Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Catalogus Coleopterorum Europae. Vierte Auflage.

Schaum, [H. R.] · 1852

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Berlin, Entomologische Verein in Stettin, 1852. Small 8vo (19.5 x 11.6 cm). Title page, iii-v, 97, 14 pp. Contemporary grained blind half cloth over marbled boards. = A rare, early edition of this work, which was published in many editions. It seems that this is the first edit...

Description de l'Arabie d'apres les observations et recherches faites dans le pays meme.

Niebuhr, C. · 1773

€5,000.00 ($5,511.00 | £4,171.38 | ¥879,755)

Copenhague [Copenhagen], Nicolas Möller, 1773. Large, thick 4to (27.8 x 21.0 cm). Title page with engraved vignette; xlvi (including dedication leaf, dated 1772, with engraved vignette), 372; 25 engraved plates and maps, of which several larger, folded; the very large map of A...

Illustrirtes Conchylienbuch. Erster - Zweiter Band. [Complete]

Kobelt, W. · 1878

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

Nurnberg, Bauer & Raspe (Emil Küster), 1878-1881. Two volumes in two. 4to (27.0 x 21.5 cm). Two title pages; 390 pp; 112 lithographed plates. Original, near uniform printed (first: pictorial) boards. = Very well illustrated by the author, the German malacologist Wilhelm Kobelt...

Untersuchungen über die Gletscher. [Complete text and atlas].

Agassiz, L. · 1840

€7,000.00 ($7,715.39 | £5,839.92 | ¥1,231,657)

Solothurn, Jent & Gassmann, 1840-1841; Neuchatel, H. Nicolet, 1840. Text: 8vo (21.5 x 14.2 cm). xii, 326, [i] pp. 19th-century pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title. Greenish endpapers. Subtly marbled edges. Atlas: Oblong folio (29....

On the Anatomy of Balaenoptera rostrata.

Carte, A. and A. Macalister · 1868

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

London, The Royal Society, 1868. Large 4to (30.1 x 32.2 cm). 61 pp.; four lithographed plates. Disbound. = A rarely seen work with fine, detailed illustrations of the northern mink whale and its anatomy. Written by the Irish zoologist and palaeontologist Alexander Carte (1805-...

A descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Family Cicindelidae, Family Carabidae, Family Cicindelidae Supplement [AND] Family Paussidae, Family Pselaphidae [AND] Family Cicindelidae Second Supplement, Family Carabidae First Supplement, Family Paussidae First Supplement, Family Pselaphidae Supplement [AND] Family Lathridiidae.

Péringuey, L. [A.] et al. · 1893

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Cape Town, The Philosophical Society of South Africa, 1893-1900. Ten parts in three. 8vo (23.7 x 15.2 cm). 874 pp. [611; 245; 18]; 16 lithographed plates [10; 6; 0]. Uniform contemporary burgundy half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt lines and title. Original printed...

Musci Austro-Americani. Enumeratio muscorum omnium Austro-Americanorum Auctori hucusque cognitorum.

Mitten, G. [= Mitten, W.] · 1869

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

London, The Linnean Society of London, 1869. 8vo (22.0 x 14.0 cm). 659 pp. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. = Rare original edition. The earliest known description of the mosses of the Amazone region and its tributaries, including pa...

Les Fleurs et Leurs Applications Decoratives. Plate 7.

Séguy, E. A. · 1902

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Paris, Librairie des Arts décoratifs A. Calavas, 1902. Folio (41.5 x 30.0 cm - visible part), framed (67.5 x 47.5 cm). Pochoir print finished by hand. In passepartout and wooden frame. = A fine Art Nouveau or Jugendstil plate, showing "Tulipes", drawn and engraved by the Frenc...

Les Fleurs et Leurs Applications Decoratives. Plate 28.

Séguy, E. A. · 1902

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Paris, Librairie des Arts décoratifs A. Calavas, 1902. Folio (41.5 x 30.0 cm - visible part), framed (67.5 x 47.5 cm). Pochoir print finished by hand. In passepartout and wooden frame. = A fine Art Nouveau or Jugendstil plate, showing "Orchidées", or large-flower orchids, draw...

Les Fleurs et Leurs Applications Décoratives. Plate 10.

