Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Die Orchideen. Ihre Beschreibung, Kultur und Züchtung. 3., völlig neubearbeitete Auflage. Ban I: 1-10. Lieferung. Band II. 1-3. Lieferung. [All published]

Schlechter, R. [F. G. Brieger et al., eds.] · 1970

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Berlin und Hamburg, Paul Parey, 1970-1978 53 parts in 13. Large 4to (28.0 x 19.0 cm). 824 pp. [632; 192]; 568 [451; 117] text figures (mainly b/w photos); 11 full colour plates [numbered 1-9, 13-14]. Original, uniform printed wrappers. = Originally published in 1914-1915, this...

Die Nester der geselligen Wespen. Beschreibungen neuer Nester- und einiger neuen Wespen-Arten des naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg, nebst Betrachtungen über den Nesterbau im Allgemeinen.

Möbius, K. [A.] · 1856

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

Hamburg, Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Hamburg, 1856. 4to (27.6 x 21.8 cm). 51 pp.; 19 nicely hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary blind boards. = Perhaps the first publication entirely devoted to the nests of wasps. With excellent coloured illustrations. A rare monogr...

Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones piscium, qui ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Decas prima: Pisces. [The Elasmobranchia - sharks, ray plates].

Ehrenberg, C. G. and F. G. Hemprich · 1828

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Berlin, Officina Academica, "1828" [1899]. Folio (50.8 x 35.2 cm). Atlas with five, finely hand-coloured lithographed plates showing sharks (4) and a ray (1). In original portfolio with printed boards. = Part of a large work on the natural history of northeastern Africa and th...

Le Paléolithique et le Mésolithique du Désert de Judée.

Neuville, R. · 1951

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, Masson, 1951. 4to (28.0 x 22.4 cm). 270 pp.; 20 fine photographic plates, numerous text illustrations. Later half cloth over floral pattered boards. Printed label on the spine.. = A well-illustrated work. The text figures are mostly page-sized plates, each showing many ...

Les reptiles fossiles du tertiaire de la Catalogne.

Bergounioux, F. M. · 1958

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Madrid, C.S.I.C. Instituto "Lucas Mallada", 1958. 8vo (24.2 x 16.9 cm). 111 pp., 19 plates. Original printed wrappers. = In this work the author describes fossil turtles and tortoises from the Eocene to Pleistocene of Cataluña. A few species are described as new. With many goo...

Les causes de l'ancienne extension des glaciers.

Lapparent, A. A. De · 1893

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Bruxelles, Polleunis et Ceuterick, 1893. 8vo (24.8 x 16.3 cm). 35 pp. Original printed wrappers. = An interesting contribution to glaciology by the famous geologist and palaeontologist Albert-Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (1839-1908). Signed by Lapparent on title page. Offprint ...

Les poisons dans l'antiquité Egyptienne.

Moraitis, A. · 1933

€380.00 ($418.84 | £317.02 | ¥66,861)

Paris, Rapid-Imprimerie, 1933. 8vo (24.3 x 15.9 cm). 74 pp.; four photographic plates. Later red half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Yellow endpapers. = Very rare, well-illustrated monograph on the use of poison in ancient Egypt, running from Mercure to poiso...

Etudes géologiques en Eubée et dans les régions voisines (Grèce).

Guernet, C. · 1971

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, [the author], 1971. 4to (27.0 x 21.2 cm). 393 pp.; 50 plates, 130 text illustrations. Original stiff, printed wrappers. = Written by the French geologist and palaeontologist Claude Guernet (b. 1933). The author's thesis. Profusely illustrated, including photos of landsc...

Les mammifères de l'Éocène inférieur français et leurs gisements.

Teilhard de Chardin, P. · 1916

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Paris, Masson, 1916-1921. 4to (28.1 x 23.0 cm). 116 pp.; eight plates with printed transparent overlays. Original printed wrappers. = Seldom-seen seminal work by the French priest and palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). In 1922 this publication became his t...

Recherches sur l'appareil végétatif des papavéracées Juss. (Papaveracées et Fumariacées D.C.). 1re partie - 2me partie. [Complete].

Léger, L. J. · 1895

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Caen, Socété Linnéenne de Normandie, 1895. Two parts in two. 4to (27.8 x 22.7 cm). Title pages, 422 pp. [numbered 195-485; 491-623]; ten plates, of which two partly coloured [numbered X-XVIII]. Disbound. = A seldom seen treatise by the French botanist Louis-Jules Léger (1865-1...

Ueber fossile Pflanzen des Süsswasser-Kalkes und Quarzes. [AND] Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss des Leithakalkes namentlich der vegetabilischen Einschlüsse und der Bildungsgeschichte desselben.

