Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Fishes of Australia and their technology.

Roughley, T. C. · 1916

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, 1916. 4to (24.5 x 18.1 cm). xvi, 296 pp., full colour frontispiece. 70 full colour plates, all after watercolours of A. Murray. Original gilt decorated cloth with bevelled edges. Pictorial endpapers. = An important book on the fishes of Austr...

The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America and the American whale fishery.

Scammon, C. M. · 1874

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

San Francisco, CA, J. H. Carmany, 1874 [EXPANDED REPRINT, Riverside, CA, Manessier, 1969]. 4to. xlvi, 319, [v] pp., 27 plates, two folding maps in printed rear pocket and one portrait of the author, loosely inserted. Republisher's green embossed cloth with gilt vignette on the...

Die Milben des Süsswassers und des Meeres. Erster Teil - Zweiter und dritter Teil. [Complete].

Viets, K. · 1955

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1955-1956. Three volumes in two. Large 8vo (24.1 x 17.0 cm). 1346 pp.; text figures. Original uniform printed cloth. = The magnum opus of the German acarologist Karl Viets (1882-1961). The first volume contains biographies and bibliographies, with occasio...

Subsídios para o conhecimento da flora da Guiné Portuguesa.

Sousa, A. de F. G. e · 1930

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Coimbra, Sociedade Broteriana, 1930. 4to (32.8 x 22.2 cm). Text; 44 lithographed plates and one coloured, folded map. Original printed wrappers. = A litlle-known regional Flora - not in Stafleu and Cowan - which is very well illustrated with lithographs - a very late example o...

De electrische stroom. Oude en nieuwe denkbeelden. In: Herdenking van het 150-jarige bestaan van het Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam. 1769 - 17 augustus - 1919.

Lorentz, H. A. · 1919

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Rotterdam, Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam, 1919. 4to (26.0 x 22.0 cm). 25 [49] pp.; 12 text figures. Later quarter cloth over original printed wrappers (society's logo printed on rear wrapper). = A rare paper in which Lorentz explains ...

Novae plantarum species Tiroliae, Venetiae, Carnioliae, Carinthiae, Styriae et Austriae. Decas I. [AND] Novae plantarum species. Decas. II. Continens descriptiones plantarum novarum a Cl. Jaeschke in Himalajae montibus collectarum.

Kerner, A. [J.] von Marilaun · 1870

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Innsbruck, Wagner, 1870. Two parts in one. 8vo (20.8 x 13.7 cm) 71 [46; 25] pp.; two engraved plates. Somewhat later purple buckram with gilt title on the spine. Bluish-green endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in. = First two (of three) "Decas" (parts), written by the ...

Vocabularium nominum animalium quinque-lingue: Pisces.

Sokolov, V. E. (ed.) · 1989

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Moskva, Russky Yazyk, 1989. 8vo (20.8 x 13.0 cm) 733 pp. Gilt-lettered cloth. = What's the name of that fish in Russian? What is Betta pugnax in French? This important dictionary gives direct answers, with fish names in Latin, Russian, English, French and German. This pocket-s...

Relazione dell'ultima eruzione del Vesuvio. Accaduta nel mese di agosto di questo anno 1779. Rélation de la dernière éruption du Vésuve. Arrivée au mois d'Août de cette année 1779. [Very rare with coloured plate].

Torcia, M. · 1779

€3,000.00 ($3,306.60 | £2,502.82 | ¥527,853)

Napoli, Raimondi, 1779. 8vo (18.6 x 12.0 cm). Two title pages (Italian and French) with different engraved vignettes, [vi], 135 pp. (separated by a blank page), one folded engraved view of the eruption engraved by Boilly and nicely hand-coloured by Volaire. Contemporary vellum...

Botanical names for English readers.

Alcock, R. H. · 1876

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

London, Lovell Reeve and Co., 1876. 8vo. 254 pp. Blind-stamped green cloth with gilt title on spine and front board. = With author's hand-written dedication to B. D. Jackson. Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1846-1927) wrote the first volume of Index Kewensis a work that aimed to incl...

Principes raisonnés d'agriculture. Traduits de l'Allemand par le baron E. V. B. Crud. Seconde edition, revue, corrigée et augmentée de nouvelles notes.

Thaer, A. · 1831

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Paris, Cherbuliez, 1831. Folio (25.8 x 20.9 cm). 79 pp., 13 large, folded engraved plates and 79p. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with black and gilt ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = The atlas-volume only, which, however, is much rar...

Hortus Fluminensis ou breve noticia sobre as plantas cultivadas no Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro (1893).

