Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Die Algenflora der Danziger Bucht. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Ostsee flora.

Lakowitz, C. W. · 1907

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1907. 4to(27.2 x 19.0 cm). vii, 141 pp., one tinted double-paged map, five folded plates, 70 fine text illustrations. Contemporary cloth, spine with gilt title. Original printed front wrapper bound in. = "This monograph is devoted to a most careful study...

The Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission.

Aitchison, J. E. T. · 1888

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

London, Linnean Society of London, 1888. 4to. 139 pp.; 48 lithographed plates (two double-sized, double numbered) and two large, folded maps. Later blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed front wrapper bound in. = An important, early, well-illustrated flora...

Untersuchungen über die Entwicklung der Crassulaceen.

Koch, L. [K. A.] · 1879

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

Heidelberg, Carl [F.] Winter, 1879. Large 4to (34.3 x 27.2 cm). 139 pp.; 16 lithographed plates of which five in chromolithography. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Greyish green endpapers. = A rare monograph on the development of...

Considerations sur les animaux articulés, sur les limites de ce type et sur la place qu'il doit occuper dans les cadres de la méthode naturelle.

Duvernoy, G. L. · 1841

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,680)

Paris, [Dictionnaire universel d'Histoire naturelle], 1841. Large 8vo (24.6 x 16.1 cm). 15 pp., text figure. Origunal printed wrappers. = A rare offprint from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire universel d'Histoire naturelle. It deals with the higher systematics of the articulat...

Ueber Vulkane Centralamerikas. Aus den nachgelassenen Aufzeichnungen von Karl von Seebach.

Seebach, K., Von · 1892

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Göttingen, Dieterisch, 1892. 4to (26.8 x 21.8 cm). 251 pp.; nine fine, tinted, mostly folded lithographed plates, mostly showing views such as "Omotepec und Madera im Nigaracua See", and "Agua von Westen", and five mostly folded tinted lithographed maps, numerous text engravin...

Vulcani attivita e genesi.

Rittmann, A. · 1944

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Napoli, E.P.S.A., 1944. 8vo (20.3 x 13.4 cm). 320 pp.; five folded plates and maps, 105 text figures. Contemporary full cloth. Title printed on the spine. Original printed front wrapper bound in. = A rare and classic study on volcanology with a personal dedication from the aut...

Les récents voyages des Néerlandais à la Nouvelle-Guinée. [AND] Les derniers voyages des Néerlandais à la Nouvelle-Guinée.

Bonaparte, R. [N.] · 1885

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Versailles, l'auteur, 1885. Two papers in one. Small 4to. Half-titles and titles in red and black; 16; 40 pp.; two chromolithographed folded, tissue-guarded maps, one table. Later blind quarter cloth over marbled boards. Original printed wrappers bound in. = Offprints, on beha...

Les Sapotacées. Taxonomie et phytogéographie.

Aubreville, A. · 1964

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Paris, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 1964. 8vo. 158 pp.; eight plates, numerous text figures and tables. Stiff pictorial wrappers. = This monograph forms a standard work of this group of flowering tropical plants. Published as Adansonia, Mémoire No. 1. Uncut. A mint copy.

l'Institut de France et nos grands Etablissements scientifiques.

Lemaistre, A. · 1896

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Collège de France, Muséum, Institut Pasteur, Sorbonne, Observatoire. Paris, Hachette, 1896. Large 8vo. II, 336p., 43 woodengravings and numerous woodcuts. Orig. wrs. (repaired). = A nice all over view of the prestigeous French scientific institutes of the 19th century. Signed ...

Die Mineralogie nach ihren neuesten Ansichten dargestellt.

[Anonymous mineralogist] · 1814

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Wien, Commission des Cosmographischen Büreau, 1814. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10.0 cm). 164 pp.; one engraved plate. Contemporary marbled wrappers. = A very rare work by an unknown author. The work offers a systematic account of minerals. The plate shows crystal-forms. A long quote by...

Physiologische und algologische Studien.

Hansgirg, A. · 1887

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Prag, Franz Borový, 1887. 4to. 187 pp.; four lithographed plates, of which two in colour. Slightly later half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. = Written by the Bohemian-born Austrian phycologist Anton Hansgirg (1854-1917). ADDED: an offprint by this same autho...

