Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Études d'animaux. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].

Méheut, M. · 1911

€3,400.00 ($3,747.48 | £2,836.54 | ¥598,234)

Paris, Albert Lévy, 1911. Two parts in two [and an addition, described below]. Folio (44.0 x 34.0 cm). Title page in red and black, pp. 5-9 (introduction), index leaf; second title page in red and black, half-title; 100 [42; 58] loose, unnumbered plates in original, printed pa...

Model wearing haute couture. [Original drawing].

Barbier, G. A. · 1924

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

Paris, not published, 1924. Original black ink and watercolour drawing heightened with gold. On fine, J. Whatman wove paper. Size 24.5 x 19.0 cm. = A unique original aquarelle by the French artist Georges Augustin Barbier (1882-1932). Barbier was one of the foremost French Art...

Le musée de sculpture comparée du Palais du Trocadéro du XIe au XVe siècle. Renaissance, Louis XIII, Louis XVI, Louis XV, Louis XVI jusqu'a nos jours. [Volume I].

Guérinet, A. (ed.) · 1892

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, Guérinet, [1892]. Folio (39.5 x 29.0 cm). Title page, explanatory leaf; 140 photographic plates. Portfolio of blind quarter cloth over printed boards. = The work is not dated, nor are the authors mentioned, but external sources places this as a work by the French art hi...

Symbolae physicae, seu, Icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum: quae ex itineribus per Libyam Aegyptum Nubiam Dongalam Syriam Arabiam et Habessiniam publico institutis sumptu Friderici Guilelmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg: studio annis MDCCCXX-MDCCCXXV redierunt. [Engravings of the Nile arowana, and Nile arowana anatomy].

Ehrenberg, C. G. and F. G. Hemprich · 1899

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Berolini, Georg Reimer, 1899. Two broadsheets (34.3 x 48.8 cm) with 11 (4, 7) fine engravings, including one in colour. Versos blank. = Two plates on the Nile arowana, a fish of considerable economical importance. The first plate shows an adult specimen, in original colouring...

La Guadeloupe dediée a Mgr. Charles Philippe d'Albert Duc de Luynes ... par son trés humble et trés obeissant serviteur Le Rouge, Ingr. géographe du Roy. [map of Guadeloupe and Bourbon (La Réunion)].

Rouge, G. L. Le · 1788

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

Paris, Dien, 1788. Broadsheet (56.4 x 49.1 cm). With contemporary hand-coloured contours. = A very rare map of the French Caribbean island Guadeloupe, made by the French cartographer George Louis Le Rouge (1712-after 1790). In the lower right corner, a second map (same scale) ...

Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa edita a W. D. Hincks. Pars 51 Fasc. 3 (Editio Secunda). Chrysomelidae: Orsodacninae.

Jolivet, P. · 1957

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

's-Gravenhage, Dr. W. Junk, 1957. 8vo (25.0 x 17.5 cm). 16 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Uncut, unopened. In a mint condition.

Coléoptères de la Manche.

Pasquet, O. · 1929

€1,250.00 ($1,377.75 | £1,042.84 | ¥219,939)

Cherbourg, Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg, 1929. Large 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). Title page, 332 pp., interleaved; large, folded map of the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy) region. Dark green pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gil...

Application de la main-d'oeuvre féminine au travail des obus. [AND] Usines André Citroën. Vues photographiques des usines André Citroën de mars a ocobre 1915 [at] 143 quai de javel, Paris.

[Women's Liberation] [André Citroën] · 1915

€6,800.00 ($7,494.95 | £5,673.07 | ¥1,196,467)

Paris, Citroën, [1915]-1916. In two volumes. Oblong folio (31.5 x 43.7 cm). 71 original photographs (22.0 x 28.5-35.5 cm) mounted on grey cardboard with printed captions [60; 11]. Uniform full mottled calf. Boards with double gilt-rolled ornamental borders and gilt title. = A ...

De Dood van de Maagd Maria. The Death of the Virgin Mary. [Third and last state, with a remarkable wide margin].

Rembrandt H. van Rijn · 1639

€15,000.00 ($16,532.98 | £12,514.12 | ¥2,639,265)

Amsterdam, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1639. Broadsheet. 43.1 x 33.6 (print size 39.2 x 31.0 cm) = The Death of the Virgin ranks amongst Rembrandt's most impressive and typical etchings, especially among his works dealing with scenes from the New Testament. "About 1628 Rembrandt made ...

