Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Flore Fossile du Portugal. Nouvelles contributions à la flore mésozoïque par le Marquis de Saporta accompagnées d'une notice stratigraphique par Paul Choffat.

Saporta, G. Le Marquis de · 1894

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Lisbonne, Académie royale des Sciences, 1894. Folio (32.2 x 25.0 cm). 288 pp.; 39 tinted lithographed plates and one geological profile. Original printed wrappers. = Basic monograph on the fossil Flora of Portugal, printed on behalf of the Direction des Travaux géologiques du ...

Sesiae Europae. Iconibus et descriptionibus illustratae [AND] Geschichte der kleinen Fichtenraupe oder der Larve von der Phalaena Monacha Linn., nebst einen Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Ausrottungsmittel dieser Waldverheererin und einer mit Farben erleuchteten Kupfertafel [AND] "Beobachtungen an einer neuentdeckten Zwitterphaläne des Bombyx Crataegi".

Laspeyres, J. H., J. Jördens and F. E. Esper · 1801

€1,250.00 ($1,377.75 | £1,042.84 | ¥219,939)

Berlin, Laspeyres, 1801; Hof, Gottfried Adolph Grau, 1798; Erlangen, Wolfgang Walthers, 1778. Three papers in one. 4to (24.5 x 19.1 cm). Laspeyres: Half-title, title with seven fine entomological engravings (each numbered), 32 pp.; one finely engraved and hand-coloured plate (...

A natural history of new and rare ferns, containing species and varieties none of which are included in any of the eight volumes of "Ferns: British and exotic", amongst which are the new Hymenophyllums and Trichomanes.

Lowe, E. J. · 1871

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1871. 4to (25.2 x 17.2 cm). viii, 192 pp., 72 chromolithographed plates and small engraved vignettes above each species description. Original green cloth. Front board with large gilt vignette and extensive blind stamped patterns; rear board the same, wi...

Die Flora der marinen Cyanophyceen der Schwedischen Westküste.

Lindstedt, A. · 1943

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Lund, H. Ohlsson, 1943. 8vo (23.5 x 16.2 cm). 121 pp., 11 plates, two photos in the text, two tables. Contemporary blue half cloth over bluish marbled boards; title on the spine. = With new taxa. Contains detailed descriptions and data on habitat and distribution. With the nic...

De conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.

Bianchi, G. P. S. [J. Plancus] · 1739

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

Venetiis (Venice), J. Baptista Pasqual, 1739. 4to (28.1 x 20.1 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded engraved plates. Period style half calf over marbled boards, later endpapers. = Rare, wide-margined copy of the first edition of this early important descri...

Italy and the Italians in the nineteenth century: a view of the civil, political, and moral state of that country: with a sketch of the history of Italy under the French; and a treatise on modern Italian literature.

Vieusseux, A. · 1824

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, Charles Knight, 1824. Two volumes in two. 8vo (19.8 x 12.1 cm). 684 [xvi, 308 (iv); viii, 352] pp. Original boards. = Only translation of a work first published in French. Napoleon Bonaparte plays an important role in this work. Uncut. In the rear a publisher's catalog...

Verzeichniß aller Bäume, Stauden und Buschgewächse mit kurzgefaßten Anmerkungen aus der Natur- und ökonomischen Geschichte derselben. Zweyte Auflage. [Interleaved, annotated, and indexed copy].

Märter, F. J. · 1784

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Wien, Joseph Gerold, 1784. Small 8vo (18.1 x 10.4 cm). Title page with finely engraved vignette, [xiv], 212 pp., two leaves with handwritten index. Original boards. Spine with small red morocco label with gilt borders and title. = A unique copy of a rare work by the Austrian ...

Armenien. Ein Bild seiner Natur und seiner Bewohner. Im Anhange: Anatolische Fragmente. Mit einem Vorwort von Friedrich von Hellwald.

Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, A., Freiherr von · 1878

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Jena, H. Costenoble, 1878. 8vo (23.0 x 14.9 cm). xxviii, 227 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A rather rare narrative by the Viennese traveller Amand Freiherr von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld (1846-1910). The work deals with the people and natural history of the Caucasian region and ...

Préhistoire du pays de Neuchâtel, des origines aux Francs. Préface de D. Viollier. Avec 70 figures dans le texte, 34 planches hors-texte et une carte archéologique du Canton de Neuchâtel au 1:100.000. [Rare original bound copy].

Vouga, D. · 1943

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.80 | ¥24,633)

Neuchâtel, Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles, [1943]. 4to (28.2 x 22.1 cm), 253 pp., 34 plates (one in colour), one large, folded, tinted map in rear pocket. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt title and vignette on the front board. Original p...

De verspreide geschriften van Prof. Dr. G. A. Wilken verzameld door Mr. F. D. E. Van Ossenbruggen. Deel I. Levensbericht. Monographie over de Alfoeren van Boeroe. Geschriften op het gebied van vergelijkende rechtswetenschap. Deel II. Geschriften op het gebied van vergelijkende rechtswetenschap. Deel III. Geschriften over Animisme en daarmede verband houdende geloofsuitingen. Deel IV. Geschriften over animistische geloofsuitingen, andere ethologische onderwerpen en geographische pathologie. Korte boekbeoordeelingen. Aanhangsel. Registers. [Complete].

