Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Die Pflanze in der decorativen Kunst. Plate 102 [vase].

Seder, A. · 1886

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.17 | ¥31,671)

Wien, Gerlach & Schenk, 1886. Large folio (57 x 43 cm) stunning chromolithographed plate in a fantastic Art Nouveau style. = A rare plate from Anton Johann Nepomuk Seder's "die Pflanze" [the plant - les plantes] with the finest and most stunning plates of Art Nouveau book desi...

Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. Plate 24 [storks and babies].

Seder, A. · 1896

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Wien, Gerlach & Schenk, 1896. Large, oblong folio (57.0 x 43.0 cm) stunning lithographed plate in a fantastic Art Nouveau style. = A very rare - and charming - plate from Anton Johann Nepomuk Seder's Das Thier [l'Animal - The Animal], with the finest and most stunning plates o...

Rapport sur les progrès de la géologie expérimentale.

Daubrée, [G.] A. · 1877

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1877. Large 8vo (25.6 x 17.6 cm). Title page, 142 pp. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title and gilt stippled lines. = Written by the French geologist Gabriel Auguste Daubrée (1814-1896) and dealing, e.g., with met...

Paradise lost. Adam hearing the voice of God. Large(st) mezzotint plate from the large-size edition.

Martin, J. [and J. Milton] · 1824

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

London, Septimus Prowett, [1824]-1827. Oblong folio (36.7 x 52.5 cm). Mezzotint plate (printed surface ca. 25 x 35 cm). = A magnificent proof-plate from the very rare folio edition with much larger sheets than those in the "usual" quarto editions (of which the largest was ca. ...

Paradise lost. Satan viewing the Ascent to Heaven. Large(st) mezzotint plate from the large-size edition.

Martin, J. [and J. Milton] · 1824

€950.00 ($1,047.09 | £792.56 | ¥167,153)

London, Septimus Prowett, [1824]-1827. Folio (52.5 x 36.6 cm). Mezzotint plate (printed surface ca. 35 x 25 cm). = A magnificent proof-plate from the very rare folio edition with much larger sheets than those in the "usual" quarto editions (of which the largest was ca. 27 x 37...

Paradise lost. Approach of the Arch Angel Raphael. Large(st) mezzotint plate.

Martin, J. [and J. Milton] · 1824

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

London, Septimus Prowett, [1824]-1827. Oblong folio (36.6 x 52.5 cm). Mezzotint plate (printed surface ca. 25 x 35 cm). = A fine plate from the folio edition, however, cut along the edges and mounted. This wonderfully detailed plate with Rembrandtesque light and shadows, illus...

Paradise lost. Adam reproving Eve. Large(st) mezzotint plate from the large-size edition.

Martin, J. [and J. Milton] · 1824

€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.99 | ¥123,166)

London, Septimus Prowett, [1824]-1827. Oblong folio (36.3 x 52.5 cm). Mezzotint plate (printed surface ca. 25 x 35 cm). = A magnificent proof-plate from the very rare folio edition with much larger sheets than those in the "usual" quarto editions (of which the largest was ca. ...

Paradise lost. Approach of the Archangel Michael. Large(st) mezzotint plate from the large-size edition.

Martin, J. [and J. Milton] · 1824

€850.00 ($936.87 | £709.13 | ¥149,558)

London, Septimus Prowett, [1824]-1827. Oblong folio (36.5 x 52.5 cm). Mezzotint plate (printed surface ca. 25 x 35 cm). = A magnificent proof-plate from the very rare folio edition with much larger sheets than those in the "usual" quarto editions (of which the largest was ca. ...

Indian Tertiary and post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. II. Part 1. Siwalik Rhinocerotidae. Part 2. Supplement to Siwalik and Narbada Proboscidia.

Lydekker, R. · 1881

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1881. Two parts in one. Folio (36.0 x 26.0 cm). 66 pp.; 11 fine, lithographed plates [I-X, IIA] by Schaumburg. Original printed wrappers. = The rare, well-illustrated first supplement to the part on Tertiary and Quaternary pachyderms, main...

Manuel d'analyse qualitative et quantitative au chalumeau.

Cornwall, H. B. · 1874

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Paris, Dunod, 1874. Thick 8vo (23.3 x 14.9 cm). xix, xii, 668 pp.; 96 text engravings, one large, folded plate with spectra. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title and gilt stippled lines. Patterned endpapers. Original printed front wrappers boun...

Répertoire archéologique du département du Loiret. Arrondisement d'Orléans.

Buzonnière, [L. A. L. N.] de · 1877

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Orléans, H. Herluison (for the Société Archéologique et Historique de l'Orléanais), 1877. 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm). 120 pp. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title and gilt stippled lines. Marbled endpapers. Original printed front wrapper bound in. = ...

Notions theóriques et pratiques de géologie et de minéralogie coloniales.

