Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Encyclopédiana, ou Dictionnaire encyclopédique des ana. Contenant ce qu’on a pu recueillir de moins connu ou de plus curieux parmi les saillies de l’esprit, les écarts brillants de l’imagination, les petits faits de l’histoire générale et particulière, certains usages singuliers, les traits de moeurs et de caractères de la plupart des personnages illustres anciens et modernes ; les élans des ames fortes et généreuses, les actes de vertu, les attentats du vice, le délire des passions, les pensées les plus remarquables des philosophes, les dictums du peuple, les réparties ingénieuses, les anecdotes, épigrammes et bons mots ; enfin les singularités en quelque sorte des Sciences, des Arts, et de la Littérature.

Lacombe, J. (ed.) · 1791

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, Panckoucke, 1791. 4to (27.5 x 21.5 cm) vii, 963 pp. Publisher's grey boards. = A part of the Ultimate Encyclopaedia and the largest of all great Encyclopaedias and the most important work published during the French Enlightement. This section - complete in itself - writ...

Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi. Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens. Tome premier - second. [Complete].

Lacepède, [B. G. É.] · 1788

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788-1789. Two parts in two. 4to (25.3 x 19.3 cm). Title pages with allegorical engraved vignettes, numerous engraved head and tail pieces. 1216 pp. [5-18, 651; 5-8, 20 (including eulogy of Buffon), 527]; 63 engraved plates [41; 22] large, multi-folded ta...

Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Editus a F. Westphal. Pars 107. Testudines.

Kuhn, O. · 1964

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

's-Gravenhage, Dr. W. Junk, 1964. 8vo (25.0 x 16.4 cm). 299 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen part of this famous series, edited by the German palaeontologist Oskar Kuhn (1908-1990). This part being the only one dealing with (mainly fossil) turtles, and is in fact...

Snakes of Australia. Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species.

Krefft, [J. L.] G. · 1869

€3,200.00 ($3,526.98 | £2,669.65 | ¥563,214)

Sydney, T. Richards, 1869. 4to (26.3 x 20.3 cm). xxv, 100 pp.; 12 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, and several text illustrations. Early 20th century, beautiful, full brown morocco binding. Spine with five raised, gilded bands; compartments rich gilt with floral c...

Sammlung naturkundlicher Tafeln. Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt. Sträucher und Bäume. [Complete with all plates].

Kräusel, R. · 1960

€130.00 ($143.28 | £108.45 | ¥22,881)

Hamburg, Kronen Verlag (Erich Cramer), 1960. 4to (27.1 x 18.9 cm). 24 pp. Original printed, marbled wrappers; 144 loose plates in full colour. Publisher's green clamshell box with gilt title on the spine. = A finely illustrated work of the principal trees and shrubs of western...

Om slanger i almindelighed og om de forgivtige Slanger, bibelen berører, tilligemed nogle antiqvariske tilloeg.

Kofod, B. P. · 1799

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

Kjøbenhavn, Boas & Brünnich, 1799. 8vo (17.3 x 10.5 cm). Title page, [vi], 294, [ii] pp.; one large, folded, engraved plate. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine with gilt bands and vignettes, and red morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. ...

Observations on the anatomy of the duck-billed animal of New South Wales, the Ornithorynchus paradoxus of naturalists [AND] Observations on the organs of digestion and their appendages, and on the organs of respiration and circulation, in the Ornithorynchus paradoxus [AND] On the kidneys, urinary bladder, and organs of generation, in the male of the Ornithorynchus paradoxus.

Knox, R. · 1824

€880.00 ($969.92 | £734.15 | ¥154,884)

Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1824. 8vo (20.8 x 13.4 cm). 45 pp. [15; 6; 24]; three engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = Three early accounts on the anatomy and morphology of one of Austr...

Neue Beyträge zur Insectenkunde. Mit Abbildungen. Erster Theil. [All Published].

Knoch, A. W. · 1801

€680.00 ($749.48 | £567.30 | ¥119,683)

Leipzig, Schwickert, 1801. 8vo (20.7 x 12.4 cm). xii, 208 pp.; nine engraved plates, of which eight finely hand-coloured. 19th-century polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and vignettes, and black leather label with gilt title. Edges speckle...

Pine Cloud Pattern. Furisode nobu.

[Kimono print designs] Shoun Ogawa · 1901

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

Kyoto, Yamada Unsodo, Meiji 34 [1901]. Folio leporello (27.0 x 36.7 cm). 24 pages, of which 20 with pochoir prints, several heightened with silver or gold, and four plain. Printed boards, illustrated with silver, flying cranes, and a large title label. = Catalogue of patterns ...

Recueil de voyages et de mémoires. Mémoire sur l'ethnographie de la Perse.

Khanikof, N. [Khanikoff, Khanykov] · 1866

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1866. 4to (27.0 x 21.5 cm). Half-title (to the series), Title page and half-title (to the work); 3-142 pp.; three lithographed plates, 12 text figures of Persian heads, numerous tabs. Later light green cloth with original printed front wrapper (of the ...

