Über entwickelungsgeschiche der Thiere. Beobachtung und Reflexion

by Karl Ernst von Baer

$4,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Königsberg: Bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1828. 4to. xxii, 271, 3 pp. FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY. With 3 folding handcoloured engravings. Original wrappers bound into contemporary pasteboards, rebacked. Presentation copy inscribed in French to M. Valenciennes; gift bookplate of the Boston Society of Natural History, by the bequest of its first president, Benjamin D. Greene, M.D., dated 1863. Item

• Binding: Wrappers

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