Author: Vogt, C.
Title: Atlas der Zoologie. 33 Tafeln in Holzschnitt nebst erläuterndem Texte. Separat-Ausgabe aus der zweiten Auflage des Bilder-Atlas.
Description: Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1875. Oblong folio (35.3 x 26.5 cm). Title page, index, 33 wood-engraved plates, 115 pp. (plates before text). Contemporary blind, grained quarter cloth over marbled boards. Front board with later paper label with gilt title, mounted. = A very uncommon German zoological atlas, and the only zoological part of a science atlas published in eight parts between 1869-1875. Karl, or Carl, Christoph Vogt (1817-1895) "...was a German scientist, philosopher and politician who emigrated to Switzerland. Vogt published a number of notable works on zoology, geology and physiology. All his life he was engaged in politics, in the German Frankfurt Parliament of 1848-9 and later in Switzerland." (Wikipedia). He also published on Crustacea and herpetological subjects. Nissen records eleven zoological works, and one travel book. Text and plates mostly foxed. A tear just raching the text, in the lower margin of the last two text leaves. Nissen ZBI, 4264.

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