Author: Huet, J. B.
Title: Observations sur le genre Anomalurus et sur les espèces de la collection du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle.
Description: Paris, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1883. 4to (31.3 x 24.0 cm). 21 pp. and three fine (chromo)lithographed plates. Disbound with original rear wrapper. = A nicely illustrated monograph on this family of African flying squirrels by Joseph Huet (1827-1903) "aide naturaliste” at the Muséum. Published in the Muséum's Nouvelle Archives. With one plate of skulls, and two of whole living animals, of which one in chromilthography. The latter two plates were drawn by the famous Dutch animal painter Johannes Gerardus ("John Gerrard") Keulemans (1842-1912). Text a bit spotted, plates clean. Rare.

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