Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Nitokris. Légende de l'ancienne Égypte. [Unique copy enriched with original photos and artwork].

Merlet, J. F. L. · 1911

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

Sèvres, Librairie de l'Edition Libre, 1911. Half-title, justification du tirage, title page. Dedication page (to La Sylphe), 39 pp. (text, numbered [13]-[51]); frontispiece portrait of Merlet, portrait of La Sylphe with facsimile autograph, full page illustration, several text...

A list of flowering plants and ferns of the Cape Peninsula, with notes on some of the critical species.

Bolus, H. · 1903

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Cape Town, The South African Philosophical Society, 1903. 8vo (25.4 x 16.1 cm). 167 pp.[numbered 207-373]. printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen annotated catalogue, written by the English-born South African botanist and banker, Harry Bolus (1834-1911). Published in the Society's ...

Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii Iacobus F. genio duce ab ipso scalpta, omnibus philomusis amica D: ac perbenique communicat. I. Chr. Weigel excudit. Plate 3.1.

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 an emporo...

Céphalopodes. Etudes générales. Extraits du système Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Vol. II, Texte V. Chap. XVII. Partie initiale de la coquille. Observations générales. Chap. XVIII. Distribution verticale des Céphalopodes, dans l'ensemble des contrées paléozoiques. Chap. XIX. Résumé général de nos études sur les Céphalopodes.

Barrande, J. · 1877

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Prague, Paris, J. Barrande [the author], 1877. 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). 253 pp; four double-sized, lithographed plates with explanatory text. Original printed wrappers. = Rare copy with Barrande's stamp, "Hommage de l'auteur" and his signature, on the front wrapper. Essentially, ...

Pliocenska flora okolic Czorsztyna i jej stosunek do Plejstocenu.

Szafer, W. · 1954

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Warzawa, Instytut Geologiczny, 1954. Large 4to (29.1 x 21.0 cm). 238 pp.; 20 plates with explanatory text; two large, folding tables. Original printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated work on fossil (Pleistocene) plants from Poland. Partly written in English. The plates show bea...

Céphalopodes. Etudes générales. Extraits du système Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Vol. II, Texte V. Chap. XVII. Partie initiale de la coquille. Observations générales. Chap. XVIII. Distribution verticale des Céphalopodes, dans l'ensemble des contrées paléozoiques. Chap. XIX. Résumé général de nos études sur les Céphalopodes.

Barrande, J. · 1877

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Prague, Paris, J. Barrande [the author], 1877. 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). 253 pp; four double-sized, lithographed plates with explanatory text. Original printed wrappers. = Essentially, this is Barrande's complete, finely illustrated contribution to the ontogeny of the ammonites, s...

Conchyliologie Française. Les coquilles marines des cotes de Corse.

Locard, [E. A.] A. and E. Caziot · 1900

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Lyon, Société Linnéenne de Lyon, 1900-1901. Three parts in two. Large 8vo (25.7 x 17.9 cm). 296 pp. [193-272; 1-80, 159-294]. Original, uniform printed wrappers. = The rarest work in the series, Conchyliologie Française. The three other works, by Locard alone, deal with marine...

Notes on the Birds of Upper Assam. Part I. Additions and Errata to Part I. Part II. Part III. [Complete].

Stevens, H. · 1914

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Bombay [Mumbai], The Bombay Natural History Society, 1914-1915. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). 75 pp. [234-268, 547-570, 721-736]; one chromolithographed plate (tissue-guarded), two b/w photographic plates, one double-sized coloured map. Disbound. = A seldom-seen review of the birds of...

Faunes Jurassiques et Cretaciques de San Pedro del Gallo. Texte. Atlas. [Complete].

Burckhardt, C. · 1912

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.80 | ¥24,641)

Mexico, Instituto Geologico de Mexico, 1912. Two parts in two. Large 4to (33.0 x 23.3 cm). 272 pp.; two folding tables and 46 fine photographic plates printed on thick paper. Original, uniform printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated monograph, describing well-preserved faunas w...

Der untere Dogger Deutsch-Lothringens, von Dr. W. Branco. Mit 10 lithographirten Tafeln. Atlas.

Branco, W. [Branca, C. W. F. von] · 1879

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Strassburg, R. Schultz (Berger-Levrault's Nachfolger), 1879. Folio (33.0 x 25.0 cm). Title pages to the Series and to the Atlas separately; ten lithographed plates, including one double-sized, folded, with geological profiles; all with accompanying descriptive text leaves. Ori...