Wilken, G. A. [F. D. E. van Ossenbruggen (ed.)] · 1912

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Semarang, G. C. T. van Dorp, 1912. Four volumes in four. Large 8vo (23.9 x 16.0 cm). 2515 pp. [I: xvii, 628; II: xiii, 514; III: ix, 579; IV: xiii, 742]; frontispiece portrait of Wilken (tissue guarded). Uniform blind-stamped green cloth. Gilt title on the spines. Patterned en...

Indianerleben. El Gran Chaco (Südamerika).

Nordenskiöld, E. · 1912

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Leipzig, Albert Bonnier, 1912.8vo (24.1 x 16.3 cm). 343 pp., folded map, 20 photographic plates, numerous text figures. Original pictorial wrappers. = The uncommon first edition, however, with an inscription by Erland Nordenskiöld in the top margin of the half title. Front wra...

Naauwkeurige en natuurlyke beschryving van de stad Aleppo en van derzelver ommelanden, behelzende eene beschryving van die stad en de voornaamste natuurlyke voortbrengsels, de welke in derzelver nabuurschap gevonden worden; waar by nog volgt eene verhandeling over het climaat, de manieren der inwooneren en der ziektens, voornaamlyk die der pest; waar by nog gevoegd zyn de middelen, waar door de Europeanen zich tegens der zelver besmetting beschutten.

Russel, A. [A. Russell] · 1762

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

Leyden, C. Pecker and Van Hoogenveen, 1762. 8vo (20.6 x 12.5 cm). 325 [vi, 294, xxv] pp. Eight, mostly folded, engraved plates. Later blind red cloth. = The very rare Dutch edition, translated by L. T. Gronovius. The author is named Russel, but unlike Alfred Russel Wallace thi...

Instructions pour les recherches préhistorique dans le nord-ouest de l'Afrique.

Pallary, P. · 1909

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,317)

Alger, Adilphe Jourdan [Société historique Algérienne], 1909. Large 8vo (28.2 x 22.0 cm). 113 pp., 67 text figures. Original printed front wrapper. = A very rare treatise by the French-Algerian naturalist Paul Pallary (1869-1942) who was an important malacologist and shell-dea...

Memorie di cristallografia di Quintino Sella nuovamente pubblicate per cura della reale Accademia dei Lincei precedute da un discorso di Alfonso Cossa.

Sella, Q. · 1885

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, 1885. 4to (30.0 x 22.2 cm). 226 pp.; 13 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Quintino Sella (1827-1884) was a famous Italian crystallographer. This is a republication, published shorty after his death, including plates of (all?) eleven ...

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des Pyrénées, et des pays adjacens. [AND] Suite des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des Pyrénées, et des pays adjacens.

Palassou, P. B. · 1815

€1,250.00 ($1,377.75 | £1,042.84 | ¥219,939)

Pau, Vignancour, 1815-1819. Two volumes in two (20.7 x 12.7; 19.6 x 12.0 cm). 8vo. 954 pp. [xvi, 485; xxiii, 430]. Contemporary green boards. Spine with gilt bands and red morocco label with gilt title (volume I), and near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with...

Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a Lady by J. J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus by Thomas Martyn, B.D.F.R. & L.SS, Regius professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. The eighth edition, corrected. [AND] Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the letters on the Elements of Botany.

Rousseau, J. J. [A. Deville (ed.)] · 1815

€800.00 ($881.76 | £667.42 | ¥140,761)

London, White, Cochrane, and Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; B. Crosby and Co.; and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1815. Two works in one. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). Half title, title, xx, 434 pp., folding table. [AND] London, J. White, 1799. vi, 72 pp.; 38 hand-coloured, ti...

Notice des fossiles et les petrifications du Gouvernement du Moscou, servant de programme pour inviter les membres de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes à la séance publique du 25 octobre, par le directeur perpétuel de la Société le professeur G. Fischer [AND] Recherches sur les fossiles du Gouvernement de Moscou. II. Recherches sur les hydnophores.

Fischer von Waldheim, G. · 1810

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Moscou, Imprimerie de l'Université Impériale, 1810. Near square 4to (23.4 x 20 cm). 13 pp., one engraved plate. Original printed wrappers. = Gotthelf Fischer von [or de] Waldheim (1771-1853) was the founder of the Moscow Natural History Museum and the famous Société Impériale ...

Dissertatio physica I de natura artificiosa in producendis et formandis lapidibus.

Gilling, C. G. · 1761

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Vitemberg, Gerdes, 1761. 4to (21.0 x 17.9 cm). 32 pp. Printed front wrapper. = A peculiar, mineralogical thesis by the German Lutheran theologian Christian Gottlieb Gilling (1735-1789). He quotes, for instance, Zeno, Plinius and Plato on the properties and formation of stones ...

Ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts. Mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und Excursen sowie als Einleitung: Wilhelm von Humboldt und die Sprachwissenschaft von A. F. Pott.

Humboldt, W. von · 1876

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Berlin, S. Calvary, 1876. Two parts in two. 8vo (17.3 x 11.8 cm). General title, two title pages, 965 pp. [ccccxxi; 544]. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards. Spines with dark blue leather label with gilt ornamental bands and title. = Rare, but rather late contribution b...

Natural history of the fishes of Massachusetts, embracing a practical essay on angling [= Part second: on trout, interspersed with remarks on the theory and practice of angling].

Smith, J. V. C. · 1833

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Boston, MA, Allen and Ticknor, 1833. Two parts in one. 8vo (16.6 x 10.9 cm). vii, 399 pp. with a nice woodcut on the title page and numerous engravings of fish species in the text. Original full cloth with printed paper label on the spine. = This work is regarded as the first ...