Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Om de Bornholmske Kulformationer.

Forchhammer, G. · 1838

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

København, Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs, 1838. 4to (25.5 x 21.0 cm). 64 pp.; Four lithographed plates including one very large, double-folded map. Disbound. = One of the earliest geological and palaeontological description of the Danish island Bornholm in the Balti...

Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 2: Platyhelminthes through Phoronida, and Section 3: Sipuncula through Annelida.

Devaney, D. M. and L. G. Eldredge (eds.) · 1987

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,680)

Honolulu, HI, Bishop Museum Press, 1987. 4to (26.0 x 18.3 cm). xii, 461 pp.; numerous text figures (several page-sized; partly in full colour on eight plates). Green cloth with gilt titles on spine and front board. = This is the much revised, updated and enlarged edition of th...

Cercle Zoologique Congolais Bulletin. Volume 1-21(1) (1924-1953).

Various authors · 1924

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

Tervueren, Cercle zoologique Congolais [Musée royal du Congo Belge], 1924-1953. 21 volumes in 60. 4to (27.8 x 18.5 cm). Numerous pp.; b/w illustrations. In original, near uniform printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated popular-scientific periodical, dealing with animals of the ...

[Portrait by James Thomson]

Playfair, John · 1819

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Printed engraving with letterpress caption on one folio-sized sheet (29.2 x 22.1 cm). Printed surface 25.8 x 16.3 cm. = John Playfair FRSE, FRS (1748-1819) was a Scottish polymath perhaps best known for his works in mathematics and his 1802 book Il...

[Portrait by J. M. Bernigeroth].

Reaumur, René de · 1725

€220.00 ($242.48 | £183.54 | ¥38,721)

Leipzig? 1725. Single-sided engraving, octavo-sized (15.8 x 9.4 cm). Framed. Frame size 45.6 x 33.1 cm). = A nice portrait of the famous French scientist, naturalist and entomologist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757), principally known for his groundbreaking work o...

[Portrait engraved by C. Baron after a drawing by J. G. Drouais]

Buffon, G. L. L. Comte de · 1761

€280.00 ($308.61 | £233.59 | ¥49,281)

Paris, 1761. Single leaf (25.1 x 18.4 cm). Copper engraving. Passe-partout size 45.8 x 33.0 cm. = Portrait of the famous French naturalist George Louis Leclerq [or le Clerq], Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) whose influence on popular natural history remains apparent to this day. C...

Livre Jubilaire Félix Kaisin (1901-1936).

[Kaisin, F. (O. B. J. C.)] · 1936

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Louvain, Institut Géologiques de l'Université de Louvain, 1936. 4to (30.2 x 23.2 cm). 462 pp.; frontispiece portrait (tissue-guarded); 30 plates and maps. Original printed wrappers. = A rarely seen Festschrift for the Belgian geologist Félix Oscar Charles Jean Baptiste Kaisin ...

The organization of the Brachiopoda. Communicated by T. H. Huxley, Esq. FRS.

Hancock, A. · 1858

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

London, The Royal Society, 1858. 4to (29.8 x 22.8 cm,). 120 pp., 15 engraved plates. Disbound. = A rare work, establishing the true nature - and systematics - of the brachiopods, previously most often thought to belong to the Mollusca. Published in the Society's Philosophical ...

Recherches zoologiques et physiologiques sur les variations de la taille chez les animaux et dans les races humaines.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. · 1832

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1832. large 4to (27.2 x 22.5 cm). 70 pp. [numbered 503-572] Later blue wrappers with script title. = Interesting offprint of a comparative anatomical work by this important French zoologist. it deals with size of animals and man including a table ...

Deuxième Expédition Antarctique Française (1908-1910) Commandée par le Dr Jean Charcot. Sciences naturelles: documents scientifiques. Némertiens. [AND] Céphalopodes. [AND] Brachiopodes.

Joubin, L. · 1914

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Paris, Masson, 1914. 4to (28.0 x 22.5 cm). 42 pp. [33; 4; 5]; 26 text illustrations [13; 4; 9]; four lithographed or phototype plates [4; 0; 0]. Original printed wrappers. = This is a separately published 'Extrait' of a larger report on the Expédition Antarctique Française, co...

Les Mammifères de l'Eocène inférieur de la Belgique.

Teilhard de Chardin, P. · 1927

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Bruxelles, Musée royal d'Histoire naturelle, 1927. 4to. 33 pp.; six plates. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen paper by the controversial Jesuit priest and palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard du Chardin (1881-1955). The material is of Oligocene - not Eocene - age. Spine co...

