Spix J B De (2 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 138 pages followed by 13 black-and-white and 13 color plates, including 1 fold-out. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Facsimile of the 1829 edition printed in the original size and hand-bound in period style. The original was issued unbound in wrappers. Text in Latin. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book. Corners bumped. An out-of-series copy (unnumbered). …

Munich: C. Wolf 1827. Large 4to. Later qtr. cloth with gilt title to spine. (2 vi 36pp. text). With 29 full-page hand-coloured litho plates. Fine and complete. Nissen 3954. 1st edition of this rare monograph on the freshwater molluscs of Brazil the first work devoted to Brazilian shells. NOTE: Spix's expedition to Brazil from 1817 to 1820 under the aegis of the King of Bavaria Maximilian Joseph I was the first by a European zoologist to visit the Amazon. …