Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Essai de réduire la physiologie végétale à des principes fondamentaux.

Agardh, C. A. · 1828

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Lund, Gleerup, 1828. Small 8vo (16.3 x 10.0 cm). Title page, [ii], 56 pp. Original marbled wrappers. = A very rarely seen essay by the great botanist, phycologist, mathematician (!) and theologist Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859). In this work, Agardh explores a reductionist app...

Essai sur le developement intérieur des plantes.

Agardh, C. A. · 1829

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Lund, Gleerup, 1829. Small 8vo (16.3 x 10.0 cm). Title page, [ii], 90 pp. Original marbled wrappers. = A very rarely seen essay by the great botanist, phycologist, mathematician (!) and theologist Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859). In this work, Agardh enumerates and describes se...

A letter from Mr. Flamsteed concerning the eclipses of Saturns satellit's [sic = Jupiter] for the year following 1684, with a catalogue of them, and informations concerning its use.

Flamsteed, J. · 1683

€240.00 ($264.53 | £200.23 | ¥42,228)

London, The Royal Society, 1683. 4to (21.5 x 16.4 cm). pp. 404-415, including a three-page catalogue of the visible eclipses. Loose pages, unbound. = A rare paper by Flamsteed on the eclipses of Jupiter (the name Saturn is an editor's or printer's error). Galileo was the first...

Türkiye Sürüngenleri. The reptiles of Turkey. Part I. The turtles and lizards. [AND] Part II. The snakes. (Taxonomy and distribution, key for identification).

Basoglu, M. and I. Baran · 1977

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Bornova-Izmir, Ege Üniversitesi Matbaasi, 1977-1980. Two parts in two. 8vo (23.5 x 16.3 cm). 500 [272; 218] pp., 26 [16; 10] plates, 181 [90; 91] text figures, including distribution maps. Original uniform stiff printed wrappers. = An important contribution to the herpetology ...

Catalogue of a collection of early printed and other books, bequeated to the library by John Couch Adams, Pembroke College, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy 1858-1892.

Adams, J. C. · 1902

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1902. 8vo (17.9 x 12.1 cm). 203 pp. Later green half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-bordered bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge green. = An uncommon work. Published as University Library Bulletin (Extr...

The land of the New Guinea pygmies. An account of the story of a pioneer journey of exploration into the heart of New Guinea.

Rawling, C. G. · 1913

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Company, 1913. 8vo (21.4 x 14.0 cm). 366 pp (first 16 in Roman numerals). Large tinted, folded map and 48 photographic plates. Slightly later half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gi...

The genera of Recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. With original plates. Number XXXVII.

Sowerby, G. B. · 1830

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

London, Sowerby, [1830]. 8vo (23.6 x 14.1 cm). Seven hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = Part of the first - and rarest - book of the first of three George Brettingham Sowerby's. With illustrations by the father of the autho...

Papiers Inédits, du naturaliste Aimé Bonpland conserve a Buenos Aires. (insérés dans les comptes rendus des séances de l'académie des inscriptions et belles lettres de Paris, 1910, p. 455)

[Bonpland, A.] Cordier, M. H. (ed.) · 1914

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Buenos Aires, Jacobo Peuser, 1914. 8vo (22.7 x 14.1 cm) 24 pp. printed wrappers. = A scarce work on unpublished work by the French botanist and explorer Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858) who travelled with Alexander von Humboldt through South and Central America. Wrappers a bit folded...

Oratio de Chemiae et Historiae Naturalis studiis recte instituendis, habita publice die V Nov. A. 1810. Cum Historiae Naturalis Professionem Ordinariam, item Chemiae artisque Pharmacenticae extra-ordinariam illustri Athenaeo Amstelodamensi solenniter auspicaretur.

Reinwardt, C. G. C. · 1810

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.89 | ¥9,677)

Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Civitas Publica, 1810. 4to (24.8 x 21.7 cm). [vi], 50, [i] pp. Original blind front wrapper. = The botanist Caspar Reinwardt (1773-1854) was professor of Natural History at the university of Harderwijk (where Linnaeus received his doctoral degrees) and...

Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].

Wolff, J. F. · 1800

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (24.0 x 20.9 cm). [2], [2], viii, 208 pp., five title pages; 20 engraved plates of which two partly hand-coloured. Each plate has a handwritten explanatory text leaf. Early 20th-century full, grained cloth with gil...

Birds of Ireland.

