Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Europäische Gradmessung. Das Schweizerische Dreiecknetz. Erster - Fünfter Band.

Wolf, R. (ed.) · 1881

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Zürich, S. Höhr, 1881-1890. Five parts in one. 4to (29.3 x 21.3 cm). 1081 pp. [xxiv, 268; xxxiv, 204; 104; 250; 197]; six plates (several partly coloured), one large, coloured, multi-folded map. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, blind-too...

Het Kalandereffect en het Krimpeffect van ongevulcaniseerde rubber.

Visser, W. de · 1925

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Amsterdam J. H. DeBussy, 1925. 8vo. 147 pp.; two plates, four pp. of "Stellingen" loosely inserted. Publisher's green cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. Green endpapers. = A beautifully preserved copy of the author's thesis on the behaviour of rubber. Well ill...

Le Diatomiste. Journal spécial s'occupant exclusivement des Diatomées et de tout ce qui s'y rattache. Volumes 1 - 2. [All Published].

Tempère, J. (ed.) · 1890

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Paris, J. Tempère, 1890-1896. [Reprint Lochum, Antiquariaat Junk, 1974]. Two volumes in two. Large 4to. 481 pp. [180, vi, 35; 260]; numerous plates and text illustrations. Republisher's uniform printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen reprint of a very rare series edited by the micro...

Duc d'Orléans. Campagne Arctique de 1907. Microplankton des Mers de Barents et de Kara.

Meunier, A. · 1910

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.17 | ¥31,671)

Bruxelles, Bulens, 1910. 4to (35.1 x 27.0 cm). 355 pp.; two maps of Nova Zembla; 37 fine, loose lithographed plates (numbered I-XXVI, Ibis), with their explantory text leaves, in a very good reproduction. Original wrappers and later blue half cloth portfolio with printed titl...

Annals of Botany. Volume I.

Konig, C. and J. Sims (eds.) · 1804

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

London, R. Taylor, [1804]-1805. 8vo (22.4 x 14.1 cm). Frontispiece engraved portrait of John Ray; viii, 592 pp., 13 engraved plates (one finely hand-coloured). Contemporary marbled boards. = Rare early botanical journal - dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks - of which only two volu...

Bilder und Skizzen aus dem Zoologischen Garten zu Hamburg.

Brehm, [A. E.] and T. F. Zimmermann · 1865

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Hamburg, M. H. W. Lührsen, 1865. 8vo (22.8 x 14.8 cm). vi, 283 pp., wood-engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece, eight wood-engraved plates by Zimmermann and 17 large text figures. Contemporary marbled boards; spine with green calf label with gilt ornamental bands and title. = ...

Flora Bristoliensis: illustrated by a map and two plates.

Swete, E.H. · 1854

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, Hamilton, Adams, 1854. xxvi, 138 pp.; one nicely hand-coloured folded map of "Country 5 miles around Bristol compiled from the ordnance Survey, 1853, physically coloured and numbered with altitudes to illustrate the Flora Bristoliensis" with four colours, two further m...

De spermatozoorum introitu in ovula. additamenta ad physiologiam generationis. Ueber den Eintritt der Samenzellen in das Ei. Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie der Zeugung.

Keber, [G. A.] F. · 1853

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Königsberg, Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1853. 4to (26.5 x 20.0 cm). x, 118 pp., four lithograped plates with 81 engravings. 19th-century ruled half cloth over marbled boards. Paper label with script title on the spine. = In this work the German physician Gotthard August Ferdinand Kl...

Notice sur les chèvres Asiatiques à duvet de cachemire et sur un premier essai tenté pour augmenter leur duvet et lui donner des qualités nouvelles, présentée à la Société Centrale d'Agriculture et des Arts du Département de Seine et Oise.

Polonceau, [A. R.] · 1824

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Versailles, J. P. Jacob, 1824. 8vo (20.7 x 12.9 cm). 36 pp.; two lithographed plates and one lithographed explanatory leaf. Disbound. = A seldom-seen, nicely illustrated work, depicting eight different races of "boucs" and "chévres"; i.e., Angora goats from India, renowned for...

Journal des Voyages et des Aventures de Terre et de Mer. Volumes 1-34.

