Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Address on the opening of the Suez Canal. Diary of trips to Egypt and America.

Ramsay, J. · 1890

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Glasgow, McCorquodale, 1890-1891. 8vo (21.0 x 13.8 cm). Three title pages, 141 pp. [14, 55, 72]. Printed boards with blind linen spine. = Written by John Ramsay of Kildalton, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow on the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal on 11...

Das Thierleben der österreichisch-ungarischen Tiefebenen. Biologische und thiergeographische Skizzen und Bilder.

Mojsisovics von Mosjvar, [J.] A. [G. E.] · 1897

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1897. Large 8vo (23.6 x 16,7 cm). xii, 344 pp.; eight steel-engraved plates, 28 text illustrations. Early 20th-century half cloth over grained two-toned boards. Gilt title on the spine. Patterned endpapers. = A rare work with very nice illustrations of the...

Die Künstlichen Edelsteine. Eine zusammenfassende Darstellung ihrer Erzeugung, ihrer Unterscheidung von den natürlichen Steinen und ihrer Stellung im Handel. Mit je einem Abschnitte über Verfälschungen der Edelsteine und über Perlen. Zweite wesentlich erweiterte Auflage.

Michel, H. · 1926

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Leipzig, Wilhelm Diebener, 1926. 4to (24.7 x 18.4 cm). viii, 477, [ii] pp., two full colour plates, 180 text illustrations. Original printed cloth. = A fine copy of this standard reference work on synthetic gemstones by the Austrian mineralogist Hermann Michel (1888-1965), whi...

A practical treatise on the use of the microscope. Including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures. Illustrated with nine plates and two hundred and forty-one wood engravings.

Quekett, J. · 1848

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

London, H. Bailliere, 1848. 8vo (22.0 x 14.2 cm) xxi, 464 pp., Frontispiece and eight further engraved plates, 241 woodcuts in the text (one hand-coloured). Original brown, blind-stamped cloth. Gilt title on the spine. = Rare first edition published in the Library of illustrat...

On some remains of ganoid fishes from the Deccan.

Grey Egerton, P. de M. · 1878

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Calcutta, The Geological Survey of India, 1878. 4to (30.2 x 24.1 cm). 8 pp.; three lithographed plates. Early 20th-century boards with the printed title page mounted. = With the descriptions and illustrations of some new species. Published in the series, Palaeontologia Indica,...

Ot Aptekarskogo ogoroda do Botanicheskogo instituta : ocherki po istorii Botanicheskogo instituta Akademii nauk SSSR. [From the Aptekarsky garden to the Botanical Institute: essays on the history of the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.]

Baranov, P. A. and E.G. Bobrov (eds.) · 1957

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Moscow - Leningrad, Akademii nauk SSSR, 1957. 8vo (22.0 x 14.7 cm). 307 pp., 15 portraits. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Title on spine. = In Russian. Deals with famous Russian botanists such as Regel, Fedchenko, Komarov, and others from Peter Simon Pallas to Isa...

Illustrations of surface geology.

Hitchcock, E. · 1856

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1856. Large 4to (32.6 x 24.6 cm). 155 pp., 12 lithographed views and geological and topographical maps (some coloured with up to nine colours). Original quarter cloth over original boards. = One of the rarer Hitchcock items on the geolo...

Die Anatomie und die Verwandtschaft der Ganoid- und Knochen-Fische aus der Kreide-Formation von Kansas.

Loomis, F. B. · 1900

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart (E. Naegele), 1900. 4to. 71 pp.; nine lithographed plates, 13 detailed text engravings. Original printed wrappers. = The author's thesis. Includes the description of new genera and species. Separately published from Palaeontographica, volume 46, wit...

Beiträge zur Geologie und Palaeontologie von Ostasien, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Provinz Schantung in China. Sonder-Abdruck aus dem Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft.

Lorenz, T. · 1905

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

[Berlin,] Deutsche geologische Gesellschaft, 1905-1906. Two parts in two. 8vo. 122 pp.; three plates, four folded profiles and one coloured geological map in pocket. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen complete set of two offprints on the geology and palaeontolo...

Untersuchungen zur Anatomie und Histologie der Thiere.

Leydig, F. · 1883

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Bonn, Emil Strauss, 1883. 8vo (24.3 x 16.3 cm). [iii], 174 pp.; eight double-sized, fine lithographed plates. Original half cloth over printed boards. Gilt title on the spine. = These "Untersuchungen" are based on the studies and observations of Leydig's contemporaries as well...

