A rare and well-illustrated work on spectacular crabs
Milne-Edwards, A.
Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Published
1872
Item ID
62725
€350.00
Paris, Theodore Morgand, 1872. Large 4to (32.5 x 25.2 cm). 67 pp.; five lithographed plates of which two finely hand-coloured. Later wrappers with printed paper label pasted on front wrapper.
Important contribution, with many new species, to the crabs of the southwestern Pacific and the famous "Coral Triangle". Published in the Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Uncut. Rare. Nissen ZBI, 4561.