Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia).

Beu, A. G. and T. A. Darragh · 2001

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Melbourne, The Royal Society of Victoria, 2001. 8vo (25.0 x 17.6 cm). 205 pp.; 66 groups of figures (mostly page-sized). Original stiff, pictorial wrappers. = An extremely well-illustrated work, containing many new species and genera. Essential for understanding the phylogeny ...

The Clear Mirror. A pattern of life in Goa and in Indian Tibet.

Hutchinson, G. E. · 1936

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Cambridge, at the University Press, 1936. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). xi, 171 pp.; 13 b/w photographic plates, one map. Publisher's green cloth with green title on the front board and spine; top edge green. In original printed dust jacket and transparent sleeve. = A seldom-seen tra...

[Portrait by Charles Thévenin].

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine Demonet [le chevalier] de · 1909

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, Múseum d'Histoire Naturelle, [1909] 1930. Heliogravure (30.0 x 22.4 cm). = A rarely-seen portrait of the great French naturalist Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (or Demonet) de Lamarck (1744-1829), by the French painter and engraver Charles Thévenin (1764-1838). "...

Gastropods from continental shelf and slope around Japan. [AND] Bivalves from continental shelf and slope around Japan.

Okutani, T. and M. Tagawa and H. Horikawa · 1988

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Tokyo: Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, 1988-1889. Two works in two. 4to (25.7 x 18.3 cm). 393 pp. [203; 190]; 646 [320; 326] full colour photos. Uniform burgundy cloth with gilt titles in transparent jackets. = Two beautifully illustrated but rarely seen wor...

Index testaceologicus; or a catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system; with the Latin and English names, references to authors, and places where found. Illustrated with 2300 figures. Second edition, corrected and revised.

Wood, W. · 1828

€225.00 ($247.99 | £187.71 | ¥39,589)

London, for W. Wood, 1828. 8vo (22.1 x 14.0 cm). xxiii, 212, [ii] pp.; 38 hand-coloured engraved plates. Original green pebbled boards. Spine with printed paper label. = Written by the English bookdealer and zoologist William Wood (1774-1857) who was a staunch Linnaean, the In...

Les caméléons de l'Afrique Centrale (République Démocratique du Congo, République du Rwanda et Royaume du Burundi).

Witte, G. F. De · 1965

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Tervuren, Musée royal d'Afrique centrale, 1965. 8vo (26.3 x 17.5 cm). 215 pp.; 48 text figures, 12 plates, one folded map. Original printed wrappers. = A detailed and well-illustrated monograph of Central African chameleons, with fine, detailed drawings of heads and other taxo...

Méthode de composition ornementale. Tome premier. Éléments rectilignes. Tome second. Éléments courbes. [Complete].

Grasset, E. · 1905

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.28 | ¥114,368)

Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [1905]. Two parts in two (31.6 x 24.0 cm). 900 pp. [384; xx, 496]; 12 full colour plates [1-8; 9-12]; numerous text illustrations, many pictorial headpieces and woodcut capitals. Uniform grey, green-printed cloth. Boards with bevelled ...

Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen. Unter Redaction von Prof. Dr. E. Richter, herausgegeben vom Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein.

Richter, E. · 1893

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Berlin, Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Alpenverein, 1893-1894. Three volumes in two Large 8vo (27.2 x 19.0 cm). vi, 441; vi, 512; 658 pp.; 60 fine plates (several large, folded), photogravures and maps. Uniform contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on spines...

Oriental Series. Japan [and] China. [the rare "Lotus"-edition].

Brinkley, F. · 1901

€12,500.00 ($13,777.49 | £10,428.44 | ¥2,199,388)

Boston and Tokyo, J. B. Millet, 1901-1902. Twelve volumes in twelve. 8vo (23.1 x 15.7 cm). 3752 pp.; 255 plates, of which 115 monochrome and 114 in full colour - all with printed tissue guards, and 26 lithographed, captioned on the plates; three maps, of which two very large, ...

Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde.

Thiele, [E. K. H.] J. · 1931

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1931-1935. Two parts in two. Large 8vo (24.7 x 16.8 cm). 1,165 pp.; 897 text figures. Original uniform printed cloth. = Important and influential handbook on shells (not long ago an English translation was published). Written by the German zoologist and m...

Catalogue illustré de la collection Lamarck. Premier Partie. Fossiles. Avec 117 planches.

Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de Monet de la] [Favre, J.] · 1918

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Genève, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 1918. Folio (31.8 x 24.3 cm). Title page, [ii] pp.; 14 phototype plates, each with four pp. descriptive text (not numbered). Original printed wrappers. = A single part of a rare series, this part containing the "Mollusques trachél...

Molluscorum, systema et catalogus. System und Aufzählung sämmtlicher Conchylien der Sammlung von Fr. Paetel. Zur Belebung des Interesses für Malakozoologie, herausgegeben von Dr. L. Schaufuss. [AND] Preis-Liste verkäuflicher Land- Süsswasser- u. Meeres-Conchylien. L. W. Schaufuss sonst E. Klocke, Naturalien- und Lehrmittel-Handlung.

Paetel, F. [Schaufuss, L. W. (ed.)] · 1869

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Dresden, Oscar Weiske, 1869. 8vo (22.4 x 13.8 cm). xiv, 119 pp., interleaved with blanks. Contemporary marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. [AND] 8vo (23.0 x 14.2 cm). 28 pp. Loose-leaved. = This is the first of a series of catalogues of species from o...

Zur vergleichenden Symbolik zwischen Menschen- und Affen-Skelet.

Carus, C. G. · 1861

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Jena, Friedrich Fromann [for the Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher], 1861. 4to (29.9 x 22.7 cm). Title page, 18 pp.; two very large, double-folded lithographed plates. 19th-century pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gi...

Observations on birds in North Eastern China, especially the migration at Pei-Tai-Ho Beach. II. Special Part.

Hemmingsen, A. M. and J. A. Guildal · 1968

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Kobenhavn, Hos E. Munksgaard, 1968. 8vo (25.0 x 17.0 cm). 326 pp.; 26 (groups of) figures. Original printed wrappers. = Second - rare - part to an important contribution to the ornithology of a little-known region. Written by the Danish medical doctor and ornithologist Axel Ma...

Descripción de Algunos Fósiles Terciarios de la República Arjentina.

Philippi, R. A. · 1893

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Santiago de Chile, Museo Nacional de Chile, 1893. Large 4to (31.4 x 27.2 cm). Two title pages; 16 pp.; four lithographed plates. Disbound. = A seldom-seen paper, with fine illustrations of Tertiary fossils from Argentina, described the German (later Chilean) malacologist, pala...

On the conifers of Japan.

Masters, M. T. · 1881

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, The Linnean Society, 1881. 8vo (22.2 x 14.3 cm). 53 pp.; 18 text illustrations, two double-sized engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen, well-illustrated work, with the aim "to give a complete list of the Conifers of Japan ... together with inciden...

Bestiaries of Five Centuries. Description and Introduction by the late Claus Nissen. Edited and Revised by Sandra Raphael. With an Introductory by S. Peter Dance.

Nissen, C. · 2024

€1,500.00 ($1,653.30 | £1,251.41 | ¥263,927)

Amsterdam, Antiquariaat Junk B. V. and Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 2024. Folio (29.8 x 21.3 cm). With sixty-one original prints, many hand-coloured, from famous zoological books published between 1491 and 1878; each mounted, matted, and numbered 1-28, 29a, 29b, 30-60, and one d...

Chalcidoidea of the SSSR. Chal'cidy fauny SSSR (Chalcidoidea).

Nikolskaya, M. N. · 1952

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Moskva, Akademia NAUK, 1952. Large 8vo (25.7 x 17.0 cm). 576 pp.; numerous text figures. Publisher's printed half cloth over printed boards. = A well-illustrated monograph covering 24 families of parasitic wasps, and including the description and illustration of several new ta...

Monographs of the Pacific Cetacea. II. The Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis Lesson). 2. Anatomy of a foetus of Balaenoptera borealis.

Schulte, H. von Wechlinger · 1916

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

New York, NY, The American Museum of Natural History, 1916. Large 4to (35.0 x 26.0 cm). Title page, 112 pp. [numbered 391-502]; 15 lithographed plates [numbered XLIII-LVII], ten text figures. Slightly later olive buckram with gilt title on the spine. Edges speckled red. Origin...

Sphere with fish. Bol met vissen.

Escher, M. C. · 1940

€5,500.00 ($6,062.09 | £4,588.51 | ¥967,731)

Bentveld, Andreas Landshoff, [1940] 1972. Sphere (diameter 13.0 cm) in black polyester, with matching (original) black wooden stand. = A quintessential M. C. Escher object, consisting of a sphere covered by 12 identical fish. There is a perfect fit: together they occupy the wh...