Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Atlas of Georgian Amphibians and Reptiles.

Muskhelishvili, T. [A.] · 1994

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Tbilisi, "World Wide Fond for Nature" [World Wide Fund for Nature], 1994. Large 4to (30.0 x 21.5 cm). 48 pp.; 30 full colour plates. Publisher's green mock leather with gilt title on the front board. Patterned endpapers. = First (only?) edition of the only recent atlas of the ...

Opuscules entomologiques. Volumes 1-4, 7-16 [last].

Mulsant, E. · 1853

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Paris, L. Maison, 1853-1873. 14 (of 16) parts in four. 8vo (Parts I-IV, VII-IX; 23.0 x 15.7 cm) and large 8vo (Parts X-XVI; 28.5 x 17.8 cm). Half-titles and title pages to each issue, 2800 pp.; 14 finely lithographed plates and 15 ditto portraits. Uniform later buckram. Gilt t...

Bibliothèque conchyliologique Tome quatrième. Testacea Britannica ou histoire naturelle des coquilles marines fluviatiles et terrestres d'Angleterre.

Montagu, G. [Chenu, J. C. (translator)] · 1846

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

Paris, A. Franck, 1846. Large 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). Half-title to the series, half-title and title page, with engraved vignette, to the work. xi, 364 pp.; 12 engraved plates. Publisher's printed boards with engraved vignette on front board. = This translated edition contains t...

Niederlande. [Interleaved proof copy with many annotations].

Molengraaff, G. A. F. and W. A. J. M. van Waterschoot van der Gracht · 1913

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Heidelberg, Carl Winter, 1913. Large 8vo (25.6 x 17.2 cm). 98 pp.; 20 text illustrations, being mostly geological maps, and profiles. Interleaved throughout. = Written by two of the foremost geolists of the Netherlands during the first half of the 20th century, and published a...

East of the Jordan. A record of travel and observation in the countries of Moab Gilead and Bashan during the years 1875-1877.

Merrill, S. · 1883

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. 8vo (21.3 x 14.5 cm). xv, 549, [vi] pp.; Frontispiece (tissue-guarded), one folding map showing the country explored by the American Palestine exploration Society, five wood-engraved plates, 65 text figures. Original gilt and red de...

Tasmanian friends and foes, feathered, furred, and finned. A family chronicle of country life, natural history, and veritable adventure. With coloured plates, from drawings by the author and other illustrations. Second edition.

Meredith, L. A. · 1881

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

London, Marcus Ward, 1881. Small 4to (21.9 x 16.7 cm). Title page, 259 pp.; eight chromolithographed plates depicting fishes and flowers from Tasmania, numerous text engravings. Original green, black and gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Gilded, patterned endpapers. All edges gi...

De Bufone permagno [AND] Serpente magno Indiae Orientalis, Urobubalum deglutiente.

Mentzel, I. [AND] Cleyer, A. · 1684

€240.00 ($264.52 | £200.22 | ¥42,241)

Nuremberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endtetr, 1684. Small 4to (20.5 x 15.9 cm). 10 pp. [numbered 15-24]; one plate with four illustrations. Extract. Marbled spine cover. = Two papers on a "giant" snake. The first paper suggests dealing with a species of Bufo (frog), but it is not. Publ...

Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Decade VII. [Complete Decade].

McCoy, F. · 1882

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Melbourne, Government Printers, 1882. 4to (27.1 x 18.3 cm). 37, [ii] pp.; several text engravings, ten chromolithographed plates (of which two combined on a single, double-sized sheet). Original printed wrappers. = One of the most richly illustrated faunal descriptions of Aust...

Natural history of Victoria. Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria; figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Decade II. [Herpetology].

McCoy, F. · 1878

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

Melbourne, Government Printers, 1878. 4to (27.1 x 18.2 cm). Four chromolithographed plates with accompanying text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = One of the most richly illustrated faunal descriptions of Australia; especially interesting because of the many thoroughly obs...

Dernières explorations en Asie et dans les régions polaires - 1880 [AND] Dernières explorations en Afrique 1880.

[Maps] Polar region [AND] Africa · 1881

€320.00 ($352.70 | £266.97 | ¥56,321)

Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1881. Two maps, printed in black, blue and red (25.7 x 25.6 cm; and 16.5 x 17.4 cm) on a single, folded sheet (46.7 x 30.3 cm). Original printed wrappers. = Two seldom-seen if not downright rare maps showing the Polar region, and Africa, indicating where ...

