Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Ueber Einschlüsse im Diamant.

Goeppert, H. R. · 1864

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes [for the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen], 1864. 4to (29.7 x 23.3 cm). 84 pp.; six lithographed plate, of which one larger, folded, two tinted, and three in chromolithography Original blue boards with printed label on the spine. = An impo...

Mémoires sur les lépidoptères. Rédigés par N. M. Romanoff. Tome I-IX.

Romanoff, N. M. · 1884

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

St.-Pétersbourg, Privately published, 1884-1897. Nine volumes in eight. 4to (25.5 x 18.1 cm). Titles, half-titles, 3492 pp.; 130 plates of which 76 finely hand-coloured, and one tinted; four maps. [I (1884) [i], 181 pp., 10 plates (I-IV finely hand-coloured), and colour-printe...

Die Vulkane der Eifel, in ihrer Bildungsweise Erläutert. Ein Beitrag zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Vulkane.

Vogelsang, H. · 1864

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes [for the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen], 1864. 4to (29.7 x 23.3 cm). 76, [ii], [ii] pp.; one large, folded lithographed plate, with original hand-colouring. Original blue boards with printed label on the spine. = An important contributio...

Index Litteraturae Entomologicae Serie I: de Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive 1863. [Interleaved set with additions].

Horn, W. and S. Schenkling · 1928

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

Berlin, Walter Horn, 1928-1929. 8vo (23.2 x 15.8 cm). Four parts in four. 1426 pp. [interleaved with blanks]; four plates with portraits. Uniform contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title. Speckled edges. = The best index of entomological li...

Opredelitel nasekomych Evropejskoj chasti SSSR [Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR). Tom III: Pereponchatokrylye [Hymenoptera]. Pervaya Chasti.

Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) · 1978

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Leningrad, Akademia Nauk SSSR, 1978. Large 8vo (26.8 x 17.6) cm, 584 pp.; 196 (groups of) text figures. Publishers's embossed cloth with gilt title on front board and spine. = A well-illustrated monograph in a series on the fauna of European Russia (being no. 117), dealing wi...

Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Catalogue systématique et descriptif. Aeschnines. [Fasc. XVIII-XX]. [Complete].

Martin, R. · 1908

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

Bruxelles [Brussels], Hayez, 1908-1909. Three parts in one. Large 4to (31.8 x 24.6 cm). 223 pp.; 219 text illustrations, six fine chromolithographed plates. Near contemporary half morocco over patterned boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt bands and title. Brown endpaper...

Abbildungen der Wanzen mit Beschreibungen. Erstes - Fünftes Heft. Mit einem Register über die fünf Hefte. [Complete].

Wolff, J. F. · 1800

€1,850.00 ($2,039.07 | £1,543.41 | ¥325,509)

Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1800-1811. Five parts in one. 4to (25.2 x 20.1 cm). First title page (verso blank), [ii (preface)], [iv], [ii], [iii-iv; vii-viii; v-[vi], 208 pp. (with second title [1801], third title [1802], fourth title [1804], and fifth (last) title [1811]); 2...

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A magnificent toucan plate. Plate 13. Ramphastos toco and Pteroglossus piperivorus [Toco or giant toucan and Guyana toucannet].

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1852

€2,850.00 ($3,141.27 | £2,377.68 | ¥501,460)

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring. = The French ornithologist, botanist and natural history illustrator Jean Theodore Descourtilz (1796-1855) was responsible for both the magnif...

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A magnificent parrot plate. Plate 8. Ara hyacinthus [Hyacinth ara].

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1852

€3,000.00 ($3,306.60 | £2,502.82 | ¥527,853)

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring. = The French ornithologist, botanist and natural history illustrator Jean Theodore Descourtilz (1796-1855) was responsible for both the magnif...

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent toucan plates. Plates 12 and 14. Ramphastos ariel and Ramphastos dicolorus, and Pteroglossus aracari and Pteroglossus ulocomus. [Ariel toucan and green-billed toucan; and black-necked aracari and curl-crested aracari].

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1852

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

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring. = The French ornithologist, botanist and natural history illustrator Jean Theodore Descourtilz (1796-1855) was responsible for both the m...

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 1. Sarcoramphus papa [King vulture] and Percnopterus jota [Black vulture].

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1852

€1,750.00 ($1,928.85 | £1,459.98 | ¥307,914)

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring. = The French ornithologist, botanist and natural history illustrator Jean Theodore Descourtilz (1796-1855) was responsible for both the magnif...

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 2. Harpyia cristata. [Harpy eagle].

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1852

€1,750.00 ($1,928.85 | £1,459.98 | ¥307,914)

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring. = The French ornithologist, botanist and natural history illustrator Jean Theodore Descourtilz (1796-1855) was responsible for both the magnif...

