Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Dissertatio medico-pharmacologica de Auro.

Neuhold, W. · 1840

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Vindobonae, Ueberrenter, 1840. 8vo (21.1 x 13.6 cm). 20 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Rarely-seen thesis by a little-known Viennese medical doctor on gold and its medical and pharmatological applications, including a list of books on gold published between 1578 and 1829. In...

Esquisses zoologiques sur la Côte de Guiné. Première partie: les mammifères. [All published].

Temminck, C. J. · 1855

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1855. 8vo (23.4 x15.2 cm). xvi, 256 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Rare, early monograph on the mammals of western Africa, by the foremost Dutch vertebrate zoologist (chiefly ornithologist) of the 19th century, Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858). It inc...

Microscopic and Systematic Study of Madreporarian Types of Corals.

Ogilvie, M. M. · 1896

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

London, The Royal Society, 1896. 4to (29.2 x 22.3 cm). Drophead title, 263 pp. [numbered 83-345]; 76 woodcuts in the text (several in two colours); large, double-folded chart. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and black calf label with ...

The birds of Cuba.

Barbour, T. · 1923

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Cambridge, MA, Nutall Ornithological Club, 1923. 4to (28.0 x 22.5 cm). 141 pp.; four tinted phototype plates (tissue-guarded). Original green buckram with gilt title on the spine. = First edition, published as the Club's Memoirs, No. VI. Very uncommon, and rare outside North A...

Bird studies at Old Cape May. An ornithology of coastal New Jersey. Volume 1-2. [Complete].

Stone, W. · 1937

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Philadelphia, PA, The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937. 4to (27.0 x 20.0 cm). 941 pp.; 119 photographs and two coloured plates after watercolours by E. Poole. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. O...

The Carboniferous coal district of Brandov in the Rudohori Mountains (Erzgebirge), Bohemia: geology and palaeontology.

Purkyne, C. and F. Nemejc · 1930

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,680)

Praze, Ceska Akademie ved Umeni v Prazeio, 1930. Large 4to (33.1 x 25.0 cm). 121 pp.; 27 text figures, 13 plates. Original printed wrappers. = Deals with Carboniferous plants. Uncut. Biding wornwrappers split at spine, small repair to the title page outer corner; otherwise ver...

Die Mastodonten des Naturhistorischen Staatsmuseums. Morphologisch-phylogenetische Untersuchungen.

Schlesinger, G. · 1921

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

Leipzig und Wien, Franz Deuticke, 1921. Large 4to (35.4 x 26.2 cm). xix, 231 pp.; nine text figures, 36 fine large plates (one engraved, 35 in collotype). Later full cloth with printed paper label on the spine. Original printed wrapper bound in. = Important monograph of the f...

Blütendiagramme nebst Längsschnittbildern von ausgewählten einheimischen Blütenpflanzen, als Vertretern der Hauptabteilungen des natürlichen und des Linnéschen Pflanzensystems zur Einführung in das Verständnis des Blütenbaues und als Muster für das Diagramm-Zeichnen.

Rohweder, J. · 1893

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

Gotha, E. F. Thienemann, 1893. Two parts in three. 4to (24.8 x 21.3 cm). Brochure of 16 pp.; second brochure, with 24 chromolithographed plates of flowers. Both contained in pictorial cloth portfolio. Inner boards and flaps with floral pattern. = A beautifully produced introdu...

Symbolae ad polypos Hyalochaetides spectantes.

Brandt, J. F. · 1859

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Petropolis [St. Petersburg], Academia Literatum et Scientiarum Regiae Boicae, 1859. Large folio (48.2 x 32.1 cm). 24 pp., four lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Written by the German zoologist and botanist Johann Friedrich Brandt (1802-1875), who worked in St. ...

Ascent of the Aiguille Verte [near Mont Blanc].

Whymper, E. · 1866

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

London, Religious Tract Society, 1866. 4to (26.8 x 18.0 cm). Five pp.; one fine, chromolithographed plate, two wood-engravings. Later printed boards with cloth spine cover. = Published in The Leisure Hour, a Victorian monthly (pp. 520-524). Prededating the author's famous Asce...