Der grosse Goldfund in Chiriqui im Jahre 1859.

Lüders, C. W. · 1889

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Hamburg, Hamburgischer Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, 1889. Large 8vo. title page, 6 pp., six plates. Disbound. = A very well illustrated work with illustrations of gold figurines, mainly based on reptiles, crustaceans, and human figures. A very good, clean copy. Rare.

Afhandling om Fiskars, Amphibiers och Fåglars respiration.

Lovén, N. H. · 1830

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Lund, Berling, 1830. 8vo (21.0 x 13.2 cm). 46 pp. Marbled paper spine cover. No wrappers issued. = Thesis of the Swedish medical doctor, pathologist and zoologist Nils Henrik Lovén (1801-1877), a cousin of the influential marine zoologist Sven Ludvig Lovén (1809-1895). Lovén c...

De Animalculis Microscopicis seu Infusoriis.

Losana, M. · 1823

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Torino, Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 1823. 4to (25.4 x 20.5 cm). 32 pp.; five large, folding plates showing numerous figures of microscopical organisms. 19th-century grey wrappers. = A peculiar and rare paper on microscopical observations by the Italian theologist,...

Observations sur les tortues terrestres et paladines du bassin de la Méditerranée.

Lortet L. [C. É.] · 1886

€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)

Lyon, Henri Georg [for the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Lyon], 1886. Large 4to (37.4 x 28.0 cm). Half-title, title page, 26 pp.; eight fine lithographed plates, including three in chromolithography, finished by hand. Original printed wrappers with title on front wrapper and ...

Hortus Upsaliensis, quem cum consensu ampliss. facult. medicae in regio ad salam lyceo, sub praesidio viri celeberrimi, d:ni doct. Caroli Linnaei, med. et botan. profess. reg. et ord. acad. imper. Regg. Monspel. Stoch. et Upsal. socio hujusque secretario. Speciminis academicvi loco, publicae disquisitioni subjicit Samuel Naucler.

Linnaeus, C. [Nauclér, S.] · 1745

€3,700.00 ($4,078.07 | £3,086.78 | ¥651,216)

Upsaliae [Uppsala], [the author], 1745. Small 4to (17.7 x 14.1 cm). [iii], 48 pp.; folded view, folded map, and two engraved plates. Early 19th-century half vellum over marbled boards. Edges speckled red. = A description of the botanical gardens in Uppsala, Sweden, written by ...

Plantarum rariorum Horti Upsaliensis. Fasciculus primus sistens descriptiones et figuras plantarum minus cognitarum.

Linnaeus, C. · 1767

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

Lipsiae, Siegfried Lebrecht [Leberecht] Crusius, 1767. Folio (38.5 x 24.2 cm). Title page with engraved pictorial vignette, [i], 20 pp; ten engraved plates. Marbled boards with facsimile of title mounted. = A very rare work, written by Carolus Linnaeus Jr. It contains the desc...

Lindenia. Iconography of Orchids. Volume I.

Linden, J., L. Linden, E. Rodigas and R. A. Rolfe · 1891

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

Ghent, Eugène Vanderhaeghen, 1891-1892. In 12 issues. Folio (36.5 x 28.0 cm). 48 fine chromolithographed plates (tissue-guarded) with descriptive text. Original, uniform printed wrappers. = Rare start of the first English edition of this amazingly illustrated work, which first...

l'Amateur de Papillions. Volumes 1-5.

Lhomme, L. (ed.). · 1922

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Paris, Léon Lhomme, 1922-1931. Five volumes in five (21.2 x 13.4 cm). 1576 pp.; 36 plates (of which one in colour). Volumes 1-3 in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards; spines with gilt title; remainder (Vols. 3-5, and 6) in later half cloth with marbled boards; spine...

Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der niederen Thiere. [All published].

Leuckart, [K. G. F.] R. · 1856

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Berlin, Nicolai, 1856-1899. 38 volumes in 11. 8vo (20.6 x 13.0 cm) and large 8vo (22.7 x 15.1 cm). Title pages and more than four thousand pp. of text. Near uniform green cloth over green marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Speckled edges. = An important series by the Germ...

Über Kathodenstrahlen in Gasen von Atmosphaerischem Druck und im äussersten Vacuum.

Lenard, P. [E. A. von] · 1893

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Georg Reimer), 1893. 8vo (26.5 x 19.0 cm). 5 pp. [numbered 3-7]. Original printed wrappers. = A very important contribution to physics (which contributed to him becoming a Nobel laureate in 1905) conceived and written by the Germ...