Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 35, Article 1.Washigton, Smithosonian Institution, 1907, Large 4to. 79 pp., 10 plates. No wrappers. Spine cover perished. Text and plates clean.

Beijing, Science Press, 1986. 4to (26.0 x 18.6 cm). 282 pp.; 96 plates. Black quarter cloth over printed boards. Spine with gilt title. An important monograph, based on well-preserved faunas, with many new taxa: four new genera, and 27 new species. Published as Paleontologia Sinica (series B)172(22). In Chinese, with a 30 pp. English summary, including biostratigraphy, comparison with other, world wide, faunas, and descriptions of the new taxa. Stamp and handwritten numbers on front board; otherwise an excellent, clean copy. Very uncommon.

Toronto, Adam, Stevensen, 1873. 8vo (18.1 x 12.0 cm). 281 pp., engraved frontispiece, tissue-guarded portrait of the author, nine engraved plates including one of a skeleton in a coffin captioned: "Et ego in arctis", several wood engravings in the text. Original decorated cloth with bevelled edges and gilt title on the spine, and gilt title and large vignette on the front board. Toronto edition with a preface to the Canadian edition. Signed and dedicated by the author to a "Miss Caldwell" and dated "11 June 1875". The author Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), "is now best known as one of the most successful diplomats of his time... He was chairman of a mining firm that went bankrupt after swindling people, although he was ignorant of the matter. His biographer Davenport-Hines says he was 'imaginative, sympathetic, warm-hearted, and gloriously versatile.' He was an effective leader in Lebanon, Canada and… Read More

London, the author, 1851 [REPRINT Mergus, Germany]. (64.1 x 49.5 cm). Full colour facsimile. A stunning, gigantic plate by the famous bird painter and ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881), depicting a bird from tropical Africa, the yellow-billed turaco. It occurs in coastal regions from Sierra Leone to the northernmost tip of Angola. Its current scientific name is Tauraco macrorhynchus. This excellent reproduction is faithful to the original in every detail. An excellent, clean copy.