Search Results: Titles starting with O from Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Paris, Journal de Physique, 1809. 4to (26.5 x 21.0 cm). 25 pp.; one folded engraved plate. Original printed wrappers. = Written by the Polish geologist Stanislaw [Stanislas] Dunin Borkowski (1782-1850). According to the author, "Parmi les grands conceptions dont l'esprit humain s'honore, la Géognosie tient le premier rang". Borkowski continued with explaining the different types of rock and their formation according to Werner's neptunism. This may well be the first French work explaining Werner's theory. The author's name is misprinted as "Stanislas Dublin Borkowski", and this has been emended in an old hand. Offprint. With broad margin and untrimmed. Signed and dedicated, on the front wrapper, by the author to Baron de Moll; i.e., the Austrian naturalist and statesman Karl Maria E(h)renbert Freiherr von Moll (1760-1838). "From 1790 to 1804 he served as chancellor of the exchequer for Salzburg, afterwards residing in Munich and Augsburg, where he… Read More

Paris, Rozier, [("1775") 1777]. Large 4to (27.6 x 21.3 cm). 9 pp. Not bound. = Interesting early paper on hermaphroditism, in this peculiar case in a deer, by the French naturalist Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare (1731-1807). Offprint, with new pagination, from the Journal de Physique. Uncut. Edges, therefore, uneven; a few small spots; otherwise a very good, clean and unmarked copy.

Pretoria, Transvaal Museum, 1960. 8vo (25.0 x 16.1 cm). 6 pp., two plates, 6 text figures. Original printed wrappers. = An important study on the origin and environmental restrictions of this enigmatic snake locomotion. The wrappers from the Museum's Annals. A good, clean copy.

London, The Royal Society, 1802. Large 4to (29.1 x 22.8 cm). pp. 213-232. Disbound. = An original astronomical contribution, taken from the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1802 (not from the later, abridged edition). In this work, Herschel discusses two moons discovered by the Italian astronomer Piazzi, orbiting Uranus (here still referred to as the Georgian Planet). Uncut. Edges a bit soiled. A few pages with a damp stain in top margin, not affecting text. A good copy.

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1834. 4to (27.0 x 20.1 cm). 50 pp., one folding splendidly hand-coloured engraved plate. Later marbled boards. Printed label pasted on the front board. = The fine plate, also by Turpin, shows a "Byssus parietina en fructification", that is, the whole fungus as it grows on old wood. Published in the academy's Mémoires, volume 14. A very good, clean copy.

London, The Royal Society, 1851. Two papers in one. 4to (28.3 x 22.0 cm). 38 pp.; five lithographed plates. Contemporary pebbled half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Brown endpapers. = Two seldom-seen papers on pelagic tunicates, both written by the famous British naturalist, comparative anatomist and Darwinist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), discussing material partly obtained during his voyages, as a ship's assistant surgeon, on board of H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Published back-to-back, with a blank page in between, but sharing the plate explanations. Small stamp removed from top margin of the first leaf, otherwise very good, clean.

Paris, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1883. 4to (31.3 x 24.0 cm). 21 pp. and three fine (chromo)lithographed plates. Disbound with original rear wrapper. = A nicely illustrated monograph on this family of African flying squirrels by Joseph Huet (1827-1903) "aide naturaliste” at the Muséum. Published in the Muséum's Nouvelle Archives. With one plate of skulls, and two of whole living animals, of which one in chromilthography. The latter two plates were drawn by the famous Dutch animal painter Johannes Gerardus ("John Gerrard") Keulemans (1842-1912). Text a bit spotted, plates clean. Rare.

