Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Contributions to the biology of the Philippine archipelago and adjacent regions. The fishes collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries Steamer "Albatross," chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters. [Complete].

Fowler, H. W. and B. A. Bean · 1928

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1943. Seven volumes in seven. 8vo (24.3 x 15.2 cm). 2,643 pp.; 49 plates. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A rare complete set. Published as United States National Museum Bulletin 100, volumes 7-8, 10-13, and 14(2). There are s...

Recherches sur la faune des eaux continentales de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie.

Gauthier, H. · 1928

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Alger, Minerva, 1928. Large 4to (28.4 x 22.6 cm). 419, [i] pp.; 60 (groups of) text illustrations, two plates, one coloured, folded map with overlay. Original printed wrappers. = Dedication copy of a seldom-seen monograph. Inscribed by the author, the French zoologist Henri Ga...

Etudes sur la flore du Katanga. [Complete in four parts].

Wildeman, É. [A. J.] De · 1902

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Bruxelles, Musée du Congo, 1902-1913. Four parts in four. Folio (35.1 x 26.6 cm). 437 pp. [xii, 241; 180, (iv)]; 65 [46; 19] fine lithographed or phototype plates, of which several double-sized, folded. Original, near uniform printed portfolios. = The most important contributi...

Naturgeschichte der Daphniden (Crustacea Cladocera).

Leydig, F. · 1860

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1860. Large 4to (30.1 x 22.8 cm). iv, 252 pp., ten engraved plates. Contemporary black half cloth over plain aubergine boards. Hand-written label on the spine. in transparent plastic sleeve. = Important contribution to the knowledge of the Cladocera, in par...

Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schlesien für das Jahr 1866.

Mendel, G. · 1867

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Brünn (Brno), Naturforschende Verein, 1867. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). pp. 159-172 (whole volume: xxii, 87, 238 pp.). Turn of the century half linnen over marbled paper boards. Paper label with script title on the spine. = First edition of one of Mendel's meteorological paper publi...

Brochures diverses. Histoire naturelle. Traitement de divers minerals. [Bound convolute from Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire's library].

[Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I.] Various authors · 1846

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Paris, several publishers, (1846-1865). Ca. 400 pp.; several plates. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands, blind-tooled compartments and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.. = A unique collection of important offprints, includi...

Geologie von Bayern. Erster Band. Erster Theil: Grundzüge der Geologie; Zweiter Theil: Baulehre der Erde oder Geotektonik.

Gümbel, W. von · 1888

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Kassel, Theodor Fischer, 1888. In two volumes. 8vo (23.7 x 16.1 cm). 1160 [xvi, 476; 477-1144 pp.); 504 [1-299; 300-504] (groups of) text illustrations. Uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands; gilt ornamental lines and title. Patterned endpapers. ...

Die Fauna der ältesten Devon-Ablagerungen des Harzes.

Kayser, E. · 1878

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,715)

Berlin, Neumann, 1878. Folio (35.0 x 26.5 cm). Title page; 36 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. = The atlas, with 36 nicely tinted lithographs (several folded), showing trilobites, ammonites, bivalves, gastropods, bra...

Notice sur quelques poissons fossiles de la Russie.

Fischer de Waldheim, G. · 1851

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Moscou, Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1851. 8vo (23.1 x 15.3 cm). 9 pp.; two finely engraved plates. Later blind wrappers. = A rare offprint, with a separate title and new pagination, of this work on new fossil fishes. Written by the first director of the Mosco...

Beiträge zur geologischen Kenntniss der Thermalquellen in den Kaukasischen Ländern.

Abich, [O. W.] H. [von] · 1865

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Tiflis, Civil-Hauptverwaltung Sr. Kaiserlichen Hoheit des Statthalters von Kaukasien, 1865. 4to (31.2 x 25.6 cm). 60 pp.; engraved, partly tinted map including a geological profile. Original green, printed wrappers. = Very rare original monograph here called "Erste Lieferung",...

Die Fische dargestellt in getreuen Abbildungen und mit ausführlicher Beschreibung.

Reichenbach, A. · 1840

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Leipzig, E. Eisenach, 1840. Large 8vo (26.2 x 17.0 cm). 160 pp.; 60 lithographed plates with 382 figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with gilt-titled red morocco label and gilt ornaments on spine, marbled flyleaves. All edges red. = Most plates show different ...

