Soemmerring (Samuel Thomas) Ornithocephalus

Soemmerring (Samuel Thomas) Ueber einen Ornithocephalus brevirostris der Vorwelt;bound with Ueber die fossilen Reste einer grossen Fledermausgattung, 2 offprints in 1 vol., two engraved and one lithographed plate, latter folding and with minuscule letters added in red ink,bound together for presentation in light blue paper-covered boards, gilt edges, including those of the boards, spine faded, inscribed on the front free endpaper "Herrn.Ge. Baron von Moll, seinem Freund und Gönner, der Verfasser", 4to, Munich, 1817.

***Baron von Moll was Secretary of the Munich Academy, and Dibdin speaks of him as a redoubtable bibliophile in his Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany..