Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Cephalopodes Siluriens de la Bohême. Introduction. [Dedication copy].

Barrande, J. · 1867

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

Prague, Paris, the author, 1867. 8vo (23.5 x 14.8 cm). 48 pp. Original printed wrappers. = From 1840 to his death Joachim Barrande (1799-1883) collected, described and drew the fossils of the central Bohemian Basin - this area has been called the Barrandian ever since. The str...

Représentation des colonies de Bohême dans le Bassin Silurien de nord-ouest de la France et en Espagne. [AND] Réponse aux observations de M. Saemann sur les colonies.

Barrande, J. · 1863

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Paris, Société géologique de France, 1863. Two papers in one. 8vo (22.5 x 14.0 cm). 45 pp. [31; 14]; large, multi-folded table. Original printed wrappers. = From 1840 to his death Joachim Barrande (1799-1883) collected, described and drew the fossils of the central Bohemian Ba...

Les ammonites de la Zone à Peltoceras athleta du Centre-Ouest de la France.

Gérard, C. and H. Contaut · 1936

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1936. 4to (32.7 x 25.1 cm). 79 pp.; 13 plates. Original printed wrappers. = A detailed, well-illustrated monograph on Late Jurassic ammonites written by the French palaeontologists Charles "Le Colonel" Gérard (1865 or 1866-1953) and Henri C...

Les ammonites du Crétacé Supérieur de l'Algérie.

Peron, [P. A.] · 1896

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Paris, Société Géologique de France, 1896 [REPRINT 1966]. Large 4to (32.0 x 24.8 cm). 88 pp.; 12 plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = A well-illustrated monograph with several new species, written by the French palaeontologist and malacologist Pier...

A monograph of the marine and freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and of North-Western Europe. Section I. Podocopa.

Brady, G. S. and A. M. Norman · 1889

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.28 | ¥52,785)

Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, 1889. 4to (27.3 x 22.0 cm). 208 pp.; 16 lithographed plates [numbered VIII-XXIII], with explanatory text leaves. Disbound. = A beautifully illustrated monograph by the British zoologist and professor of natural history at the Hancock Museum in...

Revision of the Jurassic cephalopod fauna of Kachh (Cutch). Part V. [Family Aspidoceratidae to family Ancyloceratidae].

Spath, L. F. · 1931

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Calcutta, Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1931. Folio (36.0 x 27.0 cm). Title pages, 108 pp. [551-658]; 22 plates [CIII-CXXIV] with explantory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = Seldom-seen part of an important monograph on fossil cephalopods of the sout...

Revision of the Jurassic Cephalopod Fauna of Kachh (Cutch). Part IV. [Family Perisphinctidae to Family Olcastephanidae].

Spath, L. F. · 1931

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Calcutta, Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1931. Folio (36.0 x 27.0 cm). Title pages, 272 pp. [279-550]; 55 plates [XLVIII-CII] with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = Part of an important monograph on fossil cephalopods of the south-eastern I...

Étude du genre Notoedres Railliet 1893 et de l'espèce Acarus bubulus Oudms 1926.

Oudemans, A. C. · 1926

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

La Haye [Den Haag], Martinus Nijhoff, 1926. 8vo (23.2 x 15.2 cm). 118 pp. [numbered 145-262]; 85 text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen, well-illustrated monograph of the acarid genus Notoedres, by the Dutch entomologist Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858...

The Mollusca of the Hangu Shales.

Cox, L. R. · 1930

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Calcutta, Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1930. Large 4to (36.1 x 26.8 cm). ii, 91 [numbered 129-221] pp.; six phototype plates [numbered XVII-XXII] with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen work by the British palaeontologist and...

Geological sections across the Himalayan Mountains, from Wangtu-bridge on the river Sutlej to Sungdo on the Indus: with an account of the formations in Spiti, accompanied by a revision of all the known fossils from that district.

Stoliczka, F. · 1865

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

Calcutta, The Government of India, 1865. Large 8vo. 154 pp.; frontispiece map and eight lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. = An important, early - perhaps first - paper on the rich faunas of the Spiti ...

