Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Conspectus florae Graecae. Volumen I - II - III, Supplementum. [Complete].

Halácsy, E. de · 1901

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Lipsiae [Leipzig], Guilelmi [Wilhelm] Engelmann, 1901-1908. Four volumes in four. 2117 pp. [I (1901): (ii) 825; II (1902): 612; III (1904): xxv, 519; Supplement (1908): (ii), 132]. Uniform contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Floral endpapers. M...

Das Entwickelungsleben im Wirbelthier-Reich.

Reichert, K. B. · 1840

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1840. 4to. viii, 261 pp.; five engraved plates. Contemporary pebbled half calf over pebbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Brown endpapers. Marbled edges. = A very rare, early work on embryology by the German anatomist and embryologist Karl Bogisla...

Mic atlas de plante din Flora Republica Socialiste România.

Todor, I. · 1968

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Bucarest, Editura Didactica si Pedagogica, 1968. Large 8vo (24.0 x 16.7 cm). 277 pp.; 175 coloured plates. Original full cloth with printed botanical vignette on the front board and title on the spine. = This seldom-seen Romanian flora has excellent full colour illustrations o...

Essais sur l'Hygrométrie: description d'un nouvel Hygromètre comparable, théorie de l'Hygrométrie, théorie de l'évoporation, application des théories précédentes à quelques phénomènes de la méteorologie.

Saussure, H. [B.] De · 1783

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Neuchatal, Samuel Fauche Père et Fils, 1783. 4to (24.3 x 18.3 cm). Half-title, title page, xxiv, 367 pp.; with a nice engraved text vignette showing two putti with scientific instruments and two engravings in a good photocopy on old paper with fleur de lis watermarks. Contempo...

The vegetation of Bulgaria. [WITH] Map 1: 600.000 with explanatory text.

Bondev, I. [A.] · 1991

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Sofia, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 1991. 8vo (23.5 x 16.3 cm). 183 pp.; 16 full colour photos on unnumbered plates; very large, multi- folded coloured map. quarter cloth over pictorial boards. = An important, seldom seen work on phytography and plant habitats by the...

Govierno general, moral y politico hallado en las Aves mas generosas, y nobles, sacado de sus naturales, virtudes, y propiedades le escrive el Padre Maestro Fray Andres Ferrer de Valdecebro...le consagra al gloriosissimo Padre, y apostol Valenciano San Vicente Ferrer.

Ferrer de Valdecebro, A. · 1670

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

Madrid, M. Alegre, 1670. 4to (20.5 x 13.7 cm). [xl], 205 numbered leaves, 30 pp. of "tabla general" (general index); one engraved portrait of San Vicente Ferrer and 18 text engravings; all of the birds discussed. Limp vellum with beautifully contemporary calligraphed title on ...

Etudes littorales et estuariennes en zone intertropicale humide. Tome I - III. [Complete].

Lafond, L. · 1967

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Paris, the author, 1967. In three parts. Folio (27.0 x 21.1 cm). 836 pp.; numerous maps, tables. Uniform printed softcovers. = The thesis of Louis Robert Lafond, who later became a professor in sedimentology. Deals with salinity, turbidity, temperature, minerals, and their var...

Les champignons supérieurs du Tarn. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des Sciences de Toulouse (Medaillon d'or).

Bel, J. · 1889

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Paris, J. B. Baillière et fils, 1889. 8vo (21.5 x 14.5 cm). 198 [i] pp.; 32 chromolithographed plates. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers. = A fine example of a very well-illustrated regional mycological work, in this case of the T...

Die Geweihbildung der europäischen Hirscharten mit besonderer Berücksichtigung anatomischer, physiologischer, patalogischer und patogenischer Momente.

Dombrowski, R. von · 1884

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Wien, Carl Gerold's Sohn, [1884]. 4to (33.5 x 25.5 cm). [iv], 132 pp.; 40 fine tinted lithographs. Near contemporary blind half cloth with chromolithographed illustrated title (frontispiece) mounted on front board. = A finely illustrated work on European deer and in particular...

Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen. Eine kritische Studie über das gleichnamige Werk von Charles Darwin, nebst neuen Untersuchungen.

Wiesner, J. · 1881

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.80 | ¥24,641)

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1881. 8vo (22.0 x 14.3 cm). vi, 212 pp.; several woodcuts. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Yellow endpapers; marbled edges. = A fine copy of a critical study on Darwin's work on the climbing of plants, by the Austrian botanist Ju...

Origine, fonctionnement et variations cytologiques saisonnières du cambium de l'Acer Pseudoplatanus L. (Acéracées).