Buisson, É. · 1944

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Paris, Bureau d'Études Géologiques et Minières Coloniales, 1944. 8vo (23.0 x 15.4 cm). 371 pp.; 24 plates, three folded tables, one folded map of Central Africa. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title and gilt stippled lines. Marbled endpapers. O...

Elemente einer neuen Chemisch-Mikroskopischen Mineral- und Gesteinsanalyse.

Borický, E. · 1877

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Prag, Fr. Rivnác, 1877. 4to (25.0 x 17.6 cm). Title page, 80 pp.; two text illustrations, two lithographed plates. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title and gilt stippled lines. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A seldom-...

Lettres qui decouvrent l'illusion des philosophes sur la baguette, et qui detruisent leurs systemes.

[Brun, P. le Père le] · 1696

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1696. 12mo (13.0 x 7.0 cm). Title page in black and red. xxvi, 255 pp.; text engraving, two engraved plates. Period-style full mottled calf. Spine with four raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and corner pieces; red morocco label w...

Traité des pétrifications. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée.

Bourguet, [L.] · 1778

€1,800.00 ($1,983.96 | £1,501.70 | ¥316,712)

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1778. 8vo (19.7 x 12.3 cm). Half-title, title page, 349 pp. (xvii, 326, [vii], and 4; 16 with advertisements); 441 engravings on 60 plates. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers....

The Ibis. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. [Twelfth Series, Volume VI].

1930

€160.00 ($176.35 | £133.48 | ¥28,152)

London, British Ornithological Union, 1930. 8vo. xlviii, 776 pp.; 25 plates (three coloured). Original red embossed cloth with gilt title on the spine, and gilt vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt. = A volume from one of the longest running and most influential ornithol...

Album de la Civélière, contenant les figures et descriptions des principales introductions agrico-horticoles qui y on été faites depuis l’année 1851. [Royal dedication copy].

Liron d'Airoles, J. de · 1855

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

Bruxelles, F. Parent, 1855. Large 4to (36.5 x 28.0 cm). Half-title, letterpress title with woodcut floral vignette; additional pictorial lithographed title with woodcut vignette on verso; dedication leaf by the author to the Comte de Chambord; ix, 64 pp.; 28 hand-coloured lith...

Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares, gravés et dessinés d'après nature, pour servir d'intelligence a l'histoire naturelle et raisonnée des differens oiseaux qui habite le globe. Contenant leurs noms en différentes langues d'Europe, leurs descriptions, les couleurs de leurs plumages, leurs dimensions, le temps de leur ponte, la structure de leurs nids, la grosseur de leurs oeufs, leurs charactère, & enfin tous les usages pour lesquels on peut les employer, tant pour la médecine que pour l'économie domestique. Traduite du Latin de Jonston, considérablement augmentée, & mise à la portée d'un chacun. De laquelle on a fait précéder l'histoire particulière des oiseaux de la Ménagerie du Roi, peints d'après nature par le celébre Robert, & gravés par lui-même. Le tout orné de quatre-vingt-cinq planches; qui renferment près de neuf cens especes différentes & divisé en trois parties, dont la premiere traite des oiseaux de la Ménagerie Royale, la seconde & la troisieme, sont l'ouvrage & les planches même Jonston, dont le mérite est très-connu. Pour servir du suite à l'Histoire des Insectes & Plantes de Madamoiselle de Merian.

Jonston, J. [AND] N. Robert [P. J. Buc'hoz (ed.)] · 1772

€46,000.00 ($50,701.15 | £38,376.65 | ¥8,093,747)

Paris, Desnos, 1772. Folio (49.5 x 33.0 cm). Engraved, hand-coloured frontispiece, letterpress title with wood-engraved vignette; 64 pp.; double suite of 170 engraved plates, of which half originally hand-coloured, and the other half plain. Contemporary full calf. Spine with s...

Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.

Jerdon, T. C. · 1844

€11,500.00 ($12,675.29 | £9,594.16 | ¥2,023,437)

Madras, P. R. Hunt, American Mission Press, [1844]-1847. 4to (30.5 x 23.0 cm). Title page, contents leaf, introduction; 50 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, each with extensive descriptive text. Contemporary, gilt-bordered brown half calf over linen boards. Spine w...

Herbier de l'amateur de fleurs.

[Deslongchamps, J. L. A. Loiseleur] [AND] [P. A. J.] Drapiez · 1828

€16,000.00 ($17,635.18 | £13,348.40 | ¥2,815,217)

Bruxelles, Veuve P. J. De Mat, 1828-1835. Eight volumes in four. 4to (27.1 x 20.2 cm). Eight half-titles and titles; 44 pp. (introduction); 600 finely engraved plates in beautiful original hand-colouring, and with explanatory text leaves, and indexes to Parts 1-3, 1-5, 1-6, 1-...