Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Lydie, Lycie, Carie. 1842, 1883, 1887. Études botaniques revues.

Barbey, W. · 1890

€2,200.00 ($2,424.84 | £1,835.40 | ¥387,092)

Lausanne, George Bridel, 1890. Large 4to (31.3 x 25.3 cm). 84 pp.; five lithographed plates, made by Becquet in Paris, of which two double-sized, all tissue-guarded and with explanatory text leaves. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Gilt title on the spine. = An extr...

Recherches sur la géographie comparée de la Maurétanie tingitane.

Tissot, C. [J.] · 1877

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1877. 4to (27.8 x 22.1 cm). 184 pp. [numbered 139-322]; six maps and plates, including a very large, multifolded map of Morocco and adjacent areas. Disbound. = A detailed geographical and topographical work on the landmarks ...

Flora of tropical East Africa. Orchidaceae (Part I).

Summerhayes, V. S. · 1968

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

London, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, 1968. 8vo (24.3 x 15.3 cm). 236 pp.; 41 full-page text illustrations, one map. Original printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated monograph. Apparently all that was published. The author, the British botanist Victo...

The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist. Volumes I-V.

Bellings, E. (ed.) · 1857

€750.00 ($826.65 | £625.71 | ¥131,963)

Montreal, E. Bellings [later: B. Dawson & Son], 1857-1860. Five volumes in five. 8vo (20.9 x 13.3 cm). Ca. 2500 pp.; numerous woodcuts, several folded charts. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Marbled edges. The first volume has the printed wrappers bound in. = The s...

Matériaux pour l'étude micropaléontologique du Dinantien de la Belgique et de la France (Avesnois). Première partie: algues et foraminifères. Deuxième partie: foraminifères (suite). [Dedication copy].

Conil, R. and M. Lys · 1964

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Louvain, Institut Géologique de l'Université de Louvain, 1964. Large 4to (30.5 x 23.1 cm). [x], 292 pp.; 32 text figures, 42 (two larger, folded) plates. Original printed wrappers. = The authors's main work, dealing with faunas from the earliest Carboniferous, just following t...

Zoogeographie und Ornithologie von Abyssinien, den Galla- und Somali-Ländern. [AND] Carlo von Erlanger †. Mit Porträt.

Erlanger, C. von · 1902

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1902-1904. Two papers. 8vo (23.0 x 15.0cm). 28 pp. [15; 13]; one very large, coloured map (51.0 x 52.5 cm), phototype portrait. Disbound. = A combination of one of Erlanger's last publications on the birds of...

Contribution à la connaissance des infusoires planktoniques.

Fauré-Fremiet, E. · 1924

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Paris, Édition du Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique, 1924. 8vo 171 pp.; 57 text figuress. Original printed wrappers. = A rare thesis by the French zoologist Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet (1883-1971), containing descriptions and fine illustrations of new and seldom-se...

Synopsis of the South-African Restiaceae.

Masters, M. T. · 1867

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, The Linnean Society of London, 1867. 8vo (22.2 x 14.2 cm). 71 pp.; two lithographed plates. = A rare work on South African restiads or restios, by the English botanist Maxwell Tylden Masters (1833-1907). Offprint from the Society's entire Journal, Botany, volume X. Lig...

Summary of the Geology of India, Between the Ganges, the Indus, and Cape Comorin.

Carter, H. J. · 1853

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Calcutta [Kolkata], The Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1853. 8vo (22.8 x 15.0 cm). 157 pp. [numbered 179-335]; one plate, one large, folded map. Original printed wrappers. = An important early contribution to the geology of India. Written by the British surgeon, geologist and zool...

Contributions to Indian malacology, No. II.

Blanford W. T. and H. F. Blanford · 1861

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Calcutta [Kolkata], The Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1861. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). 20 pp.; two lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Part of a rarely-seen series on Recent non-marine molluscs written by the British malacologist William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905). This...

Rapport sur les oeuvres d'histoire naturelle de Goethe, traduite par M. le Dr Martins; partie zoologique et anatomique.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. · 1838

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1838. Large 4to (27.5 x 21.7 cm). 12 pp. Near contemporary quarter cloth over dark green boards. Original blind green wrappers bound in. = Offprint of a rare piece of Goetheana, dealing with the zoological and anatomical works of one of the last g...

Über elektrische Schwingungen, welche durch Resonanz erregt und durch Strahlung gedämpft werden.

Planck, M. · 1896

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Berlin, Verlag der Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Georg Reimer), 1896. 8vo (26.7 x 18.8 cm). 24 pp. (numbered 147-170). Original printed wrappers. = Written by the great German physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947, Nobel prize 1918). This is number 31 of...

Sur quelques Grossouvria et Choffatia du Callovien de Chézery (Jura français).

Pfaehler-Erath, I. · 1938

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Genève, Société Paléontologique Suisse, 1938. 4to (31.5 x 23.7 cm). 30 pp.; four fine, phototype plates, nine text figures including a page-sized graph. Later green wrappers with typed title. = A well-illustrated study, dealing with well-preserved Jurassic ammonites. Written b...

Révision des espèces décrites dans la "Monographie des Ammonites" (Lias Inférieur) de P. Reynès.

Donovan, D. T. · 1955

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1955. 4to (32.7 x 25.3 cm). 47 pp.; two plates with explanatory text leaves, two text illustrations. Later wrappers with typed title. = A rarely-seen, important revision, well-illustrated, and an essential addition to the work by the French...

Description de la faune d'Etroeungt. Faune de passage du Dévonien au Carbonifère.

Dehée, R. · 1929

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1929. 4to (32.7 x 25.3 cm). 63 pp.; eight heliotype plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = A fine, well-illustrated work. Published in the society's Mémoires. It deals mainly with brachiopods, including a new spec...

Gedenkboek Franz Junghuhn 1809-1909.

[Junghuhn, F.] Various authors · 1910

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

's-Gravenhage [The Hague], Martinus Nijhoff, 1910. 8vo (25.0 x 16.0 cm). x, 361 pp., 31 photographic plates, portrait (frontispiece, tissue-guarded). Original pictorial wrappers. = Franz Junghuhn (1809-1864) was one of the great researchers of present-day Indonesia, mainly as ...

Contribution a l'étude géologique et paléontologique de l'Ordovicien supérieur de la Montagne Noire.

Dreyfuss, M. · 1948

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Paris, La Société géologique de France, 1948. Large 4to (32.8 x 25.2 cm). 63 pp.; nine plates, seven text figures. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen work on Palaeozoic invertebrates, including molluscs, and brachiopods including a few described as new. Written by the...

Étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de l'Aptien Inférieur de la Bédoule (près Cassis) (Bouches-du-Rhone).

Roch, É. · 1927

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, La Société géologique de France, 1927. Large 4to (32.8 x 25.2 cm). 38 pp.; five heliotype plates (one double-sized), six text engravings. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen work on Lower Cretaceous molluscs. All plates show ammonites, including a few described a...

Die Muschelkalkfauna des öfenbachgrabens bei Saalfelden.

Schnetzer, R. · 1934

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1934. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.0 cm). 160 pp.; six lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Folded chart. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen contribution to the Austrian (Alpine) Mesozoic malacofauna, in particular ammonites, but also ...

Karyokinesis and cytokinesis in the maturation, fertilization and cleavage of Crepidula and other Gastropoda.

Conklin, E. G. · 1902

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Philadelphia, PA, University of Philadelphia, 1902. Large 4to (34.4 x 27,2 cm). Title page, 122 pp.; Six chromolithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. Printed errata leaf loosely inserted. = A rarely-seen work on the early developmental sta...