Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Ammonites nouvelles des îles Baléares.

Fallot, P. and H. [F. É.] Termier · 1923

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Madrid, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 1923. 8vo (23.8 x 16.8 cm). 83 pp.; six plates. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen monograph, with many new species based on (fairly) well-preserved specimens. Written by the French palaeontologists and malacologists Paul F...

The marine Algae of Denmark. Contributions to their natural history. Vol. II. Phaeophyceae. I. Ectocarpaceae and Acinetosporaceae. II. Corynophlaeaceae, Chordariaceae, Acrothrichaceae, Spermatochnaceae, Sporochnaceae, Desmarestiaceae, Arthrocladiaceae with supplementary comments on Elachistaceae. III. Encoeliaceae, Myriotrichichiaceae, Giraudiaceae, Striariaceae, Dictyosiphonaceae, Chordaceae, and Laminariaceae. IV. Sphacelariaceae, Cutleriaceae, and Dictyotaceae. [Complete for the Phaeophyceae].

Rosenvinge, L. K. and S. Lund · 1941

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

Kopenhagen 1941-1950. Four parts in four. 4to (26.3 x 20.6 cm). 317 pp. [79; 59; 99; 80]; 104 [38; 19; 33; 14] (groups of) text illustrations. Original near uniform printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen complete set dealing with the Phaeophyceae. With excellent illustrations. The ...

Contribution à la flore de la Chine, comprenant les algues marines récoltées en China et les florules de Shang-Hai, Tché-Fou et Tien-Tsin.

Debeaux, [J.] O. · 1875

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

Paris, F. Savy, [1875]-1879. Four parts in one. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 361 pp. [3-21; 3-78; 3-191; 3-79]; six lithographed plates [1;0;3;2], and two original drawings in pen, ink and pencil. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral bands and title. Mar...

De vegetatione et climate in Helvetia Septentrionali inter flumina Rhenum et Arolam observatis et cum summi septentrionis comparatis tentamen.

Wahlenberg, G. · 1813

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Turici Helvetorum (Zürich), Fuessli, 1813. 8vo (20.5 x 12.1 cm). xcviii, 200 pp.; one folding table, three folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments at head and food; red morocco label with gilt title. All edges red. = Göran ...

Plantae Alpinae carniolicae collegit et descripsit.

Hacquet, B. · 1782

€1,800.00 ($1,983.96 | £1,501.70 | ¥316,712)

Vienna, Sumptibus Joannis Pauli Kraus, 1782. 4to (28.4 x 21.0 cm). 16 pp.; five very large, folded engraved plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers. = Rare early treatise on Slovenian Alpine plants by the French-Austrian botanist, geologist and medical doctor Balthasar Hacquet (...

Major essential oil-bearing plants of India.

Husain, A., et al. · 1988

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Lucknow, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, 1988. 8vo (22.0 x 17.5 cm). 237 pp.; numerous full-colour plates. Original full-colour pictorial laminated boards. = An important and surprisingly rare work on Indian oil-producing plants, e.g. cumin, davana, dill se...

Beiträge zur Morphologie und Systematik der Marantaceen.

Eichler, A. W. · 1884

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,317)

Berlin, Königlichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1884. 4to (27.6 x 22.5 cm). 99 pp.; seven fine lithographed plates. Original printed boards. = A fine monograph of the arrow root or prayer plant family. Published in the academy's Abhandlungen, however, this is an o...

De la reproduction des végétaux.

Fée, A. L. A. · 1833

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Strasbourg, F. G, Levrault, 1833. 4to. 46 pp. Disbound. = Rarely seen thesis of the important French botanist Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée (1789-1874), who later published the famous Memoires sur la famille des fougères (1844-1866). Fore edge frayed, damp-stain to right mar...

Cretaceous Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea with special reference to the species found in Danmark.

Rasmussen, H. W. · 1950

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

København, C. A. Reitzel, 1950. 4to (25.2 x 16.9 cm). 134 pp.; 18 plates. Contemporary half calf, spine with five slightly raised bands, and gilt title. Edges speckled red. = A taxonomically important study with very good illustrations including those of several new species. B...

The waterlilies. A monograph of the genus Nymphaea.

Conard, H. S. · 1905

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

[Washington, DC], Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905. 4to (30.5 x 23.6 cm). iii-xiii, 279 pp.; 30 lithographed plates of which 12 in full-colour (including the frontispiece, which is plate 1). Includes 82 other illustrations and figures. Original printed wrappers. Uncut....