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. A pair of magnificent parrot plates. Plates 6 and 7. Ara ararauna, and Ara severus [Blue-and-yellow macaw, chestnut-fronted macaw], and Ara aracanga, and Ara cryssosema [Scarlet macaw and colour variety].

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1852

€5,800.00 ($6,392.75 | £4,838.80 | ¥1,020,516)

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Two chromolithographed plates with additional fine, original hand-colouring. = The French ornithologist, botanist and natural history illustrator Jean Theodore Descourtilz (1796-1855) was responsible for both the m...

Ornithologie brésilienne. Ou histoire des oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes. Plate 5. Otus clamator, Strix perlata, and Strix pumila. [Striped owl, pearl-spotted owlet, and pygmy owl].

Descourtilz, J. T. · 1852

€2,000.00 ($2,204.40 | £1,668.55 | ¥351,902)

Rio de Janeiro, Thomas Reeves, [1852]. Folio (62.0 x 45.0 cm). Chromolithographed plate with additional fine, original hand-colouring. = The French ornithologist, botanist and natural history illustrator Jean Theodore Descourtilz (1796-1855) was responsible for both the magnif...

Untersuchungen zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des Beckengürtels der Amphibien, Reptilen und Vögel. Inaugural-Dissertation.

Bunge, A. [von] · 1880

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Dorpat, [for the author], 1880. 8vo (21.3 x 13.3 cm). 57 pp.; two text illustrations, one large, multi-folded plate. = Thesis of the zoologist Alexander von Bunge (1851-1930). Not to be confused with his father, the Russian botanist and explorer Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803...

Ueber den Winter-Schlaf und einige verwandte Erscheinungen bei den Thieren. Eine Inaugural-Dissertation, welche zur Erlangung der Doctor-Würde in der Medicin und Chirurgie unter dem Präsidium von F. G. von Gmelin imk Februar 1839 der öffentlichen Prüfung vorlegt.

Gmelin, G. A. · 1839

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.17 | ¥31,671)

Tübingen, Gustav Bähr, 1839. 8vo (20.5 x 12.2 cm). 28 pp. Paper spine cover. = A seldom-seen thesis on hibernation in various groups of animals, including reptiles and amphibians, written by a German medical doctor from Tübingen about whom little else is known. The medical doc...

Ueber vorderasiatische Conchylien nach den Sammlungen des Prof. Hausknecht.

Martens, [K.] E. von · 1874

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

Cassel, Theodor Fischer, 1874. 4to (29.0 x 23.2 cm). vi, 127 pp.; nine fine, hand-coloured lithographed plates. Near contemporary half cloth over marbled board. Spine with gilt title on the spine. Edges sprinkled red. = This beautifully illustrated work written by the German m...

Fauna Fennica, sive enumeratio animalium, quae alit Terra Finlandiae insulaeque ei adjacentes. Cujus partem secundam venia ampl. facult. philos. Aboënsis publice ventilandam modeste exhibent mag. Petrus Ulricus Sadelin, ad scholam trivialem Wasensem collega superior. Et Josephus Joachim. Alcenius, stip. publ. Ostrobotnienses. In audit. medico d. XIII Martii MDCCCXIX h. a. m. s.

Sadelin, P. U. and J. J. Alcenius · 1819

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Aboae [Turku], Frenckell, 1819. 8vo (20.7 x 12.5 cm). Printed title, 68 pp. ([ii], 52, [xiv]). Without wrappers (as published). = A seldom-seen work on Finnish vertebrates, including the complete herpetological and ichthyological section. Written by the professor of zoology Pe...

Descriptions of some new and rare Cephalopoda (Part II).

Owen, R. · 1881

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1881. 4to (32.0 x 25.5 cm). 40 pp.; some text figures, 13 lithographed plates (three hand-coloured). Original printed wrappers. = Published in the Society's Transactions no less than 39 years after "Part I". This is one of Richard Owen...

On the remains of a gigantic species of bird (Gastornis klaassenii, n. sp.) from the Lower Eocene Beds near Croydon [AND] On Megalapteryx hectori, a new gigantic species of apterygian bird [AND] On Dinornis oweni, a new species of Dinornithidae, with some remarls on D. curtus.

Newton, E. T. [AND] [J. F.] J. von Haast · 1886

€350.00 ($385.77 | £292.00 | ¥61,583)

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1886. Three papers in one. Very large 4to (32.0 x 25.6 cm). 40 pp. [143-160; 161-169; 171-182]; five lithographed plates [28-29; 30 (larger, folded); 31-32]. Original printed wrappers. = A collection of three original papers on extinct...