Unger, F. [J. A. N.] · 1858

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn (for the Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften), 1858. 4to (31.0 x 24.0 cm). 38 [12; 26] pp.; one large, folded coloured lithographed with a nice view of a cave, namely the "Steinbruch am Wildoner-Berge" and five tinted lithographed plates. Original...

Foraminifères planctoniques de Grèce Occidentale (Paléogène supérieur à Pliocène).

Bizon, G. · 1967

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

No place, no publisher, 1967. 4to (27.6 x 21.0 cm). 298 pp., 33 plates and maps, mounted. Blind quarter cloth over plain boards; printed label mounted. = Rarecarefully produced thesis, by the French palaeontologist Germaine Bizon, on the Foraminifera of Greece. Well-illustrate...

Paléogéographies, volcanismes, structures, minéralisations, plombo-zincifères et héritages dans l'est des Cordillères Betiques (zones internes).

Pavillon, M.-J. · 1972

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥21,994)

Paris, Université Paris VI, 1972. In two volumes. 4to (27.0 x 21.0 cm). 623 pp., 18 original fine photographs, numerous figures and maps. Original uniform blind quarter cloth over pictorial boards. = A rare thesis by the French geologist Marie-José Pavillon, dealing with the g...

Notice sur les mines d'asphalte, bitume et lignites de Lobsann. Arrondissement de Weissembourg (Département du Bas-Rhin).

Thury, [L. E. F.] Héricart-Ferrand Vicomte de · 1838

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Paris, Didot, 1838. 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). 51 pp., three large, double-folded lithographed plates, including a map coloured in outline and two nice hand-coloured geological profiles called "Coupe géologique de la Chaine des Vosges de Bitche à Sultz et Seltz sur Rhin". Later wra...

Heteromeres Mineral-System.

Hermann, H. R. · 1860

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Moskau, M. Arlt, 1860. 4to (28.2 x 21.3 cm). 214 pp. 20th century marbled boards with title label mounted on front board. Marbled edges. = Hans Rudolph Hermann (1805-1879) was a German mineralogist who worked in Moscow and had a great mineral collection. The first edition of h...

Notice des fossiles et du gouvernement de Moscou. III. Recherches sur les encrinites, les polycères et les Ombellulaires; accompagnées d'une notice de la description projetée du Gouvernement de Moscou.

Fischer von Waldheim, [J.] G. · 1811

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Moscou, l'Imprimerie de l'Université, 1811. 4to (25.0 x 21.3 cm). 32 pp.; two engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. = Rare paper by the German-Russian geologist, palaeontologist, and first director of the Moscow Natural History Museum, Johann Gotthelf (or, in Russian, Gr...

Description des roches composant l'écorce terrestre, et des terrains cristallins, constituant le sol primitif, avec indication des diverses applications des roches aux arts et à l'industrie, ouvrage rédigé d'après la classification, les manuscrits inédits et les leçons publiques de feu P.-L.-A. Cordier.

d'Orbigny, C. and P. L. A. Cordier · 1868

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

Paris, Savy et Dunod, 1868. 8vo (21.5 x 14.3 cm). xvi, 553 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. = The last part contains the "Memoire sur les substances minérales dites en masse, qui entrent dans la composition des roches volcaniques...

Geologie von Sibirien.

Obrutschew, W. A. · 1926

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Berlin, Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1926. 8vo (25.3 x 16.5 cm). xi, 572, [iii] pp.; 60 text figures, 11 maps (one folding). Original printed wrappers. = A great classic on the geology of Siberia and its mineral wealth with the large tectonical map. Published as Fortschritte der Geol...

Über eine versteckte gegenseitige Beziehung zwischen den Kristallsystemen des Feldspathes und des Kalkspathes [AND] Betrachtung des Feldspathsystems in der viergliedrigen Stellung.

Weiss, [C. S.] · 1837

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.17 | ¥31,671)

Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1837. 4to. 59 pp.; two large, folded engraved plates. Disbound. = Two papers on crystal systems, in particular in feldspars, published back-to-back, by the German mineralogist Christian Samuel Weiss (1780-1856). Published in the ...

On the skull, brain and auditory organ of a new species of pterosaurian (Scaphognathus purdoni), from the Upper Lias near Whitby, Yorkshire.

Newton, E. T. · 1889

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, The Royal Society, 1889. Large 4to (29.7 x 23.0 cm). 35 pp., two fine lithographed plates. No wrappers. = Reporting on the first found remains of a Pterodactylus in the Yorkshire Lias, with some thoughts about the phylogeny of the ornithosaurs, and an important detaile...