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Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Their-Reichs … von H.G. Bronn. Bd V: Arthropoden, Abt I: Crustacea (Erste Hälfte) [Entomostraca] [and] II. Abt.: Crustacea (Zweite Hälfte: Malacostraca) [Text + Plates]

by Bronn, H.G.; Gerstaecker, A.; Ortmann, A.E.

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Series : Bronns Tierreich
Volume: 5(1-2)
Publisher : C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung
Published In : Leipzig und Heidelbe
Illustrations : 50 + 128 lithographic plates (some double-page, some partly tinted)

Description:

First edition. Bd V, Abt. I (Entomostraca) (1866-1879) Plates I-XLIX, IIIa; Abt II (Malacostraca) 2 vols (Text + Tafeln) (1881-1901) Plates I-CXXVIII. Text German. Complete section on Crustacea from H.G. Bronn's Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. Scarce.

Condition

2 vols bound in 3, 8vo, cont. half morocco, gt, marbled endpapers + edges, orig. printed part wrappers (Bd V, Abt. II, Lfg 1-62) bound at rear of Malacostraca Plate volume. Occasional light foxing. From an institutional library with neat ink stamps to endpapers and verso of title pages only. Bookplate of Lionel Water Rothschild.