Search Results: Titles starting with S from Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1859-1862. Three parts in three. 4to (29.6 x 22.5 cm). 207 pp.; five fine, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. Includes the rare supplement, and treats 266 species of Mexican Diptera of which no less than 176 species are new. Luigi Bellardi (1818-1889) was an Italian malacologist, palaeontologist and entomologist. Flies and allies had his special attention. Uncut, text unopened. Rare. Cat. BM(NH) p. 130; Horn-Schenkling, 1083.

Sendai, The General Department of Scientific research Saito Ho-On Kai, 1927-1931. Two volumes in two. 4to (25.3 x 18.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations. Uniform blue grained half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles. A set of two volumes of works by scientists associated with the Saito Gratitude Foundation. The first volume contains five consecutively numbered monographs in the field of insect-plant interaction and, in particular, plant diseases caused by insects. The first - well-illustrated - is by Kota Monzen and titled Studies on some gall producing aphides and their galls. It includes a well-illustrated paper on fruit trees destroyed by fungi, viz. Studies on the pathology of peach canker, by K. Togashi. The second volume is a compilation of four studies published elsewhere by staff members, including one on aphids by O. Shinji (1927) with 163 pages and 19 plates; one on Palaeozoic plants and one on a Post-Pleistocene bison. All papers are of scientific importance, but rarely… Read More

Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, 1975-1997. In 63 issues. 8vo (24.0 x 17.0 cm). 613 [284; 329] pp. Numerous illustrations (many in full colour). Original, uniform printed wrappers. A long run of 23 yearly volumes of the leading German herpetological journal. With many contributions, mainly taxonomical, zoogeographical and ecological studies. Well-illustrated, including full colour illustrations. Each volume consists of four issues, but they are often combined into two. The following are not included: 18(3-4), 19(1-3), 21(4), 25(1), 27(3), 31(2-3), and 33(4). Present are the title, contents and index for Volume 13, 15, 19, 22 and 23 - all issued separately, without wrappers. A very good set.

Vratislaviae, Ferdinand Hirt, 1866. 8vo (22.1 x 14.2 cm). xcii, 288 pp. Early 20th-century half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with handwritten title on paper label. A seldom-seen monograph of the European Salix (willow) species. Written by the Austrian botanist Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803-1868). Binding rather shaky, some, scattered foxing, but otherwise very good, complete. Stafleu and Cowan, 17922.

1940. 108 pp. Original wrappers.

A study of the geography, the geology, the floristics and the ecology of a desert basin. Washington, Carnegie Inst. Publ., 1914. 4to, 195p., 32 plates and maps. Cloth (worn and top part of spine lost). Interesting book on the natural history of a desert lake. Ex library copy.

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1881-1923. Ten volumes in eight. 8vo (24.0 x 16.5 cm). Uniform half morocco over pebbled boards. Spines with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt lines and title (volumes I-IX), near matching binding, without raised bands for volume 10 (last). The series was started by the German-Dutch geologist, palaeontologist and director of the Geological Museum of Leiden, Johann Karl Ludwig Martin (1851-1942) and the German geologist and mineralogist Carl Ernst Arthur Wichmann (1851-1927), and continued by the Dutch geologist Berend George "Beer" Escher (1885-1967), brother of the famous illustrator, M. C. Escher. "[Wichmann] became professor at Utrecht University. Geological research was never done at Utrecht before, and Wichmann committed himself to the task of starting a geological institute. Apart from setting up research and education Wichmann had to start a geological collection, for which reason he participated in expeditions to Dutch colonies, in… Read More

Nürnberg, Adam Ludwig Wirsing, [1770-]1772. Tall folio (43.0 x 26.5 cm). Engraved and contemporarily coloured plate, numbered and captioned. A fine plate from possible the first but certainly one of the most beautiful hand-coloured nidological works ever, and almost never found complete - even individual plates, such as this one, are rare. This plate, number six, deals with the Sperber, or eurasian sparrowhawk. The first author, Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1734-1798) was a versatile German engraver with a keen interest in natural history. The German medical doctor and naturalist (principally ornithologist) Friedrich Christian Günther (1726-1774) was responsible for the descriptive text. Uncut. With the widest possible margins. The colouring bright and accurate. Left edge a bit irregular due to former binding, otherwise fine. Anker, 537; Nissen IVB, 1002; Sitwell, Fine bird books, 157; Not in Zimmer.

