Search Results: Authors starting with A from Antiquariaat Schierenberg

Philadelphia, PA, R. T. Abbott, 1972-1995. 24 volumes in issues (four per volume, sometimes two or three issues combined). 4to (28.0 x 21.6 cm). Numerous pages, plates and text figures. Original printed wrappers. = A long, uninterrupted run of 24 complete volumes from the start of the larger quarto format (previously The Nautilus was published in a much smaller octavo format). Includes many papers with descriptions of new species and genera, several larger monographs, and various notes on interesting finds, shelling expeditions, etc., etc. In the later volumes, Abbott was replaced by Harasewych as chief editor. An occasional stamp on front wrappers, otherwise a very good, clean, set, including one supplement.

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1916. Three text volumes in three. 8vo (27.3 x 19.1 cm). 1615 pp. [xxviii, xvi, xxii,1549], 183 plates and maps, 140 text figures. [AND] atlas folio (55.0 x 38.0 cm). Text with eight photogravures, 138 photographs, maps, numerous figures [AND] atlas with title page (double, French/Dutch) one coloured explanatory chart (36 different colours) and 17 mostly coloured folded geological maps and/or profiles (numbered 1, II, 3-11, 12a, 12b, 13-16). Original uniform black and gilt printed olive cloth (text), original printed portfolio (atlas). = Fine copy of one of the main geological surveys of Celebes, or Sulawesi (Indonesia). Especially rare because of its completeness and excellent state, with the original, elaborately decorated bindings present and intact. Very richly illustrated with maps, views, etc. There is also a Dutch edition; the French edition, however, is rarer. Preliminary pages are numbered separately, the main text numbered consecutively. Small library stamp on front free… Read More

Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1915-1918. 4to (26.9 x 19.4 cm). 1986 pp. with 228 plates and numerous text illustrations. Fine, uniform original decorated cloth bindings. = Deals with the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi and is on many subjects a standard work (e.g. history of the cartography; geology and palaeontology, ethnography, etc., etc.). This set probably from Abendanon himself, or a co-worker, as the first volume contains many corrections in light pencil; including corrections of data that seems to be unknown from outside sources. A set of the complete text. The separate atlas is not included. Apart from the pencilled marginalia an unusually fine, unmarked set.

Tiflis, Civil-Hauptverwaltung Sr. Kaiserlichen Hoheit des Statthalters von Kaukasien, 1865. 4to (31.2 x 25.6 cm). 60 pp.; engraved, partly tinted map including a geological profile. Original green, printed wrappers. = Very rare original monograph here called "Erste Lieferung", but as far as we know all that has been published on the geology and the mineral sources of the Caucasian region. Uncut. Wrappers a bit soiled and a bit frayed and chipped at edges, but otherwise very good.

Tiflis, Civil-Hauptverwaltung, 1867; St. Pétersbourg, Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 1862. Two papers in one. 4to (30.0 x 22.9 cm). 163; 32 pp.; one large, folded tinted lithograph, two hand-coloured lithographed plates on one sheet, a few text engravings. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with hand-written label. = Important first geological study by "the father of Caucasian geology", the eminent German geologist Hermann Abich (1806-1866) on the Caucasus (region of the rivers Kura and Aras). The second, smaller paper, has a fine plate with two hand-coloured views. It is a rare offprint from the Mémoires of the royal academy of science in Saint Petersburg, volume 4(10). Especially the first monograph, printed in Tiflis [Tblisi], is extremely rare. It contains several illustrations and lengthy descriptions of mesozoic gastropods (in particular Nerinea), and brachiopods. First paper with, in the top margin of the title… Read More

Paris, Masson, 1947. 4to (28.3 x 22.9 cm). 113 pp.; five phototype plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = Rare contribution to the Miocene-Pleistocene Mollusca of the New Hebrides, situated between New Caledonia and Fiji. The faunas are well-preserved. Many species are new, and several belong to the extant fauna, therefore this work is a must for students of Recent Indo-Pacific molluscs. René Abrard (1892-1973) was a French geologist and palaeontologist who was specialized in the study of the Paris basin, but this works shows that he was also working on fossil molluscs from other regions. Published in the series, Annales de Paléontologie, being the complete volume 32. Uncut. Spine ends a bit worn, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Brno, Fontes Archaeologiae Moraviae, 1977. 4to. 215 pp.; 210 plates. Original pictorial softcover. = An interesting archaeological monograph on the Grundsätze für die typogische Bestimmung der paläolitischen Steinindustrie in Mähren (Czechia), very well illustrated. Light wear to covers, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

London, R. Ackermann, [1821]. Folio (28.2 x 22.5 cm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title; 126 engraved and aquatint plates, of which 31 originally coloured by hand. Later half calf over contemporary plain boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-bordered bands and gilt title. Olive endpapers; speckled edges. = An ultra-rare, varied and finely illustrated drawing book, containing visual instructions on how to draw people and objects, and how to deal with perspective. We found only one auction record, of an incomplete and damp-stained copy sold in 1981. The images include mythological scenes, human facial expressions, human anatomy, landscapes, cattle, shells, flowers and fruits, etc., showing different techniques. Plate 99 is in fact a transfer of a handwritten dedication by Rudolph Ackermann, to Alois Senefelder, "Inventor of the art of lithography". The work was engraved by Thomas Hodson and John Dougall, both who were active in the late 18th and early 19th century. The plates are… Read More

