Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Etude monographique d'une espèce d'ascidie composée (Fragaroides aurantiacum).

Maurice, C. · 1888

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Liège, Vaillant-Carmanne, 1888. 8vo (25.5 x 16.6 cm). 315 pp., seven tinted lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = The author's thesis, with fine illustrations of a European tunicate described by the author. Little is known about Charles Maurice. He studied under de...

Epilobium genus a cl. Ch. Cuisin illustratum.

Barbey, W. · 1885

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Lausanne, George Bridel, 1885. Folio (30.7 x 24.5 cm). Title page, [iv] pp., 23 exceedingly fine lithographed plates [Complete] with explanatory leaves. Half cloth over printed boards. gilt title on the spine. = A work containing just the original descriptions, by various auth...

[Portrait]

Haller, Albrecht von · 1750

€470.00 ($518.03 | £392.11 | ¥82,722)

No place, no publisher, Ca. 1750. Printed engraving on a single sheet. 14.7 cm. Framed. Frame size 45.8 x 33.0 cm. = Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) was a famous Swiss anatomist and botanist who studied with Boerhave in Leiden (1725-1727). He was amongst the first botanists wh...

[Portrait by Jan Melantrich von Aventin]

Mattiolus, Petrus Andreas Gregorius [Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli] · 1561

€195.00 ($214.93 | £162.68 | ¥34,321)

[Prague, Melantrich von Aventin, 1561?]. Single leaf, 8vo-sized (20.0 x 15.1 cm). Printed on one side. Framed. Frame size 45.6 x 43.1 cm. = A nicely engraved portrait of the important pre-Linnean Italian botanist Pietro Mattioli or Matthioli (1500?-1577), with the text "Nec ig...

[Portrait by G. B. Bosio and engraved by G. A. Sasso].

Saussure, Horace-Benedict de · 1818

€195.00 ($214.93 | £162.68 | ¥34,321)

Milano, Batelli and Fanfani ,1818. Single leaf, folio-sized (28.1 x 21.5 cm) printed on one side. Printed surface 20 x 14 cm; [AND] a same-sized leaf with accompanying text. = Horace-Benedict de Saussure (1740-1798) was the first important Swiss mountaineer and glaciologist. H...

[Portrait by F. Seydelmann].

Naumann, Johann Friedrich · 1846

€320.00 ($352.70 | £266.97 | ¥56,321)

Dresden, Schultze, 1846. Folio-sized (33.9 x 26.7 cm). Sepia-tinted. Printed surface ca. 30.0 x 23.2 cm. = A very fine tinted oval engraved portrait of the German composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801). Naumann was the father of the mineralogist Carl Friedrich Naumann. T...

The ducks, geese and swans of North America. A vade mecum for the naturalist and the sportsman.

Kortright, F. H. and T. M. Shortt · 1942

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Washington, DC, The American Wildlife Institute, 1942. 8vo (22.0 x 15.3 cm). 483 pp.; 36 coloured plates by T. Shortt, one folding table, numerous text figures. Publisher's full pictorial calf, with gilt vignette on the front board. = One of the thousand limited de luxe editio...

Contributions à l'ornithologie du Sahara central et du Sud-Algérien. [Georges Bouet's copy].

Heim de Balzac, H. · 1926

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Alger, Société d'Histoire naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord, 1926. 8vo (24.6 x 15.5 cm). 127 pp.; seven plates of which two in full colour. Original printed wrappers. = Important monograph on the ornithology of the Sahara. Well-illustrated. Henri Heim de Balsac (1899-1979) became...

Studien aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften.

Baer, K. E. Von · 1876

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

St. Petersburg, H. Schmitzdorff (Karl Röttger), 1876. 8vo (20.2 x 13.5 cm). xxv, 306 [175-480] pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Green label with script title on the spine. = This book includes a chapter on the evolution theory of Darwin. Karl von Baer (1792-1...

Beiträge zur geognostischen Kenntniss des norddeutschen Tieflandes. Erster Beitrag. Über die geognostischen Verhältnisse von Helgoland, Lüneburg, Segeberg, Läggedorf und Elmshorn in Holstein und Schwarzenbeck im Lauenburgischen, nebst vorangehender Übersicht der orographischen und geognostischen Verhältnisse des norddeutschen Tieflandes.

Volger, G. H. O. · 1846

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1846. 4to (24.0 x 19.3 cm). Two title pages; xii, 96 pp.; three hand-coloured lithographed geological maps or profiles including one with eight colours. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards. Spine with paper label. Patterned e...

