Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Pilati montis historia. Naturgeschichte des Pilatusberges. Deutsche Übersetzung des 1767 erschiedenen Werkes.

Kappeler, M. A. · 1960

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Luzern, Eugen Haag, 1960. 8vo. 255 pp., seven folded maps. Original grey cloth with gilt vignette on front board and red gilted label on the spine. Pictorial dustjacket. = One of the first mineralogical and geological descriptions of a single mountain. Originally published in ...

Grundzüge der Geognosie und Geologie. von Dr. Gustav Leonhard. Vierte vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Nach des Verfassers Tode besorgt durch Dr. Rudolf Hoernes.

Leonhard, K. C. von · 1889

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Leipzig, C. F. Winter, 1889. Thick 8vo (22.0 x 14.2 cm). xi, 980 pp.; 257 text figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = First published half a century earlier by the German mineralogist Karl Cäsar Von Leon...

Iconography of Australian species of Acacia and cognate genera. Decades I-VI.

Mueller, F. [J. H.] Von · 1887

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Melbourne, John Ferres, 1887. 4to (30.5 x 24.6 cm). Title pages, [ii] (introduction), 60 lithographed plates. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A major contribution to the knowledge and identification of Australia's most important tree genus. Should be complete in 13 parts ...

Coup d'oeil sur la structure géologique et minéralogique du groupe des Monts Dores, accompagné de la description et des échantillons des substances minérales qui le composent.

Lecoq, H. and J. B. Bouillet · 1830

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

Paris, Levrault and Clermont-Ferrand, Bouillet, Thibaud-Landriot, 1830. 8vo (20.0 x 13.1 cm). 48 pp.; five handcoloured lithographed plates (two much larger, folded) of geological views and profiles of the volcanological region of Puy-de-Dôme. Later red quarter calf over marbl...

The American Lobster; a study of its habits and development. [In: Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission XV, for 1895].

Herrick, F. H. · 1896

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1896. 4to. 252 pp., 54 plates (ten in fine chromolithography). Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. = By far the largest paper in the fifteenth volume of the Bulletin. Includes also Smith, H., A review of the ...

Ueber Bedeutung und Tragweite des Darwin'schen Selectionsprincips.

Plate, L. [H.] · 1900

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1900. Large 8vo. 153 pp. Later burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A seminal work by the German zoologist and Darwinist Ludwig Hermann Plate (1862-1937), a "disciple of Ernst Haeckel. He wrote a "thor...

A monograph of the British lichens. A descriptive catalogue of the species in the Department of Botany, British Museum. Part I. Second edition. Part II. Second edition revised.

Smith, A. · 1918

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

London, The trustees of the British Museum, 1918-1926. Two parts in two. 8vo. 1000 pp. [xxiv, 520; ix, 447]; 134 lithographed plates [71; 63]. Original uniform green, blindstamped cloth. Spines with gilt title. = A fine, detailed, and extremely well-illustrated monograph by th...

The American Museum Congo Expedition collection of Insectivora, Carnivora, Anomaluridae, Idiuridae, Primates.

Allen, J. A. · 1922

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, [1922]-1925. Thick 8vo (24.4 x 16.1 cm). xvi, 524 pp.; Frontispiece photo with printed tissue-guard,167 plates (two in full colour), numerous text figures. Original printed wrappers. = Important, scarce contributions to the mam...

Flora of the Carboniferous of the Netherlands and adjacent regions. Vol. I. A monograph of the calamites of western Europe. Atlas. Plate 1-158.

Kidston, R. and W. J. Jongmans · 1915

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

's-Gravenhage, Ministerie van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel [Freiberg in sachsen, Craz & Gerlach (Joh. Stettner)], 1915. Folio (32.0 x 24.5 cm). Atlas. Title pages, 9 pp. (index); 158 fine, loose photographic plates in original half cloth portfolio with printed front board an...

The indigenous land mammals of Porto Rico, living and extinct.

Anthony, H. E. · 1918

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,440)

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, 1918. Folio (35.6 x 28.0 cm). 103 pp., 20 plates, 55 text figure and maps. Original printed wrappers. = A fine monograph by the American zoologist Harold Elmer Anthony (1890-1970). The numbered text illustrations are in fact of...