Nürnberg, Adam Ludwig Wirsing, [1770-]1772. Tall folio (43.0 x 26.5 cm). Engraved and contemporarily coloured plate, numbered and captioned. A fine plate from possible the first but certainly one of the most beautiful hand-coloured nidological works ever, and almost never found complete - even individual plates, such as this one, are rare. This plate, number eight, deals with the Auerhuhn, or western capercaillie, also known as wood grouse. The first author, Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1734-1798) was a versatile German engraver with a keen interest in natural history. The German medical doctor and naturalist (principally ornithologist) Friedrich Christian Günther (1726-1774) was responsible for the descriptive text. Uncut. With the widest possible margins. The colouring bright and accurate. Left edge a bit irregular due to former binding, otherwise fine. Anker, 537; Nissen IVB, 1002; Sitwell, Fine bird books, 157; Not in Zimmer.

Nürnberg, Adam Ludwig Wirsing, [1770-]1772. Tall folio (43.0 x 26.5 cm). Engraved and contemporarily coloured plate, numbered and captioned. A fine plate from possibly the first but certainly one of the most beautiful hand-coloured nidological works ever, and almost never found complete - even individual plates, such as this one, are rare. This plate, number 50, deals with the Mäasse-Geÿer, or the common buzzard, a bird of prey. The image is exceptionally large. The first author, Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1734-1798) was a versatile German engraver with a keen interest in natural history. The German medical doctor and naturalist (principally ornithologist) Friedrich Christian Günther (1726-1774) was responsible for the descriptive text. Uncut. With the widest possible margins. The colouring bright and accurate. Left edge a bit irregular due to former binding; tiny ink spots at the top margin, otherwise fine. Anker, 537; Nissen IVB, 1002; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, 157; Not in Zimmer.

Zürich, J. Wurster & Comp., 1853. Tall 8vo (24.5 x 12.1 cm). xvi, 400 pp., one large, double-folded map of Sitzerland in two colours. Slightly later grained half cloth over marbled boards. Contains a massive list of localities in Switzerland with their actual height above sea level in meters and in feet. It includes neigbouring parts in, for instance, France and Germany, and covers in fact almost the complete Alps and Jura mountains. The introduction and general part is bilingual, German and French, the data in the tables are in German only. Label on spine foot, wo small stamps on the front free endpaper, as well as the name of a former owner; a few, isolated spots, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

with notes on other water molds. Chapel Hill 1923. large 4to. 201p., 63 plates. Publisher's dark blue buckram with gilt title on spine and front board. Stafleu and Cowan, 1162. Ex libris pasted in on front, lavel on spine foot, otherwise very good. The original edition, not the inferior reprint.

Liége, published by the editor, 1860. 8vo-sized (23.7 x 15.5 cm). A fine illustration of the round-leaved Sarcanthus, drawn and engraved in stone by the famous botanical engraver Georges Severeijns, or Severeyns, after a drawing by his brother Louis. With the original descriptive text added. Depicted together with an amaryllis, A. (Lycoris) radiata L'Herit. Slight age-toning, tiny perforation on right side, otherwise very good, clean. Nissen BBI, 2218.

