Author: Milne-Edwards, A.
Title: Monographie des crustacés fossiles de la famille des cancériens.
Description: Paris, Victor Masson, 1862. 8vo (25.1 x 15.8 cm). 55 pp., ten large, folded, lithographed plates. Contemporary blind wrappers. = A detailed monograph - the first do deal with the palaeontological history of crabs -, written and - partly - illustrated by the French zoologist, and carcinologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900). It includes the description of new genera and species. This is the first of four papers, and includes a general introduction. All are rare. Published in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, of which Milne-Edwards was one of the editors. Uncut. Marginal foxing, otherwise a good copy. Rare.

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