Juko Jushikei Hakki. Three parts in one volume. Kyoto (?), Enami Jinbee, Genroku 8 (= 1685). 4to size (27.0 x 19.0 cm). Xylographically printed on 69 double leaves folded in an accordion, or oriental, style, with 16 full-page woodcut plates. Original blue paper wrappers with xylographic text vignette on front. Contained in a modern blue cloth box made in Japanese style. = Very rare illustrated work on acupuncture. Bibliographically, little is known about this work. It was anonymously published, and our copy seems to be a second issue. Mestler describes a similar work that was issued in 1684; this copy was published in 1685. The book was written in classical Chinese (in Japanese typescript). The author claims that he bases his writings on several classic Chinese medical texts from the 14th and 15th century. The beautiful illustrations appear to be made in the style of the mid-14th-century Chinese classic “Shi si jing fa hui” (An Elucidation of the Fourteen Channels) by Hua Shou. The plates… Read More

New York, NY, The Lyceum of Natural History, 1852. 8vo (21.0 x 14.0 cm). 321, [1] pp. Later black half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title. Greenish endpapers; speckled edges. = Charles Baker Adams's largest and most important paper. It is the first paper entirely on the Mollusca of the Pacific side of Panama, their localities ("habitats") and habitats ("stations"). It contains the descriptions, in English, of 517 species, many of which are new. In English, but pages 304-324, titled: "Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in sinu panamensi repertorum, synopsis", contain additional Latin descriptions of all the new species. Published in the Lyceum's Annals, but this is the repaginated offprint. Provenance: a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the title. Nicely bound. A few spots, mainly on the title, but generally exceptionally clean. Very uncommon.

Burlington, VT, Chauncey Goodrich, 1845. 8vo (24.0 x 14.8 cm). 92 pp. One folding, coloured map. Original printed wrappers. = The seldom-seen first Annual Report, with detailed information on the minerals and ores of the State, and their occurrence. Written by the geologist and malacologist Charles Baker Adams (1814-1853), who died of yellow fever during a shell collecting trip in the Caribbean. Small old stamp of the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Paris) on the front wrapper and title, and another small stamp "Système d'échange internationale A. V.". Front wrapper detached, frayed and chipped at left edge. Adams's name and a title translation into French in an old hand on the front wrapper, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1902. 8vo (17.9 x 12.1 cm). 203 pp. Later green half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-bordered bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge green. = An uncommon work. Published as University Library Bulletin (Extra Series). John Couch Adams (1819-1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.... Adams was Lowndean Professor in the University of Cambridge from 1859 until his death. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866. A crater on the Moon is ... named after him (Wikipedia). This copy in a very attractive, almost disproportionally beautiful binding, and except for a small smudge on the title page in a very good - near mint - condition.

Niagara Falls, NY, privately printed for the Nagara Falls Power Company, 1927. Two volumes in two. 4to (28.0 x 21.6 cm). Full colour frontispiece; title page in three colours; 959 pp.; many portraits, five maps (one coloured, two large, folding); 13 plates, one folding table, numerous text figures. Original uniform blue cloth with title on the spines. Gilt top edges. Pictorial endpapers (map of Niagara Falls and surroundings). = Niagara was the world's first major hydro-electric power station and the first large installation to adopt alternating current. This impressive and lavish work covers not only the history of the plant and its machinery, but the Falls themselves. The accounts of how this project was evolved and carried through in a project which went well beyond the bounds of the then existing technology is a fascinating saga of industry. Signed by the author on the second blank recto. Slight wear to board edges. Library stamp in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto. Second… Read More

Niagara Falls, NY, privately printed for the Nagara Falls Power Company, 1927. 4to (28.0 x 21.6 cm). Full colour frontispiece; title page in three colours; 455 pp.; many portraits, five maps (one coloured, two large, folding), one folding table, numerous text figures. Original blue cloth with title on the spine. Gilt top edges. Pictorial endpapers (map of Niagara Falls and surroundings). = Niagara was the world's first major hydro-electric power station and the first large installation to adopt alternating current. This impressive and lavish work covers not only the history of the plant and its machinery, but the Falls themselves. The accounts of how this project was evolved and carried through in a project which went well beyond the bounds of the then existing technology is a fascinating saga of industry. Signed by the author on the second blank recto. Copy with two extra leaves, on with a text "The Birth of Power", the second with a full colour illustration of a mural at the Niagara… Read More

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1855. Small 8vo (17.5 x 12.4 cm). 76, [ii] pp.; eight engraved and originally hand-coloured plates. Original blind-stamped green cloth with gilt title and gilt ornaments on the spine, and gilt title on the front board. = A well-preserved copy of the first edition of a handsome introduction to conchology, by the British chemist, naturalist and writer Henry Gardiner Adams (c.1811-1881). Blind-stamped on both boards is the title addition Young naturalist's library. Both the engravings on the plates and those in the text are printed in reverse, thus with all the gastropods left-handed. The work was reprinted at least four times (1856, 1871, 1887, 1903), but this is the seldom-seen true first edition. Remnants of a bookplate on the front pastedown; bookseller's blindstamp in the top margin of the front free endpaper, a few spots but generally in a very good condition. Not in Nissen, who only records the author's similar publication on butterflies.

