Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Türkiye amfibileri. The amphibians of Turkey (Taxonomic list, distribution, key for indentification).

Basoglu, M. and N. Özeti · 1973

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Bornova-Izmir, Ege Universitesi Matbaasi, 1973. 8vo (24.0 x 16.3 cm). 155 pp.; 87 text figures; nine plates. Printed stiff wrappers. = An important contribution to the herpetology of Turkey by the first Turkish herpetologist and founder of the Turkish Herpetological Center, Mu...

Report upon United States Geographical Surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler. Vol. I. - Geographical report.

Wheeler, G. M. · 1889

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1889. Large, thick 4to (29.3 x 23.5 cm). 780 pp.; 38 fine, tinted lithographed plates (several in chromolithography, tissue-guarded), three (very) large folded maps [listed as plates I-XXXVIII and Maps 1-3]. Publisher's embossed clot...

Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. IV. The snakes of the Galapagos Islands.

Van Denburgh, J. · 1912

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

San Francisco, CA, California Academy of Sciences, 1912. Large 8vo (26.5 x 18.0 cm). 50 pp. [numbered 323-372]; eight plates [numbered XXIII-XXX], folded chart. Original printed wrappers. = A rare work on the ophids of the remote and evolutionary important Galapagos Islands, ...

The Camellaird - Fullagar balanced marine internal combustion oil engine.

Fullagar, H. F. · 1920

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Birmingham, White & Pike, ca. 1920. Elongate folio (26.2 x 11.7 cm). Text on front and rear pastedown; thick cardboard and brass 'machine'. Mustard cloth boards with black title on the front board. = A rare description of a new type of ship engine, including a working model of...

Le Cystoceirae del Golfo di Napoli.

Valiante, R. · 1883

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Roma, Salviucci, 1883. Large 4to (30.0 x 22.0 cm). Title page, [ii], 30 pp.; 15 fine, large, tinted lithographed plates (several larger, double-folded), with explanatory text leaves. Original printed front wrapper of the Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Memorie XV. = Import...

Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum.

Günther, A. [C. L. G.] [Gunther, Guenther] · 1858

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1858. Small 8vo (128.2 x 10.9 cm). 281, 8 pp. Plain blue wrappers. = An important catalogue, describing the extremely rich collection of the British Museum of Natural History in London. First book by the German-British herpetologist ...

Poissons venimeux et poissons vénéneux. Venins, toxalbumines du sérum et des organes toxines microbiennes d'infection et de putréfaction.

Coutière, [F. L.] H. · 1899

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Paris, Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1899. Large 8vo (24.1 x 16.0 cm). Tiltle page, 221 pp. Contemporary or slightly later polished half calf over linen boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt, snake head vignettes and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. M...

Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala.

Barnes, W. [D.] and J. [H.] McDunnough · 1918

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, 1918. Very large 4to (35.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page, 47 pp.; 22 plates of which 17 in fine chromolithography. Near contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = A very scarce mon...

Antarctic Journey (1934-1935).

Naess, E. D. · 1936

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

London, the author, 1936. 4to (24.8 x 15.6 cm). 96 pp.; three photographic plates; one map with additional colouring in red (on p. 2). Publisher's grey buckram with gilt title on the front board. = A very rare "amateur" publication, printed, in a very limited edition, for the ...

Karnemelk lekker slank. [Buttermilk - nicely slim].

Bruna, D. · 1975

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

Hilversum, De Jong & Co., 1975. Broadsheet (116.0 x 83.0 cm). Full colour offset print. = A fine, large poster (promoting buttermilk, and, symbolically, showing a buttercup) designed by the famous Dutch illustrator and author Hendrik Magdalenus "Dick" Bruna (1927-2017). "Bruna...

Karnemelk lekker gezond. [Buttermilk - nicely healthy].

