DELLE CHIAJE, Stefano. - Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Fascicolo I.Naples, Fernandes brothers, 1823. Large 4to (26.5 x 20.5 cm). With 4 engraved plates. Modern black cloth, original publisher's printed wrappers bound in.

XII, 84 pp.First and only edition of the first fascicule on the taxonomy of invertebrates in the Kingdom of Naples, by the Neapolitan zoologist, botanist, anatomist and physician Stefano Delle Chiaje (1794-1860)On the same subject and in the same mould Chiaje published later his Descrizione e notomia degli animali Invertebrati della Sicilia Citeriore (1841-44) in which he gave a profound synthesis of the results he had published already in the present work on the vertebrates of Naples ca. 15 years earlier.Original wrappers disoloured; a very good copy.l BM, Nat. Hist. I, p. 343; Nicolucci, "Sulla vita e sulle opere di Stefano delle Chiaie", in: Memorie di matematica e di fisica della Società italiana delle scienze III (1879), pp. ccxxiii-cxxxix.

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