Séguy, E. A. · 1902

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Paris, Librairie des Arts décoratifs A. Calavas, 1902. Folio (41.5 x 30.0 cm - visible part), framed (67.5 x 47.5 cm). Pochoir print finished by hand. In passepartout and wooden frame. = A fine Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) plate, showing "Nénuphars", or water lilies, drawn and eng...

Les Fleurs et Leurs Applications Décoratives. Plate 16.

Séguy, E. A. · 1902

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Paris, Librairie des Arts décoratifs A. Calavas, 1902. Folio (49.8 x 47.0 cm), framed (77.7 x 58.7 cm). Pochoir print finished by hand. In passepartout and wooden frame. = A fine Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) plate, showing "chrysanthèmes", or chrysantemums, drawn and engraved by t...

Les Fleurs et Leurs Applications Decoratives. Plate 4.

Séguy, E. A. · 1902

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Paris, Librairie des Arts décoratifs A. Calavas, 1902. Folio (49.8 x 47.0 cm), framed (77.7 x 58.7 cm). Pochoir print finished by hand. In passepartout and wooden frame. = A fine Art Nouveau or Jugendstil plate, showing roses, drawn and engraved by the French Art Deco painter ...

Les Fleurs et Leurs Applications Décoratives. Plate 1.

Séguy, E. A. · 1902

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Paris, Librairie des Arts décoratifs A. Calavas, 1902. Folio (49.8 x 47.0 cm), framed (77.7 x 58.7 cm). Pochoir print finished by hand. In passepartout and wooden frame. = A fine Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) plate, showing "Pavots" (poppies), drawn and engraved by the French Art D...

Research materials of freshwater Mollusca in China.

Yan, Y. and N. Ma · 2012

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Beijing, China Scientific Book Services, 2012. 4to (29.2 x 20.7 cm). 195 pp.; numerous b/w and full colour illustrations. Pictorial full colour laminated boards. = A rarely seen compilation of 30 papers on Chinese freshwater molluscs published between 1979 and 2011, and otherw...

Niagara Power. History of the Niagara Falls Power Company 1886-1918. Evolution of its central power station and alternating current system. Volume I. History and power projects.

Adams, E. D. · 1927

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Niagara Falls, NY, privately printed for the Nagara Falls Power Company, 1927. 4to (28.0 x 21.6 cm). Full colour frontispiece; title page in three colours; 455 pp.; many portraits, five maps (one coloured, two large, folding), one folding table, numerous text figures. Original...

Great Auk. [Original hand-coloured print for The Birds of America].

Audubon, J. J. · 1836

€14,000.00 ($15,430.79 | £11,679.85 | ¥2,463,314)

London, R. Havell Jr. [for the author], 1836. Oblong broadsheet (62.7 x 96.3 cm - visible surface). Original colour-printed aquatint with additional hand-colouring. Framed and glazed. = One of two birds - with the passenger pigeon - depicted by the great French-American natura...

Inner Mongolia vegetation.

Yu, B. · 1985

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥21,994)

Beijing, Science Press, 1985. Large 8vo (25.7 x 18.6 cm). 884 pp.; 33 plates of which six in full colour, several text illustrations (maps). Very large, multi-folded phytogeographical map in rear pocket. Original printed softcover. = Probably the most recent work on the vegeta...

Chinese vegetation.

Wu, Z. Y. et al. (eds.) · 1980

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Beijing, Science Press, 1980. Thick 8vo (25.7 x 18.5 cm). 1375 pp.; 96 plates with numerous b/w photos; a few maps and other text illustrations. Green blind-stamped buckram with gilt title on the spine. Pictorial black, green and gilt-printed dust jacket. = A rarely-seen, mass...

The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Division II: Fauna Exotica. Volume X. The Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1933

€1,000.00 ($1,102.20 | £834.28 | ¥175,951)

Stuttgart, Kernen Verlag, 1933-1934. In two volumes (text and atlas). 4to. (31.8 x 27.0 cm). ix, 909 pp.; (vii) pp., 104 chromolithographed plates (Numbered 1-54, 55 A-C, 56 A-C, 57-100). Publisher's half calf. Spine rich gilt with vignettes and gilt morocco labels. Edges blue...

People's Republic of China Geological Atlas.

Anonymous [Chinese geologists] · 1973

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Beijing, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, 1973. Tall folio (31.7 x 21.6 cm). Two title pages, 149 pp.; 32 large, full colour maps. Publisher's green buckram. Gilt title on front board and spine. = A very detailed and informative atlas, showing the geology of China and a...