Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Description de quelques oiseaux nouveaux appartenant a la collection zoologique du Museum. [AND] Description de quelques oiseaux nouveaux.

Verreaux, J. · 1860

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,715)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, 1860. Large 4to (31.2 x 24.4 cm). 13 [6; 5] pp.; four [2; 2] very fine hand-coloured plates. 20th-century hardcover paper binding. = Two papers by the same author from the golden age of descriptive ornithology. with very fine, large plates. ...

Middle Cambrian agnostids: Systematics amd biostratigraphy. Volume 1: Text - Volume 2: Plates. [Complete].

Öpik, A. A. · 1979

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Canberra, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, 1979. Two parts in two. 8vo. xi, 188 pp.; 67 plates. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A detailed monograph which inludes many new species and higher taxa, including a new subfamily. Text volume with errata leaf...

De morfologie en de Kwartairstratigrafie van de Maasvallei in Belgisch Limburg.

Paulissen, E. · 1973

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,437)

Brussel, Konininklijke Academie van Wetenschappen van Belgie, 1973. 8vo. 266 pp.; one coloured, folded map (in rear pocket), 78 text figures and maps. Printed paperback. = Published in the academy's Verhandelingen. A price-winning essay. Written in Dutch, with English summary....

Mondablösung, Gebirgsbildung, Kontinentverschiebung.

Schmidt, K. G. · 1949

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Bonn, L. Röhrscheid, 1949. 4to (29.2 x 20.7 cm). 83, 4 pp.; 16 text figures, one table. Original printed wrappers. = Apparently a very rare work, published in low numbers as it is type-written and contains peculiar simple illustrations that are tipped in. Yet it must be import...

Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Emm. de Margerie. Professeur honoraire a l'Université de Strasbourg, collaborateur principal au Service de la Carte Géologique, correspondant de l'institut, membre étrangfer de la Société royale de Londres.

[Margerie, E. M. P. M. J. De] · 1938

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Macon, Protat Frères, 1938. 4to. 216 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A "Festschrift" for the French geologist Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie (1862-1953). It provides a list of his papers, at least the 281 papers published up to 1938, and sketches of his life and works. Provenan...

Flora Indiae Batavae. Flora van Nederlandsch-Indië.

Miquel, F. A. W. · 1855

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Amsterdam, C. G. van der Post, 1855-1860. Three volumes (of four). 8vo (24.0 x 15.0 cm). Title pages in Latin, and in Dutch. 2,058 pp. [I(2) (1859) xii, 704; II (1856) ix, 1103; III (1855) x, 773]; lithographed frontispiece, 27 lithographed plates [numbered 15-41], two folding...

Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones Zootomicorum, quae ex itinere per Africam Borealem et Asiam occidentalem. [Mammalium]. Decas Prima.

Ehrenberg, C. G. and F. G. Hemprich · 1899

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Berlin, Ex officina Academia, 1899. Folio (49.8 x 35.0 cm). 9 (of 11) original lithographed plates in original printed portfolio. = This is the part titled "Zootomica" with lithographed plates 1-7, 9-10 and 13, containing the genera Apis (a long-horned bovine, two different pl...

Elemente der theoretischen Krystallographie.

Naumann, C. F. · 1856

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1856. 8vo (22.6 x 15.3 cm). xvi, 383 pp.; 86 text figures. Original black, grained half cloth over deep purple boards. = First edition. Next to his "Grundriss der Krystallographie" published in 1826 the most important work on crystallography by the Germa...

Recherches sur des Cladophoracées marines (structure, reproduction, cycles comparés, conséquences systématiques).

Jónsson, S. · 1962

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Paris, Masson & Cie., 1962. 8vo (24.9 x 16.4 cm). 230 pp.; 16 plates. Original printed wrappers. = The author's thesis on marine green algae. Well-illustrated. Date of public defense added in ink on front wrapper. Dedication (?) clipped from top margin of the title, otherwise ...

Zur Osteologie der Knochenfische nach Materialen aus dem Pariser Pflanzengarten. Neue unveränderte Ausgabe der Schrift: Osteologisches aus dem Pariser Pflanzengarten. Mit 150 Figuren auf eilf Tafeln, vom Verfasser nach der Natur in Stein radirt.