Tableau comparatif des résultats de la cristallographie et de l'analyse chimique, relativement à la classification des minéraux.

Haüy, [R. J.] · 1809

€900.00 ($991.98 | £750.85 | ¥158,356)

Paris, Courcier, 1809. 8vo (19.7 x 12.9 cm). lvi, 312 pp., four folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. = One of the classic works by the famous French mineralogist and chemist René Just Haüy (1743-1822) on crystallo...

De nominale klassificatie in de Afrikaanse negertalen.

Wils, J. · 1935

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Nijmegen, De Gelderlander, 1935. Large 8vo. xv, 522 pp., three folded maps (two coloured) and four sheets of "stellingen". Original printed wrappers. = Thesis. Excellent study on the classification of African (sub-saharan) languages, social-ethnological structures in the diale...

The correspondence of John Ray: consisting of selections from the philosophical letters published by Dr. Derham and original letters of John Ray in the collection of the British Museum.

Ray, J. · 1848

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,317)

London, The Ray Society, 1848. xvi, 502 pp.; engraved portrait of John Ray; one engraved plate. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board. = An excellent copy of the original edition. Edited by E. Lankester. A common book, b...

Lucernariae and their allies. A memoir on the anatomy and physiology of Haliclystus auricula, and other lucernarians, with a discussion of their relations to other acalephae; to beroids, and polypi.

Clark, H. J. · 1878

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1878. Folio (29.5 x 23.3 cm). 138 pp., 11 engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges. = A classic study on the Acalephae with all the fine engravings. Published in the Instituti...

Bulletins du Laboratoire Maritime de Saint-Servan Fascicules I à X. 1928-1932.

Mangin, L. (ed.) · 1928

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Rennes, L'Ouest-Eclair, [1928]-1933. 8vo (22.3 x 15.3 cm). 265 pp.; five plates. Later marbled boards. = Published for the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. These are results of researches made at their marine laboratory in Britanny, near Saint Malo. Authors inclu...

Fossils of the British Islands stratigrafically and zoologically arranged. Volume 1. Palaeozoic comprising the Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian species. With supplement and appendix brought down to the end of 1886. [All published].

Etheridge, R. · 1888

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1888. Large 4to (29.8 x 24.4 cm). 476 pp. Original full cloth with gilt line on the boards and gilt title on the spine. Black endpapers. = An uncommon work, written by Robert Etheridge (1819-1903), an English geologist, palaeontologist, botanist and as...

Vorbericht zur wissenschaftlichen Publication der österreichischen Polarexpedition nach Jan Mayen vom Leiter der Expedition Emil Edlen von Wohlgemuth, k.k. Corvetten-Capitän [AND] Die internationale Polarforschung 1882-1883. Die österreichische Polarstation Jan Mayen ausgerüstet durch seine Excellenz Graf Hanns Wilczek geleitet von k.k. Corvetten Capitän Emil Edlen von Wohlgemuth. Beobachtungs-Ergebnisse. Band I. Band. II. I. Abtheilung. Band II. II. Abtheilung. Band III. [Complete].

Wohlgemuth, E. von · 1886

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Wien, K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1886. Four parts in five. 4to (31.2 x 24.4 cm). 1075 pp.; 63 plates, maps and charts, as follows: Vorbericht: title page, [i], 119 pp.; five large, folded maps and charts (one coloured). Band I: Title page, [i], 119 pp. ...

Atlas of brachiopods and stratigraphy of the Devonian deposits of the central area of the Russian platform.

Ljaschenko, A. I. · 1959

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Moskva, Gostoptehizdat, 1959. Large 8vo (25.7 x 16.9 cm). 451 pp., 87 plates. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. = Includes the description and illustration of many species, including several that are newly described. With a large biblio...

The Delta Barrage of lower Egypt. With an introduction by Sir William Garstin, K.C.M.G.

Brown, R. H. · 1902

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Cairo, National Printing Department, 1902. Large 8vo (27.0 x 18.1 cm). xi, 80 pp.; map of the lower Nile, frontispiece of the Rosetta Barrage; ten text illustrations; 27 numbered, photographic or engraved plates. Original pebbled cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt tit...