Opera omnia anatomica; continentia spicilegium anatomicum, osteogeniam foetuum: nec non anthropogeniae ichnographiam. Accuratissimus figuris aeri incisis illustrata. Editio tertia.

Kerckring, T. · 1729

€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Theodorus Haak and Samuel Luchtmans, 1729. Three works in one. 4to (23.2 x 18.3 cm). Frontispiece engraving by A. Blotelingh; title page with woodcut vignette "Tuta sub Aegide Pallas", xx, 303 pp., including titles to the Osteogenia foetuum, in qua ...

Deutschlands Schmetterlinge mit Berücksichtigung sämmtlicher Europäischer Arten.

Kayser, J. C. · 1860

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

Leipzig, Ambrosius Abel, 1860. In two parts (text, atlas). 8vo (22.7 x 15.3 cm). Half title, title, 617 pp. (viii, 608; [i]); 153 engraved plates of which 152 originally hand-coloured, and one plain (and without a number), as intended. Uniform, neat 20th-century green half mor...

Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman. 206me fascicule. Orthoptera. Fam. Gryllacrididae Subfamiliae Omnes.

Karny, H.H. · 1937

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Tervueren, Genera Insectorum, 1937. Large 4to (32.9 x 25.0 cm). 317 pp.; three text engravings, seven plates of which six in full colour. Original printed wrappers. = Edited by the famous P. Wytsman. Well-illustrated. The plates are loosely inserted, as always. A very good, cl...

British butterflies and their transformations, arranged and illustrated in a series of plates by H. N. Humphreys; with the descriptions by J. O. Westwood.

Humphreys, H. N. and J. O. Westwood · 1841

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

London, William Smith, 1841. Large 4to (27.3 x 21.0 cm). Finely hand-coloured lithographed title, letterpress title, xii, 139 pp.; 42 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary burgundy pebbled half-morocco over grained cloth. Spine with five raided, gilt-lined and...

Verzameling van waarneemingen omtrent de dierkunde en de vergelijkende ontleedkunde; gedaan in den Atlantischen Oceäan, het binnenste van het nieuwe-vasteland, en de Zuidzee, geduurende de jaaren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 en 1803. Uit het Fransch. Met plaaten.

Humboldt, A. [F. H.] von and A. Bonpland · 1805

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

Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1805. 4to (28.3 x 22.5 cm). viii [recte vi], 44 pp.; seven engraved plates (two larger, folded; three partially hand-coloured). Slightly later marbled boards, blind cloth spine. = The first (and only?) Dutch translation of part of the work by Von Humbo...

A monograph of the British Jurassic Gasteropoda. Gasteropoda of the Inferior Oolite. Parts 1-9. [Complete].

Hudleston, W. H. · 1886

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

London, Palaeontographical Society, 1886-1896. Nine parts in one. 4to (27.5 x 21.4 cm). General title, titles to the years (different for each part), and for the parts; 514 pp.; 44 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Later brown buckram. Spine with dark brown mor...

Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir. C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Zoology. Volume XIX [19]. Report on the Nemertea collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76.

Hubrecht, A. A. W. [AND] G. O. Sars · 1887

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887. Large 4to (31.8 x 25.3 cm). 268 pp.; 8 text engravings, 30 finely lithographed plates, of which many tinted, and a few with additional colours. Disbound, but with original green cloth boards present. = From the famous series, The ...

Freshwater mussels of Texas.

Howells, R. G. and R. W. Neck and H. D. Murray · 1996

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,440)

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press (for Texas Parks & Wildlife), 1996. Large 4to (28.0 x 21.5 cm). iv, 218 pp.; 226 b/w and 144 full colour photos, 79 line drawings. Original full colour soft cover. = Contains the descriptions and illustrations of 52 different species known...

Amsterdam. [Harbor view, seen from the north].

Hoeye, R. van den [Clement de Jonghe (publisher)] · 1647

€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)

Amsterdam, Clement de Jonghe, ca. 1647-1650. Oblong broadside (42.5 x 53.3 cm). Printed on two, combined leaves; partially coloured in red. Printed surface 50.5 x 40.0 cm. = A fine print, published by the Amsterdam printer, and publisher Clement de Jonghe (1624 or 1625-1677). ...

Die fossilen Mollusken des Tertiaer-Beckens von Wien. Unter der Mitwerkung von Paul Partsch, bearbeitet von D. Moriz Hörnes. Band I.: Univalven. Band II.: Bivalven.

Hoernes, M. · 1851

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

Wien, K.K. Hof- uns Staatsdruckerei (Wilhelm Braumüller), [1851]-1856, [1859]-1870. Two parts in three. Folio (36.5 x 26.0 cm). I (text): Title page, of the Abhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen Geologischen Rechsanstalt III Band, with two engraved vignettes, [iv] pp.; title...