Seldom seen early work on the anatomy of amphibians

Dugès, A. [L.]

Recherches sur l'ostéologie et la myologie des batraciens, a leurs différens ages, présentées a l'Académie Royale des Sciences en réponse a la question suivante: déterminer, a l'aide d'observations, et démonstrer, par préparations anatomiques et des dessins exacts, les modifications que présentent, dans leur squelette et dans leurs muscles, les reptiles batraciens, tels que grenouilles et les salamandres, en passant de l'état de larve à celui d'animal parfait.

Published 1834
Item ID 23336
€175.00

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Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1834. 4to (26.5 x 21.1 cm). 216, [1] pp.; 20 folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, gilt bordered compartments and red morocco label with gilt title. Patterned endpapers.

A rare large paper copy of this important contribution by the French physician, obstetrician and naturalist Antoine Louis Dugès (1794-1838) to the anatomy of frogs, toads and salamanders with very detailed engravings. The work was published in the Memoires des Savans Etrangers. Armorial bookplate of the palaeontologist Richard Nikolaus Wegner (1884-1967) on the front pastedown. Some spotting to text page margins, a few plates rather heavily spotted but most plates clean. Nissen ZBI, 1181.

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