Herpetologia Europaea. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Amphibien und Reptilien welche bisher in Europa aufgefunden sind. Zweite, gänzlich umgearbeitete Auflage.

Schreiber, E. · 1912

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1912. Thick 8vo (24.0 x 16.3 cm). 970 pp.; 188 text figures. Later half cloth, printed title label pasted on front board. = The highly enlarged second edition of this great herpetological book with many illustrations. Including the species review and syst...

Contributiones novae ad Floram Bryophyton Japonicam. Pars Prima - Pars Secunda. [Complete].

Okamura, S. · 1915

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Tokyo, College of Science, Imperial University, 1915-1917. Two parts in two. 8vo. 150 pp. [51, ]; 24 plates [24; 0] with explanatory text leaves, 42 [0; 42] text illustrations. disbound. = A rarely seen publication, including many new species of plants. Published in the instit...

Mesozoic plants from China [AND] Palaeozoic plants from China.

Yokoyama, M. · 1906

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Tokyo, College of Science, Imperial University., 1906-1908. Two papers in two. 8vo. 57 pp., 19 plates. Disbound. = Includes new species. No wrappers, but bindings strong.

Recherches sur les types d'organisation les plus répandus de la plantule des Dicotylédones.

Tronchet, A. · 1930

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Caen, Archives de Botanique, 1930. 8vo. 252 pp.; 266 text figures. Later red cloth with red label with gilt borders and title on the spine. = A detailed study. Well-illustrated. The bibliography includes 193 titles. Offprint. Signed by the author (dedication to H. Prat) in the...

Précis de botanique médicale. Deuxième édition entièrement refondue. Avec 954 figures dans le texte.

Trabut, L. · 1898

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Paris, Masson, 1898. Thick 8vo (19.7 x 12.3 cm). 739 pp.; 954 text figures. Later red cloth. Spine with red leather label with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers. = A seldom-seen original copy of this well-illustrated work by the French botanist Louis Trabut (1853-1929). ...

Nomes indigenas de plantas de Angola. Prefácio de A. W. Exell.

Gossweiler, J. · 1953

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Luanda, Imprensa Nacional de Angola, 1953. 8vo (24.5 x 17.0 cm). vii. [iii] 587 pp.; portrait, 106 photographic plates, one folding map. Original printed wrappers (laminated). = Rare and most probably the only large plant-name index in Latin, Portugese and local languages incl...

La destruction d'une flore insulaire par le feu. Principaux aspects de la végétation à Madagascar. Documents photographiques et notices.

Humbert, [J.] H. · 1927

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Tananarive, Académie Malgache, 1927. 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). 80 pp.; 41 plates, of which 40 with fine photographs by the author. Original printed portfolio. = A very rare offprint from the academy's Mémoires. An excellent document of the forests of Madagascar from before and dur...

Flora Upsaliensis enumerans plantas circa Upsaliam sponte crescentes. Enchiridion excursionibus studiosorum Upsaliensium accomodatum. Cum mappa geographico-botanica regionis.

Wahlenberg, G. · 1820

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Upsaliae, R. Acad. Typographorum, 1820 (19.4 x 12.6 cm). 8vo. viii, 497 pp., one large, multi-folded engraved map. Late 19th-Early 20th century half cloth over marbled boards. Speckled edges. = An uncommon work by the Swedish professor of medicine and botanist Göran "Georg" Wa...

Etude comparée de la répartition des ramifications au cours de l'ontogenèse de quelques Cupressacées.

Rouane, P. · 1973

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 1973. 8vo. 277 pp.; five plates, numerous text figures. Original printed wrappers. = The author's thesis, dealing with Cupressaceae, or cypress trees. With his signed dedication written in the top margin of the half-title. On the half-title ...

Graminées. Descriptions, figures et usages des Graminées spontanées et cultivées. France, Belgique, Iles Britanniques, Suisse.

Husnot, [P.] T. · 1896

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Cahan (Orne), Athis, 1896-1899. Folio (38.9 x 28.3 cm). viii, 92 pp.; 33 lithographed plates. Original printed front wrapper. = A rare privately printed illustrated monograph by the French botanist Pierre Tranquille Husnot (1840-1929). It deals with western European cereal gra...