Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Collection of six early papers on radioactivity, from "comptes rendus... de l'academie des sciences", 1896-1901.

Becquerel, H. · 1896

€950.00 ($1,047.09 | £792.56 | ¥167,153)

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1896-1901. Six papers in one. 4to (26.6 x 20.3 cm). 30 pp. Old style blue stiff paper boards. Two title pages of the Comptes Rendus (for 1896 and 1899) bound in. = A nice collection of some of the earliest papers on radioactivity; the first paper ...

Juko Jushikei Hakki.

[Acupuncture] · 1685

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

Juko Jushikei Hakki. Three parts in one volume. Kyoto (?), Enami Jinbee, Genroku 8 (= 1685). 4to size (27.0 x 19.0 cm). Xylographically printed on 69 double leaves folded in an accordion, or oriental, style, with 16 full-page woodcut plates. Original blue paper wrappers with x...

Structure anatomique des mélobésiées, application à la classification.

Lemoine, P. · 1911

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, Masson, 1911. Very large 4to (32.6 x 25.0 cm). 213 pp.; 105 text engravings; three folding tables; five photogravure plates. Original printed front wrapper. = A very uncommon, detailed monograph on calcareous algae. Published in the Annales (volume two, fascicule two) o...

A historical account of a strangely self-moving liquor.

Boyle, Robert · 1685

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

London, The Royal Society, 1685. 4to (21.6 x 17.2 cm). Six pp. [numbered 1187-1192]. No wrappers. = A very rare original issue of this paper, taken from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the year 1685 (so not from the later, abridged edition). Unbound, bu...

Experiments and observations made in Britain, in order to obtain a rule for measuring hights with the Barometer.

Roy, W. · 1777

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

London, The Royal Society, 1777. 4to (22.2 x 17.4 cm). 18 pp. (numbered 653-770); two folding plates showing barometers; thirteen folding tables and a map showing the plan of the triangles made use of for obtaining the geometrical distance and altitude of Snowdon and Moel Eili...

On the manufacture of glass for optical purposes.

Faraday, M. · 1830

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

London, The Royal Society, 1830. 4to (29.6 x 23.1 cm). 57 pp. In a recent protective portfolio. = The famous British physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was the speaker at the yearly Bakerian Lecture in 1829. This is a rare original issue of the first printed ve...

Revision des echinides fossiles de la Catalogne [AND] Revision des Echinides fossiles de la Catalogne. II. Partie. [Complete].

Lambert, J. · 1927

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Barcelona, Museo de Ciencias Naturales, 1927-1928. Two parts in one. Large 4to (35.0 x 26.6 cm). Two half-titles and title pages. 164 [102; 62] pp., ten text figures (in the first part); eight [4; 4] fine lithographed plates. Contemporary pebbled green cloth over marbled boar...

On the geology of the Faeröe Islands.

Geikie, J. [M.] · 1880

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

Edinburgh, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1880. 4to (28.7 x 22.5 cm). 51 pp.; three lithographed profiles and one very large, double-folded hand-coloured geological map. Disbound. = A detailed and well-illustrated study (especially the large map of the island is of importance...

Zur Kenntniss der Fauna der "Grauen Kalke" der Süd-Alpen.

Tausch von Gloeckelsthurn, L. · 1890

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1890. Large 4to (33.5 x 24.7 cm). 42 pp.; nine lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. = Written by the German geologist Joseph Rudolph Zappe (1751-1818). This work includes the descr...

Notices sur des plantes utiles ou intéressantes de la Flore du Congo. Volumes I and II. [All published].

Wildeman, É. [A. J.] De · 1903

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Bruxelles, Spineux, 1903-1908. Two volumes in five. 8vo (23.3 x 15.4 cm). 929 pp. [I(1) 221; 223-396; I(3) 397-659; II(1) 1-166, 167-270]; 55 [1-12, 13-28, 29-32; 1-23, 0] plates, of which a few larger, folded. Original printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated series, published ...

Atlas zu M. Neumann's Grundsätze und Erfahrungen über den Bau und die Anlegung von Glashäusern aller Art als Glaskästen, Orangerien, kalten, gemässigten, warmen Häusern und Treibhäusern mit der Einrichtung von Rauchkanälen, Wasser- und Dampfheizungen. Vierte, vollständig umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage.

Neumann, M. · 1860

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Weima, Bernard Friedrich Voigt, [1860]. Folio (28.9 x 23.0 cm). Index leaf, 25 double paged engraved plates with 242 figures. Original printed wrappers. = A nice,very uncommon atlas on glasshouses, their construction and their management. This is the fourth edition, altered an...