Barbosa Rodrigues, J. · 1893

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Rio de Janeiro, Leuzinger, "1893" [1894]. Large 4to (26.1 x 18.8 cm). 361 pp.; 13 tissue-guarded photographic plates. Contemporary red buckram. Gilt title on the spine. = A rarely seen, well-illustrated work by the Brazilian botanist and director of the botanical garden of Rio...

[History of Beijing] Xin xin xiang rong de Beijing: san shi wu nian lai Beijing shi guo min jing ji he she hui fa zhan gai kuang, 1949-1984. [Beijing with a Harmonious Spirit: An Overview of Beijing's National Economic and Social Development Over the Past Thirty-Five Years].

Tong, J. J. · 1984

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Beijing, Beijing chu ban she, 1984. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.6 cm). [Iv, v], 368 pp.; 63 full colour photographic plates. Text in Chinese. Pictorial full colour endpapers (map of Beijing). Red cloth with black spine; gilt logo on front board, gilt title on the spine. In gilt and w...

Exploration du Parc National Albert. Introduction à l'écologie des ongulés du Parc National Albert. Text and Atlas [Complete].

Bourlière, F. and J. Verschuren · 1960

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Bruxelles, Institut des Parcs nationaux du Congo belge, 1960. Two parts in one. large 8vo (26.3 x 17.7 cm). 158 pp., 52 fine, tissue-guarded photographic plates (numbered I-XLIX, XIIbis, XXXbis, XLVbis). Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised...

A history of the British stalk-eyed Crustacea.

Bell, T. · 1853

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, Van Voorst, 1853. 8vo. lxv, 386 pp.; 174 steel engravings in the text. Green full morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title; boards with gilt edges and rich gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. = A "de luxe" copy of this cl...

Coleopterorum Catalogus. 101 issues.

Schenkling, S. (ed.) · 1910

€3,500.00 ($3,857.70 | £2,919.96 | ¥615,829)

Berlin, The Hague, W. Junk, 1910-1939. 8vo. In 101 issues. [numbered 1-7, 9-15, 17-29, 31-37, 40-42, 44, 48, 51, 53-59, 61-65, 67, 69-70, 76, 80-85, 87-89, 93-96, 99-103, 105-110, 112-114, 117, 119, 127-128, 133, 137, 155, 157-159, 161-163, 165-168). The first part is a "Prob...

Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dans le nouveau monde.

Lafitau, J. F. · 1733

€1,500.00 ($1,653.30 | £1,251.41 | ¥263,927)

Paris, Saugrain & Coignard, 1733. Two parts in two. 4to (29.6 x 25.7 cm). [iv], xxiv, 616 pp.; [xxiv] 693, [xliv] pp. With an engraved frontispiece, one text-vignette, 14 engraved plates and views (of which one larger, folding), and a fine, large, multi-folded map of the world...

De Boroboedoer. Zes etsen door Jan Poortenaar, Inleiding van Prof. Dr. N. J. Krom.

Poortenaar, J. C. · 1929

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

[Naarden, privately published, 1929]. Folio (37.9 x 28.0 cm). Two leafs of text and six fine etchings under passe-partouts, all signed and numbered in pencil, this being #161. All as issued with the original cloth portfolio with gilt title on front. = The portfolio contains si...

Description des Alpes, Pennines et Rhetiennes; dédiée a.s.m. très-chrétienne Louis XVI, roi de France et de Navarre. Tome premier - second. [Complete].

Bourrit, M. T. · 1781

€1,100.00 ($1,212.42 | £917.70 | ¥193,546)

Genève, J. P. Bonnant, 1781. In two volumes. 8vo (21.5 x 13.8 cm). xix, 247 pp.; [ii], 285 pp.; eight engraved plates, mainly of glaciers, and one folded engraved map of the Alps, several wood engraved vignettes in the text. Original uniform blind publishers' wrappers. Spines ...

Muscologia Gallica. Description et figures des mousses de France et des contrées voisines. Première Partie Acrocarpes. [Deuxième Partie] Pleurocarpes. [Complete].

Husnot, [P.] T. · 1884

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Cahan, T. Husnot and Paris, Savy, 1884-1890-[1894]. Two parts in one. 8vo (24.6 x 15.6 cm). pp. [viii, 1-284; 285-468] 125 lithographed plates [I-LXXIX; LXXX-CXXV]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral vignette...

Fishes. [AND an autographed letter by the author].

Jordan, D. S. · 1925

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

New York, NY, D. Appleton, 1925. 4to (25.5 x 18.1 cm). xv, 773 pp.; Chromolithographed frontispiece with printed tissue-guard, and 17 other full colour plates after original watercolours, and 763 fine text figures. Original blind-stamped and gilt-lettered cloth. Top edge gilt....