Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Entomologie analytique: histoire générale, classification naturelle et méthodique des insectes à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques.

Duméril, A. [M. C.] · 1860

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1860. Two parts in one. Thick 4to (25.5 x 20.7 cm). xxii, 1,340 pp.; one folding table, 341 (groups of) text illustrations. Lithographed portrait of the author loosely inserted. Contemporary quarter calf over green boards. Spine with two red label...

[Portrait by Jules Boilly].

Duméril, André Marie Constant · 1822

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, J. [L.] Boilly, 1822. Engraved broadsheet (36.3 x 27.3 cm). = A rarely-seen portrait of the French zoologist (principally herpetologist and ichthyologist) André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860). The artist, Julien-Léopold Boilly (1796-1874) was noted for his album of ...

Ichthyologie analytique ou classification des poissons suivant la méthode naturelle, à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques.

Duméril, [A. M. C.] · 1856

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

Paris, Académie des Sciences (Gauthier-Villars), 1856. 4to (28.3 x 23.0 cm). 511 pp.; very large, multi-folded table. Original orange marbled boards. Spine with printed label. = Important new classification of the fishes and, as such, an improvement of the system introduced by...

Dissertation sur les poissons qui se rapprochent le plus des animaux sans vertèbres; thèse soutenue publiquement dans l'amphithéâtre de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, en présence des juges du concours, le 26 mars 1812.

Duméril, A. M. C. · 1812

€860.00 ($947.88 | £717.47 | ¥151,364)

Paris, Didot Jeune, 1812. Large 4to (26.1 x 20.2 cm). Title page, 40 pp. In contemporary paper sleeve with script title. = The thesis of the French zoologist, and principally ichthyologist, herpetologist and entomologist, André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860). Among the 'ju...

Ichthyologie analytique ou classification des poissons suivant la méthode naturelle, à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques.

Duméril, A. · 1856

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Paris, Académie des Sciences (Gauthier-Villars), 1856. 4to (28.0 x 22.6 cm). 511 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Important new classification of the fishes and, as such, an improvement of the system introduced by Cuvier and expanded and modified by De Lacépède. Published as t...

Traité des Arbres et Arbustes qui se Cultivent en France en Pleine Terre.

Duhamel du Monceau, [H. l.] · 1755

€2,400.00 ($2,645.24 | £2,002.24 | ¥422,410)

Paris, H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, 1755. Large 4to (27.0 x 21.5 cm). Two volumes in two. Half-titles, title pages with floral vignettes; 819 pp. [lxii, 368, 179*-180*; 387] (nearly all leaves with a finely engraved head piece, and a wood-engraved tail piece); 254 engraved p...

Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres et de leur Culture.

Duhamel du Monceau, [H. l.] · 1760

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Paris, H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, 1760. Large 4to (27.0 x 21.5 cm). Half-title, title page with floral vignette; lxxx, 383, 27, 10 pp.; 17 large, folded, engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. = Uncut. Provenance: inscribed on the front free endpap...

Mounds for the Dead: An Analyses of the Adena Culture.

Dragoo, D. W. · 1963

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Museum, 1963. 8vo (22.9 x 15.1 cm). 315 pp. Publisher's black buckram with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board. = The rare, elegant hardback edition. This well-illustrated work deals with eastern United States cultures from abo...

An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India and the Islands in the Indian Seas: Comprising upwards of two hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of the most singular and beautiful species, selected chiefly from those recently discovered, and which have not appeared in the works of any preceding author, the figures are accurately drawn, engraved, and coloured, from specimens of the insects; the descriptions are arranged according to the system of Linnaeus; with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.

Donovan, E. · 1800

€5,800.00 ($6,392.66 | £4,838.74 | ¥1,020,824)

London, printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1800 [-1804]. 4to (28.8 x 23.7 cm). Title page, 2, [ii], pp.; 58 finely engraved and originally hand-coloured plates, with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary full calf with gilt fillet decorations and gilt title on the spine. Al...

Himalayan Fossils. Permocarboniferous fauna of Chitichun No. I.

Diener, C. · 1897

€180.00 ($198.39 | £150.17 | ¥31,681)

Calcutta, Geological Survey Office, 1897. Very large 4to (36.5 x 26.2 cm). 105 pp.; 13 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom seen work on - mainly - well-preserved Brachiopoda and Mollusca. Written by the Austrian palaeontologist Carl (or Karl) Diener (186...

[Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raissoné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Mis en ordre et publié par M***]. Recueil des planches, sur les sciences et les arts méchaniques. Avec leur explication. Histoire naturelle. Regnes animal, végétal et minéral. [Herpetology and mammals].