Stielauge der Urkrebs. Eine Chronik aus Urzeiten unserer Erde.

Dohm, [J. J.] B. · 1933

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Leipzig, v. Hase & Koehler, 1933. 8vo (19.0 x 13.2 cm). Frontispiece, 272 pp.; numerous nice drawings after Magnus Weidemann. In original pictorial grey cloth. = A fine copy of the very rare first edition. A later (1942) edition is common, but we have never seen this first edi...

Vollständige Abhandlung über die Naturgeschichte, Cultur und Benützung des Mais oder türkischen Weitzens.

Burger, J. · 1809

€645.00 ($710.91 | £538.10 | ¥113,523)

Wien, Joseph Geistinger, 1809. 8vo (20.0 x 11,5 cm). xii, 436, [iv] pp.; folded table, four folded engraved plates. Contemporary blind-tooled cloth; spine with gilt line and red morocco label with gilt title. Speckled edges. = Rare early monograph on the maize or corn-plant, d...

Arthur Phillips Reise nach der Botany-Bay, nebst Auszügen aus den Tagebüchern der neuesten Brittischen Entdecker in der Südsee.

Phillip, A. · 1791

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

Hamburg, Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1791. 8vo (20.4 x 11.1 cm). [xiv], viii, [9]-264 pp.; one engraved portrait as a frontispiece, one engraved title vignette, eight engraved plates and one hand-coloured folded map. Contemporary mottled half calf over marbled boards. Green mor...

Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Flusskrebses.

Reichenbach, H. · 1886

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1886. 4to (28.5 x 22.3 cm). Title page, [iv], 137 pp. with 19 mostly tinted lithographed plates. [COMPLETE] Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. = Very good copy in a solid and nice binding. A thorough o...

Equidae of the Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene of North America, iconographic type revision.

Osborn, H. F. · 1918

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, 1918. Folio (35.8 x 28.3 cm). 221p., 54 plates, numerous text figures. Original printed wrappers. = A massive - and classic - monograph of the history of the horses. Well-illustrated. Uncommon outside the U. S. Uncut. Wrappers ...

Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Palaeontology]. Volumes 1 - 15. [Complete].

Orlov, Y. A. (ed.) · 1959

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

Moskva, Akademia NAUK, 1959-1965. 15 volumes in 15. 4to (25.8 x 20.4 cm). Over 7,500 pp.; over 15,000 illustrations. Uniform green, blind-stamped cloth. Gilt title on spines and front boards. = An impressive, profusely illustrated work. Published over a rather long period and ...

The British Carboniferous Crinoidea. Volumes I-II [FULL COMPLETE SET in ten original parts].

Wright, J. · 1950

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1950-1960. Two volumes in ten. 4to (27.8 x 21.7 cm). xxx, 347 pp.; 83 plates. Uniform original blue/grey wrappers with printed paper label on front wrappers. = A massive work with detailed descriptions and fine illustrations of Palaeozoi...

The amphi-Atlantic plants and their phytogeographical connections.

Hultén, E. · 1958

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1958. 4to (29.2 x 22.2 cm). 340 pp., 279 tinted maps. Slightly later blind half cloth over marbled boards. = With fine distribution maps (Polar views). Contains a bibliography of almost 1000 titels. This is Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens H...

La géologie des Pyrénées Françaises.

Carez, L. [L. H.] · 1903

€1,000.00 ($1,102.18 | £834.27 | ¥176,004)

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1903-1909. In six volumes, including the supplement. Large 4to (29.5 x 22.6 cm). 3,908 [ix, 3,899] pp.; 39 mainly geological folded maps or profiles (six in full-colour), and heliogravures (photogravures), some with printed overlays. Uniform contem...

Die Mineralien der Niederrheinischen Vulkangebiete, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Bildung und Umbildung.

Brauns, R. [A.] · 1922

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart (Erwin Nägele), 1922. 4to (30.0 x 22.8 cm). vii, 225 pp., 40 fine photographic plates, three portrait and 32 other text figures. Original blind quarter cloth over printed boards. = Reinhard Anton Brauns (1861-1937) was one of the most influential Ge...