Brühl, C. B. · 1887

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1887. Large 4to (33.3 x 26.2 cm). 129 (7 ["numbered" A-G], 76, xliii, [3]) pp.; 11 lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. = A detailed and well-illustrated wo...

Fishes, living and fossil. An outline of their forms and probable relationships.

Dean, B. · 1895

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.17 | ¥31,671)

New York, NY, MacMillan, 1895. 8vo (21.6 x 14.8 cm). xiv, 300 pp.; frontispiece, 345 text figures. Original dark blue buckram. Spine with gilt title. Top edge gilt. = A surprisingly scarce well-illustrated monograph by the American ichthyologist and expert in medieval swords, ...

Die Lehre von den Flötzformationen.

Cotta, [C.] B. [Von] · 1856

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Freiburg, J. G. Engelhardt, 1856. 8vo. viii, 286 pp., one chromolithographed frontispiece, numerous woodcuts. Original blue, printed wrappers. = The fine, handcoloured frontispiece shows a profile of the earth's upper crust with the various types of minerals and sediments. The...

Elsevier's oil and gas field dictionary.

Chaballe, L. Y. et al. (eds.) · 1980

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1980. Large 8vo (24.3 x 16.4 cm). 672 pp. Publishers white and yellow-printed brown moch leather = A mint copy of the only dictionary of contemporary terms used in the oil and gas field industry. In English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, and wit...

Elsevier's dictionary of hydrology and water quality management.

Van der Tuin, J. D. · 1991

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1991. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). xv, 527 pp. Publisher's yellow and white printed green leatherette. = An large dictionary of contemporary hydrology terms in English, French, Spanish, Dutch and German. Very uncommon, perhaps because of a forbidding publis...

A vertebrate fauna of the Moray Basin. Vol. I - Vol. II. [Complete].

Harvie-Brown, J. A. and T. E. Buckley · 1895

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1895. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.0 x 16.0 cm). 638 pp. [I: xxii, 306, (i); II: 309, (and xxiv - advertisements)]; two half titles, two photographic title pages (tissue-guarded), one folded panorama, one multi-folded full colour map mounted on linen, ...

Orographische und hydrographische Uebersicht der Rheinprovinz und der Provinz Westphalen, sowie einiger angrenzenden Gegenden.

Dechen, [E.] H. [K.] Von · 1870

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Bonn, A. Henry, 1870. Thick 8vo (23.4 x 15.5 cm). Two title pages, xx, 872 pp., Contemporary full pebbled cloth. triple-gilt bands and title on the spine. Red and blue marbled edges. = An amazingly well-preserved copy of the rare first volume, "Erster Band", of - as stated on ...

The genus Alopia.

Soós, L. · 1928

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Budapest, Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 1928. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.8 cm). 166 pp.; 32 text figures. No wrappers (probably not issued). = A rarely seen major revision - including new taxa, written by the Hungarian malacologist Lajos Soós (1879-1972). Published in the Museum's Ann...

The unit cells of four proteïns (pp. 221-222); [AND] The Fourier Transform of a Coiled-coil (pp. 685-689); [AND] The Packing of a-Helices: simple Coiled-coils (pp. 689-697 with 5 figs).

Crick, F. · 1953

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard (for the International Union of Crystallography, 1953. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. = Important contributions on molecular structure of biological systems and Fouriers transforms are given for a continuous coi...

The literature of the Charadriiformes from 1894-1928. With a classification of the order and lists of the genera, species and subspecies. [Presentation copy to Mackworth-Praed]

Low, G. C. · 1924

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1924. 8vo (21.8 x 14.0 cm). 228 pp. Original blindstamped buckram with gilt title on the spine. = Rare presentation copy of this important bibliography. Signed and dated by the author in pencil on the front paste-down, and with the small stamp of t...

Ztyud'í nad" prostyshimi zhivotn'ími cvera Rossii. [Studies on simple animals from northern Russia].

Merezhkovskii, K. S. [Merezhkovsky] · 1878

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

St. Petersburg, B. O. Demakov, 1878. Large 8vo (25.3 x 16.2 cm). 183 pp.; three lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = An important but seldom seen work on microscopic life ((Ciliata and Flagellifera) by the Russian botanist and microbiologist Konstantin Sergeevich ...