Author: Brücke, E. [W. von]
Title: Untersuchungen über den Farbenwechsel des afrikanischen Chamäleons.
Description: Wien, Kaiserliche Academie der Wissenschaften, 1852. Folio (38.5 x 27.5 cm). 32 pp.; one chromolithographed plate. Disbound, but with contemporary blind wrappers. = The very rare first edition of this important study on the remarkable colour adaptivity of chameleons. Written by the German physiologist and anatomist Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke (1819-1892). A year after the author's death it was reprinted in a smaller form. Published in the academy's Denkschriften, vierter Band. Extracted from this volume. Light foxing to the plate (which combines plate numbers LX and LXI), otherwise a very good, clean copy. Not in any major bibliography.

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