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.

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

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.

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.

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

Honolulu, HI, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1938. Large 8vo (25.2 x 17.0 cm). 233 pp.; 58 plates, a few text figures. Blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. = Includes descriptions and illustrations of new species and therefore still very useful. This is the Museum's Bulletin 153. Decently bound copies, such as this one, are very uncommon. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front wrapper. Spine a bit sunned, otherwise very good, clean and hardly used.

'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.

Berlin, W. Junk, 1911. 8vo (26.0 x 18.6 cm). 96 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.

Berlin, W. Junk, 1930. 8vo (25.9 x 18.1 cm). 150 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Separately published part of the famous Coleopterorum Catalogus edited by S. Schenkling. Uncut. Very slight fraying to the edges, otherwise in near mint condition.

Berlin, W. Junk, 1911. 8vo (26.2 x 18.4 cm). 8 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Separately published part of the famous Coleopterorum Catalogus edited by S. Schenkling. Uncut. In (near) mint condition.

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.

'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.

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.

Paris, Masson. Thick 8vo. 888 pp.; three plates with portraits of the most important Algerian geologists from 1811 to 1928, five folded coloured geological maps and including a large index of 94 titles. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. = Published under the series title Collection du Centenaire de l'Algérie 1830-1930. études scientifiques et mise en valeur. Dampstain to the lower margin of the first few leaves, including the three plates with portraits, further only visible at the bookblock edges. Another, clean set of these plates loosely inserted, and otherwise a very good, unmarked copy.

Bruxelles, Charles Bulens, 1909. Large 4to (35.6 x 27.0 cm). 109 pp.; 16 text figures in red and black, eight tables. Original printed wrappers. = Important, mainly statistical, work on the plankton (mainly diatoms, crustaceans, etc.) of the Arctic Seas and recent changes in their population and resulting in weather changes in Europe. Published as part of the "Crosière océanographique accomplie a bord de la Belgica dans la Mer du Grönland 1905" (Duc d'Orléans). Signed by the first author on half title. Label on spine foot, vague stamps on front wrapper. Wrappers much frayed and chipped at edges, otherwise a good, uncut copy. Rare.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1888. 4to. 49 pp., two text engravings, seven fine lithographed plates, lose in pocket. Publisher's (?) blind boards with later stamp. = Important contribution to the knowledge of fossil fish with a new genus and new species. Written by the German palaeontologist Wilhelm Bernim Dames (1843-1898). Uncut. Offprint, with its own pagination, from the Palaeontologische Abhandlungen herausgegeben von W. Dames und E. Kayser, Band IV(2). A very good clean copy. Dean I, p. 294.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1888. 4to. 49 pp., two text engravings, seven fine lithographed plates. Not bound. = Important contribution to the knowledge of fossil fish with a new genus and new species. Uncut. Offprint, with its own pagination, from the Palaeontologische Abhandlungen herausgegeben von W. Dames und E. Kayser, Band IV(2). A good clean copy.