Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Encyclopédie Méthodique. Marine. Dédiée et présentée à Monseigneur le Maréchal de Castries, Ministre et Secrétaire d’État au Département de la Marine, etc. I-III. [The complete text].

Vial Du Clairbos, H. S. (ed.) · 1783

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Paris, Panckoucke, 1783-1787. Three volumes in six. 4to (27.5 x 21.3 cm). 2409 pp. [xvi, 712; 784; 897]. Original boards with printed paper label on the spines. = A rare part of the Ultimate Encyclopaedia and the largest of all great Encyclopaedias and the most important work ...

Encyclopédie Méthodique. Finances. I-III. [Complete].

Rousselot de Surgy, J. P. · 1784

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

Paris, Panckoucke, 1784-1787. Three volumes in four. 4to (27.5 x 21.3 cm). Three titles to the Encyclopédie, three titles with wood-engraved vignette, to the Finance volumes; 2359 pp. [12, lx, 685; 787, 416, 417-797, xvii, iii, iv, iv]. Original uniform boards with printed pap...

Les rapports originaux de Larrey à l'Armée d'Orient.

Pallary, P. · 1936

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Le Caire [Cairo], L'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1936. 4to (28.2 x 22.7 cm). Half-title, title page (to the volume), title (to the work), viii, 84 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen historical paper, dealing with Napoleon Bonaparte's Egypte campaign. ...

Conchologia Iconica. Monographs of the genus Cerithidea, Cerithium, Lampania, Potamides, Pyrazus, Telescopium, Tympanotonos, and Vertagus.

Reeve, L. A. · 1865

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

London, Lovell A. Reeve, 1865-1866. Folio (25.9 x 20.3 cm). Titles and indices to all parts, and 36 beautifully hand-coloured plates [Cerithidea (1866) 4; Cerithium (1865) 20; Lampania 1866) 2; Potamides (1866) 1; Pyrazus (1865) 1; Telescopium (1865) 1; Tympanotonos (1866) 2; ...

The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals. With Illustrations.

Darwin, C. · 1872

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

London, John Murray, 1872. [REPRINT Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation, 1969-1970]. 8vo (21.5 x 14.0 cm). vi, 374 pp.; 20 text illustrations, six photographic plates (two double-sized, folded). Full mock leather. Spine with gilt title. = This is a seldom-seen luxury facsimile ...

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. With Illustrations.

Darwin, C. · 1871

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

London, John Murray, 1871 [REPRINT Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation, 1969-1970]. Two volumes in two. 8vo (21.5 x 14.0 cm). 913 pp. [viii, 423; vii, 475]; several text illustrations Full, uniform mock leather. Spines with gilt title. = This is a seldom-seen luxury facsimile e...

Zur einsteinschen Gastheorie.

Schrödinger, E. [R. J. A.] · 1926

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1926. 4to (26.6 x19.5 cm). 7 pp. [numbered 95-101]. Later grey half cloth over marbled boards. black label with gilt title mounted on the spine. = An important early paper on quantum mechanics and comment on a work by Albert Einstein, written by the Austria...

A Dictionary of the Sunda Language of Java.

Rigg, J. · 1862

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Batavia, Lange & Co [for the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen], 1862. Large 4to (27.8 x 23.2 cm). 556 pp. [xvi, 537, v]. Original limp printed boards. = The first and still only Sundanese - English dictionary published. The author, Jonathan Rigg (1809-1871)...

The Spiders of the United States. A collection of the arachnological writings of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz.

Hentz, N. M. [E. Burgess (ed.)] · 1875

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Boston, Ma, The Boston Society of Natural History, 1875. 8vo (24.5 x 15.5 cm). xiii, 171 pp.; 21 plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = An important contribution to North-American arachnology with fine illustrations of numerous new and poorly known s...

Wallpaper sample.

