Antiquariaat Schierenberg

The coral reefs of the Maldives.

Agassiz, A. · 1903

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1903. Two volumes (text and atlas) in two. 4to (29.3 x 24.3 cm). Text: xxv, 168 pp.; numerous text illustrations; Atlas: 6 p.; three folded maps [numbered 1-8], three profiles [numbered 8a-c] and 71 photographic plates [numbered 9-...

Monsterboek Geboortekaarten. Nieuwste modellen - fijnste kwaliteiten. [Birth Announcement Sample Book. Newest designs - finest quality].

ABC d'Uylenburgh · 1950

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Netherlands, ABC d'Uylenburgh, ca. 1950. Folio (32.0 x 25.0 cm). 110 different cards and envelopes, carefully tipped in on ten thin, cardbord mounts. Colour-printed boards. = A seldom-seen example of a Dutch catalogue of printed birth announcements cards and envelopes. This "m...

Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, par les professeurs de cet établissement. 1-4.

1815

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

Paris, G. Dufour, A. Belin, 1815-1818. Four volumes in four. 4to (31.0 x 23.5 cm). Numerous pages and plates. Original uniform blind blue wrappers. = A very rare uninterrupted set of this important natural history periodical, with the descriptions and illustrations of hundreds...

The development of the starfish Solaster endeca Forbes.

Gemmill, J. F. · 1912

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1912. 4to (32.9 x 24.9 cm). 71 pp.; five plates (of which two in colour). Original blind wrappers. = A detailed study of the morphology, anatomy and histology of this usually nine-armed species of starfish from the cooler parts of the ...

Reisen in den Savoyer Alpen und in anderen Theilen der Penninen-Kette, nebst Beobachtungen über die Gletscher.

Forbes, J. D. · 1845

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1845. 8vo (21.0 x 13.3 cm). xii, 386 pp.; seven lithographed plates (of which one hand-coloured) and two folded lithographed maps depicting the Chamonix Alps. Early 20th-century cloth with mounted title and backstrip from original printed boards and s...

Erfahrungen beim Bau von Luftschiffen. Vortrag gehalten auf der 49. Hauptversammlung des Vereines deutscher Ingenieure zu Dresden am 29. Juni 1908.

Zeppelin, [F. A. H. A.] Graf [von] · 1908

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1908. 8vo (21.0 x 13.6 cm). 23 pp. Contemporary black pebbled cloth with handwritten paper label. Original printed wrappers bound in. = Important contribution to the promotion of airships as means of transport of people and cargo, by the German general...

Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Erster Band. Amorphozoen. Zweiter Band. Aktinozoen. Formlose Thiere (Amorphozoa); Strahlenthiere (Actinozoa).

Bronn, H. G. · 1859

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Leipzig and Heidelberg, C. F. Winter,1859-1860. Two volumes in two (text and atlas). Large 8vo (24.2 x 16.0 cm). Title pages (for both parts in two different forms), 592 pp [xvi, 142; 434]; 61 engraved plates [12; 49 (I-XII; I-XLVIII, XXXVI-1]. Uniform contemporary half calf o...

Bibliographies and catalogues on Alpine literature. A collection of 12 rare papers.

various authors · 1885

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Various places and publishers, 1885-1891. 12 papers in one. Mostly 8vo. ca. 500 pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. = An interesting collection of ephemera, such as: Bibliotheca Alpina I-II von Hermann'sche Buchhandlu...

Eight Topographical Puzzles.

[Games] · 1890

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

Paris, Librairie Hachette, no date (ca. 1890). A set of eight coloured topographical puzzles, showing the different continents. The puzzles are maps, mounted on wood, each divided into 42 pieces. The edges are covered with gilt paper. In the original paper & cloth box (35.5 x ...

De l'araneologie ou sur la découverte du rapport constant entre l'apparition ou la disparition, le travail ou le repos le plus ou le moins d'étendue des toiles et des fils d'attaches des araignées, des différentes espèces et les variations atmosphériques du beau temps à la pluie, du sec à l'humide, mais principalement du chaud au froid et de la gelée à glace au véritable dégel.

Quatremere-Disjonval, D. B. · 1797

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, J. J. Fuchs, 1797; Paris, La Tour de Babel, 1844. Two papers in one. 8vo. (20.6 x 12.0 cm). Half-title and title page, 3, 164; half-title, title, [iii], 156 pp. Mid-19th century gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, stipple gilted bands, c...

Wir bestimmen Schmetterlinge. Band I - IV. [First edition, complete].

