Search Results: Titles starting with D from Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Copenhagen 1967. 325p., 5 ll. of bibliography, 20 coloured plates, numerous figs and maps. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. This new magnum opus gives the collected account for the first time of the pioneering achievements made by Danish science in the Exploration of the mysteries of the sea depths and 200 years of Danish Marine Exploration.

Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1907. Two parts in two. Large 4to (33.5 x 26.5 cm). 399 pp.; 39 text illustrations, 40 plates (three in full colour), map. [I (1903): 195, [ii] pp.; 12 text illustrations, 21 lithographed plates of which three in superb chromolithography, one full colour map; II (1907): 200, [ii] pp.; 27 text illustrations, 19 lithographed or photype plates with explanatory text leaves]. Original, uniform printed wrappers. An excellent, rarely seen, monograph on deep sea echinoids of the North Atlantic, including many new species. Written by the Danish echinoderm specialist Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen (1868-1952). HDMS Ingolf was a Danish schooner-rigged steam gunboat. [It] undertook a large number of voyages, often in the North Atlantic (Faroes, Iceland and Greenland) in summer and the Danish West Indies in winter. Ingolf was used for two oceanographic expeditions during the summer months of 1895 and 1896, collectively known as the Ingolf Expedition. The cruises were financed by the Danish… Read More

Copenhagen, Acta Hist. Scient. Nat. et Medicinalium, 1986. 475p. Wrs. A large zoological bibliography published in Denmark with almost 250 different sections.

8vo., pp 401-480. Wien, Gerold 1885 (Section from: Sitz.Ber.d.Kaiserl. Akad.d.Wiss., phil.-hist.Cl., Bd.109, Heft 1). In contemporary marbled wrappers.

Mannheim, F. Bassermann, 1843. 8vo (22.4 x 13.6 cm). Dedication page, 72 pp., one large multi-folded and partly coloured map, one coloured profile. Original printed wrappers. A seldom-seen, detailed and well-illustrated study by the German geologist Friedrich August Walchner (1799-1865), published in a time when "spas" started to become of economical importance. Wrappers a bit chipped and soiled, otherwise a very good copy. Poggendorff II, 1244.

bei Gelegenheit der 50-jährigen Jubiläumsfeier with Anhang. Wien, K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, (1857). X, 337p., 1 tinted folded lithographed map of agricultural "Nieder-Oesterreich", 12 fine lithographed portraits of which one of the famous Austrian Botanist Jacquin, 7 folded tabs. Orig. wrs. - uncut. A good copy, only a bit spotted on titlepage.

Leipzig, Johann Benjamin Georg Fleischer, 1799. 8vo (19.6 x 12.0 cm). xx, 172 pp.; four large, folded, engraved plates. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine with morocco label with gilt ornamental lines and title. Edges pale yellow. An important work on cartography, geomorphology and trigonometry, with the chief objective of introducing a standard method of visualising optical relief in geographical and geological maps. The author is the German geologist Johann Georg[e] Lehmann (1776-1811). He is neither mentioned on the title page, nor in the preface, but he did sign the last two plates (with his middle name ending in an e). “From 1789 he attended the War School in Dresden. During mapping courses he developed what was to be named Lehmann's hatching: The steeper the terrain, the darker the hachures are shown. This invention, which he published in this work, became the dominant method of relief representation of the topographic maps of the 19th century. Lehmann's goal was to reproduce the… Read More

London, The British Museum (Natural History), 1963. Large 8vo (24.5 x 18.8 cm). 76 pp. Original printed wrappers. Includes his comments on Galapagos birds and on the interaction between birds and men. Published in the Museum's Historical Series. A seldom-seen mint ("as new") copy.

London, The British Museum (Natural History), 1959. Large 8vo. 21 pp. Original printed wrappers. Published in the Museum's Historical Series. A mint ("as new") copy.

und der Ursprung der Arten durch Abänderung, nebst einer Beschreibung der Eiszeit in Europa und Amerika. Nach dem Englischen mit einigen Bemerkungen und Zusätzen by L. Büchner from the 3rd edition. Leipzig, Thomas, 1864. 472p., IXp., 1 woodengraved frontisp., 57 figs. H.cloth. Important first German translation on the "geological evidence of the Antiquity of man" published in 1863. Charles Lyell (1797-1875) insisted that "the past must be interpreted by terms of the forces now in progress". See Dibner, Heralds of Science, 96.

