Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Icones Mammalium. Indicem systematicum addidit. [Icones mammalium cum indice systematico].

Kielsen, F. C. · 1835

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Hafniae [Copenhagen], Christian Steen, 1835. 8vo (23.9 x 15.2 cm). viii pp.; 111 engraved plates. Near contemporary blind boards. = A seldom seen systematical arrangement of the mammals with fine engravings. ten by the Danish zoologist and schoolmaster Frederik Christian Kiels...

China's economic Fauna: Birds.

Cheng Tso-Hsin · 1964

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,440)

Washington, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1964. Thick small folio (26.8 x 20.3 cm). 946pp., 64 plates of which 35 in full colour, numerous text figures. Printed wrappers in loose leaf binding. = An excellent work on birds and the relations between birds and Man. An ornithologis...

Recherches expérimentales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du système nerveux dans les animaux vertébrés.

Flourens, P. · 1842

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1842. 8vo (21.8 x 13.9 cm). xxviii, 516, 48 pp. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Top edge gilt. Original printed front wrapper bound in. = These reports are a landmark in history of the study of the nervous system. The last 4...

Le Mont-Blanc. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie Française.

Durier, C. · 1881

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, G. Fischbacher, 1881. Small 8vo 17.3 x 11.2 cm). xii, 416 pp., one large, folded full colour map of the Mont-Blanc region. Contemporary blue pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. = Interesting early alpine guide including also historic...

Ornitología Argentina. Estudios y exploraciones ornitológicas en la República Argentina.

Dabbene, R. [R.] · 1910

€325.00 ($358.21 | £271.14 | ¥57,201)

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1910. Large 8vo (28.0 x 18.6 cm). xiv, 313 pp.; 86 text figures. Blind front wrapper. = A seldom-seen paper on Argentine birds. With an introduction, followed by two parts, viz., Parte I. Caracteres morfólogicos que tienen valor en...

Materialy po yestestvennoy istorii murav'yev (Formicariae) Rossii. [Contribution to the ants (Formicariae) of Russia].

Nasonov, N. V. · 1889

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Moscow, Zoologieskago Imperatorskago Moskovskago Universiteta, 1889. Large 4to (34.5 x 25.6 cm). 126 pp., nine tinted or coloured lithographed plates; 57 text engravings of which 23 printed in colour. Original printed wrappers. = Published in two, combined, parts. The first pa...

Monographie de la famille des Hirudinées.

Moquin-Tandon, [C. H. B.] A. · 1827

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

Paris, Gabon, 1827. 4to (27.1 x 21.9 cm). 152 pp.; seven engraved plates of which four finely hand-coloured. Original printed wrappers. = An important monograph by the medical doctor, botanist and zoologist - chiefly malacologist - Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tando...

The geography of mammals.

Sclater, W. L. and P. L. Sclater · 1899

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1899. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). xviii, 335 pp.; eight large, folded, tinted maps, engraved frontispiece by Joseph Smit (tissue-guarded), 50 text engravings. 60 pp. publisher's catalogue (dated Jan. 1899) bound in rear. Original dark green, embo...

The Oriental Sporting Magazine. From June, 1828, to June, 1833. In two volumes. [Complete].

Various authors · 1828

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

London, Henry S. King & Co., [1828-1833] 1873. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.1 x 14.0 cm). 1006 pp. [I: viii, 492, (31); II: viii, 436, (31)]. Original uniform decorated cloth with gilt title and black ornaments on the spines and front boards. Bevelled edges. Green endpapers. =...

Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the easternmost part of Gunung Sewu (East Java).

Sartono, S. · 1964

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Bandung, Departemen Perindustrian Dasar/Pertambangan Direktorat Geologi, 1964. 8vo, 95 pp., 15 text figures (mostly photos), 24 folding geological maps and profiles in pocket. Half cloth with printed boards. = Library stamp on titles and plates. May be all that has been publis...

l'Appareil parabasal des flagellés.