Bruna, D. · 1975

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

Hilversum, De Jong & Co., 1975. Broadsheet (116.0 x 83.0 cm). Full colour offset print. = A fine, large poster designed by the famous Dutch illustrator and author Hendrik Magdalenus "Dick" Bruna (1927-2017). Meant to promote buttermilk, it shows, inexplicably, a poppy. "Bruna ...

Aztec Fable [Original book illustration, signed by the artist].

Leonard, T. · 2003

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Philadelphia, PA, The Artist, 2003. A fine, original full colour painting (16.5 x 20.3 cm, with a 2.5 cm white border). Acrylic on cardboard, by the American animal painter Tom Leonard. = A fine original painting, designed for a book on Aztec (Middle American and Mexican) myth...

Spotted Cat. [Original of a book front-cover illustration, signed by the artist].

Leonard, T. · 2005

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Philadelphia, PA, The Artist, ca. 2005. A fine, original full-colour painting (16.5 x 20.3 cm, with a 3.8 cm white border). Acrylic on cardboard, by the American animal painter Tom Leonard. = A fine original drawing, designed as front cover for a children's book titled Spots, ...

Den of Thieves. Bande des voleurs.

[Paper Peepshow] · 1750

€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)

[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht, [ca. 1750]. Seven large, oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 16.0 x 20.0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, being six cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a single scene. = A rare view into a den of thieves, having a jolly good time....

Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, serpents, poissons, et cétacées. Pour faire suite aux oeuvres de Buffon. Nouvelle édition, ornée de 115 planches et du portrait de l'auteur. Tome premier - cinqante. [Complete].

Lacépède, [B. G. É.] De · 1825

€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)

Paris, A. Eymery [AND Brussels, Avransart and Gust. Gastebois], 1825. Five volumes in five. 8vo (20.1 x 12.8 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Lacepède by Leroux after a drawing by Hersent; 2881 pp.; 115 finely engraved plates after Jean Gabriel Prêtre, in original hand-colouring,...

American Marine Conchology: or, Descriptions of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from Maine to Florida.

Tryon, G. W. · 1873

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Philadelphia, PA, The Author, 1873. 8vo (22.5 x 14.9 cm). 32 pp. (first seven with Roman page numbers); eight finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates by the author. Original printed wrappers. = The rare start of a seldom-seen work (there are no auction records after 1977). The ...

Chart to tell whether an Indian snake is poisonous or harmless.

Wall, F. · 1917

€240.00 ($264.52 | £200.22 | ¥42,241)

Bombay [Mumbai], The Bombay Natural History Society, [1917]. Leporello binding (17.6 x 10.6 cm) with text and nine illustrations (in red and black) on a five-folded (concertina) linen-backed paper leaf (16.5 x 49.1 cm). Brown linen boards with black title. = A pocket-sized, ep...

The Origin of Primitive Superstitions. And their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America.

Dorman, R. M. · 1881

€1,450.00 ($1,598.16 | £1,209.69 | ¥255,206)

Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1881. 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). 398 pp.; 21 numbered text-engravings, five plates of which four originally hand-coloured, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece (= Plate I), Original dark brown buckram. Spine with red lines, gilt pictorial vign...

Evangelisches Gesangbuch. Eine Feste Burg ist unser Gott. [Music Box].

[Book simulant] · 1886

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

Frankfurt am Main, "Moritz Diesterweg", [after] 1886. 8vo-sized. (17.0 x 12.8 x 3.5 cm). Full black calf; spine with elaborate gilt bands, vignettes and short title; boards with gilt-patterned panel; embossed oval cartouche with gilt title, floral embossing, bevelled edges. A...

Bonbondoos. [Candy Box].

Driessen, A. [Jan Sluyters] · 1910

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

[Rotterdam], A. Driessen, ca. 1910. Cardboard box with lid (27.8 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm). Gilt edges, marbled sides; original chromolithograph after a gouache and colour crayon drawing mounted on front (top) board. Round, gilt vignette pasted on rear (bottom) board. = A fine box, wit...