eighteenth-century Encyclopedie by Diderot and d'Alembert. With several pages of explanatory...

Mission scientifique de Cap Horn 1882-1883. Tome IV. Géologie.

Hyades, P. · 1887

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1887. 4to (27.2 x 22.8 cm). [ii], 249 pp.; three engraved maps of which two double sized, 20 heliogravures and lithographs, one being another map. Ten splendid chromolithographed plates, depicting minerals, a few finished by hand. Contemporary half cal...

Dictionary of Geosciences. English-German. German-English. In two volumes.

Watznauer, A. · 1982

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1982. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.0 x 15.0 cm). 772 pp. [372; 400]. Uniform cloth and dust jackets. = Very thorough. Containing approximately 38,000 (!) terms. An as new set.

Résultats des explorations zoologiques, botaniques, océanographiques et géologiques entreprises aux Indes Néerlandaises Orientale en 1899-1900, à bord du Siboga sous le commande de G. F. Tydeman, publiés par Max Weber. Livraison 1-148. [All published].

Siboga Expedition (M. W. C. Weber, ed.) · 1901

€9,500.00 ($10,470.89 | £7,925.61 | ¥1,671,535)

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1901-1986. Large 4to (ca. 33.0 x 27.0 cm); more than 1,200 plates (188 in colour) including lithographed and chromolithographed plates, some etchings and photographic plates. Partly original printed wrappers, partly blind wrappers. = Very rare complete set...

Verslag der Staatscommissie benoemd bij Koninklijk Besluit van 8 september 1892, No. 21, tot het instellen van een onderzoek omstrent eene afsluiting en eene droogmaking van de Zuiderzee.

1894

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

's-Gravenhage, Staatscommissie voor de Afsluiting en Droogmaking der Zuiderzee, 1894. 4to (28.6 22.1 cm). vii, 178, lv pp.; 24 folded plates, many tabsles, one very large folded coloured map in rear pocket (Gewijzigd ontwerp tot afsluiting Zuiderzee met inpoldering). Original...

Report of the First Scientific Expedition to Manchoukuo. Under the leadership of Shigeyasu Tokunaka. June - October 1933. Section II [Geology]. Part I-IV. [Complete].

Tokunaga, S. et al. · 1934

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

Tokyo, Asahi, 1934-1939. Four volumes in four. 4to (26.0 x 19.0 cm). Ca. 700 pp. with 124 plates and three folding coloured maps. Original uniform printed stiff wrappers. = This is the rare, complete geological section of the results of an expedition to northern China during t...

Het toekomstig landschap der Zuiderzeepolders. In opdracht van het Nederlandsch Instituut voor Volkshuisvesting en Stedebouw.

Hudig, D. a.o. · 1928

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, 1928. 4to. 92 pp.; many illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. = A rare look into the future. Between 1930 and 1967, four large polders (together 1650 square kilometer) were created, at approximately four meters below sea level. When this s...

[Lektsii o rabote glavnikh pischevaritelnikh zhelez; Lectures on the work of the principal digestive glands].

Pavlov, I. P. [Pawlow] · 1917

€2,500.00 ($2,755.50 | £2,085.69 | ¥439,878)

Moscow, Priroda, 1917. 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm) xvi, 230 pp. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards with original printed title with floral borders mounted on front board. = Second Russian edition of Pavlov's work on the digestive glands, which earned him the Nobel Prize in 190...