Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Voyage en Norvège et en Laponie, fait dans les années 1806, 1807 et 1808. Traduit de l`Allemand par J. B. B. Eyriés. Précédé d`une introduction de M. A. de Humboldt. Suivi d`un mémoire de M. de Buch, sur la limite des neiges perpétuelles dans le Nord, et enrichi de cartes et de coupes de terrein.

Buch, L. de · 1816

€550.00 ($606.20 | £458.85 | ¥96,802)

Paris, Gide fils, 1816. Two volumes in two. 8vo (19.9 x 12.6 cm). 953 pp. [xxiv, 472; 457]; three engraved maps, of which two large, folded. Uniform red calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands, vignettes, and title. Sprinkled edges. = Rare first French edit...

Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator [AND] Supplementary appendix to travels amongst the great Andes of the equator.

Whymper, E. · 1891

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

London, John Murray, 1891-1892. Two parts in two. 8vo (22.7 x 16.1 cm). 549 [xxiv, 456; xxii, 147] pp.; 34 plates, four maps (one in rear pocket), numerous text figures. Uniform original cloth with bevelled edges, and gilt ornaments across the top and bottom of the front board...

Ornitologia Brasileira ou história natural das aves do Brasil. Notaveis por sua plumagem, canto e hábitos. Primeira ediçao Portuguesa, traduzida por Eurico Santos, anotada por João Moojen. 1. Volume (texto).

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1944

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Rio de Janeiro, Kosmos, (1944). 4 ll., 228 pp., 1 l. with a printer mark of Livraria Kosmos. Full red goat leather binding. Spine with four raised bands, gilt title and vignette. = The first and only translation in Portugese of the original tdition of of 1845-1846 which was wr...

Mémoire sur les fougères du Mexique et considérations sur la géographie botanique de cette contrée.

Martens, M. and H. G. Galeotti · 1860

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Bruxelles, Académie royale de Bruxelles, [1860]. 4to. 99 pp.; 23 lithographed plates. Contemporary wrappers. Handwritten title on cover. = Rare contribution on the ferns of Mexico by the Dutch born Begian botanist Martin Martens (1793-1863) and his French-Belgian colleague, H...

Abhandlungen über die Pflanzenkunde in Böhmen. [Erste -] Zweite Abtheilung. [Complete].

Sternberg, K. Graf von · 1817

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

Prag, Gottlieb Haase, 1817-1818. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.0 x 13.2; 21.7 x 14.0 cm). 168; 128, xlvi [ii] pp. Original glossy patterned and plain green wrappers. = Rare work on the botany of Bohemia (Czechia). The author, Kaspar Graf von Sternberg (1761-1833) was a founder o...

Det Danske markukrudts historie.

Jessen, K. and J. [W. A.] Lind · 1923

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Kobenhavn, Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, 1923. 4to. 496 pp.; one folding tabel. Original printed wrappers. = Important study on Scandinavian weeds and vegetation, also in a climatological perspective, by the Danish botanist Knud Jessen (1884-1971) an...

Resultate aus dem Beobachtungen des Magnetischen Vereins im Jahre 1836.

Gauss, C. F. and W. Weber (eds.) · 1837

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

Göttingen, Dieterich, 1837. 8vo (). 124 pp. [104, xx]; ten engraved, folded plates. Original blind boards. = The first of six volumes published. "Magnetic observations; declination at Goettingen, magnetism of the earth in absolute measure; variation of magnetic declination. No...

Verzeichniss der Pflanzen, welche während der auf Allerhöchsten Befehl in den Jahren 1829 und 1830 unternommen Reise im Caucasus und in den Provinzen am westlichen Ufer des Caspischen Meeres gefunden und eingesammelt worden sind.

Meyer, C. A. · 1831

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

St. Petersburg, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1831. 4to. 241 pp. Later blind blue wrappers. = Rare plant-catalogue of the Caucasus and western side of the Caspian Sea (i.e. present day Russia and Azarbeidzjan). Title page soiled and with a small, old marginal repai...

Botanische und zoologische Ergebnisse einer wissenschaftliche Forschungsreise nach den Samoainseln, dem Neuguinea-Archipel und den Salomonsinseln. III. Teil. (Mit 18 Tafeln und 34 Textfiguren). Bearbeitung der Siphonogamen und Lepidopteren von den Samoa-Inseln, Der Fungi und Hepaticae von Neuguinea-Archipel, und der Arachniden sämtlicher bereister Inseln nebst Nachträgen zu den Hepaticae und Micromycetes der Samoa-Inseln.

Rechinger, K. · 1910

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Wien, Alfred Hölder [Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften], 1910. 4to (29.4 x 23.5 cm). [ii] 258 pp.; 34 text figures, 18 plates. Original full cloth with original printed titles mounted on the boards and spine. = This volume contains the complete mycology (by Bresadola, vo...

Die Urweltlichen Acrobryen des Kreidegebirges von Aachen und Maestricht.

Debey, M. H. and C. Ritter von Ettingshausen · 1859

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Wien, Kaiserlich-königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Karl Gerold's Sohn), 1859. 4to (31.0 x 24.3 cm). 68 pp., seven tinted lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = A major work on late Cretaceous plants. Official offprint from the Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Natu...

