Eisig, H.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte herausgegeben von de zoologischen Station zu Neapel. XVI. Monographie: Die Capitelliden. Monographie der Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte, nebst Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Anatomie und Physiologie.
Berlin, R. Friedländer, 1887. In two parts (text and atlas). 4to (33.5 x 27.1 cm). Title pages (to the text and atlas), xxviii, 907 pp.; 37 fine, lithographed plates (mostly larger, folded; several in chromolithography), with explanatory text leaves. Original uniform printed wrappers.
Important monograph on the polychaete worm family Capitellidae in the Mediterranean Sea. The plates are morphological, anatomical, histological and cell-biological. Plates 1, and 33-36 are in chromolithography. The author, Hugo Eisig (1847-1920), was a German marine biologist and a student of Ernst Haeckel. He became a vice-director of the Zoologische Station in Naples. Uncut. Wrappers and facing leaves a bit spotted, otherwise a fine, clean copy. Very rare, especially in such a good state. Nissen ZBI, 1269.