On the cause of double lines and of equidistant satellites in the spectra of gases. [Introducing the electron as a particle].

Stoney, G. J. · 1891

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.71 | ¥70,380)

Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, 1891. 4to (27.3 x 21.7 cm). 46 pp. Disbound. = The introduction the term electron as the fundamental unit quantity of electricity, by the Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911). "These charges, which it will be convenient to call ...

Bird plates. Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus (Linn.).

Meyer, H. L. · 1835

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

London, the author, ca. 1835. Folio (37.2 x 27.5 cm). Well-preserved hand-painted engraving of a shy but beautiful bird and its egg. = This is a lovely hand-coloured plate from arguably the finest and most complete atlas of portraits of British avifauna ever published (see, e....

Bird plates. White-tailed eagle. Halioeetus albicilla (Sav.).

Meyer, H. L. · 1835

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.17 | ¥31,671)

London, the author, ca. 1835. Folio (37.5 x 27.6 cm). Well preserved hand-painted engraving of two specimens of a now extinct bird. = The white-tailed eagle is a very large species of sea eagle, occurring across northern Eurasia, Greenland and Japan. Dutch-born British ornitho...

Der Bau der actinoceroiden Cephalopoden.

Teichert, C. · 1933

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,595)

Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1933. Large 4to (30.0 x 22.7 cm). 124 pp.; 50 text illustrations, eight plates with explanatory text leaves. Printed front wrapper. = A seldom-seen, detailed study by the German-American palaeontologist and malacologist Curt Teichert (1905-1996). P...

Cuticular study of Indian Ptilophyllum fronds from Cutch and Jubbulpore.

Jacob, K. and C. Jacob · 1954

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,114)

India, The Geological Survey of India, 1954. Large 4to (34.2 x 25.0 cm). 35 pp.; 76 text figures, ten plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = A very uncommon work published in the Survey's Memoirs, or Palaeontologia Indica. Wrappers a bit frayed; abra...

The slugs of Ireland.

Scharff, R. F. · 1891

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, 1891. 4to (27.3 x 21.7 cm). [1], 46 pp.; two lithographed plates (one in chromolithography). Disbound. = A rare paper with fine illustrations, detailed descriptions and notes on distribution and habitats of the terrestrial nudibranchs of Irela...

La fauna coralligena del Cretaceo dei Monti d'Ocre nell'Abruzzo aquilano.

Parona, C. F. · 1909

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.86 | ¥35,190)

Roma, G. Civelli, 1909. Folio (34.3 x 25.0 cm). 242 pp.; 28 phototype plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen work on Cretaceous fossils from Italy, written by the Italian geologist, palaeontologist and invertebrate zoologist Carlo Fabri...

The Fossil Bovidae of India.

Pilgrim, G. E. · 1939

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.42 | ¥79,178)

Calcutta [Kolkata], The Geological Survey of India, 1939. Large 4to (36.1 x 27.0 cm). 356 pp.; seven plates, one folded diagram. Near contemporary half calf over linen boards. Front board with paper label; red endpapers, bluish blanks. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A s...

Mission zoologique Belge aux îles Galapagos et en Equador. Deuxième partie.

Leleup, N. and J. Leleup (eds.) · 1970

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Bruxelles, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika and Institut Royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique, 1970. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). 237 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Seldom-seen results of an expedition to the famous Galapagos archipelago. Includes eleven papers (of 15) on,...

Encyclopédie méthodique. Nouvelle édition enrichie de remarques dédiée à la sérénissime République de Venise. Mathématiques. Tome premier, tome second, Amusemens des sciences mathématiques et physiques [= tome troisième]. [Complete text].

d'Alembert, J. le Rond, et al. · 1787

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Padoue, [no publisher indicated], 1787-1793. Three volumes in three. Large 4to (28.3 x 21.3 cm). Four title pages with large, engraved, allegorical vignette, 2,635 pp. [I(1787): lxxvi, 728; II(1789): 979; III (1793): viii, 852 (recte 844)]; two large, folded tables. Original u...