Die Säugetiere der Quartärfauna von Chou-K'ou-Tien.

Zdansky, O. [K. J.] · 1928

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Peking, Geological Survey of China, 1928. 4to (29.0 x 22.8 cm). 146 pp.; 16 plates. Later half linen over patterned boards. Gilt title on the spine. = A rarely seen work on the palaeontology of Chinese mammals, including several new species of insectivores, a bear, a cat, a pi...

Grundriss der Geognosie und Geologie, als zweite Auflage der Anleitung zum Studium der Geognosie und Geologie. [AND] Beilage zu Dr. B. Cotta's Grundriss der Geognosie und Geologie.

Cotta, B. von · 1846

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Dresden und Leipzig, Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1846. 8vo (21.3 x 13.1 cm) xii, 428; iv, 111 ppp. One hand-coloured frontispiece, one very large, folded table, 76 woodcuts. Original blindstamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Green endpapers. Speckled edges. = The seldom...

Grasses of West Pakistan. Part I. Subfamily Panicoideae.

Ahmad, S. and R. R. Stewart · 1958

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,715)

Lahore, Biological Society of Pakistan, 1958. 8vo (24.0 x 18.1 cm). 151 pp., 91 text figures. Printed wrappers. = Rare. We have never seen another copy. This is Biological Society of Pakistan: Monograph number 3. Vague cancelled library stamp on front wrapper, otherwise a very...

Flora von Wien. Eine Aufzählung der in den Umgebungen Wiens wild wachsenden oder im Grossen gebauten Gefässpflanzen, nebst einer pflanzen-geographischen Uebersicht (and) Nachträge nach einem erweiterten Gebiete mit Einbeziehung der benachbarten Alpen und der Leithagegend, nebst einer pflanzengeografische Uebersicht.

Neilreich, A. · 1868

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Wien, Friedrich Beck, 1868. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (22.7 x 15.0 cm). xcii, 706; iv, 339 pp. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands with gilt lines and gilt title. Marbled edges. = A very good set of an important standard work i...

Flora von Niederösterreich. Zum gebrauche auf Excursionen und zum Selbstunterricht bearbeitet.

Halácsy, E. von · 1896

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Prag, Wien, Leipzig, F. Tempsky, G. Freytag, 1896. Small 8vo (18.9 x 13.1 cm). ix, 631 pp. Slightly later blind black half-cloth over black cloth boards. = A detailed flora and still a very useful work. This is not the later reprint. With the entomological bookplate of Dr. Han...

Les planches inédites de foraminifères d'Alcide d'Orbigny à l'aube de la micropaléontologie. The unpublished plates of Foraminifera by Alcide d'Orbigny the dawn of micropaleontology.

[d'Orbigny, A. D.] Vénec-Peyré, M. T. (ed.) · 2005

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 2005. Large 4to (33.9 x 23.0 cm). 302 pp.; 45 tinted and full colour reproductions of the actual originals by d'Orbigny and 19 further plates (mostly tinted). Original pictorial laminated boards. = A very fine and important publication on th...

Diagnoses algarum novarum. Post sylloges editionem descriptarum. I (Centuriae I-XI) [AND] II (Centuria I). [All published].

Toni, J. de [= G. de Toni] · 1937

€1,600.00 ($1,763.52 | £1,334.84 | ¥281,522)

Brixia [Brescia], privately published by the author (and heirs?), 1937-1955. 12 parts in 12 (17.7 x 13.6 cm). 1200 pages. (Near) contemporary uniform brown cloth with gilt title on the spines. = An essential work on algae. Very rare, and complete as it was privately printed "s...

Dialektigeskiy metod i evolyutsionnaya theoriya [Dialectical method and evolutionary theory].

Agol, I. · 1927

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Moskva, Leningrad, Kommunisticheskaya Akademiya, 1927. 8vo (20.0 x 13.1 cm). 150 pp.; five text figures. Original printed softcover. = A curious example of an early "Bolshevik ideological attempt in evolutionary theory", relating to Lamarckism and Darwinism. In Russian. Signed...

Filosofiya zoologii. [Philosophie zoologique]. Translated by S. V. Sapozhnikova.

Lamarck, J. · 1933

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Moscow, 1933-1937. In two volumes. 8vo (20 x 13.0 cm). clx, 330 pp.; lxxxviii, 483 pp.; two portraits. Original embossed cloth. = In Russian with Latin nomenclature. Not the first Russian edition but the best translation of this great classic work. The first volume is a bit ta...