Antiquariaat Schierenberg

The early stages in the development of Antedon rosacea.

Bury, H. · 1888

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

London, The Royal Society, 1888. 4to (29.8 x 23.0 cm). 45 pp.; five tinted lithographed plates. Disbound. = A well-illustrated and detailed account of the ontogeny of this free-swimming crinoid. The author suspected that the British and the Mediterranean form are in fact diff...

Die Klee- und Flachsseide (Cuscuta epithymum und Cuscuta epilinum). Untersuchungen über deren Entwicklung, Verbreitung und Vertilgung.

Koch, L. [K. A.] · 1880

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Heidelberg, Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1880. 8vo (25.5 x 17.4 cm). iv, 191 pp., eight lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Speckled edges. = An important, well-illustrated monograph on dodders, parasitic...

Le Tertiaire de Bretagne. Étude stratigraphique sédimentologique et tectonique.

Durand, S. · 1960

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Rennes, Société Geologique et Minéralogique de Bretagne, 1960. 4to (26.6 x 20.1 cm). 392 pp.; numerous maps, tables, and text figures. Original printed wrappers. = The author's thesis. With a signed dedication by the author, the French geologist Suzanne Durand, to a "Monsieur ...

Les bambusées. Monographie Biologie Culture.

Camus, E. G. · 1913

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Paris, Paul Lechevalier, 1913. Large 4to (35.2 x 27.4 cm). Drophead title, one printed leaf, 101 engraved plates. Slightly later green half morocco over green linen boards. Gilt borders, gilt title on the spine. Yellow edges. = One of the sought after works on bamboo, written ...

British trees, drawn and described by Rex Vivat Cole and text revised by Dorothy Kempe. Subscribers' edition with 13 proof photogravures limited to 150 copies.

Cole, R. V. · 1907

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

London, Hutchinson, 1907. Two parts in two. Large 4to (30.3 x 23.5 cm). 723 pp.; 430 reproductions of original drawings and paintings by the author including 13 proof photogravures. Uniform publisher's green buckram with gilt-titled calf spine mounted. All edges gilt. = The ve...

Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der in den Baikal-See vorkommenden niederen Krebse aus der Gruppe der Gammariden.

Dybowsky, B. · 1874

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

St Petersburg, Russische Entomologische Gesellschaft zu St. Peterburg, 1874. Large 4to (32.5 x 24.5 cm). 190 pp.; 14 engraved plates of which the first three nicely hand-coloured. Original printed wrappers. In contemporary quarter cloth marbled portfolio. = Very rare monograph...

Nine geographical maps. [Original lead stereotypes].

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

Geographical maps clichés for printing in a French book, most probably 19th or early 20th century. Depicting the Alps, Spain, Russia, the U.K., U.S.A., Central France (Massif Central), Japan, Italy, and railways in France, Preserved in a nice snake-skin cardboard slipcase with...

Behandlung und Heilung der Krankheiten von grauen und grünen Papageien nach 20 jähriger eigener Erfahrung.

Majewski, O. · 1898

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Berlin, [privately published], 1898. 8vo (18.8 x 13.0 cm). 93 pp.; lithographed frontispiece, several woodcuts. Original pictorial wrappers. = A rarely seen monograph on diseases of parrots in captivity, by an ornithologist from Berlin. The preface is by the German ornithologi...

Die Quarz-führenden Porphyre, nach ihrem Wesen, ihrer Verbreitung, ihrem Verhalten zu abnormen und normalen Gesteinen, so wie zu Erzgängen.

Leonhard, G. von · 1851

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Stuttgart, J. B. Müller, 1851. 8vo (23.5 x 14.5 cm). Half-title with engraved vignette; viii, 212 pp.; seven engraved plates of which five hand-coloured, and 12 engravings in the text. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. Speckled edges....

Katalog der fossilen Dinoflagellaten, Hystrichosphären und verwandten Mikrofossilien.

Eisenack, A. et al. · 1964

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1964-1981. Twelve parts in eight. Large 8vo format (ca. 25.0 x 17.0 cm). With thousands of pages andillustrations. Uniform cloth ringbinders with printed title on the spines. = The introduction to the last Part states "With this fourth acritarch volum...

Mineralogie a Geologie. S pouzitím spisu Nies-Düllova, nejlepsích praci Crednera, Neumayra, Rosenbusche, Weinschenka, Zirkla a Zittla. I. Mineralogie. II. Geologie.