Diderot, D. and J. d'Alembert (eds.) · 1768

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

Paris, Briasson, etc. 1768. Folio (40.2 x 26.3 cm). Half-title to the plates, drophead title to the Histoire naturelle; 13 pp.; 29 engraved plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers. = This is a complete copy of the separate, comprehensive folio atlas of the mammals and herpetolog...

Manuel de Chimie opératoire a l'usage des Élèves du Cours de Chimie générale. [Dedication copy].

DeWalque, F. [De Walque] · 1878

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Louvain, D. A. Peeters-Ruelens, 1878. 8vo (17.1 x 12.1 cm). Title page, 232 pp.; four engraved plates (three double-sized, folded), one very large, multi-folded, originally hand-coloured Tableau synoptique, and one large, folded, Tableau dichotomique. Contemporary (?original) ...

Design for wallpaper, book endpapers, or textiles.

Design-paper - Papier Dominoté - Buntpapier · 1780

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Europe, [France or Italy], ca. 1780. Very large single sheet of wove rag paper (49.0 x 37.0 cm), with patterned olive-green printing and additional orange-yellow gouache painting. = A finely coloured sheet of printed paper, or papier dominoté (French) or Buntpapier (German), p...

Encyclopédie Méthodique. Économie politique et diplomatique. I-IV. [Complete].

Démeunier, J. N. (ed.) · 1784

€700.00 ($771.53 | £583.99 | ¥123,203)

Paris, Panckoucke, 1784-1797. Four volumes in eight. 4to (25.5 x 20.2 cm). Four titles to the Encyclopédie, four titles with wood-engraved vignette, to the Économie volumes; 3150 pp. [vi, 760; 757; 787; 840]; one very large, folded table. Publisher's grey boards. Spines with p...

Encyclopédie méthodique. Mathématiques. Tome premier, tome second.

d'Alembert, J. le Rond, et al. · 1784

€260.00 ($286.57 | £216.91 | ¥45,761)

Paris, Panckoucke; Liège, Plomteux, 1784-1785. Two (of three) volumes in two. Large 4to (25.6 x 19.6 cm). 1,603 pp. [cxiv, 722; 787], 16 plates. Contemporary quarter calf over mottled boards. Spines with red morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled edges. = The first two volume...

Encyclopédie méthodique. Mathématiques. Tome premier, tome second, tome troisième. [Complete text].

d'Alembert, J. le Rond, et al. · 1784

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Paris, Panckoucke; Liège, Plomteux, 1784-1785. Three volumes in four. Large 4to (27.5 x 21.5 cm). 1807 pp. [cxiv, 722; 787; 184]. Publisher's grey boards with printed label on the spines, and large printed leaf, "Table des objects" mounted on the third volume's front board. = ...

Encyclopédie méthodique. Mathématiques. Tome premier, tome second, tome troisième. [AND] Recueil de planches de l’Encyclopédie par ordre de matières. Mathématiques. [Complete for the mathematics proper].

d'Alembert, J. le Rond, et al. · 1784

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

Paris, Panckoucke; Liège, Plomteux, 1784-1785. Three volumes in three. Large 4to (25.3 x 20.5 cm). 2,090 pp. [cxiv, 722; 787; 184]; 108 engraved plates (many double-sized, folded). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with elaborate gilt-patterned band, gilt vi...

Description géologique des environs de Paris, par MM. G. Cuvier et Alex. Brongniart. Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on a inséré la descrition d'un grand nombre de lieux de l'Allemagne, de la Suisse, de l'Italie, etc., qui présentent des terrains analogues a ceux du Bassin de Paris. Avec 2 cartes et 16 planches représentant les coupes de ces terrains et beaucoup des coquilles fossiles qu'ils renferment, et une table alphabétique de tous les lieux décrits ou seulement cités.

Cuvier, G. [L. C. F. D.] and A. Brongniart · 1822

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

Paris, G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, 1822. 4to (31.5 x 23.5 cm). ix, 428 pp.; one brightly hand-coloured geological map of the surroundings of Paris, and 17 lithographed plates, including one hand-coloured geological map of the basins of London and Paris. Publisher's orange-red mo...

Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux.

Cuvier, G. · 1798

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, Baudouin, an 6 [1798]. 8vo (19.6 x 12.5 cm). xiv, 710 pp.; 14 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt and ornamental lines and title, marbled endpapers; marbled edges. = Rare first edition of the first important work on comparative a...

Original costume designs for plays by Marcel Pagnol and Maxim Gorky.

[Costume designs] · 1930

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

[Paris, unpublished, ca. 1930-1954]. Sixty loose leaves. Folio (29.5 x 21.0 cm; a few smaller). Wove paper with original watercolour paintings. = A large suite of costume designs, the majority signed "Planitz". Possibly the French dancer, and actor Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle...