Antiquariaat Schierenberg

The naturalist in La Plata.

Hudson, W. H. · 1892

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1892. Large 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). viii, 388 pp., 40 pp. of Catalogue of books of Chapman and Hall; tissue-guarded frontispiece; three full-sized plates, numerous text engravings. Original green, pictorial cloth with vignette on front board and gilt ti...

Ueber die Buchstabenschrift und ihren Zusammenhang mit dem Sprachbau.

Humboldt, W. von · 1826

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1826. 4to (27.5 x 22.8 cm). 28 pp. Disbound. = Von Humboldt - brother of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and initiator of the famous university in Berlin which bears his name - was interested in the connection between writin...

Les pédiculines. Essai monographique. I (texte), II (atlas), supplement. [Complete].

Piaget, E. · 1880

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1880-1885. In three volumes. 4to (31.5 x 24.8 cm). 926 [xxxix, 714; 0; xii, 161] pp.; 73 [0, LVI; XVII] tinted lithographed plates. Original near uniform green blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spines and front boards. = A fine and important monog...

Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the year 1852 with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.

Marcy, R. B. and G. B. McClellan [Baird, S. F. and C. Girard] · 1854

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Washington, DC, A. O. P. Nicholson, 1854. 8vo (22.1 x 14.5 cm). xv, 286 pp., 63 nice lithographed plates (several tinted) of plants, animals (ten on snakes and amphibians), mammals, insects landscape views and one folded hand-coloured geological profile. Original blind-stamped...

A monograph of the horny sponges.

Lendenfeld, R. [J. L.] Von · 1889

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, Trübner and Co., 1889. Large 4to (29.7 x 23.9 cm). 940 pp., 51 fine lithographed or photographic plates (one not numbered; the others numbered 1-50 and with explanatory text leaves). Later brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. = Huge, basic monograph of the spong...

Revisao da familia Trichostrongylidae Leiper, 1912.

Travassos, L. · 1937

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1937. Large, thick 8vo (27.2 x 18.3 cm). v, 512 pp.; 297 plates with explanatory text leaves. Dark blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. = A massive, well-illustrated monograph and important taxonomical revision of this nematode (ro...

Lake Maxinkuckee. A physical and biological survey. Volumes I - II. [Complete and signed by both authors].

Evermann, B. W. and H. W. Clark. · 1920

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Indianapolis, IN, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana, 1920. Two volumes in two. 4to. 1172 pp.; 36 plates of which 27 coloured, depicting fishes. One folding map. Original uniform grey cloth with gilt title on the spines. = Deals mainly with fishes and fishing, physic...

The Dry Garden. Hardy Heathers or Heaths.

Ward, H. · 1930

€680.00 ($749.50 | £567.31 | ¥119,647)

Malton, [unpublished], 1930. Folio album (36.6 x 26.6 cm). Handwritten index on front pastedown and front flyleaf recto. Embossed, blue cloth with gilt title "The Dry Garden" on the front board. = A fine herbarium of about 140 pressed specimens with their English names and a n...

Manual das familias Naturaes Phanerogamas,

Löfgren, A. · 1917

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Rio de Janeiro, Imprensa Nacional, 1917. Thick 8vo (22.1 x 15.7 cm). xviii, 611 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. = Very rare phanerogamic Flora of Brasil. Library stamp of a former owner on first blank with note: "This book is excessively rare...

Flora Sredne Rossii : illiustrirovannoe rukovodstvo k opredieleniiu srednerusskikh siemennykh i sosudistykh sporovykh rasteni. [Flora of Central Russia].

Maevski, P. F. · 1917

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Moskva, M. y S. Sabashnikovykh, 1917. Large 8vo (23.6 x 16.9 cm). xxxii, 909 pp.; 18 plates of which two in full colour, numerous text figures. Slightly later blind red cloth. Edges green. = A seldom-seen, well-illustrated Russian flora, by the Russian botanist Petr Feliksovic...

Beiträge zur Anatomie und Systematik der Rhizostomeen.

Grenacher, H. and F. C. Noll · 1876

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Frankfurt, Christian Winter, 1876. 4to. 61 pp., eight lithographed plates of which two in full colour including the fine folded plate of a full sized Medusa "crambessa Tagi Hckl." in original size. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. = A rare and finely illustrated ...

Utö Jernmalmsfält i Stockholms Län.

Erdmann, A. · 1854

€210.00 ($231.46 | £175.20 | ¥36,950)

Stockholm, Kgl Vetenskapssakademien, "1854" 1855. 8vo (22.0 x 13.0 cm). 104 pp.; 19 tinted maps. Later printed wrappers. = Important offprint on pegmatites including several new minerals from Sweden as well as the discovery of new elements. Published in the academy's Handlinge...

