UBER EINIGE NORDAMERIKANISCHE HIRSCH-ARTEN
by Lichtenstein, Martin Heinrich Carl
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Berlin, 1857. [2],[269]-285pp. plus folding plate. Quarto. Contemporary leather backstrip and cloth. Amateur tape reinforcement to spine, two tiny library stamps to verso of plate. Very good. First edition of this scarce report on the varieties of North American deer, demonstrating a keen interest in the natural history of the Americas in the mid-19th century. The author travelled widely as the curator of the Zoological Museum in Berlin. This brief is based on earlier reports from the likes of Lt. Whipple and the work of the museum's agent who dispatched specimens from St. Louis. The folding plate is a duochrome lithograph of twelve varieties of American deer antlers. OCLC locates about a dozen copies worldwide, with only five institutional holdings in the United States. OCLC 9625868
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
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- Title
- UBER EINIGE NORDAMERIKANISCHE HIRSCH-ARTEN
- Author
- Lichtenstein, Martin Heinrich Carl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- 1857
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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- Verso
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- Quarto
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