Paris, Huzard, 1828. 8vo (20.0 x 12.8 cm). vii, 199 pp.; three folded engraved geological profiles. Later pebbled green half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. = This is as far as we know the earliest work by the French geologist Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874). It deals with the stratigraphy of the Mesozoic (Triassic) of eastern France, and was published when he was an assistant of Brochant de Villiers whom he would succeed as professor of geology at the École des Mines in 1835. This work was published in the famous Annales des Mines, but this is a very rare offprint, with a new preface by the author. The small, oval stamp of another famous geologist, Louis Agassiz, on the title page. Some peculiar spotting on pp. 48-49 and adjacent leaves, as if someone spilled ink, but thetext well readable. Otherwise only a few small spots. A very good copy. Ward and Carozzi, 732.

[Metz, Société d'Histoire naturelle du Département de la Moselle, 1847]. 8vo (22.3 x 14.3 cm). 60 pp., three engraved plates. Contemporary blind quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. = Rare offprint from the society's Bulletin of this important paper on a new, mosasaur-like reptile, based on a well-preserved skull found in northeastern France. Sometimes the naming of the new species is supposed to be done by Pascal Monard, but the paper offers no clue to this. Although no-where indicated this copy is from the Moquin-Tandon library. The French naturalists, malacologists and palaeontologists Olry Terquem (1797-1887) and Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804-1863) both wrote much on the natural history of France. Light wear to the boards, otherwise a very good copy. Not in Cat. BM(NH), where several other Terquem titles are listed.

London, The Royal Society, 1768. 4to (22.6 x 17.4 cm). 13 pp., one folded plate. Disbound. = In this paper, William Hunter, a prestigious lecturer of anatomy, compares the fossil remains found by William Croghan in the Ohio Valley in 1765 to bones of the modern elephant. Hunter concluded that the creature, dubbed the "American incognitum" was distinct from the elephant, but that it may belong to the same species as the Siberian mammoth. The pronounced knobs on the teeth had convinced him that, unlike the elephant, this animal was carnivorous. Significantly, Hunter also concluded that the beast was probably extinct. Indeed, he told his audience that they should be grateful that such a monster no longer presented a threat to men. Extract from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the year 1768, not from the later abridged edition. Contents fine.

Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1868. Large 4to (31.7 x 25.0 cm). 20 pp, three engraved plates. Disbound. = An important taxonomical paper dealing with probably mostly endemic crabs of which the majority is described as new and beautifully illustrated. Published in the Muséum's Nouvelles Archives, volume 4. Uncut, unopened. With very wide margins. One plate a mildly foxed, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Rare. Nissen ZBI, 4560.

London, The Zoological Society of London, 1883. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.4 cm). 8 pp. [numbered 215-222], and five plates (two in fine hand-colouring). Original printed wrappers. = The plates showing Chelys fimbriata (Schneid.), Metopoceros cornutus (Wagler), Tejus rufescens, and Ceratophrys ornata. Rare and sought after work by Günther on species mostly brought from South America to the Society's menagerie. The coloured plates are large and beautiful. Published in the Society's Transactions, vol. XI part 10. This part also contains a paper on fish new to British waters, by Günther (with one hand-coloured plate). Lacks the rear wrapper; front wrapper a bit foxed, otherwise very good, unmarked.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable (for the Wernerian Natural History Society), 1818. 8vo (21.2 x 13.1 cm). 49 pp. Disbound. = A little-known study, summarizing what was known about a group of mostly European falcons, their variability, ontogeny, and synonymy. The author, James Wilson of Woodville (1795-1856) was a Scottish zoologist. "Wilson was one of the first to have used the term "evolution" in the context of biological speciation ... Wilson's use of the term predated Charles Lyell in 1832" (Wikipedia). A very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH), p. 2333.

London, the Royal Society, 1787. 4to. 14 pp. Disbound. = According to the author, the Scottish anatomist, physiologist and surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793), "the true distinction between different species of animals must ultimately, as appears to me, be gathered from their incapacity of propagating with each other an offspring capable again of continuing itself by subsequent propagations..." He continues with showing that wolf, dog, and, wrongly on account of a third party, the jackal are one species. Published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions. A light stain by an old ribbon, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Salem, Essex Institute, 1866-1868. 8vo (23.5 x 15.3 cm). iv, 103 pp.; nine engraved plates, tissue-guarded and with explanatory text., one double-folding table. Later green buckram with gilt title on the spine. Patterned endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A taxonomically important but seldom-seen work by the American marine biologist and malacologist Alphaeus Hyatt (1838-1902). This copy well-bound. Offprint from the Institute's Proceedings. Author's inscription in the top margin of the front wrapper. Pictorial bookplate of the John Crerar library on the front pastedown; their perforated stamp on the title and tiny stamp on plate versos. Plates are numbered 7-15. Plate 12 by mistake bounds in twice. A very good copy.

Philadelphia, PA, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1915. Large 8vo (25.7 x 18.7 cm). 24 pp. Disbound. = Stanislas Meunier (1843-1925) was a French geologist. Published in the Academy's Proceedings, volume 67(I), apparently interesting enough to print in its original language. Uncut. A good, clean copy.

London, The Royal Society, 1799. Two papers in one. Large 4to (29.4 x 22.6 cm). 55 [33; 22] pp.; 17 [8; 9] large, folded engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. = The most detailed study of Asiatic elephants to that date. It includes a detailed account of the Bengalese "taxonomy" and nomenclature of elephants, which differ widely from the scientific ones. The plates mainly show parts of the skull and the teeth. John Corse [later: John Corse-Scott of Sinton (or Synton)] (ca. 1762-1842) was an army surgeon and naturalist who resided in India for a long time. He wrote more on elephants, but this is his most important anatomical-osteological contribution. Subsequent to Corse's paper, and announced there as a continuation, is a work by Everard Home (Some observations on the structure of the teeth of graminivorous quadrupeds; particularly of the elephant and Sus aethiopicus), which includes illustrations of the African elephant's teeth as well. Both publications were communicated by… Read More

Uppsala, Societas Regia Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 1784. 4to (26.8 x 20.6 cm). 10 pp. Not bound. = Early observations on the mineral resources of India, and in particular of granites, quartzes (onyx, achates, etc.), calcarous stones, etc. Written jointly by the Swedish mineralogist Johan(n) Jacob Ferber (1743-1790), and the Swiss naturalist Johann Gerhard König (1728-1785). König, a pupil of Linnaeus and corresponent of Sir Joseph Banks, died in India. The paper was based on his personal observations. Published in the society's Nova Acta, volume 4. Uncut, with ample margins. Rare.

Boston, MA, The Boston Society of Natural History, 1902. Two papers in one. 4to (29.0 x 22.3 cm). 73 pp. [numbered 313-385]; 22 lithographed plates [numbered 39-61], including one hand-coloured. Later red buckram with gilt title on the spine. = Two papers written by the American malacologist and invertebrate zoologist Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925). Both papers published in the Society's Memoirs. The paper on Terebratulina septentrionalis [11 pp. two plates], bound in the rear. It was published 31 years earlier, in 1871. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the title page. A few, short tears in the wrapper margins, but otherwise excellent, with clean wrappers, text, and plates.

London and New York, NY, MacMillan and Co. 1968. Thick 8vo (26.7 x 17.5 cm). 1298 pp. (the essential paper 5 pp.: 709-713). Contemporary full buckram with printed title on the spine. = This discovery was done at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and was reason to the Nobel Prize Comittee to grand Hewish the Nobel Prize in physics. "One of his PhD students, Jocelyn Bell, noted the radio source which was ultimately recognised as the first pulsar. The paper announcing the discovery had five authors, Hewish's name being listed first, Bell's second. Hewish and Martin Ryle were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 for work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars. The Nobel award to Ryle and Hewish without the inclusion of Bell as a co-recipient was controversial, and was roundly condemned by Hewish's fellow astronomer Fred Hoyle" (Wikipedia). We offer the complete Nature… Read More