Über die sogenannten Leporiden. Mit 4 lithographischen Rafeln und 7 Holzschnitten.

Nathusius, H. [E.] von · 1876

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Berlin, Wiegandt, Hempel und Parey, 1876. 8vo (25.3 x 16.2 cm). Title page, 74 pp.; four lithographed plates. Original blind-stamped cloth with ornamental gilt title on the front board. Brown endpapers, lightly marbled edges. = The German animal breeder Hermann Engelhard von N...

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière: histoire naturelle des oiseaux.

Buffon, G. Comte de · 1770

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1785. 18 volumes in 18. Large 12mo (18.0 x 10.5 cm). Text with 264 engraved plates. Uniform contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt floral patterns and two morocco labels...

More difficulties of the Evolution Theory and a reply to "Evolution and its Modern Critics".

Dewar, D. · 1938

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

London, Thynne & Co., 1938. 8vo (21.4 x 14.0 cm). 227 [(viii), 206, (ix)] pp.; frontispiece; five plates, one geological table. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine. = Written by the British ornithologist Douglas Dewar (1875-1957). The work is original and interes...

Carta Pesquera de Venezuela (1) Areas del Nororiente y Guayana; (2) Areas Central y Occidental.

Ginès, H. · 1972

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Caracas, Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, 1972-1982. two parts in three. Large 4to (26.9 x 20.4 cm) 555 [328; 227] pp., seven large, folded, coloured maps, numerous figures and tables (several in colour). Uniform green mock leather with gilt title on the spines in pic...

The relations between granitoids and associated ore deposits of the circum-Pacific region. A collection of papers presented at the IGPC Circum-Pacific Plutionism Project Fifth Meeting, 12-13 November 1975 Kuala Lumpur.

Roddick, J. A. and T. T. Khoo (eds.) · 1977

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Kuala Lumpur, Geological Society of Malaysia, 1977. 8vo. 276 pp.; numerous illustrations, maps and tabless. Printed softcover. = A rarely seen publication, including 17 scholarly papers on the geology of the Pacific rim. Issued as the Society's Bulletin, or Buletin Persatuan G...

Report on the geodetic survey of South Africa executed by Lieutenant-Colonel Morris in the years 1883-1892, under the direction of David Gill, her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape. Report on the Triangulation. [INCLUDING} Geodetic Survey of South Africa. Report on the Triangulations.

Gill, D. (Ed.). · 1896

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Cape of Good Hope, The Royal Observatory, 1896. Large 4to (32.0 x 20.4 cm). 480 [xvi, 173; 291] pp.; 20 folded maps. Later half cloth over cloth boards. Spine with gilt title. = This work consists of two parts; both in ten chapters. The first part is by Gill, describing the a ...

Moyens d'empêcher l'évaporation des liqueurs spiritueuses, dans lesquelles on veut conserver des productions de la Nature de differens genres.

Reaumur, [R. A. F.] de · 1746

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.80 | ¥24,641)

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1746. 4to. 56 pp.; three folded engraved plates. Disbound. = An early - perhaps the earliest - contribution to the knowledge of evaporation of preserving spirits. Written by the naturalist and physicist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757...

Sulla scorza del globo terrestre e sul modo di studiarla.

Savi, P. · 1834

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Pisa, Fratelli, 1834. 8vo (20.5 x 13.1 cm). Half title and titlepage, 108 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A highly interesting and rare work by the Italian geologist (and ornithologist) Paolo Savi (1798-1871). "Savi was regarded as the father of Italian geology. He studied th...

Dänischer Atlas, oder Beschreibung des Königreichs Dännemark, nach seiner politischen und physikalischen Beschaffenheit, mit Landkarten und andern Kupferstichen versehen. Aus dem Dänischen übersetzt, und mit einigen Anmerkungen begleitet von Johann Adolph Scheiben. Erster Band.

Pontoppidan, E. · 1765

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

Kopenhagen und Hamburg, Rothen Wittwe und Prosst, and Bock, 1765. 4to (21.8 x18.7 cm). xxxii, 464 pp.; 17 folded engraved plates, numbered I-XVII. Early19th century pebbled half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title; green endpapers. = The first volume, first part...

Un voyage botanique au Sahara.

Massart, J. · 1898

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Gand, Annoot-Braeckman, Ad. Hoste, 1898. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). 140 pp., seven phototype plates. Original printed front wrapper. = Signed by the author, the Belgian biologist, conservationist and botanist Jean Massart (1865-1925), to Monsieur P. Groom, on the title. This must b...