Leyden [Leiden], Pieter van der Aa, 1706. Small 8vo (17.6 x 11.5 cm). Title page with engraved vignette; large double-folded map of Japan and Korea; large, double-folded plate; woodcut tailpiece. 24, [iii] pp., including binder's instructions. Later blind quarter calf over marbled boards. = A seldom-seen (first, perhaps only) Dutch translation, with a fine illustration, map, and index, of letters first published in English in 1705, but then without the plate and map (see Cordier). William Adams (1564-1620), "...better known in Japanese as Miura Anjin ("the pilot of Miura"), was an English navigator who, in 1600, was the first Englishman to reach Japan leading a five-ship expedition for a private Dutch fleet. Of the few survivors of the only ship that reached Japan, Adams and his second mate Jan Joosten were not allowed to leave the country while Jacob Quaeckernaeck and Melchior van Santvoort were permitted to go back to the Dutch Republic to invite them to trade. Adams, along with… Read More

Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1757. 4to (24.9 x 19.0 cm). Title page with woodcut vignette, half-title to "Mollusques"; 567 pp. ([vi], 190, xcvi, 275); engraved folding map of Senegal and 19 folded, engraved plates. 19th-century half calf over mottled boards. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red. = The chief zoological work by the French botanist, naturalist, and malacologist Michel Adanson (1727-1806), and the first scientific work on the tropical West African, and in particular Senegalese fauna. The greater part of the text deals with conchology, and all the plates show shells. Adanson's names, although published one year before Linnaeus's Systema Naturae (10th edition), and in French vernacular, were often validated verbatim in official nomenclature. Adanson's collection remained largely intact, and preserved in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The malacologist S. Peter Dance calls this work - the first work valuing anatomy and opercula in… Read More

Amsterdam, M. M. Olivier, 1889. 8vo (23.7 x 25.3 cm). xii, 103 pp.; five lithographed plates (of which four in colour lithography, including one very large, folded) with explanatory text leaves. Slightly later blind pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. = A seldom-seen, if not rare, publication on cancerous diseases in trees, with an emphasis on cultivated (fruit) trees in the Netherlands. The preface is by one of the foremost Dutch scientists, the botanist and evolutionist Hugo de Vries (1848-1935), rediscoverer of Mendel's laws. The work itself was written by a Dutch horticulturist. Old owner's inscription of A. van den Have in the top margin of the title page, next to an old cancellation stamp; a few more stamps and labels on the front free endpaper recto. Some scattered light foxing, binding a bit weak, otherwise a very good, clean copy. OCLC reports only seven copies - five in the Netherlands and two in the USA. Not recorded in any major bibliography.

Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1950-1951. In five volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.0 x 18.0 cm). [AND] Deel platen; octavo (26.0 x 18.0 cm). total of 1558 pp. [xii, 478; viii, 557; viii, 484; 11]. [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.2 x 27.0 cm); 159 photographs in "Deel platen"; 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and two coloured folding maps. Original uniform printed wrappers (text and platen volumes); atlas in original printed portfolio with linen spine. = Uncommon complete set of the second, revised edition (first: 1912-1914) edition, by A. C. Kruyt, of a classic anthropological monograph of the Toradjas of Mid-Celebes (Sulawesi, Indonesia) by two Dutch anthropologists and geographers. The portfolio atlas includes 13 fine, large, full-colour plates of tools and jewellery, and two very large maps. Some pencilled anotations; two text volumes a bit chipped at spine tops, otherwise good, no library markings. In all a very good set.

Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1912-1914. In four volumes. Text in three octavo volumes (26.5 x 18.0 cm) [AND] atlas in folio portfolio (37.0 x 26.5 cm). 1,636 pp.; 58 photographs on 26 sheets, 13 coloured plates of which seven partly in full colour, and four coloured folding maps (two showing adjacent regions). Original uniform quarter cloth over printed boards. = Rare first, original edition of the Toradjas of Mid-Celebes (Sulawesi, Indonesia). A classic anthropological monograph by two Dutch anthropologists and geographers. Includes fine, full-colour illustrations of tools and jewellery. With two giant maps of the region (Central Sulawesi) in scale 1: 100,000, one smaller folded map of an adjacent region, and a third, medium-sized map of the whole of Sulawesi in 1: 250,000. A second, revised, and inferior edition was published in 1951. Tiny pictorial bookplate of a Dutch professor on the front pastedown of third text volume; boards a bit rubbed, text volume hinges weak due to the heavy book blocks. In… Read More