Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du gouvernement sur la Corvette da Coquille. Poissons.

Lesson, R. P. · 1839

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Bruxelles, 1839. 4to (30.8 x 23.9 cm). 163 pp. 20th century pebbled cloth with gilt title on the spine. = This is the complete text (not the plates), of the fish-section of the zoology of the voyage. The scientific parts of the expedition reports are much rarer than the narrit...

Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire génétique des trématodes. [AND} Deuxième mémoire pour servir à l'histoire génétique des trématodes. [AND} Troisième mémoire pour servir à l'histoire génétique des trématodes. [Complete].

Filippi, F. de · 1854

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Turin, Imprimerie Royale, 1854-1857. Three parts in one. 4to. 90 pp. [30; 26; 34]; seven [2; 2; 3] lithographed plates. Later half roan over plain brown boards. Spine with five raised bands. = The complete work. Seldom seen. Offprints, with new pagination, from the Mémoires d...

Flora of Suriname (Dutch Guyana). Volumes I - IV [Part].

Pulle, A. A. [and] J. Lanjouw (eds.) · 1932

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Amsterdam, A. Pulle, 1932-1957. Four volumes in 20 parts. 8vo (22.4 x16.2 cm). 1316 pp. In original printed wrappers. = Rare partial set of the first modern flora of Surinam. These four volumes were published near simultanously, and each is concluded with a title and index. Pr...

Report of the scientific results of the Norwegian Expedition to Novaya Zemblya 1921: zoology.

Holtedahl, O. · 1928

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Oslo (Kristiania), Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania (The Society of Arts and Sciences of Kristiania), 1928. 42 parts in one. Large 8vo (27.2 x 18.0 cm). 443 pp.; two plates, several maps and text figure. Original printed wrappers. = The complete zoological results of one of th...

Flora na Vitosha [Flora of Vitosha, Bulgaria].

Kitanov, B. and I. V. Penev · 1963

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Sofia, Nauka i Izkustvo, 1963. 8vo (19.8 x 14.4 cm). 514 pp.; 80 plates. Pictorial cloth. Full-colour pictorial dus jacket. = A seldom-seen, well-illustrated flora of Vitosha (Bulgarian: ??????), "...the ancient Scomius or Scombrus, is a mountain massif, on the outskirts of So...

De ademhaling der planten. Redevoering bij de aanvaarding van het buitengewoon hoogleeraarsambt in de wis- en natuurkundige faculteit aan de hoogeschool van Amsterdam, den 15den october 1878 uitgesproken.

Vries, H. De · 1878

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Haarlem, H. D. Tjeenk Willink, 1878. 8vo. 24 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Address, written by the famous Dutch plant physiologist Hugo de Vries (1848-1935), who was the first to rediscover the Mendelian laws, and introduced the terms mutation and gene. Tiny tear to front w...

Plantae Diaphoricae. Florae Argentinae ó revista sistematica de las plantas medicinales, alimenticias ó de alguna otra utilidad y de las venonosas, que son indigenas de la República Argentina ó que, originarias de otros paises se cultivan ó se crian espntámente en ella. [Possibly the author's copy].

Hieronymus, J. [H. E. W.] · 1882

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Buenos Aires, Guillermo Krait, 1882. 8vo (21.2 x 14.5 cm). 404 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = Rare early flora of Argentina by Jorge [i.e., Georg] Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus (1846-1921) "a Europ...

Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. Mit einer Einleitung von Wolfgang Klausewitz.

Klunzinger, C. B. · 1870

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Wien, Kaiserlich-königliches zoologisch-botanisches Gesellschaft in Wien, 1870-1871 [REPRINT Weinheim, J. Cramer, 1964]. 8vo (20.9 x 15.0 cm). xxxvi, 440 pp. [1870: pp. 669-834; 1871: pp 441-688, 1,353-1,368], three text figures (to the introduction). and one portrait. Republi...

Monographia Aquifoliacearum. Pars I - II. [Complete].

Loesener, T. · 1901

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Halle, Kaiserlich-Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, 1901-1908. Two parts in two. 4to (30.0 x 25.2 cm). 919 pp. [viii, 598; 313]; 15 heleotype plates (one double-sized) and three, large, folded, coloured distribution maps. Original half cloth over...

Histoire Naturelle du Froment, dans laquelle on traite du principe de la fécondité des terres, du développement du germe, de son accroissement, de la floraison, des maladies du bleddes parties constituantes de la farine, des moulins, de la mouture, du pain, de l'usage de la farine dans les arts & metiers, & et enfin de la nutrition.

