Descrizione di una nuova specie del genere: Felis. Felis jacobita.

Milano,Sociéta Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 1865. Folio (32.7 x 24.0 cm). 9 pp.; one lithographed plate. Original printed wrappers. = A rare paper (offprint with its own wrappers and new pagination) by Emilio Cornalia (1825-1882), professor of surgery and director of the Municipal Museum (now Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali) in Milan. The Andean mountain cat (Felis jacobita, later Leopardus jacobita; now Oreialurus jacobita) ".is a small wild cat native to the high Andes that has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List because fewer than 1,500 individuals are thought to exist in the wild. It is traditionally considered a sacred animal by indigenous Aymara and Quechua people. Cornalia named it in honor of Jacobita Tejada Mantegazza (1841-1891), wife of Paolo Mantegazza. Cornelia received the type specimens from Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910). "After spending his student days at the universities of Pisa and Milan, [Mantagezza] gained his M.D. degree at the University of Pavia in 1854. After travelling in Europe, India and the Americas, he practised as a doctor in Argentina and Paraguay. He returned to Italy in 1858 he was appointed surgeon at Milan Hospital and professor of general pathology at the University of Pavia. In 1870, he was nominated professor of anthropology at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence. Here, he founded the first Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Italy, and later the Italian Anthropological Society." (Wikipedia). The Andean mountain cat superficially resembles a "woolly" domestic cat, except for the enormous tail which is 2/3th of the body size. The anonymous illustration does not get that quite right. Uncut. Some light creasing, and foxing to the plate margins; otherwise very good. Rare.