Description

203x153 mm. 14 pp. Contemporary yellow wrappers. On the front cover “A Monsieur alph. Milne Ewards de la part de M. Juan Rodriguez”. On the title page: “A Monsieur alph. Milne Edwards Professeur au Museum”. Some light page toning. A good copy.
Rare first edition of this pamphlet on the types and species of the mammals that can be found in Guatemala. Dedication copy from the author to the French mammalogist and ornithologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), who in 1891 became director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Juan José Rodríguez Luna was one of Guatemala's leading naturalists (cf. R.A. Vega Y Ortega Báez, Los debates zoológicos del naturalista guatemalteco Juan José Rodríguez Luna en los Anales del Museo Nacional de El Salvador, 1904-1911, in: “Temas de historia argentina y americana”, 2003, 1.31, pp. 83-116.
OCLC, 12266473.