Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce, à bras en forme de cornes / par A. Trembley ..

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Notes: Folding illustration by P. Lyonet; headpieces by C. Pronk, engraved by J. v. Schley.; Woodcut title vignette, initials; engraved head- and tail-pieces.; Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-I⁴ K⁴(-K4) L-2S⁴.; Also available online.; SCNHRB has two copies.; SCNHRB c.1 (39088002497683) has ms. ink note on front free endpaper.; SCNHRB c.1 bound in contemporary mottled calf, with triple gilt fillets at outer edges; gilt tooled spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers and edges.; SCNHRB c.2 (39088011699063) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer; with his monogram stamp on t.p. and last leaf.; SCNHRB c.2 has inscribed on front free endpaper: Girtanner 823.b (II.60.a); unidentified property stamp on t.p.; SCNHRB c.2 originally had laid-in by Bayer: Ischikawa, C. Trembley's Umkehrungsversuche an Hydra nach neuen Versuchen erklärt. Leipzig : W. Engelmann, 1890.; SCNHRB c.2 bound in half paste paper and vellum; with ms. label on front cover.; Elecresource
Contents: 1. mém. Où l'on décrit les polypes, leur forme, leur mouvemens, & une partie de ce qu'on a pu découvrir sur leur structure -- 2. mém. De la nourriture des polypes ... Du tems & des moïens les plus propres, pour trouver des polypes -- 3. mém. De la génération des polypes -- 4. mém. Operations faites sur les polypes, & les succès qu'elles ont eu

Physical description: xv, [1], 324, [2] p., 13 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. (4to)