Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Materiaux pour servir à l'histoire des hydroïdes. 7e période (1901-1910).

Bedot, M. · 1925

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Genève, Albert Kundig, 1925. Thick 8vo (24.1 x 15.6 cm). 657 pp. Contemporary black grained half cloth with gilt title on the spine. = With a long list of references, including many from before 1901 and not included in earlier lists. Also with several taxonomic notes. This for...

Prodrome de malacologie française. Mollusques marins (partie 1).

Locard, A. · 1885

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Paris, Annales des Sciences, 1885. Large 8vo (25.2 x 16.7 cm). 216 pp. Elegant later half calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, rich gilt ornaments, gilt titles on black leather labels. = Contains the preface, and descriptions, distribution records and refere...

Menschenaffen (Anthropomorphae) Studien über Entwickelung und Schädelbau herausgegeben von Dr. Emil Selenka Professor in München. Vierte Lieferung: der Unterkiefer der Anthropomorphen und des Menschen in seiner funktionellen Entwickelung und Gestalt, and Part 6: die diluvialen menschlichen Kiefer Belgiens und Ihre Pithekoiden Eigenschaften.

Walkhoff, [F.] O. · 1902

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel 1902. 4to. 119 pp. [(numbered [209]-327); 59 text figures (mostly [x-ray] photos). Original printed wrappers and original quarter linen portfolio over printed boards. = This monograph also form a part of Selenka's Menschenaffen (Anthropomorphae) Studie...

Die Amphibien und Reptilien der Inseln Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa und Flores.

Mertens, R. · 1930

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 1930. 4to (29.1 x 22.8 cm). 230 pp., nine plates. Original printed wrappers. = A thorough zoogeographical study with photos of habitats and specimens collected. Rare. Also published as Volume 1 of the Beiträge...

Beitrag zur botanischen systematik, die Existenz der Monocotyledoneen und der Polycotyledoneen betreffend.

Fischer, F. [E. L.] · 1812

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Zürich, Gessner, 1812. 4to. 32 pp.; three engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards. Paper label with handwritten title on the spine. = A rare work by the German-born Russian botanist Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer (1782-1854) one of the first directors of the St. Petersbur...

Ueber das Winden der Pflanzen. Ein botanisch-physiologische Abhandlung. [AND] Wiest, A. Untersuchungen über die Pflanzen-geographischen Verhältnisse Deutschlands. [AND] Neuffer, W. Untersuchungen über die Temperatur-Veränderungen der Vegetabilien und verschiedene damit in Beziehung stehende Gegenstände.

Palm, L. H. · 1827

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Tübingen, Richter, 1827. 8vo (18.7 x 11.1 cm). viii, 101, [iii] pp.; three folded, lithographed plates. Later plain boards. = The dissertation by the German botanist Ludwig Heinrich Palm (1799-1873), with the influential German botanist Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin (1782-1848...

Contribution à l'étude de l'appareil circulatoire des crustacés Edriophthalmes marins.

Delage, Y. · 1881

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, A. Hennuyer, 1881. 8vo. 175 pp.; 12 chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = This thesis was dedicated to the French zoologist Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821-1901 or - according to Nissen ZBI, p. 238 - 1902). Loosely inserted is a handwritten...

Anatomie comparée du squelette des stellérides.

Viguier, C. · 1879

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, A. Hennuyer, 1879. 8vo (24.4 x 15.6 cm). 217 pp.; 12 tinted lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = A rare publication with fine illustrations by the author, Camille Viguier (1850-1930). Also published in the famous Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale, but this...

Recherches sur les Grégarines.

Léger, L. J. · 1892

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Poitiers, Oudin, 1892. 8vo. 182 pp.; 22 tinted lithographed plates (two in chromolithography). Original printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated monograph of the Gregarina or Gregarinasina - a group of protozoan invertebrate (especially insect) parasites - with many new genera a...

Briefe über Alexander von Humboldts Kosmos. Ein Commentar zu diesem Werke für gebildete Laien. Erster - Dritter Theil. [Complete].

[Humboldt, A. von] Cotta, B. and J. Schaller · 1850

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Leipzig, Weigel, 1850-1851. Three parts in three. 8vo (22.5 x 13.8 cm). 1326 pp. [I: x, 357; II: iv, 482; III: v, 468]; three very large, multi-folded maps [I: 0; II: 0; III: 3], of which two (of the hemispheres) with additional original hand-colouring, and the other (of the M...