1877

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Paris, Librairie Illustrée, 1877-1894. 34 volumes in 34. Large 4to (31.5 x 22.5 cm). Numerous pages and text illustrations. Contemporary uniform half calf over pebbled boards. Spines with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers. = A very good, uninterrupted set - from the star...

Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Volumes I-V. [IINCLUDING Société Linnéenne de Calvados].

[Various geologists and palaeontologists] · 1824

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

Caen, Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 1824-1835. Five volumes in six. 8vo (volumes I-IV, 21.0 x 13.2 cm), 4to (volume V, 27.6 x 22.0 cm), and oblong folio (atlas to volumes II-IV, 22.5 x 31.0 cm). Title pages; 15 lithographed (partly folded) plates in volume I, one hand-colour...

Recherches chimiques sur la végétation.

Saussure, [N.] T. De · 1804

€240.00 ($264.53 | £200.23 | ¥42,228)

Paris, Veuve Nyon, 1804. 8vo (19.4 x 13.0 cm). viii, 327, [viii] pp., 16 folding tabels, one large, folded engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Edges speckled blue. = Rare first edition of an important early work on phyto...

[Portrait by J. F. Clemens].

Trembley, Abraham · 1778

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Geneva, [1778-]1783. Single sheet (19.3 x 12.0 cm). Printed surface 18.5 x 10.4 cm. = A nice, oval engraved portrait, "en profil", by the Danish engraver Johan Frederik Clemens (1748-1831) after an original drawing. Trembley (1710-1784) was a famous Swiss Zoologist, best known...

[Portrait by Ambroise Tardieu]

Trembley, Abraham · 1784

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Paris, after 1784. Printed sheet (20.6 x 12.5 cm). Printed surface ca. 15 x 9 cm. = A nice, oval engraved portrait, "en profil", after a drawing by the Danish artist and engraver Johan Frederik Clemens (1748-1831) and engraved by the famous French engraver and cartographer Am...

[Portrait by Ambroise Tardieu after a sculpture by M. Dulong]

Berzelius, Jöns Jacob · 1810

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, ca. 1810. Oval engraved portrait (20.7 x 14.8 cm). Printed surface ca. 15 x 10 cm. = A fine portrait of the renowned Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848), one of the founders of modern chemistry. He was the first to discover elements such as Cerium and Thori...

Die kieselschaligen Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. Mit 30 gravirten Tafeln. Zweiter Abdruck.

Kützing, F. T. · 1865

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Nordhausen, Ferd. Förstemann, 1865. 4to (28.8 x 23.0 cm). 152 pp.; 30 lithographed plates. Quarter cloth portfolio with printed boards. = In this work, the German microscopist and phycologist Friedrich Traugott Kützing (1807-1893) described a great number of new taxa and is fi...

Die Bildung der Samenfaeden in Blaeschen als algemeines Entwicklungsgezetz.

Kölliker, A. · 1847

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Neuenburg, Allgemeine schweizerischen Gesellschaft für den gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 1847. 4to (27.2 x 22.0 cm). 82 pp.; three engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. = Seminal work on semen, in particular of various species of vertebrates, including toads, and invert...

[Portrait by J. Summerfield after a miniature by Murphy].

Bewick, Thomas · 1816

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

London, T. McClean, 1816. Single leaf printed on one side (25.0 x 17.2 cm). Printed surface approximately 15 x 8 cm. = A nice engraved portrait, titled: "Restorer of the Art of engraving on wood". Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was an important British zoologist, ornithologist wood...

[Portrait by RB]

Clusius, Carolus · 1599

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Place and publisher unknown, 1599. Single leaf with engraving on one side. 8vo-sized (17.5 x 13.4 cm). = Carolus Clusius or Charles de l'Escluse (1526-1609) was a famous Dutch and Flemish botanist. This is a nicely engraved portrait, in a lettered oval "Ano Dni MDXCIX ae T LXX...

Die Bambuti-Pygmäen von Ituri. Ergebnisse zweier Forschungsreisen zu den Zentralafrikanischen Pygmäen.

Schebesta, P. · 1938

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Bruxelles, Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1938-1949. Three volumes bound in two. 4to (28.2 x 22.8 cm). 1279 pp.; one coloured folded map, 73 fine photographic plates. Uniform later half cloth over reptile-skin patterned boards. = These are the final results of the Wissenschaft...