Koch, M. · 1954

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Radebeul, 1954-1961. Four parts in four. 8vo. 904 pp.; 84 coloured plates. Uniform limp cloth with pictorial dust-jackets. = A well-illustrated series. These four parts are all in the first edition, which is rarely seen. Some marginal chipping to the dust jackets, but mostly i...

Complete acarological works. Acari Myriopoda and Scorpiones (1882-1903) in 12 volumes [AND] Collected acarological papers from "Redia" (1903-1923) in five volumes [AND] Complete acarological works. Varia (1881-1923) in two volumes. [Complete].

Berlese, A. · 1977

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

Firenze [REPRINT, The Hague, 1977-1982]. In 19 volumes. 8vo (18 parts: 23.1 x 15.6 cm), 4to (one part: 29.7 x 20.8 cm). Over 7000 pages and numerous plates (some folded). Uniform full dark brown cloth with gilt titles on front boards and spines. = A complete set of major contr...

The Medusae of the world. The Hydromedusae. The Scyphomedusae.

Mayer, A. G. · 1910

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1910 [REPRINT Amsterdam, A. Asher, 1977]. Two volumes in two (text and atlas). (thick) 8vo (25.6 x 18.1 cm). 735 pp.; 77 tinted and partly coloured plate [numbered 1-76, 64A]. Uniform republisher's cloth with gilt title on...

Über die Hipparion mediterraneum.

Hensel, R. [F.] · 1860

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, [1860] 1861. 4to. 95 pp.; four engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen monograph on a fossil horse by the German zoologist (principly mammalogist) and palaeontologist Reinhold Friedrich Hensel (1826-1881). Off...

Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. [Complete, in three volumes].

Forbush, E. H. · 1925

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Norwood, MA, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1925-1929. Three volumes in three. 4to (24.5 x 18.7 cm). 1527 pp. [xxi, 481; l, 461; xlviii, 466]; one portrait, and 93 full-colour plates after Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and many plain plates. Original uniform green cloth with gilt tit...

Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Rankenfüsser (Cirripedia).

Burmeister, H. · 1834

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1834. 4to (27.2 x 22.0 cm). viii, 60 pp.; two engraved plates with 38 figures. Original green, printed boards. = A detailed historical and ontogenetical study, dedicated to Carl Gustav Carus. The fine plates, mostly based on Lepas anserifera (L.) were drawn ...

Beschreibung der Steine sowohl Edel als Gemeine, darinnen derer Gestalt, Kräffte, Tugenden, Medicin-Eigenschaften, Preiss und Werth auf das deutlichste gezeignet wird Samt beygefesten Warnungen sich für derer Verfälschung wohl zu hüten wegen seiner fürtrefflichkeit aus dem Englischen ins Teutsche übersetzt durch Johann Langen.

Nicols, T. · 1734

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

Culmbach, Nathaneal Lumscher, 1734. Small 8vo (16.4 x 10.3 cm). 16, 274, [xiv] pp.; wood-engraved head and tail pieces. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards. Speckled edges. = Second German edition of a work by Thomas Nichols first published in English in 1652 and subs...

De Noord-Nederlandsche vergiftige gewassen. Met gekleurde platen.

Miquel, F. A. W. · 1836

€295.00 ($325.14 | £246.11 | ¥51,921)

Amsterdam, C. G. Sulpke, 1836. 8vo (22.5 x 13.2 cm). 198 pp.; 30 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates. Original printed boards. = First edition. This excellent, well-illustrated monograph by the Dutch botanist of German descent, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811-187...

Mikroskopische Pflanzenbilder insehr starker Vergrösserung zum Gebrauche bei dem Unterrichte in der Botanik nebst einen Grundriss der Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen zur Erläuterung der Abbildungen.

Breidenstein, W. · 1856

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

Darmstadt, Johann Philipp Diehl, 1856. 4to (27.4 x 21.3 cm). Chromolithographed title page, finished by hand; 15 pp.; 42 mounted lithographed plates by Fromann of Darmstadt of which 16 are printed in colours. Contemporary marbled boards; spine with red morocco label with gilt ...

Zwei Beiträge zur Kenntniss der fossilen Palmen.

Stenzel, K. G. [W.] · 1850

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Breslau and Bonn, E. Weber, 1850. 4to (28.0 x 21.9 cm). 42 pp.; three lithographed plates. Contemporary dark-grey marbled boards. = A well-illustrated monograph written by the German botanist and palaeontologist Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel (1826-1905). This is essentially a Ge...