TEMMINCK, C.J.

Monographies de Mammalogie, ou description de quelques genres de Mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Ouvrage accompagné de planches d'Ostéologie, pouvant servir de suite et de complément aux Notices sur les animaux vivans, publiées par M. le baron G. Cuvier, dans ses Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles.

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Paris, G. Dufour & d'Ocagne, 1827-1841. 4to (270 x 195 mm). 2 volumes, comprising 17 parts, bound in one. pp. (4), xxxii, 268, (4, publisher's catalogue); (4), 392, with 71 (many folded) engraved plates. Later black half morocco, gilt lettered spine, gilt upper edges.

The fine lithographed plates show a.o. numerous bats, orang-outangs and other mammals

A complete set of all the 17 part of Temminck's rare work on mammals. The fine lithographed plates show a.o. numerous bats, orang-outangs and other mammals. Temminck was the first director of the Leyden Natural History Museum. His special interests were birds and mammals and he wrote a number of important ornithological works, such as a continuation to Buffon's 'Planches enluminées'.

Nissen ZBI, 4085.