The biodiversity of African plants. Proceedings XIVth AETFAT Congress 22 - 27 August 1994, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Maesen, L. J. G. van der, et al. (eds.) · 1996

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1996, 8vo (24.0 x 15.9 cm). xi, 861 pp.; numerous illustrations. Yellow pictorial laminated boards. = With 120 contribution, grouped in chapters such as Biodiversity of succulents, Biodiversity in African lowland rain forsets, Ecology and conservation, Gene...

Les myxophycées de l'Afrique équatoriale française.

Frémy, P. · 1930

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Caen, Editions des Archives de Botanique, 1930. 8vo (25.1 x 16.5 cm). 507 pp., one tinted folded map, 362 text figures. Original printed wrappers. = A rare work. We have not seen any other copy on the internet during the last 12 years. With detailed illustrations of many new a...

Les venues métallifères de l'Oural.

Czyszkowski, S. · 1896

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥21,994)

Paris, Librairie polytechnique Baudry et Cie., 1896. 8vo (23.3 x 15.3 cm). 47 pp.; ten folded maps or profiles. Contemporary half cloth over printed boards. = A seldom-seen, well-illustrated work on mining in the Ural mountains, known for their mineralogical richness. Several ...

On the site of the ancient city of the Aurunci and on the volcanic phenomena which it exhibits; with some remarks on craters of elevation, on the distinctions between plutonic and volcanic rocks and on the theories of volcanic action which are at present most in repute. (AND) Narrative of an excursion to the lake Amsanctus and to mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834.

Daubeny, C. · 1846

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Oxford, the Ashmolean Society, 1846, 1835. Two works in one. 8vo (21.2 x 13.2 cm). Title pages, 59 pp.; two engraved plates and maps; [AND] 49 pp.; four plates and maps. Later grey boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. = Charles Giles Daubeny (1795-1867) was pr...

Tabular view of characteristic British fossils, stratigraphically arranged. [Complete with four charts].

Lowry, J. W. · 1853

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1853. 4to (24.6 x19.3 cm). With four folded, engraved and partly coloured oblong tables (approximately 24.5 x 67.0 cm). Original textured cloth with mounted printed title. = Rare tabular views of British fossils, mainly mollu...

A monograph of British Cretaceous Brachiopoda. [AND] M. R. Sahni, the Terebratulidae of the British Chalk. [AND] N. E. Pettitt, The Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk.

Davidson, T. · 1854

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.43 | ¥48,387)

London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1854-1953. 4to (27.0 x 20.6 cm). 205 pp., 21 [12, 9] lithographed plates; 62 pp.; ten plates; 58 pp., three plates. Later half calf, spine with five raised, gilt bordered bands, and gilt titles on spine. Edges speckled red. = A fine coll...

Nomenclator botanicus enumerans plantas omnes in Systematis Naturae edit. XII. Specier. plantarum edit. II. et mantissis binis a illustr. D. Car. von Linné arch. reg. equit. aurat. etc. descriptas.

[Retzius, A. J.] · 1772

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Lipsiae, I. F. Junium, 1772. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). 140 ["279"], [xv] pp. Original blind speckled wrappers. = A rare commentary on Linnaeus' 12th edition of the Systema Naturae (Plantae) written by the Swedish botanist and zoologist Anders Jahan Retzius (1742-1821), who corresp...

Schwezingen und seine Garten-Anlagen.

Zeyher, [J. M.] and J. G. Rieger · 1820

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Mannheim, Schwan-Götzschen, [1820]. 8vo (18.2 x 11.9 cm). Title and half-title with woodcut vignette; viii, 182 pp.; one large, folded engraved map of this famous botanical garden in southern Germany; one attractive, engraved frontispiece showing the ancient mosque, and seven ...

Traité de zoologie concrète. III. les échinodermes.

Delage, Y. and E. Hérouard · 1903

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1903. Large 8vo (24.5 x 15.8 cm). x, 495 pp., 565 text figures (some coloured), 53 coloured plates. Later green buckram. Spine with two red morocco labels with gilt titles. Speckled edges. = Part of a larger series, but dealing with Echinodermata only and o...

Statistique minéralogique du département de la Drôme ou description géologique des terrains qui constituent ce département, avec l'indication des mines, des carrières et en général de tous les gîtes de minéraux utiles qui s'y trouvent contenus.

Gras, [J.] S. · 1835

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Grenoble, Prudhomme, 1835. 8vo (22.5 x 14.0 cm). xii, 296 pp.; one large, multi-folded, hand-coloured geological map of the Drôme department, dated 1834. Original printed wrappers. = With a rare and most probably first coloured geological map of this lovely department in South...