Atlas d'hybrides artificiels de Cistes (Cistus T.) obtenus par E. Bornet à la Villa Thuret à Antibes. Compenant 41 planches, dont 5 en couleurs horse texte, d'après les photographies de E. Bornet et les aquarelles de Riocreux, précédées de la description de ces hybrides. [With the rare slipcase].

Gard, M. · 1933

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, G. Dion, 1933. Large 4to (36.1 x 25.2 cm). 99 pp.; 41 plates of which five in full colour. Original printed wrappers. In a marbled slipcase (37.0 x 26.6 x 2.6 cm). = A well-illustrated work on rockroses, or rock roses, "defining plants of sunny gardens with a nearly fro...

Methods of study in natural history.

Agassiz, L. · 1863

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Small 8vo. viii, 319 pp.; a few woodcuts. Original blind stamped cloth. Gilt title on the spine. Brown endpapers. = Written by the experienced Swiss-born American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe "Louis" Agassiz (1807-1873). First edition. Dedic...

Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires des Basses-Alpes dressé d'après les documents bibliographiques, recueillis par feu L.-A. Dessalle ... complétés et mis en oeuvre par l'auteur. Tome I - Tome II 1re partie - Tome II 2me partie. [Complete].

Laurent, L. [A. A.] · 1937

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Marseille, Chez l'auteur, 1937-1940. Two volumes in three. 8vo. 750 pp. [393; 1-158, 159-357]; one map. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A rare, complete set of an important catalogue of the plants of the Basses Alpes of southern France, a diverse and phytogeographically i...

Flore descriptive et analytique des environs de Paris ou description des plantes qui croissent spontanément dans cette région, et de celles qui y sont g'néralement cultivées, accompagnée de tableaux analytiques des familles, des genres et des espèces et d'une carte des environs de Paris. Ouvrage faisant suite à la partie botanique du cours d'histoire naturelle de mm. A. de Jussieu, Milne-Edwards et Beudant. Volume I - II. (Complete).

Cosson, E. and E. Germain [de Saint-Pierre] · 1845

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Paris, Fortin, Masson, 1845. 12mo (17.0 x 10.7 cm). lii, 731, [i] pp.; one engraved map. Contemporary uniform mottled half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = The first of three editions. With a peculiar, rou...

Fraxinellae, plantarum familia naturalis, definita et secundum genera disposita, adiectis specierum Brasiliensium descriptionibus.

Nees von Esenbeck, C. and C. de Martius · 1823

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Bonn, [Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae], 1823. 4to (27.6 x 22.3 cm). 42 pp., 14 lithographed plates (six folded). Contemporary marbled spine. = This work deals with newly discovered and poorly known flowering shrubs from South America, Brazil in particular, collected b...

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse zweier Reisen nach Algerien in den Jahren 1906 und 1907.

Passarge, S. · 1941

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Hamburg, Friedrichsen, De Gruyter, 1941. 4to (28.9 x 19.5 cm). xxii, 592 pp., 150 text figures. Original printed wrappers. = This work by the German geologist, geographer and Nazi pseudoscientist, Siegfried Passarge (1866-1958) deals mainly with the physical geography of Alger...

Annalen des Ackerbaues herausgegeben von Albrecht Thaer. [AND] Annalen der Fortschritte der Landwirthschaft in Theorie und Praxis herausgegeben von Albrecht Thaer. [Together in 16 volumes].

Thaer, A. [D.] (ed.) · 1805

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

Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung [and Rücker und Reimer], 1805-1812. 16 volumes in 16. Small 8vo (16.7 x 10.2 cm). 12,573 pp.; 29 folding tables, ten folding plates, six folding maps. Original uniform half calf over tree-calf resembling paper boards. Spines with gilt ornamental b...

Das Gebiss und Reste der Nasenbeine von Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus Osborn) hundsheimensis.

Toula, F. · 1906

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Wien, K.K. Geologische Reichsanstalt, 1906. Folio (34.7 x 25.0 cm). 38 pp., two folded plates. Original printed wrappers. = An important work on the anatomy and phylogeny of extinct rhinos. Inscribed by the author, and with a stamp "Überreicht vom Verfasser". Wrappers' edges c...

Paleozoic Brachiopoda from Japan, Korea and China. I. Middle and Southern China. [AND] II. Upper Carboniferous Brachiopoda from the Hon-kei-ko coal mines, Manchuria.

Hayasaka, I. · 1922

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Sendai, Tohoku University, 1922. Folio (36.7 x 26.5 cm). 121 (116; 5) pp., six (5; 1) plates. Original printed wrappers. = A rare, well-illustrated and taxonomically important work. Includes a list of geographical names in Chinese and English. Published in the series, Science ...

History of Preclusian Botany in its relation to Aster.

Burgess, E. S. · 1902

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

New York, NY, Torrey Botanical Club, 1902. 8vo. xii, 447 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A fine monograph of the histiry of this large and diverse plant genus. It deals also with related genera, and taxa previously thought to belong to it. The wrappers, made of inferior paper...