Search Results: Titles starting with W from Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Baarn, The Escher Foundation, 2008. Single, large, giclée on high quality paper, measuring 55.0 x 64.5 cm. This is a special highest, "Museum quality" facsimile of one of the most famous lithographs, woodcuts and drawings by the graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972): Waterfall, 1961 (Bool 439). Printed in a limited edition of only 450, individually numbered and stamped with the authentication seal of the M. C. Escher Foundation. A mint copy. Copyright 2018 The M.C.Escher Company - The Netherlands. All rights reserved.

Maastricht 1941. In two volumes. 4to (text, 29.0 x 21.1 cm) and folio portfolio (maps, 40.2 x 29.6 cm). 230 pp.; Including "Bijlagen" nos. 1-9, with numerous tables and six folded, mostly coloured maps. Original uniform printed wrappers. A seldom-seen complete copy. The appendices 1-6 were published separately, and are much larger. Appendices 7-9 are in the rear of the text volume. especially the portfolio with the fine maps is rarely seen. Text volume well-illustrated. Damp stain to the upper left corner of the portfolio and upper margin of the text volume; cancelled stamp in the top margin of the title page; label on spine, otherwise very good, clean. The beautiful maps and text pages in pristine condition.

Amsterdam, North-Holland [Elsevier Science Publishers], 1977. Thick 8vo (22.4 x 15.2 cm). xxv, 668 pp.; several photos, numerous text figures. Original blue printed cloth. A rarely seen publication including an important contribution by one of the 20th century's best-known scientists, Nobel laureate Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988). "Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions describing the behaviour of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, he was ranked the seventh-greatest physicist of all time. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Along with his work in… Read More

Nigeria 1985. 4to. 192p., numerous maps and figs. (several coloured). Orig. pictorial boards. This evaluation was deeply influenced by the pressing need to find Hydrocarbons in more difficult reservoirs....

Tokio [Tokyo], The Japan Sericultural Association, 1904. Folio (29.6 x 22.0 cm). Preliminary leaf, title page, (xiv [advertisements]), 166, 7, [ix] pp. 144 text illustrations (logos), of which 142 in colour - mostly in full colour chromolithography, a few partly printed in silver. Additional full-colour illustrations in the advertisement sections. Original multi-colour pochoir wrappers, with two silk ties. Printed erratum leaf tipped in. A very rare survey of Japanese silk producers, prepared for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In all 144 companies present themselves here, each providing a - mostly very colourful - logo, often depicting birds, as well as various other animals, flowers, geishas, warriors, etc. Included is an overview of the silk industry and its history. Between 1850 and 1930, raw silk ranked as the leading export of Japan, accounting for 20 per cent to 40 per cent of Japan’s total exports. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, Japanese silk exports quadrupled, making Japan the… Read More

Carlsruhe, Gottlieb Braun, 1825. 8vo (20.3 x 12.2 cm). xii, 320 pp., one folded chart, eight folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Edges red. Rare and important work on volcanology with detailed information on the various volcanic minerals. The folded chart contains a list of volcanos arranged according to continent with their name, height, and the name of the person who had measured this. Old stamp in the title page lower margin, and an incription on the same page top margin, otherwise a very good copy. Ward and Carozzi, 2208.

Güstrow, Opitz, 1905 (21.6 x 14.2 cm). 8vo. 46 pp.; one large triple-folded coloured map. Original printed wrappers. Interesting paper on the origin of the ice-ages. The plate shows four maps of the earth, with meteorological data. Offprint from the Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 56; not a reprint. Lacks front wrapper, small former owner's stamp in top margin of the title page, otherwise very good. Rare.

San Francisco, CA, The California Academy of Sciences, 1949. Large 8vo. 76 pp.; six plates, four text figures. Blue patterned boards. Gilt title on the spine. A major revision- well-illustrated. This is the Academy's Proceedings, volume XXVI, with several unrelated paper, including the following on Mollusca: Yen, T. C. (1948). Notes on land and freh-water mollusks of Chekiang province, China (31 pp., plate); Smith, A. G. and M. Gordon (1948). The marine mollusks and brachiopods of Monterey Bay, California, and vicinity (99 pp., two plates, 4 text figures). Both with several new species. Stamp on front pastedown and lower margin of the general title page, otherwise clean. A very good copy.