Wien, F. Tempsky, 1888-1909. Three parts in four. Large 8vo (27.0 x 18.6 cm). 2,954 pp.; 22 plates including several coloured maps, some large, folded; 168 text engravings. Contemporary uniform burgundy half cloth over marbled board. Gilt title on the spines. First comprehensive work on the structure of the Earth. Written by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914). The second edition (first two parts) and first edition (third part), a logical combination, seen more often. Published in three parts, with the third part in two volumes of which the second with the Namens- und Sachregister für sämtliche Bände by Lukas Waagen. Full collation is as follows: I (zweite unveränderte Auflage, 1892) iv, 779 pp. 48 text figures, six plates (I-VI: two views, three full colour maps), three folded full colour maps in rear pocket; II (zweite unveränderte Auflage, 1888), iv, 704 pp., 42 text figures, three plates (VII-IX: one a graph, the other a full colour map of mount Vesuvius);… Read More

Festschrift Univ. Graz. Graz 1911. 262 p., Orig.wrs (spine broken and partly lost). - 2 library stamps on tp.

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1881. 8vo (22.0 x 14.3 cm). vi, 212 pp.; several woodcuts. Original printed wrappers. A nice copy of a critical study on Darwin's work on the climbing of plants, by the Austrian botanist Julius Ritter von Wiesner (1838-1916). Publication of this work was followed by an exchange of letters and ideas between Darwin and Wiesner (see Darwin Correspondence Project online). Uncut. Inscribed on the front wrapper by J. P. MacMorland. Inserted: an invoice, dated 1 March 1929, by the Leipziger antiquarian K. F. Koehler, to the Dutch professor of Botany, C. E. B. Bremekamp (then working at the Transvaal University College, Pretoria), listing this copy and several others - including one work by Charles Darwin - from Koehler's catalogue 51. Small chip to spine foot, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1881. 8vo (22.0 x 14.3 cm). vi, 212 pp.; several woodcuts. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. Yellow endpapers; marbled edges. A fine copy of a critical study on Darwin's work on the climbing of plants, by the Austrian botanist Julius Ritter von Wiesner (1838-1916). Publication of this work was followed by an exchange of letters and ideas between Darwin and Wiesner (see Darwin Correspondence Project online). This work by Wiesner is uncommon, but a copy in this near mint state is definitely quite rare.

Jena, Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gesellschaft zu Jena, 1905. Folio (36.0 x 27.5 cm). Title page, dedication leaf, 128 pp. [numbered 513-640]; 36 text illustrations. Original orange wrappers. An apparently very rare work on the anatomy and ontogeny of an Australian fish. This is a complete part, published in two issues of the society's Denkschriften, vol. 4(51), published as part of Semon's zoologische Forschungsreise. The plate was published separately, and was issued with the unrelated plate 43 (here included). Also included: Gregory, E. H. Die Entwickelung der Kopfhöhlen und des Mesoderms bei Ceratodes forsteri (title page, 18 pp. [numbered 643-660], 23 text figures). Both parts uncut. Binding of text part broken, with the first and last few gatherings detached. Otherwise very good, clean, unmarked copy.

Budapest, Königliche Ungarische Geologische Anstalt, 1890. 8vo (). 132 pp.; four large, folded, coloured maps. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. A rarely- seen,well-illustrated and detailed study, in particular dealing with the surroundings of Alexandria and Rosetta. Published in the Anstalt's Mittheilungen, Band VIII, but this is the offprint, with double pagination. The author, Janos "Johann" Jankó (1868-1902) was a Hungarian ethnographer, historian and geographer. Spine abraded; front free endpaper a bit chipped; otherwise very good. Clean, unmarked.

Berlin, R. & B. Schultz, [N.D., probably 1930]. Large 4to (27.7 x 22.8 cm). Text and 94 photos. 40 pp. English translation in rear pocket. Original printed cloth. The best German photography of these years. Includes photos of animals, landscapes, portraits, nudes, etc., as well as X-ray photography and macro-photography. Inscribed by former owner on the front free endpaper (dated 1931). Tiny bump to top outer corners. A very good copy.

München, Zeitschrift des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins, 1926. 13p., 6 figs. Orig. wrs. Signed by the author and erased library stamp.

Grundlinien einer Geologie des Quartärs vol. 3: Afrika, Asien, Australien und Amerika im Eiszeitalter. 2nd ed. Stuttgart 1965. 335p., 97 figs, 18 tabs. Cloth with dustjacket.

Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1840. 4to. viii, 261 pp.; five engraved plates. Contemporary pebbled half calf over pebbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Brown endpapers. Marbled edges. A rare, early work on embryology by the German anatomist and embryologist Karl Bogislaus Reichert (1811-1883). DSB: "Reichert made a very important contribution to the knowledge of transformations of early structure during the embryo's development and the understanding from a comparative point of view of the development of an individual organism." The plates do depict the microscopical development of embryo's of frogs and chickens. Former owner's inscription, dated 1864, on the front free endpaper recto. Boards rubbed at edges, spine partly chipped; some light foxing througout, damp staining to upper gutter and top margin, progressively stronger on the last few plates. We found no auction records of this work. DSB 11, p. 360; Nissen ZBI, 3352.