Antiquariaat Schierenberg

An early, 19th-century, Dutch anamorphosis.

[Anamorphosis] · 1835

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Arum, 1835. Folded broadsheet (44.8 x 31.6 cm). Printed and originally hand-coloured. = A very rare example of a Dutch anamorphosis. Interestingly, this work includes a visual explanation of how anamorphoses are made, showing the projection, skewing,...

Fungi of Xizang. [Tibet].

Fan, S. (ed.) · 1983

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Beijing, Science Publishing (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 1983. Large 8vo (26.0 x 18.6 cm). ix, 226 pp.; 33 plates of which three in full colour. Original pictorial softcover. = The complete and only contribution to mycology from the series, Science Expedition to the Qinghai-...

A synonymic catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (Moths). Vol. I. Sphinges and bombyces. [All published].

Kirby, W. F. · 1892

€280.00 ($308.62 | £233.60 | ¥49,266)

London, Gurney & Jackson, 1892. Thick 8vo (23.0 x 15.1 cm). xii, 951 pp. Later burgundy half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = Written by the prolific British entomologist, folklorist and translator W...

A list of North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects.

Dyar, H. G. · 1902

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Washington, DC, United States National Museum, 1902. 8vo (23.8 x 14.9 cm). xix, 723 pp. Slightly later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = A less-common, well-bound copy. Provenance: an entomologic...

Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman no. 217. Lepidoptera Familia Notodontidae. [Complete].

Kiriakoff, S.G. · 1964

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Bruxelles, Genera Insectorum (P. Wytsman), 1964-1970. In four volumes. 4to (32.3 x 24.8 cm)). 794 pp. [213; 238; 269; 74]; 536 text figures [171; 136; 195; 34], 30 plates [11; 8; 11; 0]. Original uniform printed wrappers. = This massive, complete set of all that was published ...

Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud. I-XXV. [Complete].

Dognin, P. · 1910

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Rennes, Oberthur, 1910-1924. 25 parts in one. 8vo (23.7 x 15.5 cm). 25 uniform title pages; 795 pp. [ I (1910): 48; II (1911): 56; III (1911): 66; IV (1911): 32; V (1912): 12; VI (1912): 51; VII (1914): 32; VIII (1914): 101; IX (1916): 36; X (1916): 25; XI (1916): 17; XII (191...

Escher Adventures in Perception. [With handwritten letter by Maurits Escher to Han van Gelder, who produced an Oscar-nominated film about the artist and his work].

Escher, M. C. · 1970

€9,800.00 ($10,801.55 | £8,175.89 | ¥1,724,320)

Laren, the artist, 1970. Handwritten letter in black pen, dated "Laren, 27-XII-'70", written on a folded postcard featuring Escher's "Cycle", produced in 1970 by The Vorpal Galleries in San Francisco, CA. = Letter by the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) to "Dea...

Le serpent terrassé par le lion.

Renard [after J. Northcote] · 1799

€1,200.00 ($1,322.64 | £1,001.13 | ¥211,141)

Paris, Boulet, [1799]. Oblong broadsheet (over 48.5 x 60.5 cm). Colour etching, finished by hand. Framed and glazed. Simple modern green wooden frame. = A fine, lively, powerful illustration of a lion fighting a snake. After an original drawing by the British artist James Nort...

Le tigre blessé par le porc-épic.

Renard [after J. Northcote] · 1799

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

Paris, Boulet, [1799]. Oblong broadsheet (over 48.5 x 60.5 cm). Colour etching, finished by hand. Framed and glazed. Simple, modern green, wooden frame. = A fine, lively, powerful illustration of an angered tiger attacking a porcupine in vain - being deterred by the porcupine'...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge in Verbindung mit namhaften Fachmännern herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Adalbert Seitz. Abteilung II. Exotische Fauna. V. Band. Die Amerikanischen Tagfalter. Mit 203 Tafeln.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1924

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1924. 4to. (33.3 x 26.0 cm) in two volumes (text and atlas). Titles to the Volume, and to the parts. viii, 1141, [iii] pp.; vi, [ii] pp.; 203 chromolithographed plates. Later externally uniform half morocco over iridescent silk boards. Gilt stippled b...

