Antiquariaat Schierenberg

The vegetation of the Siberian-Mongolian frontiers (the Sayansk region).

Printz, H. · 1921

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Trondheim, Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, 1921. Large 4to (30.7 x 22.7 cm). [i], 458 pp.; three maps, 15 plates, 115 text illustrations. Contemporary pebbled half cloth with original printed title mounted on the front board. = Important contribution of eastern Siberian...

Pomologia Batava of afbeelding en beschrijving van onderscheidene soorten van appelen en peeren, welke in de Nederlandsche gewesten worden gekweekt. Allen naar het leven in kleuren geteekend en beschreven.

Noort, M. van · 1830

€12,500.00 ($13,777.49 | £10,428.44 | ¥2,199,388)

Leiden, C. C. van der Hoek [1830-ca. 1844]. 4to (26.6 x 21.6 cm). [iv], 4, 80 pp.; 80 (of perhaps 85) fine lithographic plates, finely coloured by hand, and each with accompanying letterpress text leaves. Contemporary black polished half morocco over marbled boards, spine rich...

Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Konsten en Wetenschappen. Tweede deel. [Volume 2].

Hogendorp, W. van, a.o. · 1784

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Rotterdam, R. Arrenberg, 1784. 8vo (22.5 x 13.7 cm). 488, 90 pp.; two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; two morocco labels with gilt title and volume number. = This is a rare reimpression of the ...

Domavjne Zhivotyye Semipalatinskoj Gybernii [Domestic animals of the Semipalatinsk region].

Dobzhansky, T. G., et al. · 1928

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Leningrad, Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1928. 8vo (23.0 x 14.7 cm). 240 pp.; two maps, 24 plates. Original printed weappers. = Deals principaly with horses of present-day Kazachstan, being part of a series titled Materiali osoboro Komitet, seriya Kazakhstanskaya. This seldom-seen work...

Paleography of Europe during the last one hundred thousand years. Atlas-monograph. Paleogeografiya Evropy za poslednie sto tysyach let. Atlas-monografiya.

Gerasimov, I. P. and A. A. Velichko · 1982

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Moscow, NAUKA, 1982. Folio (35.5 x 26.5 cm). 155 pp., printed wrappers; 15 folded maps of which 14 in colour. In original half cloth portofolio. = A collection of very informative, large maps. Published during the INQUA Congress 1932-1982. In Russian with English summary. Cut ...

Malacologie Méditerranéenne et littorale, ou description des mollusques qui vivent dans la Méditerranée ou sur le continent de l'Italie, ainsi que des coquilles qui se trouvent dans les terrains tertiaires Italiens, avec des observations sur leur anatomie, leurs moeurs, leur analogie et leur gisement. Ouvrage servant de faune malacologique Italienne et de complément a la Conchiologia fossile subapennica de Brocchi.

Cantraine, F. · 1840

€750.00 ($826.65 | £625.71 | ¥131,963)

Bruxelles, M. Hayez, 1840. Large 4to (29.1 x 22.0 cm). 173 pp.; 12 engraved plates of which six finely hand-coloured (double suite). Contemporary blue limp leather, blue printed label with handwritten title on front wrapper. = Rare (especially in double-suite) and important pu...

Observations on the Planet Venus.

Herschel, William · 1793

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

London, The Royal Society, 1793. 4to (27.2 x 21.0 cm). 20 pp. (numbered 201-219), with a foldout plate on linnen bound in. = A rare original issue of this paper, issued in the Society's Philosophical Transactions for the year 1793 (so not from the later, abridged edition). Dis...

A taxonomic revision of the marine species of Cladophora (Chlorophyta) along the coasts of Japan and the Russian Far-east.

Hoek, C. van den and M. Chihara · 2000

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Tokyo, National Science Museum, 2000. 8vo (25.5 x 17.9 cm). 244 pp.; 100 text illustrations. Original printed softcover. = An excellent monograph with clear illustrations, key to the species, distribution maps, etc. Of use in an area much wider than the one indicated in the ti...

The vegetation of the Far North of the USSR and its utilization. I-III.

Tikhomirov, B. A. (ed.) · 1956

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Moskva, Botanical Institute Komarova, 1956-1958. Three volumes in three. 4to (25.5 x 17.2 cm). 915 pp. [100;303;512]; numerous illustrations. Two errata leaves bound in. Original printed wrappers (vol. 1) and quarter cloth over printed boards (vols. II-III). = Divided in three...

De vormen der aardkorst, inleiding tot de studie der physiografie.

Baren, J. van · 1907

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Groningen, J. B. Wolters, 1907. 8vo (23.8 x 15.0 cm). 232 pp.; 10 maps, 46 numbered illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. = A rare geomorphological treatise, signed by the author in the top margin of the front wrapper. Uncut. Library label on spine foot, weak s...

