Author: Vaillant, L.
Title: De la fécondation dans les cryptogames. Thèse présentée au concours d'agrégation (section d'histoire naturelle) et soutenue a la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.
Description: Paris, A. Parent [for the Faculté de Médecine], 1863. Large 4to (26.3 x 20.5 cm). [iv], 134, [i] pp.; two finely lithographed plates. Later marbled boards with gilt title on the spine. = The seldom-seen thesis of the French zoologist Léon Vaillant (1834-1914). Vaillant became one of the leading French ichthyologists and herpetologists, however, this work is botanical. Dedicated to the botanist Émile-Victor Mussat, the zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and others. A broad-margined copy. Title page a bit toned; some foxing to the plates; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy in an attractive binding. Pritzel 9653; Stafleu and Cowan, 15745.

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