Révision systématique des madréporaires des Couches de Gosau (Crétacé supérieur, Autriche). I-V. [Complete].

Beauvais, M. · 1982

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Paris, Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Invertèbres Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 1982. Five parts in five. 4to (29.6 x 21.0 cm). 709 pp., including a large alphabetical index; 95 plates. Original uniform boards with printed titles mounted. = A huge monograph on the madrep...

Genera Plantarum. Ad exemplaria imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus servata definita.

Bentham, G. and J. D. Hooker · 1862

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

London, Reeve, 1862-1883. Three volumes [seven parts] in three. Thick 8vo (23.3 x 16.1 cm). 3,611 pp. [I: xv, 1,040; II: viii, 1,279; III: xi, 1,258]. Contemporary uniform quarter calf over iridescent boards. Spines with four raised bands; compartments blind-tooled, with gilt ...

Recueil de figures des vers intestinaux. Ouvrage, présentant une distribution méthodique des ces animaux, les caractères généraux et particuliers de leurs familles et de leurs genres, principalement suivant le système de Mr. le professeur C. A. Rudolphi et la description de quelques espèces les plus remarquables.

Lidth de Jeude, T. G., Van · 1829

€680.00 ($749.48 | £567.30 | ¥119,683)

Leide[n], S. Luchtmans and J. Luchtmans, 1829. Oblong folio (28.0 x 46.0 cm). Title page; 11 fine lithographed plates with 51 figures, and 13 explanatory text leaves. Published in loose, uncut sheets. Original printed boards, in near contemporary half calf portfolio with marbl...

Botany [of California] volume I. Polypetalae and Gamopetalae.

Brewer, W. H and S. Watson and A. Gray · 1876

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Cambridge, MA, Welch, Bigelow, & Co. University Press, 1876. 4to. xx, 628 pp. Original blind stamped green cloth with gilt title on the spine and large gilt floral vignette on the front board, and an allegorical one of the Geological Survey of California on the rear board. = A...

Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar publiée par Alfred Grandidier. Volume XXI. Histoire naturelle des coléoptères.

Kunckel d'Herculais, J. · 1891

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, Imprimérie Nationale, 1891. 4to. Half-title and Title page; 54 fine, mostly tinted engraved plates. = The complete atlas of volumes 22-23, Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères of Grandidier's famous Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. With amazing sha...

Etude des niveaux Pelagiques et Volcano-sedimentaires du Trias Moyen des Dolomites Italiennes (F. de Livinallongo, Pietra verde).

Houel, P. · 1979

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 1979. 4to (29.6 x 21.0 cm). 216, [xiv] pp.; 12 diagrams, 21 plates, numerous maps and text figures. Spine with cloth strip and handwritten title. = A seldom-seen work on the geology of the Dolomites (Alps). Thesis of the French geologi...

Die Anwendung des Löthrohrs in der Chemie und Mineralogie. Vierte verbesserte Auflage. Mit 4 Kupfertafeln.

Berzelius, J. J. · 1844

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Schrag, 1844. 8vo (21.1 x 13.2 cm). xxiii, 284, [iv] pp.; four folded engraved plates. Contemporary ruled half cloth over marbled boards. = The last, improved edition of a work first published in Swedish in 1820. The author, Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779...

Die Frauen des Orients in der Geschichte, in der Dichtung und im Leben.

Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, A., Freiherr von · 1904

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Wien, Leipzig, Hartleben, 1904. Large, thick 8vo (26.2 x 18.5 cm). [iv], 792 pp.; 11 full colour plates with tissue-guards, 15 b/w plates, and 338 text illustrations including numerous photographs. Original blind-tooled half cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board, ...

Die vorzüglichsten in Teutschland wachsenden Giftpflanzen und deren Wirkungen auf das Leben und die Gesundheit der Menschen. Nebst Abgabe der Hülfsmittel bei Vergiftungsfällen. Für Schulen und zum Privatgebrauch allgemein fasslich beschrieben.

Schottländer, G. A. E. · 1837

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Ulm, J. Ebner, 1837. Tall 8vo (19.7 x 11.1 cm). 56 pp., two folded, hand-coloured plates. Original printed wrappers. = A rare and well-illustrated work, describing 34 toxic plants and fungi, and includes symptoms, remedies, etc. With an index. The folded plates are beautifully...