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Hague, F. [And] C. T. Von Siebold

Ueber die natürliche und künstliche Bildung der Perlen in China. [AND] Ueber die Perlenbildungen chinesischer Süsswasser-Muscheln, als Zusatz zu dem vorhergehenden Aufsatze.

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Hague, F. [And] C. T. Von Siebold

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Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1857. 8vo. 15 [6, 9] pp., two [0, 2], fine, lithographed plates. Contemporary pebbled boards. Black morocco label with gilt title on the spine. = Two papers on pearl production in China. The plates show how artificial pearls are made with inserting small buddhas in a living pearl mussel. Contained in volume 8 of the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, with many other papers, including Semper's Beiträge zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Pulmonaten (60 pp., two plates). Label on front pastedown, light wear to hinges, otherwise very good, clean. Rare.
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