Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 3.3.

Hoefnagel, G. · 1592

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

Frankfurt am Main, 1592. Small oblong folio (18.0 x 27.0 cm). Single plate, finely and beautifully hand-coloured. = A fine plate of this very rare work which comprises four parts with 48 plates in all. All plates are very uncommon, if not rare. This plate illustrates a large g...

Herbarium. Various plant families.

[Herbarium] Nagtegaal, W. · 1940

€160.00 ($176.35 | £133.48 | ¥28,161)

[Low Countries], not published, ca. 1940. Folio (35.0 x 23.5 cm). 25 paper sheets with dried plants mounted, and with handwritten texts. In contemporary wrappers with handwritten labels mounted. = A unique ensemble of dried plants, neatly arranged on large sheets, grouped by f...

Folgerungen aus Maxwell's Theorie über die Bewegung des reinen Äthers.

Helmholtz, H. [L. F. ] von · 1893

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Georg Reimer), 1893. 8vo (26.5 x 19.0 cm). 8 pp. [numbered 649-656]. Original printed wrappers. = An important contribution to physics by the German physicist and physician Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894). "Von...

American Commercial Specimens. Amerikanische Mercantil-Arbeiten.

Heim, J. [Publisher] · 1900

€1,000.00 ($1,102.18 | £834.27 | ¥176,004)

Wien and Leipzig [printed in Milwaukee], Josef Heim, ca. 1900. Folio (33.0 x 25.1 cm). Title leaf, 32 printed leaves of which 17 tinted, or, mostly, in full colour. Pictorial front wrapper and plain rear wrapper. = A potpourri of American advertising and label designs, meant a...

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. Vierzehnter Band. Tiefsee-Radiolarien.

Haecker, [F. C.] V. · 1908

€2,200.00 ($2,424.80 | £1,835.39 | ¥387,209)

Jena, Gustav Fisher, 1908. Four parts in four. Large 4to (34.3 x 25.5 cm). x, 706 pp. [x, 1-336, 337-706]; 87 mostly chromolithographed plates; two partly coloured maps; 225 text figures. Uniform original "Gustav Fischer orange" wrappers, or black quarter cloth over orange boa...

Observations on some rare reptiles and a batrachian now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie.

Günther, A. [C. L. G.] [Gunther, Guenther] · 1883

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1883. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.4 cm). 8 pp. [numbered 215-222], and five plates (two in fine hand-colouring). Original printed front wrapper. = The plates showing Chelys fimbriata (Schneid.), Metopoceros cornutus (Wagler), Tejus rufescens,...

Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Sciences physiques. Zoologie. V. Histoire naturelle des reptiles et des poissons.

Guichenot, A. [A. T.] · 1850

€4,400.00 ($4,849.60 | £3,670.77 | ¥774,419)

Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1850. Folio (37.0 x 28.1 cm). Half-title, title page Sciences physiques Zoologie V, with engraved vignette, half-title (to the reptiles and fish); iv, 144, [iv] pp., half-title (to the atlas); 12 plates (four of reptiles and amphibians, eight of fish). ...

Concentric Francolin Partridge (female), Perdix concentrica [AND] Javanese peacock (head). [J. E. Gray's Illustrations of Indian Zoology, plate 53].

Gray, J. E. [AND] B. W. Hawkins (illustrator) · 1831

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

[London, Treutel, Wurtz, Treutel Jr. and Richter, 1831]. Folio (47.5 x 33.5 cm). Single leaf. Finely lithographed and originally hand-coloured by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. In wide-margined cardboard frame (68.0 x 50.0 cm). = This is Plate 53 of J. E. Gray's amazing Illustra...

A manual of the botany of the northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and south to Ohio and Pennsylvania inclusive, (the mosses and liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant,) arranged according to the natural system; with an introduction, containing a reduction of the genera to the Linnaean artificial classes and orders, outlines of the elements of botany, a glossary, etc.

Gray, A. · 1848

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

Boston and Cambridge, James Munroe, 1848. 8vo (19.5 x 12.2 cm) lxxii, 710, [i] pp. Original blind stamped cloth with a floral vignette on the boards, and the spine with gilt title and publisher's name. = Rare first edition of this important botanical manual on North America by...

Reptilia Musei zoologici Vratislaviensis. Recensita et descripta. Fasciculus primus. Continens Chelonios et Batrachia. [OR] Deliciae Musei zoologici Vratislaviensis. Fasciculus primus. Continens Chelonios et Batrachia.

Gravenhorst, J. L. C. [C.] · 1829

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

Lipsiae [Leipzig], Leopold Voss, 1829. Folio (40.0 x 25.1 cm). Half title, double title page, 106 pp. including dedication page and second half title; 17 finely engraved plates of which 13 delicately hand-coloured. Contemporary style quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine wit...

Monographie des Hundes, oder: Beschreibung seiner Zucht, Wartung und Pflege sämtlicher Racen, deren Krankheiten und der Gebrauchsmittel dagegen, sowie Bekanntmachung des ursprünglichen Vaterlandes und Gebrauchs jeder Race. Für alle, deren Geschäft und Stand es erfordert, dieses Thier-Geschlecht halten zu müssen, so wie für jeden Liebhaber desselben. Gesammelt und herausgegeben.