Account of the effects of a thunder-storm, on the 15th of March 1773, upon the house of Lord Tylney at Naples. In a letter from the Honourable Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples, and F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.

Hamilton, W. · 1773

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

London, The Royal Society, 1773. 4to (22.7 x 17.3 cm). 9 pp.; one large, folded engraved plate. Spine with marbled paper cover. = Contains a detailed, illustrated description of the effects of a lightning strike inside a large house where, at that moment, more than 500 people ...

Astronomical observations on the rotations of the planets round their axes, made with a view to determine whether the Earth's diurnal motion is perfectly equable.

Herschel, [F.] W. · 1781

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

London, The Royal Society, 1781. 4to (24.5 x 19.5 cm). 24 pp. (numbered 115-138); two large, foldout plates. Spine with marbled paper cover. = Rare early paper by the German-British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm - later Frederick William - Herschel (1738-1822) on the revolving ...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung II. Exotische Fauna. Volume XIII: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1908

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann, Alfred Kernen, 1908-1925. Two volumes (text, atlas) in one. 4to. (33.3 x 26.0 cm). Title to the volume (XIII) and to the parts. vii, 613, [i] pp.; 80 chromolithographed plates. Later green blind half linen over marbled boards; copy of pictorial cover ...

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine systematische Bearbeitung der Gross-Schmetterlinge der ganzen Welt. Abteilung II. Exotische Fauna. Volume XIII: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter.

Seitz, [F. J.] A. · 1908

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann, Alfred Kernen, 1908-1925. 4to. (33.3 x 26.0 cm) in two volumes (text and atlas). Title to the series, to the division, and to the Volume. vii, 613 pp.; 80 chromolithographed plates. Later uniform full dark blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. T...

The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, intituled, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James.

Halley, E. [Newton, I.] · 1697

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

London, The Royal Society, 1697. 4to (22.3 x 16.2 cm). [2], 13 pp. (numbered 445-457); two engraved text illustrations. Spine with marbled paper cover. = This work is a special version of Isaac Newton's description of gravitational forces and the resulting tidal phenomena - st...

An account of the Kingdom of Thibet. In a letter from John Stewart. [AND] Translation of a letter from the Tayshoo Lama to Mr. Hastings, Governor of Bengal, received the 29th of March, 1774.

Stewart, J. · 1777

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

London, The Royal Society, [1777]-1778. 4to (23.8 x 18.8 cm). Half-title and title; viii, 28 pp. (numbered 465-492). Disbound. = A rarely-seen paper on Tibet in the 18th century, when it was still virtually unknown to Europeans. This was about the first first-hand description ...

Experiments and observations made in Britain, in order to obtain a rule for measuring hights with the barometer.

Roy, W. · 1777

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

London, The Royal Society, 1777. 4to (25.5 x 20.3 cm). 18 pp. (numbered 653-770); two folding plates showing barometers; thirteen folding tables and a map showing the plan of the triangles made use of for obtaining the geometrical distance and altitude of Snowdon and Moel Eili...

Anatomisk-Physiologiske undersögelser over Salperne.

Eschricht, D. F. · 1841

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Kjöbenhavn, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 1841. 4to (25.2 x 20.0cm). 94 pp. (numbered [299]-392); six lithographed plates (numbered I-IV, IV-V). Contemporary green half linen over ,marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Brown endpapers. = A seminal paper on free...

A toucan, Andigena laminirostris Gould. By John Gould.

Gould, J. · 1851

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, the author, 1851 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile. = A stunning, gigantic plate by the famous bird painter and ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881), depicting a plate-billed mountain toucan, a bird from tropical South America, in parti...

A toucan, Ramphastos cuvieri Wagler. By John Gould.

Gould, J. · 1854

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

London, the author, 1854 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile. = A stunning, gigantic plate by the famous bird painter and ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881), depicting a white-throated toucan, a bird from tropical South America, in particular V...