Parker, R. D. · 1984

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.28 | ¥114,368)

Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1984. Oblong folio (40.5 x 47.5 cm). 113 pp.; 40 coloured and mounted plates all beautifully reproduced. Original polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Matching original marbled slipcase (49.6 x 42.5 x 3...

A nice collection of 154 extracts from the Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences from 1841 to 1915.

[Photography and Photogravures] · 1841

€3,600.00 ($3,967.92 | £3,003.39 | ¥633,424)

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1841-1915. 4to (ca. 26 x 21 cm). In a later, custom-made blue box (29.5 x 23.5 x 7.0 cm) with a printed label on the front (top) board. = Includes early and original articles by Dominique Arago, Louis Daguerre, Gaudin, Leon Foucault, H. Fizeau, Le...

Revision des Orbitoidides du Crétacé et de l'Eocene en Aquitaine occidentale.

Neumann-Texier, M. · 1957

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, Faculté des Sciences de l'Univerité de Paris, 1957. 4to (27.0 x 21.0 cm). 159 pp.; 37 text illustrations (mostly mounted), 36 plates with original photos mounted, and explanatory text leaves. Contemporary uniform half cloth over marbled boards. = The original thesis of ...

Les enchainements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques fossiles secondaires.

Gaudry, A. · 1890

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Paris, G. Masson, 1890. 8vo (25.1 x 16.5 cm). 322, [i] pp., 403 text engravings. Original printed wrappers. = A nicely illustrated work, with fine illustrations of - mainly - Mesozoic invertebrates and reptiles. DSB: "Gaudry devoted time to writing works of high-level populari...

Traité de cristallographie par W.-H. Miller, membre de la Société royale de Londres, de la Société philosophique de Cambridge, professeur de minéralogie à l'Université de cambridge, etc. Traduction Française par H. de Senarmont.

Miller, W. H. · 1842

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.43 | ¥48,387)

Paris, Bachelier, 1842. 8vo (22.1 x 13.8 cm). xvi, 208 pp.; 12 engraved plates on six large, double-folded sheets. Original printed wrappers. = This is the only French translation of an influential work by the Welsh mineralogist William Hallowes Miller (1801-1880), who laid th...

Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. Series I Volumes 1-7 (and) Series II Volumes 1-3 and General Index to both Series. [The Loder set, with all plates published].

Horticultural Society of London · 1820

€14,500.00 ($15,981.89 | £12,096.99 | ¥2,551,290)

London, The Horticultural Society, 1820-1848. Ten volumes in ten. 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). Engraved titles with woodcut vignettes; more than 3000 pp.; 175 engraved plates (several larger, folded) of which 91 finely hand-coloured; three folding tables, several text figures. Contem...

Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein - Herpetology.

[Various authors] · 1955

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Bloemfontein, Nasionale Museum, 1955-2002. 22 papers in 21 issues. Large 8vo (25.5 x 19.0 cm). With original printed wrappers, or published without wrappers. = A collection of 22 herpetological papers in one of the leading South African zoological and palaeontological periodic...

Fauna Ibérica. Peces. Tomo primero. Peces ganoideos y fisóstomos [tomo segundo] [AND] Peces fisoclistos, subserie toracicos. Primera - seguda - tercera parte.

Lozano y Rey, L. · 1928

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Madrid, Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, 1928-1960. Three volumes in five. Large 8vo (27.0 x 15.5 cm; first volume slightly smaller). Text with 98 plates (many in colour), numerous text figures. First two volumes in half vellum over pebbled boards. Spines wit...

Memorie di Matematica e Fisica della Societa Italiana delle Scienze. I - III.

1782

€1,700.00 ($1,873.74 | £1,418.27 | ¥299,117)

Verona, Ramanzini, 1782-1786. Three volumes in four. 4to (28.5 x 20.4 cm). 2,580 pp. [I: xvi, 854; II: lx, 1-456; 457-907; III: xxxii, 721]; 31 engraved plates (many large, folded), four wood-engraved title vignettes and several nice small woodcuts in the text. Contemporary un...

Exposé des formations quaternaires de la Suède. Texte, Atlas [Complete].

Erdmann, A. [J.] · 1868

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt, 1868. 8vo (24.8 x 16.5 cm) [texte], and 4to (34.1 x 26.0 cm) [atlas]. two title pages, xii, 117 pp.; 26 text figures; [AND] two title pages, 14 lithographed maps (11 in coloured or tinted; several larger, folded). Contemporary near uniform pebbled cl...