Recherches sur les tuniciers.

Lahille, F. · 1890

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.80 | ¥24,641)

Toulouse, Lagarde et Sebille, 1890. 8vo. 330 pp., 160 text figures. Original printed wrappers. = The seldom-seen author's morphological-taxonomical thesis. Provenance: handwritten, signed dedication by the author to Lacaze-Duthiers in the top margin of the title page. Fernand ...

The Carboniferous and Permian faunas of South Iran and Iranian Baluchistan.

Douglas, J. A. · 1950

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1950. Folio (35.5 x 25.6 cm), 57 pp.; five plates. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen work, mainly on Anthozoa (corals), brachiopods, and foraminifers. A shark is described, but not illustrated. Published as Memoirs of the Geologic...

Recherches sur l'organisation et le developpement des Nematodes.

Jammes, L. · 1894

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Paris, Schmidt, 1894. 8vo (25.2 x 16.5 cm). xv, 205 pp.; 11 text figures, 11 tinted plates after drawings by the author. Original printed wrappers. = Thesis edition. Léon Wammes (1867-1938) was "Professeur de zoologie appliquée" at the Faculté des sciences de Toulouse, and D...

Geology of Arran and Clydesdale with an account of the flora and marine fauna of Arran. Notes on the rarer insects and notices of the scenery and antiquities. Third edition. [Author's presentation copy].

Bryce, J. · 1865

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Glasgow, Thomas Murray and Son, 1865. 8vo (19.0 x 13.5 cm). xii, 354 pp.; double-paged table, two geological hand-coloured lithographed maps, two lithographed plates, numerous steel-engravings in the text. Original embossed green cloth with gilt title on the spine. In transpar...

A permo-carboniferous fauna from South-West Persia (Iran).

Douglas, J. A. · 1936

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1936. Folio (36.0 x 24.6 cm). 59 pp.; five plates and maps. Original printed wrappers. = Mostly on Anthozoa and Brachiopoda, including new taxa. Inscribed by the author in the front wrapper top margin. Very uncommon. Wrapper edges frayed; ...

Ueber das Vorkommen und die Gewinnung des Kochsalzes auf der Oberfläche der Erde.

Karsten, C. J. B. · 1846

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1846. 8vo (20.3 x 12.3 cm). xvi, 884 pp.; numerous tables. Contemporary half calf over linen boards. Spine with gilt lines, and red morocco label with gilt title. Greenish endpapers. Edges speckled red. = Written by the German mineralogist and geologist Carl...

Life and letters of James David Forbes, F.R.S.

[Forbes, James] J. C. Shairp, P. G. Tait & A. Adams-Reilly · 1873

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

London, Macmillan, 1873. Thick 8vo. xiv, 598 pp., one advertisement leaf; two portraits of Forbes (frontispiece, tissue-guarded; engraved portrait as a child, title page vignette), and one of Lady Forbes and one of Sir William Forbes; one folded engraved, partly coloured map o...

La partie antérieure du tube digestif et la torsion chez les mollusques gastéropodes.

Amaudrut, A. [A.] · 1898

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, Masson, 1898. 8vo (25.2 x 16.1 cm). 291 pp.; 55 text figures, 10 fine, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Torsion is one of the most peculiar aspects of gastropod and cephalopod ontogeny and phylogeny. This is an early, detailed work on these subjects. Th...

Index to the genera and species described in the Palaeontologia Indica up to the year 1891.

Theobald, W. · 1892

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Calcutta, The Geological Survey of India, 1892. Large 4to (34.5 x 23.5 cm). 186 pp. Later brown buckram with gilt title on the spine. = Important fossil index from the Indian sub-continent from all publications in the Palaeontologia Indica. Ex-library copy with cancellation st...

Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general. Re-issue.

Wood-Jones, F. · 1912

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

London, Lovell Reeve [Ashford, L. Reeve & Co.], 1912. 8vo (21.9 x 15.2 cm). xxiii, 392 pp., two portraits (one tissue-guarded), two folding maps, 27 plates. Original blindstamped red buckram. Gilt title on the spine and front board. Top edge gilt. = An excellent copy of an ess...