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Schaeffer, J. C. - Die Blumenpolypen der süßen Wasser beschrieben und mit den Blumenpolypen der salzigen Wasser verglichen.

Regensburg, Emanuel Adam Weiss, 1755. 8vo (22.7 x 18.7 cm). Title page, [iv], 54 pp.; three originally hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers. = The seldom-seen first edition (second: 1764) of this beautifully illustrated work, with fine, original colouring, by the German naturalist Jacob (or Jakob) Christian Schaeffer (or Schäffer) (1718-1790) who had a keen interest in the zoology of the region around Regensburg, in Germany. Weak damp stain to the top margin of a few text leaves, otherwise a clean, wide-margined copy. Rare in this state. Nissen ZBI, 3623.
EUR 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 230.86 | £UK 173 | JP¥ 34194] Book number 30944

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