Götz, T. [M. G.] · 1834

€2,200.00 ($2,424.80 | £1,835.39 | ¥387,209)

Gotha, Hennings und Hopf, 1834. 8vo (18.3 x 11.3 cm) [vi], 114, [6] pp.; engraved, very large, folding frontispiece and 39 hand-coloured plates (several larger, folded). Contemporary sprinkled boards. Spine with gilt bands and red morocco label with gilt title. Edges red. = A ...

Ausführliche Erläuterung des naturhistorischen Atlasses von Dr. August Goldfuss. Erster - Vierter Theil.

Goldfuss, G. A. · 1826

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Düsseldorf, Arnz, 1826-1832. Four parts in two. Large 4to (25.0 x 21.1 cm). [I (1826): viii, 454 (recte 354) pp.; 2 (1828) vi, 312 pp.; 3 (1832): vii, 300; 4: 376 pp.]. Near uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with red morocco label with gilt-rolled lines and gilt ti...

Muster von Gebrüder Aurnhammer, Treuchlingen (Bayern).

[Gold bullion Sample] · 1949

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Treuchlingen, Gebrüder Aurnhammer, 1949. Printed envelope (10.9 x 7.2 cm) with folded handwritten leaf, and three samples of fine gold thread. = A "time capsule" of the bullion trade. This sample has remained untouched for over 70 years. The firm, Gebrüder Aurnhammer was a gol...

Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères ou papillons de France. [Volumes] I-XI [AND] suppléments. [Volumes] I-IV [AND] Iconographie des chenilles. [Volumes] I-II. [AND] Catalogue méthodique des lépidoptères d'Europe [Complete].

Godart, J. B. and P. A. J. Duponchel · 1821

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

Paris, Crevot (for the first seven volumes only), Méquignon-Marvis, and Mequignon-Marvis fils, 1821-1831-[1842] (main work); 1832-1844-[1846] (chenilles). 17 volumes in 19. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). 8,333 pp.; 639 finely engraved plates (546 in the main work, 93 in the caterpillar...

Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères ou papillons de France. Crépusculaires.

Godart, [J. B.] · 1841

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1841. 8vo (22.0 x 13.5 cm). Title page, [i (Table alphabétique supplémentaire)], 192 pp.; 12 beautifully lithographed plates, all in fine, original hand-colouring (numbered 13-22, 17bis, 17ter). Near contemporary black ruled half cloth over marbled boa...

The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Lake Titicaca in 1937 under the leadership of Mr. H. Cary Gilson, M.A.. Reports 1-6, VII-XII, XIII-XX. [Complete].

Gilson, H. C. (ed.) · 1939

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

London, The Linnean Society of London, 1939-1955. 20 papers in three. Large 4to (31.4 x 25.0 cm). 357 pp.; numerous plates and text illustrations. Original uniform printed wrappers. = The complete reports on the expedition (by the editor), the geology (by H. P. Moon), the alga...

Zoologie et paléontologie françaises. Nouvelles recherches sur les animaux vertébrés dont on trouve les ossements enfouis dans le sol de la France. Deuxième édition. Atlas.

Gervais, [F. L.] P. · 1859

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Paris Arthus Bertrand, 1859. Folio. 84 large, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = The fine atlas of this rare and well-illustrated work, written by the French zoologist and palaeonthologist François Louis Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The fine plates are by the best ...

Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de Syrie. [AND] Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles d'Asie-Mineure.

Germain, L. · 1921

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Paris, J. B. Baillière, Paul Lechevalier, 1921-22; 1936. Two parts in three. Thick 8vo (25.2 x 16.6 cm). 1257 pp. [I: 523, 242; II: 492]; 40 plates [I: 23; II: 17]. Original printed wrappers (matching). = The malacological results of the "Voyage zoologique d'Henri Gadeau de Ke...

Farbige Räume und Bauten. [German Art Deco interior designs]. [AND] Farben für Mappe "Farbige Räume u. Bauten".

G. Siegle & Co. · 1929

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

Stuttgart, G. Siegle, ca. 1929. Oblong folio (25.0 x 35.0 cm). 30 plates, numbered 1-30, each with one to three interior designs printed in colour, including silver and gilt. [AND] Very small oblong folio (8.1 x 14.0 cm). Title leaf, explanatory leaf; leaf with Schwarz- und We...

Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne. Reptilia (Testoase, Sopîrle, Serpi). Volumul XIV. Fascicula 2.

Fuhn, I. E. and S. Vancea · 1961

€160.00 ($176.35 | £133.48 | ¥28,161)

Bucaresti, Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, 1961. 8vo (23.6 x 16.8 cm). 355 pp.; 244 (groups of) text figures. Original dark blue blind stamped buckram with silver title on the spine and front board. = Perhaps the last monograph on the surprisingly diverse Romania...