Les Préalpes maritimes. II. Paléontologie stratigraphique.

Guébhard, A. et al. · 1906

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1906. 8vo (24.4 x 15.5 cm) About 300 pp.; 28 plates. Original pebbled and printed boards. = An important work on the geology and palaeontology of the French Alps near the Côte d'Azur. Rarely seen complete. This second, paleontological, part...

On Fishes from the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and Karachi, Collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend.

Regan, C. T. · 1905

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Bombay [Mumbai], The Bombay Natural History Society, 1905. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). 16 pp. [318-333]; three finely lithographed plates. Disbound. = A rare work, written by the British ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan (1878-1943), published in the Society's Journal, but never publ...

The Game Fishes of the Persian Gulf. Part I - Part II. [Complete].

Lane, W. H. · 1917

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Bombay [Mumbai], The Bombay Natural History Society, 1917. Two papers in two. 8vo (24.6 x 16.2 cm). 722-748; 121-135]; five graphic text figures. Disbound. = A rare work, published in the Society's Journal, but never published anywhere else. Small chip to top edge of a few lea...

Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec les figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivans. Genette mâle. [Male genet].

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. and F. Cuvier · 1824

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Paris, A. Belin, 1824. Large folio (approximately 49 x 32 cm). Finely hand-coloured lithographed plate. Not bound, as issued. = Issued as part of a magnificent publication with fine large plates of mammals from all over the world. The authors, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844...

Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec les figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivans. Furet. [Ferret].

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. and F. Cuvier · 1824

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Paris, A. Belin, 1824. Large folio (approximately 53 x 35 cm). Finely hand-coloured lithographed plate. Not bound, as issued. = Issued as part of a magnificent publication with fine large plates of mammals from all over the world. The authors, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844...

Zur Anatomie von Acmaea fragilis Chemnitz.

Willcox, M. A. · 1898

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1898. 8vo. (22.5 x 14.8 cm). 46 pp.; three large, folded plates. Original printed wrappers and blind, protective wrappers. = A rare offprint signed by the author, the American malacologist Mary Alice Willcox (1856-1953). This was her thesis. "She taught a...

Gisements de Mollusques Comestibles des Cotes de France. La Méditerranée: de Cerbère à l'embrouchure de l'Hérault. (Avec une Carte).

Joubin, L. · 1913

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Monte Carlo, Institut Océoanographique, 1913. 8vo (23.8 x 16.2 cm). 16 pp.; one page-sized map, and one very large, tinted and partially hand-coloured, multi-folded map (ca 100 x 80 cm). Contemporary blind boards. = A rare work, part of a series by the French malacologist Loui...

Les mollusques testacés marins des Établissements français de l'Océanie.

Dautzenberg, P. and J. L. Bouge · 1933

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Paris, H. Fischer, 1933. Three parts in three. 8vo (23.0 x 14.1 cm). 355 pp. [numbered 41-108; 145-326, 351-469]. Original uniform printed wrappers. = A massive catalogue of molluscs from the French Polynesian and Melanesian islands and archipelagos. With many references and s...

Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses Dépendances, d'apres les découvertes de Fr. P. C. Pollen et D. van Dam. 4me Partie. Poissons de Madagascar et de l'Ile de la Réunion des collections de MM. Pollen et Van Dam. [AND] Les pêches a Madagascar et es dépendances. [With six additional plates on fishery usually not present].

Bleeker, P. and F. P. L. Pollen · 1875

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

Leyde (Leiden), E. J. Brill, 1875. 4to (29.2 x 21.2 cm). Half-title and title to Bleeker and Pollen, title to Pollen; 195 pp. (104, [ii], 89); 27 fine, hand-coloured lithographed plates, including one map (of Mayotte), one portrait (of Antoine Rétout "Le grand Amateur-Pêcheur ...

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoology, Botany, and Archaeology. Edited by Frederick DuCane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. Introductory Volume.

Godman, F. D. · 1915

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

London, The author, 1915. Large 4to (30.4 x 25.2 cm). Title page, viii, 149 pp.; photogravure portrait of the author, and his printed signature; photogravure of Osbert Salvin, with his signature, printed; eight double-sized maps, of which seven printed in colour. Publisher's d...