Search Results: Authors starting with D from Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1910. Large 8vo (28.0 x 18.6 cm). xiv, 313 pp.; 86 text figures. Blind front wrapper. A seldom-seen paper on Argentine birds. With an introduction, followed by two parts, viz., Parte I. Caracteres morfólogicos que tienen valor en la classificación de las aves (illustrated), followed by Parte II. Distribúcion geográfia de las aves en el territorio Argentino, including a Lista general de los órdenes, familias, géneros, especies y subespecies de aves señalades entre los límites del territorio Argentino y su distribución aproximada sobre el mismo. The latter being a table encompassing a large list of localities, followed by a bibliography and an index of names. Includes the Falkland Islands, as Islas Malvines. The author, Roberto Raul Dabbene (1864-1938) was an Italian-Argentine ornithologist. "Born in Turin, he studied at the University of Turin and received a doctorate in 1884 from the… Read More

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1912. Large 4to (31.1 x 23.6 cm). Title page, 65 pp., 19 text figures, two plates with explanatory text leaves, four maps. Original printed wrappers. A detailed, welll-illustrated study. This is the rare offprint - not an excerpt - from the Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen, volume 14 (Neue Folge vol. 10), part 4, with double pagination. Uncut. Some very light, marginal spotting, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Very rare in this very good state.

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1968. 4to (24.5 x 18.1 cm). iv, 79 pp. Original printed wrappers. Covers the year 1966, but includes some earlier publications not previously recorded. Without any library marking. A very good, clean copy.

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1841. Thick 4to (20.5 x 26.1 cm). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco labels with gilt title. First edition of several important papers following the first public announcement of the basic process of photography by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851). The pronouncements on Daguerre's invention were made in 1839 by the French physicist and astronomer Dominique François Jean Arago (1786-1851) and mark the beginning of the triumphant process of photography. The first communication by Arago in this volume deals with the announcement by Daguerre that he had been able to produce good images with a shutter speed of just 1 to 2 seconds, whereas in 1839 the exposure time was counted in minutes. We offer the complete volume 12, which, as indicated in the index, contains no less than twenty papers on photography. Library stamp on the half title and title page,… Read More

Montpellier 1927. 416p., 35 plates, 2 folded geological profiles. H.cloth. Library stamp on title and cover, but dedicated by the author to Despijols and all plates blindstmped in the upper corner.

Andhra Pradesh, Icrisat, 1980. Folio. 183p. Boards.

Halle, Nova Acta, 1908. 4to. 504p., 1 coloured folded map, several tabs. and figs. H.cloth. A large monograph on Lycosideae of western and middle Germany and a part of eastern Europe. Incl. 2 other contributions. In a mint condition. A complete copy of the Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae naturae curiosorum vol. 88.

Paris, Annales du Centre d'Etudes et Doc. Pal., 1955. 2 ll., 142p., 4 original mounted photographs, 16 partly folded tabs and maps. Orig. wrs. (repaired) - Thesis. Rather rare palaeontological monograph with original photographs mounted and being a stenciled thesis incl. some pencilnotes.

Lisboa, Imprensa National, 1898. 8vo. xvi, 290 pp., Original printed wrappers. A local Indian flora on the (former) Portuguese colony of Goa. Originally published in 1,000 copies. Partly uncut. Front wrapper with some marginal parts missing, some rather crude repairs and spine taped. Interior in very good condition.

Philadelphia, PA, Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1895. 4to (28.2 x 19.2 cm). [ii], pp. 483-570. Original printed wrappers. The third volume (of six) of the most important monograph on the Tertiary malacofauna of Florida. This part deals only with the bivalves, and in particular their systematics. Therefore, the scope of this part is much wider than that of the other parts. All parts are uncommon, except part V, which is rare. Uncut. Rear wrapper detached 9the wrapperes in this series are quite fragile), otherwise a very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH) 1, p. 415.

Cambridge, MA, The Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1880-1889. Eight parts in two. 8vo. First bound volume: 464 pp. [9;18;11;112;241;27;46]; 25 engraved plates [0;8;3;0;9;3;2]. Second volume: 492 pp., 40 engraved plates; all with explanatory text leaves. Later uniform blue buckram. Spines with gilt title. Several original, printed wrappers bound in. The complete Mollusca section (and the brachiopods) of the most important zoological dredging operation in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, an area of depths over 25 fathoms previously only incidentally investigated (e.g. a few stations by the Challenger expedition; and earlier by a few others, as recorded by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1847). Massive numbers of often spectacular new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. These papers of the Museum's Bulletin series contained a sizable part of Dall's new molluscan taxa. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the first front free… Read More

Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1873. 8vo (24.5 x 15.5 cm)., 28 pp. Original printed wrappers. With notes on distribution, synonymy, etc. Uncut. Contained in the Academy's Proceedings. A very good, clean copy. Rare.

Cambridge, MA, The Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1908. 8vo (23.0 x 14.6 cm). 283 pp., 22 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves, including three large, folded, maps (one colour-printed). Later green buckram. Spine with gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in. The complete bivalve, gastropod and scaphopod section (and the brachiopods) of one of the most important zoological dredging operations along the tropical coasts of the Gulf of California, Central and South America. Massive numbers of, often spectacular, new molluscs and other marine invertebrates were collected. Nearly all species are new. A very good, clean copy. From the library of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020), however, without his stamp. A surprisingly rare publication.

Melbourne, C.S.I.R.O, 1957. Large 8vo. 94 pp. 30 (groups of) text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. A major revision of this group of shrimps or "prawn", with the inclusion of new species and keys to the species. Published in Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Studies. In the original issue with its wrappers, and with a few small, unrelated papers. Private owner's stamp on front wrapper, otherwise a good clean copy.

Berlin, W. Junk, 1911. 8vo (25.6 x 18.0 cm). 18 pp. Original printed wrappers. Separately published part of the famous Coleopterorum Catalogus edited by S. Schenkling. Uncut. In mint condition.

Berlin, W. Junk, 1930. 8vo (26/0 x 18.3 cm). 84 pp. Original printed wrappers. Separately published part of the famous Coleopterorum Catalogus edited by S. Schenkling. Uncut. Slight fraying to the edges, otherwise in near mint condition.

's-Gravenhage, Dr. W. Junk, 1937. 8vo (25.8 x 18.1 cm).56 pp. Printed softcover with pictorial vignette. Part of the long-running series started by editor S. Schenkling and publisher Wilhelm Junk. Indispensable to anyone dealing with the cosmopolitan true weevils or snout beetles. Second author's nameis spelled Voß on the tritle page. Uncut. Outrer margins slightly toned; otherwise a near mint copy.

Berlin, W. Junk, 1931. 8vo (25.8 x 18.2 cm). 44 pp. Original printed wrappers. Separately published part of the famous Coleopterorum Catalogus edited by S. Schenkling. Uncut. Very slight fraying and browning to the edges, otherwise in near mint condition.

Lepidopterorum Catalogus Pars 15. 28pp. 1913. New wrappers.

's-Gravenhage, Dr. W. Junk, 1937. 8vo (26.0 x 18.1 cm). 64 pp. [numbered 133-196]. Printed softcover with pictorial vignette. Part of the long-running series started by editor S. Schenkling and publisher Wilhelm Junk. Indispensable to anyone dealing with the cosmopolitan true weevils or snout beetles. Uncut. A near mint copy.