Perth, Rainbow Press, 1981. Large folio (40.0 x 29.6 cm). 36 fine full-colour, tissue-guarded plates, and text by J. Dell and Johnstone. Original half roan over felt-covered boards and including the original blank wrapper for protection. Title on the spine. Limited edition to 1000 copies of which this is no. 516 signed by the artist. The first plate of the Noisy Scrub Bird loosely inserted. The illustrations are among the best produced in the 20th century. Protective wrapper a little wrickled, but because of this extra protection a mint copy!

Washington, Mem. Nat. Acad. of Sciences, 1902. 4to. 197p., 25 tinted lithographs. Orig. wrs. Stamp and numbers on front wrapper, otherwise very good, internally clean.

Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, Government printer, 1901. Folio (33.3 x 21.1 cm). 59 pp. Without wrappers, as issued. This rarely seen report contains several appendices, including a list of town and suburban land alienated, tabulating areas and prices, and a list of expenditures. Small library stamp on title page; edges of the first and last few leavs a bit frayed and minimally chipped, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Perth, Richard Pether, Government printer, 1900. Folio (33.3 x 21.1 cm). 66 pp.; 12 photographic illustrations. Printed errata slip pasted in. Without wrappers, as issued. This rarely seen report contains several appendices, including an illustrated list of Margaret River caves with 12 photo images; a list of town and suburban land alienated, tabulating areas and prices, and a list of expenditures. Small library stamp on title page; some spotting in the margins of the first and last leaf, a bit of fraying and a few short tears in front leaf left margin, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Mitcham, 1954. XVII, 86p., 20 mounted coloured plates. Hardcover with dustjacket. A very nice copy. As new.

Richmond, VA, Pittman-Robertson Projects - Division of Game Commission Game and Inland Fisheries, 1943. 8vo (22.8 x 15.3 cm). xx, 281 pp., full colour frontispiece, 68 photographs, several maps. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette and title on the front board. A detailed, well-illustrated monograph. Seldom seen, especially outside the U.S. and in such a good condition. Old library stamp on title, othewrwise a near mint, clean copy.

A collection of original papers dedicated to Prof. B.G. Wilder at the close of his 25th year of service in Cornell University (1868-1893) by some of his former students. Ithaka, Comstock, 1893. One portrait 25 plates. Cloth. - Rare. Rare. The contributions are on geology, physiology, vertebrate zoology and neurology by J. Branner, J. Comstock, D. Jordan, G. Hopkins etc.

Philadelphia, privately printed, 1916. XI, 2 ll., 55p. H.cloth. Stafleu and Cowan, 18.453 for the original print. Rare only published in 250 copies. This copy however unnumbered. Includes also a printed article of Harshberger on Young (1917), a photocopy of William Young and his work: bibligraphical notes published in Journal of Botany, British and Foreign.

Washington, Smiths. Contr. to Knowledge, 1854. 4to. VI, 197p., 13 lithographed maps all mounted. Later blue boards.

Radebeul, 1954-1961. Four parts in four. 8vo. 904 pp.; 84 coloured plates. Uniform limp cloth with pictorial dust-jackets. A well-illustrated series. These four parts are all in the first edition, which is rarely seen. Some marginal chipping to the dust jackets, but mostly in very good condition.

München, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (R. Oldenbourg), 1928. 4to. 71 pp., three text illustrations, three plates. Original printed wrappers. Includes the description of several new species of mammals, and with notes on birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Included is a table enumerating the faunas and including molluscs and insects as well, however mostly in open nomenclature (usually genera only). Published in the academy's Abhandlungen, volume 32, hower this is a separately paginated offprint. Small old library stamp on the front wrapper, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1925. Large 4to (34.5 x 25.5 cm). 348 pp.; 46 lithographed plates. Original printed orange boards. Cloth spine with printed orange paper strip. One of the rarer parts of the Valvdivia expedition results. This work by one of the most influential German zoologists and malacologists, Emil Karl Hermann Johannes Thiele (1860-1935) contains many new species. The descriptions and illustrations on large plates are excellent. This is the second part of the Mollusca, dealing exclusively with gastropods. The first part (number VII, 1 of the series), written by Von Martens and Thiele, dealing with other molluscs, is not included here. An excellent clean copy.