Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Das Quadergebirge oder die Kreideformation in Sachsen, mit besondere Berücksichtigung der Glaukonitreichen Schichten. Versuch einer Lösung der von der Fürstlich Jablonowski'schen Gesellschaft gestellten Preisfrage ... Gekrönt am 4 Februar 1850.

Geinitz, H. B. · 1850

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Leipzig, Weidmann, 1850. Large 8vo (27.0 x18.3 cm). 43 pp.; one large, folded, hand-coloured geological profile. Contemporary quarter cloth over green boards. Marbled pastedowns, mottled flyleaves. Spine with gilt title. = This work by the great German geologist Hanns Bruno Ge...

I vulcani dell'Italia Centrale e i loro prodotti. Parte prima. Vulcano Laziale. Parte seconda. Vulcani Cimini.

Sabatini, V. · 1900

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

Roma, Reale Ufficio Geologico, 1900-1912. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (25.2 x 17.3 cm). 1,046 [xv, 392; 639] pp., 154 [78; 76] text engravings, 19 (of 20) photographic plates, six tinted or coloured plates and profiles, two large folded coloured geological maps, one folded t...

Etude sur les Strophanthus de l'Herbier du Muséum de Paris.

Franchet, A. [R.] · 1882

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, 1882. Large 4to (31.3 x 25.0 cm). 79 pp., 11 lithographed plates. Disbound. = A rarely seen paper by the French botanist Adrien René Franchet (1834-1900). Published in the Museum's Nouvelles Archives. "Strophanthus is a genus of flowering pl...

Observations sur le genre Anomalurus et sur les espèces de la collection du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle.

Huet, J. B. · 1883

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Paris, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1883. 4to (31.3 x 24.0 cm). 21 pp. and three fine (chromo)lithographed plates. Disbound with original rear wrapper. = A nicely illustrated monograph on this family of African flying squirrels by Joseph Huet (1827-1903) "aide naturaliste” at ...

Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Ostrakoden der Kuckersschen Schicht (C2).

Bonnema, J. H. · 1909

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Groningen, P. Noordhoff, 1909. Large 8vo (27.0 x 18.5 cm). 84, 3 pp.; eight fine photographic plates. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board. Patterned endpapers. = Written by the Dutch zoologist, palaeontologist and professor at the Groningen Univers...

Grundzüge der Oryktognosie. Lehrbuch für öffentliche Vorträge, besonderes auch in Gymnasien und Realschulen, so wie zum Selbststudium.

Leonhard, K. C. von · 1833

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Heidelberg, Joseph Engelmann, 1833. 8vo (21.0 x 13.3 cm). xvi, 398 [ii], 8 pp.; nine folded engraved plates on five sheets. Contemporary marbled boards. Blind-ruled spine with gilt ornamental bands and black morocco label with gilt title. Speckled edges. = This forms a rare pa...

Dei combustibili fossili esistenti nella provincia Veronese e in alcuni altri loro contigui nella provincia Vicentina e nel Tirolo non che del loro uso come succedanei dei combustibili vegetabili, Memoria mineralogico-economica. [Rare, in original printed wrappers].

Bevilacqua-Lazise, I. · 1816

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Verona, Mainardi, 1816 [1817]. 8vo (22.7 x 16.1 cm). 115 pp.; one engraved folded map and one engraved folded table "Quadro sinottico del Combustibili fossili delle provincia Veronese. Original printed stiff wrappers. = Rare early monograph on fossil fuel, in particular coal. ...

Atlas hub Evropských (Atlas of European Fungi). I-IV. [All published].

Kavina, K. and A. Pilát (eds.) · 1934

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

Praha, Botanical Department of the National Museum, 1934-1938. Four volumes in five. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). 1,054 pp.; 550 plates, numerous text illustrations. Loose, as issued, in original, uniform printed wrappers. = Rare original Czech edition in a seldom-seen complete state...

Tertiary vertebrates from Mongolia.

Schlosser, M. · 1924

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Peking, Geological Survey of China, 1924. 4to (29.4 x 22.8 cm). 119 pp., six lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Although mainly dealing with mammals there is a small herpetological section, which includes the description and illustration of a new species of frog...

Geognostische Skizzen aus der Sächsischen Schweiz und ihrer Umgebung.

Gutbier, [C.] A. von · 1858

€135.00 ($148.79 | £112.63 | ¥23,761)

Leipzig, J. J. Weber, 1858. 8vo (21.5 x 14.1 cm). x, 108 pp.; one hand-coloured folded geological map, and 118 nice, numbered, steel-engravings in the text. In the rear a 12 pp. publisher's catalogue. Original dark marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. ...

Beschrijving der vloeibare oppervlakte van den aardbol.

Sommer, J. G. · 1830

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Amsterdam, Gebroeders Diederichs, 1830. 8vo (22.9 x 13.5 cm). x, 531 pp.; one folded engraved map and four lithographed views (of Switzerland) and one lithographed title vignette (Eddystone lighthouse). Original blind boards. = First and probably only Dutch translation of a ra...

Historie des Goldes und der verschiedenen Künste und Gewerbe, welche darvon abhangen. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Johann Heinrich Ziegler.

Lewis, W. · 1764

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

Zürich, Heidegger, 1764. 8vo (18.9 x 11.6 cm). 318 pp. Contemporary marbled boards. Spine with gilt chains and two leather lables with gilt title. Edges speckled red. = Rare first German edition of this important monograph on gold and its uses, including its important role in ...

A report on the trees and shrubs,

Emerson, G. B. · 1878

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Boston, Little, Brown and Comp., 1878. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo. 656 pp. [xxii, 1-318; x, 319-624], 149 mostly lithographed plates. Original uniform green, embossed cloth, with gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers. = Third, expanded edition (first: 1846). Profusely i...

Charles Eliot. Landscape architect. A lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession and through it wrought much good.

Eliot, C. W. · 1903

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Boston, MA and New York, NY, Houghton, Mifflin; Cambridge MA, The Riverside Press, 1903 [1902]. Thick 8vo (22.6 x 15.3 cm). 794 pp.; two large, coloured folding maps in front and rear pocket; two tissue-guarded portraits, 57 plates, maps and photographic plates and two tinted ...

Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae prodomus. Eine kritische Besprechung der Orchideen Ost-Asiens.

Schlechter, R. · 1919

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Dahlem bei Berlin, Fedde's Repertorium, 1919. 8vo (25.3 x 16.5 cm). [iv], 319 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A substantial review of Asian orchids with the introduction of many new taxa. Published as Beihefte 4 to Friedrich Fedde's Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetab...

Royal Horticultural Society. Index to the Journal and Proceedings 1838-1935 and list of awards 1859-1935.

Chittenden, F. J. (ed.) · 1937

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

London, R.H.S. Office, 1937. Thick 8vo (23.5 x 15.1 cm). ix, 1678 pp. Contemporary full grained cloth. Spine with gilt title and vignette. Edges speckled red. = A seldom seen, massive index. Here in a well-bound copy. Provenance: the Royal Edinburgh Society, with their small c...

Bilderbuch für Kinder, enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten, Mineralien.... [12 herpetological plates].

Bertuch, [J.] F. J. · 1800

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, ca. 1800. Folio (ca. 23.5 x 19.0 cm, mounted on larger sheets). Collection of 12 hand-coloured engravings from Bilderbuch für Kinder, showing reptiles and amphibians. All framed and with their description in German added. = Part of the herpetologica...

Die Pilze Mitteleuropas. Herausgegeben von der deutschen Gesellschaft für Pilzenkunde, der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft, dem deutschen Lehrerverein für Naturkunde unter Redaktion von H. Kniep, Berlin, P. Claussen, Marburg und J. Baß, Stuttgart mit Verwertung des Nachlasses von Adalbert Ricken.

Kniep, H. and P. Claussen and J. Bass and A. Ricken (eds.) · 1926

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

Leipzig, Werner Klinkhardt, 1926-1943. In 36 issues. Folio and large 4to. (35.4 x 25.0 cm). 400 [158; 56, 62; 24] pp.; 88 plates (57 in full colour), numerous text figures. All in original printed wrappers. = Rare atlas with accompanying text leaves, and with fine plates after...

Le genèse climatique des sols montagnards de l'Afrique centrale et les formations végétales qui en caractérisent les stades de dégradation.

Scaëtta, H. · 1937

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Bruxelles, Institut royal Colonial Belge, 1937. Large 4to (29.1 x 23.0 cm). 351 pp.; 10 plates. Without wrappers. = A detailed study on soil, soil formation in tropical Africa, and in particular the mountenous rain forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Bel...

Predmostí. Ein Mammutjägerplatz in Mähren.

Absolon, K. and B. Klíma · 1977

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Brno, Fontes Archaeologiae Moraviae, 1977. 4to. 215 pp.; 210 plates. Original pictorial softcover. = An interesting archaeological monograph on the Grundsätze für die typogische Bestimmung der paläolitischen Steinindustrie in Mähren (Czechia), very well illustrated. Light wear...