Author: DELLE CHIAJE, Stefano.
Title: 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.
Description: 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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