Mbala l'eléphant.

Maran, R. · 1943

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Paris, Au Moulin de Pen-Mur Editions Arc-en-Ciel, 1943. 4to. 143 pp., with a nice chromolithographed title-page and numerous chromolithographed illustrations enriched "de pochoirs à la poupée", all by André Collot. Original pictorial limp boards. = One of 1000 copies of the or...

Récréations instructives - Instructive recreations. Zoologie pittoresque - Picturesque zoologie. Mammifères - Mammalia.

Saint-Aulaire, A. · 1845

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, Aubert, [1845?]. 4to. Lithographed title page showing a lion, 24 lithographed plates with about 190 figures, captioned in two languages. Somewhat later blind quarter cloth over marbled boards. = In this little known bilingual work by the French traveller, illustrator an...

Geognostischer Führer zu dem Laacher See und seiner vulkanischen Umgebung.

Dechen, [E.] H. [K.] Von · 1864

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Bonn, Max Cohen & Sohn, 1864. Near square 8vo (14.7 x 11.8 cm). 597 pp. Original limp red embossed cloth. Spine and front board with gilt title. Yellow endpapers. = Rare and early geological guide to this volcanic part of the Eifel mountains in Germany. The author, the German ...

Die Versteinerungen des Harzgebirges.

Roemer, F. A. · 1843

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Hannover, Hahn, 1843. 4to (32.0 x 25.5 cm). xx, 40 pp.; 12 lithographed plates. Contemporary marbled boards with original printed wrappers bound in. = Early description of the fossils of the Harz-mountains in Germany by Friedrich Adolph Roemer (1809-1869), and most probably ra...

Observations sur les volcans de l'Auvergne, suivies de notes sur divers objets, recueillies dans une course minéralogique, faite l'année dernière, an 10 (1802).

Lacoste, [P. F.] · 1803

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Clermont-Ferrand, Delcros et Granier et Froin, 1803. 8vo. 414 pp. [204; 196, (xiv)]. Later, partly mottled, half calf over grained boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Speckled edges. = Uncommon, early local French volcanological study of the Puy-de-Dôme by the geologist a...

Chinese herpetological literature, catalogue and indices.

Zhao E. M. and H. Zhao · 1994

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Chengdu, Chengdu Science and Technology University, 1994. 4to (25.8 x 18.5 cm). viii, 397 pp. Full colour frontispiece, printed end-papers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles on spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. = Important bibliography on Chinese herpetology wit...

Beiträge zur stratigraphie und Bildungs-Geschichte des oberen Hauptmuschelkalks und der unteren Lettenkohle in Franken.

Wagner, G. · 1913

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1913. Large 4to. 180 pp.; nine plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed front wrapper. = The author's "Inaugural-Dissertation" (thesis). Most "plates" are actually maps and/or profiles. The wrapper is of inferior paper, and much chipped at th...

Die neuesten Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen von Garnier, Hericart de Thury, Baillet, Omalius d'Halloy, Flachat, Beurrier, v. Bruckmann u. a. m. über die Anlage der artesischen Brunnen. Als Anhang und Nachtrag zur Uebersetzung der ersten Ausgabe von Garnier's Preisschrift: Ueber die Anwendung des Bergbohrers zur Aufsuchung von Brunnenquellen.

Waldauf von Waldenstein, J. · 1831

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Wien, F. Beck, 1831. 8vo (23.0 x 14.5 cm). [iv], 194 pp.; engraved frontispiece and three folded engraved plates showing machinery for boring. Later half calf over marbled boards. Spine with six raised, gilt-bordered bands and red morocco label with gilt title. = A rather rare...

Classification der Brachiopoden. Unter Mitwerkung des Verfassers und mehrerer änderer Freunde, deutsch bearbeitet und mit einigen neuen Zusätzen versehen von E. Suess.

Davidson, T. · 1856

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Wien, Carl Gerold, 1856. 4to (29.0 x 22.6 cm). 166 pp., a few text engravings, five tinted lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = Rare, important and well-illustrated contribution to the classification of the Brachiopoda by Thomas David...

Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Eingeweidewürmer thierischer Körper.

Goeze, J. A. E. · 1782

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Blankenburg, [privately published (printed by Philipp Adam Pape)], 1782. Large 4to (33.8 x 19.1 cm). xii, 471 pp. 44 engraved plates. 20th century green buckram. Edges red. = Rare early contribution to the intestinal worms by the German zoologist (in particular entomologist an...