Steenstrup.Om Forplantning og Udvikling...

Steenstrup (Joh. Japetus Sm.) Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsroeker,

first edition, 3 folding lithographed plates, modern ink note on the author and his knowledge of reindeer on title and old stamp at foot, text browned, plates foxed, 1 detached, with 4pp. A.L.s. from the author's son concerning his father's death to Dr.Theodor Hahn loosely inserted, stain to front free endpaper, contemporary half sheep, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, [G & M 217], 4to, Copenhagen, 1842.

***Rare work in the original Danish, by the author responsible for the theory of "alternation of generation"..