Duboscq, O. and P. Grassé · 1933

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Paris, H. le Soudier, 1933. 8vo. 241 pp., four plates of which two coloured). Original printed wrappers. = A seldom seen, well-illustrated work on unicellular parasites. Published in the Archives de Zoologie Expérimenteale et Générale, volume 73(3). Binding weak, fromnt wrappe...

Ornitofauna Malogo Kavkaza (v granicach Gruzinskoj SSR) [Ornithofauna of the Malogo-Caucasus (and the bounderies of the Gruzinian SSR)].

Zordanija, R. G. [Žordania, Zhordaniya] · 1962

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Tiblisi, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSR, 1962. 8vo (21.5 x 14.6 cm). 287 pp.; folded map. Publisher's quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with title in black. = A rarely seen work on the birds of the lower Caucasus, and in particular of Georgia. In Russian (one...

Au travers des Forêts vierges de la Guyane Hollandaise.

Cappelle, H. van · 1905

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Baarn and Paris, Impr. Hollandia, 1905. 1 l., 198 pp., folded photographed frontispiece showing the river and one folded map of the rivers Nickerie and Maratakka, 19 photographs. Original Art-Deco pictorial binding. = One of the rare monograph on the tropical woods of Suriname...

The migrations of birds. [Dedication copy, signed by the author].

Dorst, J. · 1962

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

London, Heinemann, 1962. 8vo (21.3 x 14.3 cm). xix, 476 pp., 130 text figures. Publisher's blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. = First English translation of a seminal work on birth migration first published in French. Written by the French ornithologist Jean Dorst (192...

Flora dei Lidi Veneti.

Ruchinger, G. · 1818

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Venezia, Fuchs, 1818. 8vo (19.8 x 13.6 cm). x, 304 pp. Original wrappers with small old bookseller's label on the front wrapper. = Rather rare flora of Venice and the surrounding islands, written by Giuseppe Ruchinger (1761-1847), a German gardener and botanist and head of the...

Les végétaux utiles de l'Afrique tropicale Française. VI. Les kolatiers & les noix de Kola.

Chevalier, A. and É. Perrot · 1911

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1911. 8vo (23.7 x 15.7 cm). xxiv, 484 pp.; two large, folded, coloured maps, 16 phototype plates and 52 text figures (mostly page-sized plates) and maps. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title. Marbled edges....

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Finnischen Expeditionen nach der Halbinsel Kola in den Jahren 1887-1892. Eine Sammlung Separat-Abdrücke. B. Botanik. Zoologie.

Kihlman, A. O. et al. · 1890

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Helsingfors, Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 1890-1892. Two parts in one. 8vo (23.0 x 15.0 cm). 541 pp.; 14 photographic plates, two coloured, folded maps. Early 20th-century half cloth over marbled boards. Speckled edges. = A rarely seen work on Arctic botany. Contains...

Roches cristallophylliennes et tectonique de la Grèce. [Complete].

Négris, P. · 1914

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Athens, P. D. Sakellarios 1914-1919. Three parts in two. 8vo. 350 pp. [viii, 1-124, xxiii, 125-210; ix, 211-310] folding table; 46 plates. Uniform original printed wrappers with linen spine cover, and paper label. = As far as we know still the only monograph on this subject on...

Classification et évolution d'un groupe d'abiétinées.

Flous, F. · 1936

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Toulouse, Frères Douladoure, 1936. Large 8vo (25.1 x 16.3 cm). 633 pp., numerous text engravings (several plate-sized). Original printed wrappers. = Deals with fir tree species and their evolution. The author's thesis. Uncut. Dedication page creased, very minor creasing and ch...

Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerica.

Peters, W. · 1863

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Berlin, Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1863. 4to (28.7 x 23.1 cm). 61 pp., three lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Several new species are described here and type (?) specimens of others are illustrated as well. According to Vanzolini: "An extremely i...