Poncelet, Abbé · 1779

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.43 | ¥48,387)

Paris, G. Desprez, 1779. 8vo. xxxii, 390 pp.; ten folding engraved plates. Later half calf over marbled boards, gilt title on spine. = Interesting and rare treatise on rural economy and in particular on the management and agriculture of wheat. Library labels on paste-downs on ...

Ueber Krystalle proteinartiger Körper, pflanzlichen und thierischen Ursprungs. [AND] Untersuchungen über die Proteinkrystalloide der Pflanzen.

Radlkofer, L. [A. T.] [AND] A. F. W. Schimper · 1859

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1859. Two papers in one. 8vo 921.2 x 13.8 cm). xiv, 154 pp.; three lithographed plates (one partly hand-coloured). Original printed wrappers bound in. 19th-century half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with handwritten label. Speckled edges. = A rare and...

Biscayan plankton collected during a cruise of H.M.S. 'Research', 1900.

Fowler, G. H. · 1904

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

London, Linnean Society of London, 1904-1908 [1909]. 12 parts (of 13) in one. 4to (29.7 x 23.0 cm). 338 pp.; several text figures, 27 fine, mostly lithographed plates. Near contemporary olive cloth with gilt title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Speckled edges. printed errata ...

Catalogue du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la Société Royale de Zoologie d'Anvers. Faune de Belgique. Première Partie - Cinquième Partie). [Complete].

Meunier, F. [A.] · 1909

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Anvers, Société Royale de Zoologie d'Anvers, 1909-1914. Five volumes in five. 8vo (21.5 x 15.0 cm). 595 pp. [212;80;82;136;85]; one plate with four portraits. Original uniform printed wrappers. = Written by the Belgian entomologist, palaeontologist and curator of the Antwerp Z...

Faune Française. Les némertiens.

Joubin, L. · 1894

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,317)

Paris, Soc. d'Éditions Scientifiques, 1894. 8vo. 235 pp.; four fine, chromolithographed plates, of which three double-sized. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with neatly written paper label. Marbled endpapers. = A well-illustrated work on these surpri...

A History of British Fishes. [Large paper copy].

Yarrell, W. · 1836

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

London, J. Van Voorst, 1836. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (25.0 x 15.7 cm). 918 pp. [xxxviii, 408; 472]. With several hundreds of fine text engravings. Contemporary uniform grained morocco. Boards with gilt ornamented rectangular borders; spines with five raised, gilt-lined b...

Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits.

Windt, H. de · 1898

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥21,994)

New York, Harper, 1898. IX, 314p., 34 plates, 1 folded tinted map. Origiginal pictorial cloth with golden skiy and lettering. = A very good copy of the first edition, rare in this original pictorial binding. Some light staining to spine and panels, but crisp and clean interior...

Iskopaemye ostrakody SSSR Semejstvo Cyprididae. [Fossil ostracods of the USSR. Family Cyprididae].

Mandelshtam, M. I. and G. F. Shnejder [Mandelschtam and Schneider] · 1963

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Leningrad, Vnigri, 1963. 8vo (26.1 x 17.4 cm). 331 pp.; 42 plates. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Title in yellow and light blue on front board and spine. = First edition of an important and well-illustrated monograph. Many species are new, described either by Mandelshtam al...

Geography and geology of the Black and Grand Prairies, Texas with detailed descriptions of the Cretaceous formations and special reference to artesian waters.

Hill, R. T. · 1901

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1901. Large 4to (28.5 x 19.5 cm). 678 [666, xii] pp.; 71 plates and maps (several folding and seven very large ones in rear pocket). Original full cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board. = A huge comp...

Ueber die Laminarien Norwegens.

Foslie, M. [H.] · 1884

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Christiania, Christiania Videnskabers-Selskab, 1884. 8vo. 112 pp.; ten double-paged lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = A very uncommon work on marine algae, including new forms and a bibliography, by the Norwegian botanist and algaeologist Mikael Heggelund Fosli...

A monograph of the genus Aristida. [Thesis; complete].

Henrard, J. · 1927

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,715)

Leiden, Rijks Herbarium, 1927-1933. Three parts in one. 4to (27.8 x 20.4 cm). Half title, thesis title, two titles to the parts, [iii] (dedication page and preface), xii (index), 325 pp.; one original photograph as frontispiece, and 159 plates, a few text figures. Full green c...