LICHTENSTEIN, Martin Hinrich Carl.
Über die Springmäuse oder die sämtlichen bis jetzt bekannten Arten der Gattung Dipus.
Berlin, Druckerei der Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1828. 4to. With 10 numbered hand-coloured lithographs on 6 folding plates by and after J.A. Schmidt. Contemporary marbled boards. [2], 29, [1] pp.
€ 1,750
Second edition of a beautifully illustrated monograph on Dipodidae (jumping mice and jerboa) by the German zoologist, physician and explorer Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein (1787-1857), who named some of the described animals. The work comprises a thorough historical survey and detailed descriptions of 14 Dipodidae, a family which is considered today to include over 50 species among 16 genera. Tipped in is a table from Meyer's Palaeologie zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe titled "System der fossilen Saurier nach der Entwicklung ihrer Organe der Bewegung".
Library stamps. The added table foxed, otherwise in good condition. Nissen, ZBI 2505; not in Wood; for the author: ADB XVIII, pp. 556-557.
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