Manuscript of: Catalogue raisonné des lépidoptères du Berry & de l'Auvergne (Cher, Indre, Creuse, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal) (France centrale) Deuxième Partie - Microlepidoptera.

Sand, M. · 1871

€2,500.00 ($2,755.50 | £2,085.69 | ¥439,878)

Paris, E. Deyrolle [published edition], 1871-[shortly before] 1879. 4to (22.1 x 14.6 cm). [179] pp., followed by ca. 100 blanks. Original green half sheep over marbled boards. Printed label on front board. [AND] 12 pages of manuscript text pertaining to this work and in partic...

Report of the scientific expedition in the Mount Jolmo Lungma Region (1966-1968). Palaeontology. I-III.

[Various authors] · 1975

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Beijing, Science Press, 1975-1976. Three parts in three. Large 8vo (25.9 x 18.8 cm). 1439 pp. [425; 462; 552]; 295 [87; 100; 108] plates, numerous text illustrations; folding map, folding table. Uniform pictorial soft covers. Gilt title on front boards and spines. = These thre...

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Volume 9. 1857. [Complete, with an early map of Nebraska].

Hayden, F. V. [and others] · 1857

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.43 | ¥48,387)

Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857. In issues. 8vo (24.8 x 15.2 cm). viii, 228, xiv, v*-viii* pp.; one large, folded, finely hand-coloured map (of Nebraska). Without wrappers (not issued), as published. = The ANSP Proceedings were the forem...

Four beetles. [Original watercolour].

Sturm, J. [or J. A. Boerner] · 1835

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.56 | ¥105,571)

Germany, [the artist], [before] 1835. Single leaf (8.9 x 7.1 cm) with four small, detailed drawings of beetles, mounted on a larger sheet (17.5 x 11.7 cm). Preserved in a larger, modern cardboard frame (37.4 x 25.6 cm). = A beautiful, scientifically accurate illustration of fo...

Snakes of the Volzhsko-Kamskij region.

Bakiev, A. G. et al. · 2004

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Samara, Samara scientific centre Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004. 4to (28.8 x 20.3 cm). 192 pp.; 19 full colour plates and maps, 44 text figures. Original full-colour pictorial soft cover. = Important contribution to the rich snake fauna of Tatarstan in south-eastern Russia ...

The amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. A distributional checklist with keys.

Köhler, G. · 1999

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1999. Large 4to (29.7 x 21.0 cm). 102 pp.; 135 text illustrations, ten plates. Original full colour soft covers. = A very useful publication - the only recent one for this country - written by the German herpeto...

Untersuchungen über die Bauchmusklen der Krokodile, Eidechsen und Schildkröten.

Gadow, H. · 1882

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Leipzig, 1882. 8vo (24.0 x 16.1 cm). 44 pp. [numbered 57-100]; one double-sized chromolithographed plate. Later wrappers with handwritten title on the front wrapper. = A seldom-seen publication by the German ornithologist and herpetologist Hans Friedrich Gadow (1855-1928). Pub...

Terrarienkunde. Zweite, vollständig neubearbeitete Auflage herausgegeben von Christoph Scherpner.

Klingelhöffer, W. [K. A.] · 1955

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen, 1955-1959. Four parts in four. 8vo (23.7 x 16.8 cm). Five title pages, including a general title page; 1046 pp. [167; 236; 264; 379]; 16 full colour plates [1; 5; 4; 6] (mounted); 751 text illustrations [75; 184; 216; 276]. original uniform printed wr...

Die Amphibien und Reptilien Griechenlands.

Werner, F. [J. M.] · 1938

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,836)

Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart (Erwin Nägele), 1938 [UNALTERED REPRINT 1984]. 4to (31.0 x 23.6 cm). Two title pages, 117 pp.; 18 plates, 63 text figures. Original printed wrappers. = Well-illustrated account of the reptiles and amphibians of Greece, with detailed descriptions and...

Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata. [Plates].

Roemer, J. J. · 1789

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

Vitoduri Helvetorum (Winterthur), Steiner and Socios, 1789. 4to. 25 fine, hand-coloured engraved plates by Schellenberg, numbered II-IV, VI-VII, IX-XIII, XV-XIX, XXII-XXIII, XXV-XXXII. = A collection of 25 loose plates from one of the most attractive Swiss publications on ento...

Schmetterlinge von den Mentawej-Inseln.

Hagen, B. · 1902

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Frankfurt, Moritz Diesterweg, 1902. 4to (30.0 x 23.3 cm). 31 pp.; two fine, chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = A rare offprint from the Abhandlungen of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft. The paper deals with many newly described or poorly k...