Description

Berlin, R. Friedländer, 1910. 4to (33.5 x 27.1 cm). Title pages, vii, 239 pp.; 12 text engravings, 11 fine, large, folded lithographed plates (of which the first in chromolithography), with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers. = Important monograph on the stomatopod crustaceans, or mantis shrimps (genus Squilla, and others) in the Mediterranean Sea. The plates are morphological, anatomical, histological and cell-biological. Author is the German zoologist and crustacean specialist Wilhelm Giesbrecht (1854-1913), who wrote also much on copepods. The title implies that more parts were projected, but this is all that was published, most probably because of Giesbrecht's early death. Uncut. Wrappers a bit soiled, otherwise a fine, clean copy. Very rare, especially in such a good state. Nissen ZBI, 1269.