On a collection of humming-birds from Ecuador and Mexico.

Hartert, E. and C. Hartert · 1894

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Tring, Zoological Museum Tring. 1894. 4to (28.5 x 20.0 cm). 22 pp.; two plates of which one a hand-coloured lithograph by Keulemans. Facsimile printed wrappers. = Rare paper, extracted from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume 1(1) with a beautiful hand-coloured lithograph by the famo...

Etude sur l'utilité agricole et sur les gisements géologiques du phosphore.

Élie de Beaumont, [J. B. A. L.] L. · 1857

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, Mme Ve Bouchard-Huzard, 1857. 8vo (22.6 x 14.2 cm). Half title, title page, 127 pp. Later wrappers with original printed title mounted. = A rare work on the mining of this important mineral for the use of agriculture, by the great French geologist Jean-Baptiste Armand L...

La Flore du Mayombe d'après les récoltes de M. Georges Le Testu, Administrateur des Colonies. Première partie - Deuxième partie - Troisième partie. [Complete].

Pellegrin, F. · 1924

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Caen, Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 1924-1938. Three parts in three. 4to (28.1 x 22.4 cm). 338 pp. [1(1924: 126; 2(1928): 85; 3(1938): (iv), 115, viii]; 22 [8 (numbered 4-11); 6; 8] plates, one very large, coloured folded map of La Nyanga et la Ngounyé. Original printed wrap...

One hundred years of Portugese Oceanography. In the footsteps of King Carlos de Bragança. Symposium held in Cascais 1-3 February 1996.

Saldanha, L. and P. Ré (eds.) · 1997

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Lisboa, Museu Bocage, 1997. 8vo (23.0 x 16.0 cm). v, 453 pp.; coloured portrait of King Carlos de Bragança as a frontispiece, numerous text figures, portraits and maps. Pictorial laminated softcover. = A seldom seen, well-illustrated publication, published as the museum's Publ...

Festschrift zur Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens des Eidg. Polytechnikums. Erster Teil: Geschichte der Gründung des eidgenössischen Polytechnikums mit einer Übersicht seiner Entwickelung 1855-1905. [AND] Zweiter Teil: die bauliche Entwickelung Zürichs in Einzeldarstellungen von Mitgliedern des Zürcher Ingenieur- und Architektenvereins.

Oechsli, W. et al. · 1905

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Zürich, Polygraphisches Institut and Zürcher & Furrer [for the Eidg. Polytechnikum], 1905. Two parts in two. Large 4to. 910 pp. [xvi, 406; 480, viii]; 37 lithographed or photographed portraits (tissue-guarded), numerous text illustrations. Original uniform pictorial half moroc...

Memorias del Instituto Geográfico y Estadístico. Tomo VI - X. [volumes 6-10].

1886

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Madrid, La Dirección general del Instituto geográfico y Estadístico, 1886-1895. Five volumes in five. 4to (27.0 x 19.0 cm). 3168 pp. [xiii, 803; xi, 288,455;vii, 768; 444;379]; 33 mostly folded plates and maps [5; 15; 7; 2; 4]. Contemporary ruled half calf over shagreen boards...

Die Königliche Preussische Landes-Triangulation. Polar-Coordinaten, Geographische Positionen und Höhen sämmtlicher vom Bureau der Landes-Trangulation bestimmten Trigonometrischen Punkte [AND] Nivellements der Trigonometrischen Abtheilung der Landesaufnahme. Erster Theil - Achter Band. [Volumes 1-8. Complete].

[Königliche Preussische Landes-Triangulation] · 1874

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Berlin, Trigonometrischen Abtheilung der Landes-Aufname, 1874-1894. Eight volumes in eight. 4to (28.0 x 23.0 cm). Text with thousands of tabs and 15 maps (several coloured). Contemporary quarter linen over blind boards. Spines with printed label. = A seldom-seen complete set, ...

Waterwinning in Zuid-Limburg. Rapport uitgebracht aan de N.V. Waterleiding Mij. voor Zuid-Limburg. Met 9 bijlagen. [Complete].

Jongmans, W. J. et al. (eds.) · 1941

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Maastricht 1941. In two volumes. 4to (text, 29.0 x 21.1 cm) and folio portfolio (maps, 40.2 x 29.6 cm). 230 pp.; Including "Bijlagen" nos. 1-9, with numerous tables and six folded, mostly coloured maps. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen complete copy. The appe...