Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Nomenclator extemporaneus rerum naturalium: plantarum, insectorum, conchyliorum, secundum systema naturæ linnæanum. Editus a Carol Clerck.

Clerck, C. [A.] · 1759

€260.00 ($286.57 | £216.91 | ¥45,761)

Stockholm, Laurentius Ludovicus Grefing, 1759. 8vo (20.1 x 12.1 cm). Title page, [ii], 67, [xii] pp. Later grey wrappers with printed title. = Written by Carl Alexander Clerck (1709-1765), a close friend of Linnaeus. In fact, Clerck eclipsed Linnaeus by publishing the first va...

Les singeries humaines. Petit museum comique et grotesque.

[Caricature] [Probably by P. C. L. Janet] · 1825

€4,200.00 ($4,629.16 | £3,503.92 | ¥739,218)

Paris, Louis Janet, ca. 1825. Oblong 8vo (19.0 x 12.3 cm). iv, 146, [i] pp.; title page with large, engraved and finely hand-coloured vignette, 12 finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates with contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter polished calf over marbled boards. S...

Systematische Uebersicht der Thiere Brasiliens, welche während einer Reise durch die Provinzen von Rio de Janeiro und Minas geraës gesammelt oder beobachtet wurden. Erster Theil. Säugethiere (Mammalia). Zweiter Theil. Vögel (Aves). Erste hälfte. Dritter Theil. Vögel (Aves). Zweite hälfte. [All published].

Burmeister, [K.] H. [K.] · 1854

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1854-1856. Three volumes in three. 8vo (22.2 x 14.0 cm). I: x, 342; II(1): x, 426; II(2): xiv, 466] Uniform late 20th century half calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised, gilt-bordered bands; coompartments with gilt oval vignettes and gilt over gr...

Erläuterungen zur Fauna Brasiliens, enthalted Abbildungen und ausführliche Beschreibungen neur oder ungenügend bekannter Thier-Arten. Mit XXXII Tafeln.

Burmeister, [K.] H. [K.] · 1856

€2,600.00 ($2,865.67 | £2,169.09 | ¥457,611)

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1856. Folio (45.4 x 32.0 cm). Title page, viii (recte vi), 115 pp., 32 lithographed plates of which 22 - of living animals - finely hand-coloured, and ten - showing skulls - plain. Early 20th-century dark blue half morocco over blue marbled boards. Gilt t...

Description des terrains volcaniques de la France centrale.

Burat, A. · 1833

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Paris, F. G. Levrault, 1833. 8vo (20.6 x 12.5 cm). Half-title, dedication leaf, xxiv, 343 pp.; ten folded, engraved plates. Contemporary polished quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with elaborate gilt floral ornaments and two raised morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled...

Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi. Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes 1-8. [The complete mammals, including supplement].

Buffon, [G. L. L. Comte de] · 1777

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1777-1789. Eight parts in eight. 4to (25.3 x 19.3 cm). Title pages with allegorical engraved vignettes, numerous engraved head and tail pieces. 3807 pp. ([iii], 148, 335; [ii], xxxviii, 291, [ii]; [iii], 415; [iii], 534; [iv], 553; [iv], 480; [iv],...

Illustrazione di un nuovo cetaceo fossile.

Bruno, G. D. · 1839

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Torino, Reale Accademia delle Scienza di Torino, 1839. Large 4to (29.0 x 22.1 cm). 20 pp.; two double-sized, engraved plates. Disbound. = A rare work by the Italian medical doctor and palaeologist Gioanni Domenico Bruno, about whom little else is known, dealing with a new foss...

Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.

Bruguière, J. G. and Lamarck [J. B. P. A. de Monet de] and Candolle, [A. P.] de · 1797

€800.00 ($881.75 | £667.41 | ¥140,803)

Paris, Panckoucke, An VI [1797]. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 104 finely engraved plates (numbered 287-390), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label. = The fourth of five atlas parts....

Encylopedie Methodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers Mollusques, &c.

Bruguière, J. G. · 1791

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

Paris, Panckoucke, 1791. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). 50 pp. (numbered 83-132). 94 finely engraved plates (numbered 96-189) of which twelve double-sized (110, 112, 116, 119, 124, 125, 136, 140, 159, 177, 184, 185). Original boards. Spine with printed label. = The...

Encylopédie Méthodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.