Catesson, A. M. · 1964

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, Masson, 1964. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). 223 pp.; 20 plates. Original printed wrappers. = A detailed study of the platane or plane tree by the French botanist and cytologist Anne-Marie Catesson. The author's thesis. Some wear to spine bottom, otherwise an excellent, clean an...

Voyages and discoveries by William Dampier. With an introduction and notes by C. Wilkinson.

Dampier, W. · 1931

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

London, Argonaut Press, 1931. 4to. XXXV, 311p., 4 folding maps. Orig. blindstamped red and vellum coloured cloth with gilt lettered spine - untrimmed. = This is a reprint of the 1729 edition, edited by N.M. Penzer, in a limited edition of 975 copies on Japon Vellum, this is co...

Revue de l'Horticulture Belge et Etrangère. Volume 1-32.

1875

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

Gand, 1875-1906. 8vo. Text with 543 chromolithographed plates. Mostly bound but the start in the original pictorial wrappers. = Rare complete run of one of the famous Belgium illustrated horticultural journals published in Gand (Gent). Several plates between volumes 13 and 25 ...

Fu il fuoco, o l'acqua che sotterro Pompei ed Ercolano? Scoperta geologico-istorica, fatta dall'autore il di 14 e 26 Ottobre 1810, e da lui scritta nelle lingue latina, inglese, francese, italiana, tedesca, e spagnuola in due lettere. Seguite dalle scritture pro et contra, presentate all' Accademia di scienze di Napoli, per di lei ordine; e dalle decisioni di questa Società, relative al' argomento. Prima edizione Italiana.

Lippi, C. · 1816

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

Napoli, Domenico Sangiacomo, 1816. 8vo (18.9 x 11.4 cm). [iv], 384 pp.; one folded plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Rich gilt spine. Edges yellow. = A very rare work by the Italian geologist Carminantonio [(or Carmine Antonio) Lippi (1760-1823). The author di...

Florae Siamensis Enumeratio. A list of the plants known from Siam with records of their occurrence. Volumes 1 (2-4) AND 2 (1-5) and 3 (1-3) [in 11 parts].

Craib, W. G. and A. F. G. Kerr [Barnett, E. C. (ed.)] · 1926

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Bangkok, Siam Society, 1926-1962. 11 parts [of 12]. 8vo (24.3 x 17.5 cm). 1348 (of 1546) pp. [vi, 198-809, (v); vii, 476, ii; 238, (ii)]. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A very rare work on the plants of Thailand. Stafleu and Cowan only quote two volumes in nine parts. Ap...

A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798 in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson, compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by M. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists. With a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea islands and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite; by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directors of the Missionary Society.

Wilson, W. et al. · 1799

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

London, T. Chapman, 1799. Large 4to (29.5 x 23.8 cm). cxix, 420, [xii] pp., 13 engraved plates and maps (most maps large, folded). Contemporary pebbled cloth. = Important geographical and historical account of the South Pacific Islands based on the first missionary voyage to t...

Sulla efficacia delle soluzioni dei tartrati nel rendere emiedrici i cristalli dei paratartrati che in esse s'ingrandiscono. [AND] Sopra un caso notevole di dimorfismo [AND] Sulle combinazioni della litina con gli acidi tartarici.

Scacchi, A. · 1866

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Napoli, Fibreno, 1866 [1867]. Three papers in one. Large 4to (29.7 x 22.6 cm). 129 pp. [59; 22; 48]; three engraved plates. Later binding with original printed boards. = Quintessential works on tatrate salts. This is a consolidated offprint, with page numbering of each work st...

Botanical contributions. [25 seldom-seen offprints in two volumes].

Gray, A. · 1858

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Cambridge, MA, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1858-1887. In two volumes. 8vo (22.2 x 14.3 cm). Ca. 750 pp. Uniform contemporary half calf over pebbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title. Floral patterned endpapers. = A compilation of As...

Beiträge zur fossilen Flora der Juraformation Württembergs.

Kurr, J. G. Von · 1846

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Stuttgart, Beck und Fränkel, 1846. 4to (30.0 x 22.2 cm). 18 pp.; three lithographed plates. Contemporary full cloth with gilt title on the spine and red morocco medaillon with gilt border and number mounted on the front board. = Rare and early contribution to the fossil flora ...

Maury's investigations of the winds and currents of the Sea (from the appendix to the Washington astronomical Observations for 1846). Published by authority of Hon. William A. Graham and of Commodore Lewis Warrington.

Maury, M. F. · 1851

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Washington, C. Alexander [for the National observatory], 1851. 4to (24.8 x 20.2 cm). 126 pp. and one additional leaf with a typed index. Later full cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board. = This is a rare offprint. It includes numerous tables. some underlining in t...