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4to, Two volumes Dated in 1829 and 1833, bound in one, Vol 1: (4), 198, pp, Vol 2: (3), 364, pp. With 63 full page engraved plates (hand-coloured). Bound in contemporary half calf, marbled papers on boards, title label on spine, red edges. An scarce work on medical zoology that deals especially with fishes, crustaceans, invertebrates, insects, snails, shells.The Russian sturgeon or Danube sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) was originally described in the year 1833 by the German naturalists Johann Friedrich von Brandt and Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg in this book, it is shown a colored engraving shows this species. Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 15 July 1879) was a German naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia. Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin. In 1831 he emigrated to Russia, and soon was appointed director of the Zoological Museum of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Brandt encouraged the collection of native animals, many of which were not represented in the museum. Many specimens began to arrive from the expeditions of Severtzov, Przhevalsky, Middendorff, Schrenck and Gustav Radde. He described several birds collected by Russian explorers off the Pacific Coast of North America, including Brandt's cormorant, red-legged kittiwake and spectacled eider. As a paleontologist, Brandt ranks among the best. He was also an entomologist, specialising in Coleoptera (beetles) and Diplopoda (millipedes). He died in Merreküll, Governorate of Estonia. He is also commemorated in Brandt's bat, Brandt's hedgehog, three other species of mammals, and the lizard Iranolacerta brandtii. in contemporary half calf, marbled papers on boards, title label on spine, red edges. Very attractive copy in very good condition. Nissen ZBI, 553; Horn-Schenkling, 2211. Seller Inventory # 24022356
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