Le Bassin houiller d'Héraclée et la flore du Culm et du Houiller moyen.

Ralli, G. · 1933

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Istanbul, Zellitch Frères [for the author], 1933. 4to. 166 pp.; 35 plates with printed overlays, 16 tables, six coloured geological maps and profiles, one uncoloured map, one mounted original photograph. Original green cloth with white embossed title on the spine and front boa...

Venerie Normande, ou l'école de la chasse aux chiens courants, pour le lievre, le chevreuil, le cerf, le daim, le sanglier, le loup, le renard & la loutre; avec les tons de chasse, accompagnés de chacun une explication sur l'occasion & les circonstances où ils doivent être sonnés; et un traité des remedes, un traité sur le droit de suite, & un dictionnaire des termes de chasse, &c.

Verrier de la Conterie, J. Le · 1778

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

Rouen, Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). xvi, 526 pp.; 27 fine mostly folded wood-engraved plates on 19 leaves (seven printed on blue paper; 16 combined on recto and verso of eight leaves), mostly by Caron; 12 large text engravings of music scores being "Tons de Ch...

Den Norske Nordhavs-Expedition 1876-1878. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. IV. 1. Historisk beretning. 2. Apparaterne og deren brug.

Wille, C. · 1882

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

Christiania (Oslo), Grøndahl & Søn, 1882. Large 4to (37.5 x 28.3 cm). Two title pages (English and Norwegian), 54 pp.; map. Original printed wrappers. = Part of the results of a Norwegian scientific expedition. This part on the history, and the (dredging) equipment, written by...

Recherches critiques sur l'olivier de Laperrine. [AND] Étude anatomique du Limbe des Innovations des Aristida de l'Afrique du Nord et du Sahara.

Benichou, A. [AND] Bourreil, P. · 1962

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Alger, Institut Recherches Sahariennes, 1962. Two papers in one. 4to. 201 pp. [55; 146] pp.; 31 plates [14; 17]; eight [0; 8] maps, several large, folded tables. Pictorial wrappers. = Two papers on North African, in particular Algerian, botany. This is the institute's complete...

Siberian Man and Mammoth. [AND] 1909 Mammoth poster by the author.

Pfizenmayer, E. W. · 1939

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son, 1939. 8vo (21.7 x 15.1 cm). Frontispiece of a Siberian Mammoth, 268 [xii, 256] pp.; three folding maps, 29 mostly tinted photographic plates, numerous text figures. Original red cloth with gilt title on the spine. AND: Broadsheet (107.0 x 89...

The Cephalopoda of the Neocomian Belemnite Beds of the Salt Range.

Spath, L. F. · 1939

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Calcutta, The Geological Survey of India, 1939. Folio (36.0 x 27.0 cm). 154 pp.; 25 plates. Original printed wrappers. = A major contribution to the rich Mesozoic faunas of the Indian subcontinent. Published in Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organ...

Lehrbuch der Mineralogie.

Rau, A. · 1818

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Würzburg, Stahel, 1818. 8vo (19.2 x 11.8 cm). vii, 614, [i] pp.; one folded, engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges yellow. = A rare mineralogical and crystallographical work wri...

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire physique et naturelle de la Suisse. I. [All published].

Reynier, [J. L. A.] and [H.] Struve · 1788

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Lausanne, Mourer, Paris, de Bure, 1788. 8vo (19.1 x 12.2 cm). viii, 296 pp.; folding table, three large, folded, engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and two morocco labels (red and green) with gilt title. All edges red....

Flore du Dauphiné ou description succincte des plantes, croissant naturellement en Dauphiné ou cultivées pour l'usage de l'Homme et des animaux avec l'analyse des genres et leur tableau d'après le système de Linnée. Par feu A. Mutel. 2me édition, entièrement refondue. [premier -] deuxième partie. (Complete).

Mutel, [P.] A. [V.] · 1848

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Grenoble, Prudhomme, 1848-1849. two parts in two. 12mo (16.2 x 12.0 cm). 768, 137 pp.; two tables (one double-sized). Original uniform printed wrappers. = One of the earlier regional floras of France. Published in several editions, the first in 1830, and subsequently much expa...