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Alger, Minerva, 1928. Large 4to (28.4 x 22.6 cm). 419, [i] pp.; 60 (groups of) text illustrations, two plates, one coloured, folded map with overlay. Original printed wrappers. = Dedication copy of a seldom-seen monograph. Inscribed by the author, the French zoologist Henri Gauthier (1896-1968?), to another French zoologist, Jacques Surcouf (1873-1934). The phototype plates show landscapes and habitats, the text figures crustacean species, including amphipods, ostracods, etc. This work is of key importance to North African freshwater crustaceology: "Since 1928, Henri Gauthier has been the only zoologist to describe the extant non-marine ostracod fauna of Tunisia" (Zaibi et al.). Uncut. Printed errata sheet tipped in.Light spotting to endpapers, map and half-title, the overlay toned; otherwise a very good, clean copy. Zaibi et al (2010) Preliminary report on the living non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Tunisia with the description of a new Psychrodromus species.