El Chaco y el litigio de limite entre el Paraguay y Bolivia ( Sudamerikanische Rundschau)

R. V. F. T. [Fischer-Treuenfeld, R. F. E. von] · 1904

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Asuncion, "La Tarde", 1904. 12mo (16.7 x 11.8 cm). 50 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Very rare translation into Spanish of a paper on boundary disputes between Paraguay and Bolivia, first published in a German journal on South America, the Sudamerikanische Rundschau No. 1 of...

On the structure and development of the skull in the Crocodilia.

Parker, W. K. · 1882

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1882. Large 4to (32.2 x 25.5 cm). 48 pp. [numbered 263-310], and ten fine lithographed plates (many partly tinted). Original printed wrappers. = Scarce work on crodile osteology and ontogeny. One of the plates showing the development o...

Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames.

Phillips, J. · 1871

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1871. 8vo (23.0 x 15.5 cm). xxiv, 523 pp. and 8 pp. of Clarendon Press works; 17 lithographed plates of which two hand-coloured geological maps and two hand-coloured geological profiles. Original blind-tooled cloth. Spine with gilt title and vignette. ...

Vorlesungen über Seismometrie. Lektsii po Seismometrii.

Galitzin, B. [B.] [Golitsyn, Golyzin, Galitzine] · 1912

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

St. Petersburg, Akademia Nauk, 1912. 4to (29.3 x 20.5 cm). iii, 654 pp.; 145 figures (some folded as plates). Printed wrappers. = Rare original Russian edition of this great work on seismometrie. Prince Boris Borisovich Galitzin, or Golitsyn (1862-1916) invented the electromag...

Nouveau système de chimie organique, fondé sur des nouvelles méthodes d'observation et précédé d'un traité complet de l'art d'observer et de manipuler en grand et en petit, dans le laboratoire et sur le porte-object de microscope. Troisième édition, entièrement refondue. Atlas.

Raspail, F. · 1840

€480.00 ($529.06 | £400.45 | ¥84,456)

Bruxelles, Meline and Cans, 1840. Oblong folio (28.0 x 37.0 cm). Atlas with a 10 pp. explication des planches, and 22 engraved plates. In original green, printed wrappers. = The rare atlas of this important book being the first book of importance in which the microscope is emp...

l'Art d'empailler des oiseaux contenant des principes nouveaux et sûrs pour leur conserver leurs formes et leurs attitudes naturelles avec la méthode de les classer d'après le systême de Linné. Seconde édition, ornée de cinq planches en taille-douce.

Hénon, [J. M.] and [M. J. P.] Mouton-Fontenille [de la Clotte] · 1802

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Lyon, Bruyset Ainé, 1802. 8vo (18.9 x 12.3 cm). Half title, title, [iv], xvi, 283 pp.; five folded engraved plates. Old vellum with red and black markings (antiphon music notes and text). = The second edition of this scarce work on taxidermy includes a catalogue of birds obser...

The Sphecidae of Madagascar.

Arnold, G. · 1944

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Cambridge, Cambidge University Press, 1944. 4to (24.7 x 18.7 cm). 193 pp.; 140 text figures. Contemporary (publisher's?) cloth with gilt title on spine. = Surprisingly rare and important contribution to the Hymenoptera of Madagascar, including 88 new species of solitary wasps....

Le plankton de la Mer du Grönland. Duc d'Orléans. Croisière Océanographique accomplié a bord de la Belgica dans la Mer du Grönland 1905.

Damas, D. and E. Koefoed · 1909

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Bruxelles, Charles Bulens, 1909. Large 4to (35.6 x 27.0 cm). 109 pp.; 16 text figures in red and black, eight tables. Original printed wrappers. = Important, mainly statistical, work on the plankton (mainly diatoms, crustaceans, etc.) of the Arctic Seas and recent changes in t...

L'or en Sibérie orientale. Tome I. Transbaïkalie.

Levat, É. D. · 1897

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Paris, Rouveyre, (1897). Large 4to (27.0 x 18.5 cm). xv, 201 pp.; 14 plates and maps (one in colour), one double paged table. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines, gilt title. Marbled flyleaves. Red edges. = The seldom-seen first volume of two on g...

Beiträge zur Gebirgskunde Brasiliens.

Eschwege, W. L. Von · 1832

€1,200.00 ($1,322.64 | £1,001.13 | ¥211,141)

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1832. 8vo (20.5 x 12.5 cm). xiv, 488 pp.; four engraved maps of which one coloured) (34 x 110 cm). Later mock leather. Spine with black label with gilt title. Edges orange. = This work, dedicated to Alexander von Humboldt, contains the first geological map o...