Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Mémoire sur l'inflorescence des graminées et des cypérées, comparée avec celle des autres végétaux sexifères; de quelques observations sur les disques.

Turpin, P. J. F. · 1819

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,715)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1819. 4to (31.1 x 22.2 cm). 67 pp. [426-492]; two engraved plates [numbered XXX-XXXI]. Disbound. = An important contribution to botanical morphology and evolution by the French botanist and illustrator Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840)...

Sur plusieurs espèces de Fucus, nouvelles ou peu connues, observées dans la collection du Muséum.

Mertens, [F. C.] · 1819

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1819. 4to (31.1 x 22.2 cm). 19 pp. [172-190]; three engraved plates [numbered 13-15]. Disbound. = Written by the German botanist and phytologist Franz Carl (or Karl) Mertens (1764-1831) who studied the Muséum's collection (principally specim...

Leonard Cohen, Amsterdam, 1972.

[Leonard Cohen] Hanekroot, G. (photographer) · 1973

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥65,982)

Amsterdam, Gijsbert Hanekroot, 1973. Original print (40.0 x 30.0 cm; visible size 39.0 x 29.0 cm) of Leonard Cohen wearing a trench coat, in Amsterdam. In a white cardboard frame (50.0 x 40.0 cm). = A fine, large b/w portrait of the Canadian singer-songwriter, composer and poe...

Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Psenini. A collection of offprints.

Lith, J. P. van · 1966

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Amsterdam, Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging (NEV), 1966-1979. 20 papers in 20. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). About 330 pp.; numerous illustrations. Partly in original printed wrappers, partly published without wrappers. = A collection of offprints of hymenopterological papers by ...

Uccelli dello Scioa e della regione fra Zeila e lo Scioa.

Salvadori, T. · 1884

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Genova, Instituto Sordo-Muti, 1884. 8vo (24.5 x 16.1 cm). 268, [i] pp. Later blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Marbled edges. = Important guide to the birds of Ethiopia and the Gulf of Aden, published as Spedizione Italiana nell' Africa Equatoriale, risultati Zoologic...

Die Entstehung der Erde. Eine Vorlesung.

Nöggerath, J. [J.] · 1843

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥43,988)

Bonn, Henry und Cohen, 1843. 8vo (22.0 x 13.6 cm). iv, 29 pp. Original printed wrappers. = A very rare treatise on the origin of the earth, by the famous German geologist Johann [Jacob] Nöggerath (1788-1877) who also published, e.g., Gebirge in Rheinland-Westphalen nach minera...

Reports on the zoological collections made in Torres Straits by Professor A. C. Haddon, 1888-1889. Actiniae: I. Zoantheae.

Haddon, A. C. and A. M. Shackleton · 1891

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, 1891. 4to (27.4 x 22.0 cm). 29 pp.; four lithographed plates of which three chromolithographed. Disbound. = A rarely seen, well-illustrated monograph written by the British zoologist, anemone specialist and (later) ethnographer and anthropolog...

2800 formes de vases.

Sandier, A. · 1900

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

Paris, Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne (Ancienne Librairie J. Rouam & Cie.), [1900-1901]. Title page in red and black, pp. 7-8; 116 plates on 115 sheets, containing nearly 2,800 shapes and individual designs. Quarter linen portfolio over pebbled boards. Front board with p...

A revision of the British Actiniae. Part 1. [AND] Part II. The Zoantheae. [Complete].

Haddon, A. C. · 1889

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, 1889-1891. Two parts in two. 4to (27.4 x 22.0 cm). 129 pp. [65; 64]; ten lithographed plates [7; 3] of which two magnificantly coloured and the others tinted. Disbound. = A rarely seen complete copy of this important and well-illustrated monog...

Linné och hans lärjungar. [After Brusewitz]

Linnaeus, Carolus · 1897

€380.00 ($418.84 | £317.02 | ¥66,861)

[Halmstad], Svenska Familj-Journalens Förlag, [1897]. Oblong sheet (33.6 x 40.6 cm) with full colour mezzotint plate (27.0 x 35.5 cm), and printed caption. = This coloured mezzotint is a copy of an oil painting by the Swedish painter Gustaf Henrik Brusewitz (1812-1899). Brusew...

Dictionnaire des fleurs.

Belet, É. · 1900

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

Paris, Librairie d'Art Décoratif (Armand Guérinet, ed.), 1900. Folio (40.0 x 30.0 cm). Title page, index; 28 chromolithographed plates. Quarter cloth portfolio; front board with printed title and floral vignette. = A very rare work - we found no auction records at all - illus...

Pages d'albums. La flore des artistes. Études d'après nature. Vingt planches en couleurs.

Fraipont, G. · 1890

€550.00 ($606.21 | £458.85 | ¥96,773)

Paris, Librairie Renouard (Henri Laurens, éditeur), [ND; ca. 1890-1895]. Folio (40.0 x 30.0 cm). Title page, index; twenty finely chromolithographed plates. Half cloth portfolio. Front board with embossed title and vignette, and mounted chromolithographed illustration. = Illus...

On the fossil-fish remains of the Coal Measures of the British Islands. Part I. Pleuracanthidae. [All published].

Davis, J. W. · 1892

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, 1892. 4to (27.4 x 21.5 cm). 46 pp.; nine large, folded or double-folded lithographed plates [numbered LXV-LXXIII]. Disbound. = A finely illustrated monograph of Carboniferous fish which includes new species, written by the British mayor, ichth...

Fauna SSSR. Ribi. Tom IX, vyt. 4 Treskoobraznye [Gadiformes].

Svetovidov, A. N. · 1948

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,791)

Moskva, Akademyi NAUK. 1948. Large 8vo (25.0 x 17.0cm). 221, [ii] pp.; 39 text illustrations, 71 plates. Publisher's embossed cloth with title on front board and spine. Printed errata sheet tipped in. = An important work on the taxonomy, anatomy and distribution of the Gadi...

le Frelon. Journal d'Entomologie. Quatorzième Série. 1-12. [Complete Volume 14].

Desbrochers des Loges, J. (ed.) · 1905

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Chatauroux, Badel (for J. Desbrochers des Loges), 1905-1906. 8vo (22.0 x 14.0 cm). 195 pp. Original uniform printed wrappers. = Rare complete volume of an entomological periodical, ("The Hornet") which, despite its title, was devoted to beetles, and ran until 1909. Publisher, ...

Orthopterorum Catalogus Pars 5. Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Pseudophyllinae.

Beier, M. · 1963

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,317)

s-Gravenhage, W. Junk, 1963. 8vo (25.0 x 17.3 cm). 246 pp. Original printed wrappers. = An important work dealing with the taxonomy and nomenclature of bush crickets (katydids). Listing 241 valid species. Uncut. Spine cover irregular (publisher's mistake) . Otherwise in mint c...

Beiträge zur Orthopterenfauna Orans (West-Algerien).

Krauss, H. A. and J. Vosseler · 1896

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,437)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1896. 8vo (22.5 x 14.8 cm). 42 pp. [515-556]; one chromolithographed plate, double-sized. Contemporary grained half cloth over marbled boards. Original printed front wrapper mounted. Speckled edges. = A fine offprint, in a contemporary binding, of a work ...

le Frelon. Journal d'Entomologie. I - II.

Desbrochers des Loges, J. (ed.) · 1891

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Cahatauroux, Badel (for J. Desbrochers des Loges), 1891-1893. Two volumes in one. 8vo (22.0 x 14.0 cm). pp. [44, 124; 158, 36]. Early 20th-century red half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = Rare start of an entomological periodical, ("The H...

On the Transparency of Space. [Olbers's Paradox].

Olbers, [H. W. M.] · 1826

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1826. 8vo (22.5 x 14.4 cm). Ten pp. [numbered 141-150]. Original printed wrappers. = First English edition of Olbers's famous Paradox. The German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758-1840) wondered why the night sky was dark, as "darkness of...

Contribution a la paléontologie du Sud-Est de l'Espagne.

Nicklès, R. [T. J.] · 1890

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, Baudry et Cie., 1890. Large 4to (32.2 x 25.2 cm). 30 pp.; 34 text figures, four lithographed, tissue-guarded plates (two double-sized, folded). Later rear wrapper. = A well-illustrated, rare early publication in the series, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, b...