Bruguière, J. G. · 1797

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

Paris, Panckoucke, 1797. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 97 finely engraved plates (numbered 190-286), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label. = The third of five atlas parts. All are r...

Dr. Gregory's elements of catoptrics and dioptrics. To which is added I. A method for finding the foci of all specula as well as lens's universally. As also for magnifying or lessening a given object by a given speculum or lens in any assign'd proportion, &c. II. A solution to those problems which are left undemonstrated. III. A particular account of microscopes and telescopes, from Mr. Huygens. With an introduction shewing the discoveries made by catoptrics and dioptrics. [First English Edition].

Browne, W. · 1715

€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)

London, E. Curll, J. Pemberton and W. Taylor, 1715. 8vo (18.6 x 11.5 cm). 228 pp. [xvi, 111, 1-72, 65-93]; three large, multifolded plates. Contemporary full calf, elaborately blind-tooled boards. Edges speckled red. = The very rare first English edition of a work on optics an...

A large, gilt-embossed sheet.

Brokatpapier [gilt-printed paper] · 1750

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

[Germany, 1750-1780]. Single sheet, with gilt floral pattern on olive-green-dyed laid paper (43.0 x 35.5 cm). = A finely coloured sheet of printed paper, or papier dominoté (French) or Buntpapier (German), probably meant as endpapers for folio-sized books or for other ends, su...

The eruption of the Hawaiian volcanoes, 1868.

Brigham, W. T. · 1869

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Boston, MA, The Boston Society of Natural History, 1869. Large 4to (29.3 x 22.0 cm). 24 pp. [numbered 564-587]. Original printed wrappers. = A long and lively narrative on the activity of the Hawaiian volcanoes, with a table of earthquakes, a map of the Kilauea crater after th...

La Défense contre l'Ophidisme.

Brazil, V. · 1914

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

São Paulo, Poica-Weiss, 1914. Large 8vo (23.3 x 16.0 cm). Title in red and black, 319 pp.; two pages with text illustrations (mainly detailed snake heads); 28 plates of which 13 in full colour offset printing. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five rais...

Testacea Minuta Rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris sandvicensis; Multa addidit, et omnium figuras ope microscopii ampliatas accurate delineavit. A collection of the minute and rare shells, lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich; Considerably augmented, and their figures accurately drawn, as magnified with the microscope.

Boys, W. and G. Walker · 1784

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

London, B. White, Scatcherd & Whitaker, and Humphrey, [1784]. 4to (27.5 x 21.1 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, v, 25 pp.; three engraved plates. Iberian purple half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine and front board. Marbled endpapers. = This is the first work...

Remarks on the midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans), with reference to Dr. P. Kammerer's publications. [AND] On a second species of the batrachian genus Amphodus.

Boulenger, G. A. · 1917

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

London, Taylor & Francis, 1917. 8vo (22.7 x 14.7 cm). 12, 2 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Two contributions by the foremost British herpetologist of the period including one that is at the heart of one of the greatest controversies in modern zoology, evolution, and genetics...

Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagascar. I. Studien über Reptilien aus Madagascar. [AND] Erster Nachtrag.

Böttger, O. [Boettger, O.] · 1877

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Frankfurt am Main, Senkenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1877-1878. Two parts in two. 4to (29.0 x 22.8 cm). 67 [53; 14] pp.; two [1; 1] lithographed plates. Original printed front wrapper and matching rear wrapper. = Important contributions to the reptiles of Madagasca...

Die träge Masse und das Relativitätsprinzip.

Born, M. · 1909

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1909. 8vo (22.0 x 14.6 cm). 14 pp. [571-584]; two text figures. Original printed wrappers. = A rare offprint from the Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge. Band 28, of a work by the German physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate Max Born (1882-1970). ...

Coleoptera: Lagriidae. Genera Insectorum no. 204.

Borchmann, F. · 1936

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

1936. 562 pp., 9 coloured plates. Original wrappers. = Edited by the famous P. Wytsman. Spine split, but overall in very good condition, interior very fresh and clean. Very accurate and beautifully coloured plates.

A fine collection of nearly 300 19th-Century and early- to late-20th-century bookmarks.

Bookmarks · 1855

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

Great Britain (mainly), various publishers, ca. 1855-1980. 300 different bookmarks, of which several of silk or other cloth; and made of paper or cardboard, with printed text. = The history of printed bookmarks is not well-known, and this large and varied collection certainly ...