Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Contribution à l'étude des Apocynées; en particulier des lianes Indo-Chinoises.

Spire, C. · 1905

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1905. 8vo (25.2 x 16.4 cm). 193 pp.; 36 plates. Original printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated monograph on liana by the French botanist Camille Spire (1871-1932). It deals in particular with Apocynaceae (from Apocynum, Greek for "dog-away") ""a fam...

Histoire naturelle des poissons de la France. Avec 220 figures dessinées d'après nature. I, II, III [AND] Histoire naturelle des poissons de la France. Supplément. Avec 7 figures dans le texte. [Complete].

Moreau, [C.] É. · 1881

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, G. Masson, 1881-1891. Four parts in four. Large 8vo (23.8 x 15.2 cm). 1,890 pp.; 227 (groups of) engravings in the text. Original uniform red, grained cloth over limp boards. Gilt lines and title on the spines. Blue endpapers. Speckled edges. = A fine, uniform set of th...

Contributions to the biology of the Philippine archipelago and adjacent regions. Ophiurans of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters.

Koehler, R. · 1922

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Washington, DC, United States National Museum, 1922. 8vo (23.0 x 14.9 cm). x, 486 pp., 103 plates. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. = Important publication on brittle stars with many new species. With index. The text is on good, the plates are on bett...

Geology of Egypt.

Hume, W. F. · 1925

€480.00 ($529.05 | £400.45 | ¥84,482)

Cairo, Ministery of Finance, Survey of Egypt, 1925-1937. Two volumes in four. 4to (27.5 x 18.5 cm). 1883 pp. [I: xliv, 408 pp.; II: 990 consecutively numbered pages, and pages numbered otherwise [I: lxv, 124; II: xxxv, 107; III: xxxv, 75]; 318 [122; 196] plates (several tinted...

Recherches physiologiques et anatomiques sur les Cuscutacées.

Mirande, M. · 1900

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Lille, L. Danel, 1900. 8vo (25.2 x 16.3 cm). 284 pp.; 16 heliotype plates (one coloured). Original printed wrappers. = Added: 2 handwritten cards by the author dated 1921 in envelope.

Apport des recherches ontogéniques et séminologiques à l'étude morphologique, taxonomique et phylogenique du genre Acacia.

Vassal, J. · 1972

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Toulouse, Laboratoire Forestier de Toulouse, 1972. 8vo. About 300 pp.; 14 plates. Original printed wrappers. = Consolidated offprint. This includes the author's thesis, followed by more papers by him on the genus Acacia, forming a monograph. Signed by the author, the name of t...

Raupenkalender oder systematisches Verzeichnis aller Raupen, welche in Deutschland bekannt sind.

Schott, J. J. · 1830

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Frankfurt am Main, P. H. Guilhauman, 1830. 8vo (21.5 x 13.2 cm). xxx, 400 pp.; six hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary paper-covered boards, blind label on spine. = With clear and bright illustrations of caterpillars. Uncut. As usual some light browning in the text, an...

Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana. [Complete in four volumes].

Zavattari, E (ed.) · 1939

€280.00 ($308.61 | £233.59 | ¥49,281)

Roma, Centro Studi Africa Orientale, 1939-1940. In four volumes. Large 8vo (24.9 x 17.6 cm). 2,154 pp. [537, 719, 463, 435]; over 500 text illustrations; 23 [0; 16; 7; 0] plates, mostly coloured, one coloured map and one large, folded map. Uniform original quarter cloth over p...

Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 Dec. 1969. Volumes 1-4, 5 part. 1.

Hoogstraal, H. and A. Djigounian · 1970

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Cairo, A.S.. Naval Med. Research Unit: Special publ. 1970-1974. Five volumes in five. 4to. 2,275 pp. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A huge bibliography. Lacks vol. 5(2) only. The earlier volumes are uncommon. Ex library copy with stamp on the title page.

Saggio di ditterologia Messicana. [With the rare supplement].

Bellardi, L. · 1859

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1859-1862. Three parts in three. 4to (29.6 x 22.5 cm). 207 pp.; five fine, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Includes the rare supplement, and treats 266 species of Mexican Diptera of which no less than 176 species are new. Luigi Bellar...

Die Bewegungen der Blüthen und Früchte.

Vöchting, H. · 1882

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

Bonn, Max Cohen und Sohn, 1882. 8vo. 199 pp.; two double-sized lithographed plates, seven text illustrations. Contemporary pebbled quarter cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Speckled edges. = A rarely seen work, and a nicely bound copy, on the movement...

A Monograph of British Belemnitidae. [Complete].

Phillips, J. · 1865

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1865-1909. 4to (28.0 x 21.5 cm). Title page, 130 pp. [including index]; 36 tinted lithographed plates (several larger, folded). Disbound. = A rare, truly complete copy of this work by the British geologist, palaeontologist and malacologi...

Aus Insulinde. Malayische Reisebriefe.

Haeckel, E. · 1901

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Bonn, Emil Strauss, 1901. 8vo (24.0 x 16.3 cm). xi, 261, [ii] pp., photographic frontispiece of a Javanese female danser, four maps, 79 text engravings, several fine photographic plates. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board. Boards with bevelled edg...

A complete collection of the books written by Charles Darwin in the uniform Brussels facsimile reprint edition.

Darwin, C. · 1839

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

London, Henry Colburn, 1839; Smith, Elder, 1842; Longman, Green, 1865; John Murray, 1859-1881 [REPRINT Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation, 1969-1970]. 11 volumes in 13. 8vo (21.5 x 14.0 cm). In full mock leather. Spines with gilt title. = This is a seldom-seen complete set of ...

De fructibus et seminibus ex formatione lithanthracum.

Berger, [A.] R. · 1848

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Vratislaviae, Henrich Richter, 1848. 4to (24.8 x 20.2 cm). 30 pp.; three lithographed plates. Contemporary black, grained boards. Gilt title, bands and vignette on the spine. = Rare thesis on fossil seeds and fruits, dedicated to one of the foremost 19th-century palaeobotanica...

Vergleichende Photogrammetrische Erfassung von geologisch-geotektonischen Gegebenheiten in morphologisch unterschiedlichen Gebieten.

Oluic, M. · 1970

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Zagreb, [privately published], 1970. 4to. 130 pp.; several original photographs mounted in the text, one handcololoured map in the text, eight photographs and six folded maps (of which four handcoloured) in pocket. Printed cloth. = Written by the Serbian geologist Marinko Olui...

Memoire sur l'Embryologie des Nemertes.

Barrois, J. [H.] · 1877

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

Paris, G. Masson, 1877. 4to. 234 pp.; 12 engraved plates. Contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Sprinkled edges. = The thesis of the French zoologist and marine biologist Jules Henri Barrois (1852-1943). Signed and dedicated by the au...

Recherches sur la vegetation de l'ouest de la France a l'époque Tertiare.

Crié, L. · 1878

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Paris, G. Masson, 1878. 8vo. 72 pp., 15 tinted lithographed plates. Later blind quarter cloth over stiff boards. Label with handwritten title on the spine. = The author's thesis. Includes the description of many new species of generally well-preserved leaves. Plate headers "B...

Die diluvialen Wirbelthierreste der provinzen Ost- und Westpreussen.

Schirmacher, E. · 1882

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Königsberg, Kiewning, 1882. 51p., 1l. and 5 lithographed plates and maps (one with corrections). H.cloth - Thesis. Libr. stamp on cover, else fine.

De Bare'e sprekende Toradjas van Midden-Celebes. [Complete, in four volumes].

Adriani, N. and A. C. Kruyt · 1912

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (t...