Kopecky, K. · 1908

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Praze (Prague), I. L. Kober, 1908. 8vo (23.0 x 15.7 cm). 391 pp. ([iii], 263; 122 [iii]); 20 full colour plates with explanatory text leaves, 464 [343; 121] text illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. Flower-patterned endpapers. = A seldom-seen if not rare Czech publication ...

Reise in den Kaukasus und nach Georgien unternommen in den Jahren 1807-1808 auf Veranlassung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg, enthaltend eine vollständige Beschreibung der Kaukasisichen Länder und ihrer Bewohner [AND] Kaukasischen Sprachen. Anhang zur Reise in den Kaukasus und nach Georgien.

Klaproth, J. von · 1812

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Halle und Berlin, Hallische Waisenhaus, 1812-1814. [REPRINT Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat, 1970]. In three volumes. 8vo (21.0 x 1.0 cm). 1653 pp., 18 maps and plates. Uniform blue cloth with gilt title on the spines and front boards. = Interesting early travel mainly dealing wit...

Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas jadovitych ryb s opisaniem vida ich deistviia jada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.

Savtschenko, P. · 1886

€900.00 ($991.96 | £750.84 | ¥158,404)

St. Petersburg, Balasheva, 1886. 4to (32.2 x 24.0 cm). [iv], 53. [i] pp.; ten tissue-guarded lithographed plates of which nine hand-coloured. Later blind quarter cloth over original printed boards. = Very rare Russian atlas on poisonous fishes, the effect of their poison and t...

Natuurkundige Beschryving der Zeeën.

Marsigli, L. F. Comte de (Marsilli, L. Graave van) · 1786

€6,800.00 ($7,494.84 | £5,673.01 | ¥1,196,829)

's Gravenhage, De Compagnie, 1786. Folio (41.6 x 26.0 cm). Half-title, a nice hand-coloured engraved allegorical frontispiece, title page with woodcut vignette. [ii], xxvi, 216 pp.; seven mostly folded engravings, five hand-coloured engraved maps and profiles, and 40 beautiful...

A bibliography of the Foraminifera, Recent and fossil, from 1565-1888; with notes explanatory of some of the rare and little known publications. [Dedication copy signed by the author].

Sherborn, C. D. · 1888

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

London, Dulau, 1888. 8vo. vii, 152 pp. Original blind stamped brown cloth with gilt title on the spine. Black endpapers. = Rare early bibliography of the Foraminifera, by the foraminiferid specialist and zoological bibliographer, Charles Davies Sherborn (1861-1942). The later ...

Die Orchideen des temperirten und kalten Hauses, ihre Cultur und Beschreibung etc. Nebst einer Synopsis aller bisher bekannten Cypripedien. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von M. Lebl. Zweite Auflage.

Burbidge, F. · 1882

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1882. 8vo. viii,186 pp., four hand-coloured lithographed plates and several full-page woodcuts. Contemporary blind half cloth over marbled boards. = Rather rare. Inscribed on the front free endpaper recto (1907). Some foxing, a few pencil underlinings...

Iconographia insectorum Japonicorum. Editio secunda, reformata. [AND] Index.

Esaki, T. (a.o.) · 1950

€480.00 ($529.05 | £400.45 | ¥84,482)

Tokyo, Hokuryukan, 1950. Two parts in two. Thick 8vo (20.9 x 14.0 x 7.5 cm). 1,738 pp.; 15 full colour plates, two tables, numerous text figures. Publisher's half calf over linen boards. Title in silver on spine (the main work); 8vo (). 203, 14 pp. of text and two with figures...

Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: being a narrative of travels in the Crimea and bording provinces with notices of the naval, military and commercial resources of those countries. [With author's handwritten dedication].

Seymour, H. · 1855

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

London, John Murray, 1855. 8vo (22.0 x 14.2 cm) xxiv, 361 pp.; three folded, engraved maps, two engravings and one engraved frontispiece. Original embossed cloth with gilt title on the spine. = An interesting exploration narrative on the Black Sea and Sevastopol, signed by the...

The Alps from end to end. By Sir William Martin Conway with 100 full-page illustrations by A. D. M'Cormick.

Conway, W. M. · 1895

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1895. Thick 8vo. xii, 403 pp., 100 plates after watercolours by the author. Original half cloth. Gilt title on the spine and front board. = The scarce third edition of this well-illustrated work. the first, second and third edition all appeare...

Earthquake history of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

Gouin, P. · 1979

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Ottawa, Ontario, International Development Research Centre, 1979. Oblong 8vo (21.5 x 28.2 cm) 258 pp., numerous maps. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board; printed dustjacket. = A detailed study with many maps, graphs, and tables, covering a history...