London, L. Reeve, 1889. 8vo-sized (25.8 x 16.3 cm). Hand-coloured lithographed plate. Printed on one side. A finely illustrated plate from William Curtis's famous "Botanical Magazine". The plate is numbered 7044 and shows the Burmese yellow orchid, Sarcochilus luniferus [now Chiloschista lunifera]. The illustration was drawn by Matilda Smith, engraved by E. Bates and printed by Vincent Brooks Day and Son. It was published in the Botanical Magazine volume 115 [3rd Series no. 45]. Top edge frayed and soiled, plate very lightly toned, a few creases in the lower margin and right lower corner, otherwise a very good copy.

Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics. 192p. Cloth with dustjacket. Small library stamp on dustjacket and titlepage. Otherwise as new.

[Paris], 1926. Four proof plates (ca. 43.0 x 33.0 cm; printed surfaces ca. 27.0 x 24.0 cm) showing the Parisian and Berlin beau monde at its most decadent. Swift and lively scenes of Paris, around 1925 - and one situated in Berlin - with people behaving ‘vulgarly’ and breaking the rules: old, rich fat men openly eyeing a virgin and tossing change around; ladies wrestling before an utterly bored night club audience; a ‘hot’ jazz club with young women dancing intimately with exotic strangers; and - perhaps more innocent - a nudist camp near Berlin; all drawn in lively style by Chas Laborde (1886-1941), who was in the thick of it. Chas was the anglicized pseudonym of the French writer, journalist, engraver, painter and illustrator Charles Laborde who was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and died in Paris during WWII. He was a student of William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian and Luc-Olivier Merson and at the École beaux-arts in Paris. He is particularly known for his… Read More

Wien, Annalen Naturh. Mus. 1894-1961. About 1000 p., incl several plates. - Lacks 4 nos. (= 36,40-42)

Amsterdam, Ipenbuur and Van Seldam, 1859. VIII, 112p. Orig. boards with some restaurations. Interesting thesis on the chemistry of sugars in Dutch. We added a French title by Jatba, Travaux d'Ethnologie (1988) on: Le Sucre et le Sel. 331p., 4 coloured plates and figs. Orig. wrs.

Amsterdam, J. C. van Kesteren, 1838. 8vo (22.0 x 12.4 cm). xxiv, 250, [viii] pp. Later half cloth over marbled boards; Spine with gilt title. Josef Jacob Xaver Pfijffer von Neueck (1796 or 1798-1853) was a Swiss officer who was sent by the Dutch East Asia Company (V.O.C.) to what is now Indonesia and wrote and illustrated the famous: Skizzen von der Insel Java (1829). His date of birth is uncertain. one source reports 1802, others give the dates mentioned above. According to Nijhoff, there is French edition too. Half-title and title page chipped at edges; title page with a label and stamp remnant; a few text leaves with a stamp in the lower margin; a marginal damp throughout; otherwise good. The 20th-century binding is neatly done. Rare. No other copies on the internet, no auction records. Marinus Nijhoff, Bibliotheca Neerlando-Indica, 778; Martinus Nijhoff (1893) Catalogue de Livres sur les Possessions Néerlandaises aux Indes Orientales et Occidentales, 851.

Frankfurt am Main, Moritz Diesterweg, 1900. Large 4to (29.8 x 23.1 cm). Title page, 135 pp., 44, mostly tinted, lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. A rare and important work by the German banker, palaeontologist and herpetologist (testudinologist or cheloniologist) Albert [Baron] von Reinach (1842-1905), an important patron of the Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft. "Durch großzügige Schenkungen ermöglichte er den Neubau des Senckenberg Naturmuseums. Er war der Stifter des Reinach-Preises der Senckenberg Gesellschaft, der seit 1893 alle zwei Jahre abwechselnd für Arbeiten auf den Gebieten der Geologie, Paläontologie und Mineralogie der weiteren Umgebung Frankfurts vergeben wurde" (Wikipedia). This monograph deals with usually well-preserved Miocene turtles from Germany. This is the Gesellschaft's complete Abhandlungen, volume 28. Uncut. Wrappers a bit soiled, minimally chipped and frayed at edges. Internally nice and clean; a very good,… Read More