Author: Vosmaer, A.
Title: Description d'une espèce toute nouvelle et inconnue de belette americaine, a longue queue, et griffes d'ecureuil, nommée potto; apportée de la colonie Hollandoise de Surinam; et qui se conserve dans le cabinet de son altesse sérénissime, monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, stadhouder héreditaire, gouverneur, capitaine géneral et amirail des Provinces Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.
Description: Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1771. 4to. 6 pp. (including title page), one engraved plate, one blank leaf in the rear. Disbound. = Vosmaer was director of the menagerie of Prince Willem V of the Netherlands. Many strange animals were captured and sent to the zoo by Dutch traders who roamed the world. These animals were kept and studied by Vosmaer, who published his findings in a series of treatises, each discussing a different animal. This treatise deals with a tropical south American species, probably the kinkajou, Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. It is not related to the African potto, Perodicticus potto. This is the French edition, which seems to be more rare than the simultanously published Dutch edition. Coloured editions are known, but in this copy the plate is plain. A nice clean copy.

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