Author: MALM, August Wilhelm (1821-1882).:
Title: Svenska Iglar, Disciferae, afbildade efter lefvande exemplar och beskrifna. [Extracted from: Göteborgs Kong. Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar, ny Tidsfjöld, 8.]
Description: [Göteborg 1863.] 8vo, 22cm. Pp. 151-262,[2], several detailed and finely hand-coloured figures on 2 engraved plates, 1 plain engr. plate of figures. Hardbound, old half cloth, marbled boards. Fine. - Classic paper on Swedish marine and freshwater leeches (Hirudinea). - Copy from the library of the Danish marine zoologist and oceanographer Anton Frederik Bruun (1905-1961) with his ms. name and date 1927 on front end-paper. Bruun was the leader of the famous Galathea deep-sea expedition circumnavigating the world in 1950-1952.

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