Japanese leather paper · 1870

€320.00 ($352.70 | £266.97 | ¥56,321)

Japan or France, ca. 1870-1890. Single sheet, oblong (35.0 x 56.5 cm). Printed on one side. = Large wallpaper sample with embossed leaves, flowers, and birds in gilt and red. Made of strong, thick paper, imitating leather wallpaper. Leather wallpaper is a type of wallpaper use...

Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 4.3.

Hoefnagel, G. · 1592

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

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 frog, l...

Original Art Deco design for wallpaper and/or textiles. [Repeating Pattern].

[Travard (Atelier)] · 1920

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Lyon, Atelier Travard (attributed), circa. 1920-1930. Broadsheet (51.3 x 43.0 cm). Original pochoir with additional, extensive gouache painting. = The French firm of Travard was a major designer of wallpaper and textile used for curtains and furniture. Their designs made durin...

Original Art Deco design for wallpaper and/or textiles. ["Blue Poppies"]

Travard [Atelier] · 1920

€550.00 ($606.20 | £458.85 | ¥96,802)

Lyon, Atelier Travard, circa. 1920-1930. Broadsheet (65.5 x 51.0 cm). Original pochoir with additional, extensive gouache painting. = The French firm of Travard was a major designer of wallpaper and textile used for curtains and furniture. Their designs made during the 1920's,...

Original Art Deco design for wallpaper and/or textiles. [Calyxes]

[Travard (Atelier)] · 1920

€480.00 ($529.05 | £400.45 | ¥84,482)

Lyon, Atelier Travard (attributed), circa. 1920-1930. Broadsheet (61.0 x 50 cm). Original pochoir with additional, extensive gouache painting on olive green paper. = The French firm of Travard was a major designer of wallpaper and textile used for curtains and furniture. Their...

Original Art Deco design for wallpaper and/or textiles. [Roses].

Travard [Atelier] · 1920

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

Lyon, Atelier Travard, circa. 1920-1930. Broadsheet (65.0 x 50.0 cm). Original pochoir with additional, extensive gouache painting. = The French firm of Travard was a major designer of wallpaper and textile used for curtains and furniture. Their designs made during the 1920's,...

Venezia Tridentina. [Woodcut print].

Gallo, E. da Osimo [countess] · 1950

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

[Florence], Giulio Giannini e Figlio, ca. 1950. Broadsheet (poster) (71.8 x 50.3 cm). Printed on one side in red and blue. = This rare poster is the work of the Italian artist, countess Eleonora Gallo da Osimo (1885-1966). In 1929, Giannini started to collaborate with countess...

Mélanges mathématiques. [I.].

Catalan, E. [C.] · 1867

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

Liége, J. Desoer, 1867. 8vo (22.5 x 14.3 cm). 352 pp. 20th-century half cloth over reptile-skin boards. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A rare work. It combines 79 mathematical works by the French-Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan (1814-1894) which were publis...

De Atjèhers. Uitgegeven op Last der Regeering.

Snouck Hurgronje, C. · 1893

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Batavia, Landsdrukkerij; Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1893-1894. In two volumes. Large 8vo (26.1 x 17.5 cm). 983 pp.; two large folding maps, two plates. Later uniform cloth with mounted front wrappers. = Written by the Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages Christiaan Snouc...

Fabric Sample Catalogue.

[Trade Catalogue] · 1910

€380.00 ($418.83 | £317.02 | ¥66,882)

Germany, ca. 1910. Oblong (12.5 x 20.0 cm). 40 textile samples. In plain limp brown boards. = A rare sample book with Jacquard twill, a twill specially made on a Jacquard machine: a weaving machine which can produce large and complex patterns, using various materials such as c...

Outlines of the geography of plants: with particular enquiries concerning the native country, the culture, and the uses of the principal cultivated plants on which the prosperity of nations is based. Translated by Margaret Johnston.

Meyen, F. J. F. · 1846

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

London, The Ray Society, 1846. 8vo (22.0 x 14.1 cm). Title in German, title in English, x, 4422, 16 pp.; folded chart representing the range of mean temperature for various zones. Publisher's embossed cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt Ray Society vignette on the fro...