Berlin, R. Friedländer, 1894. Large 4to (33.4 x 27.2 cm). Title pages, viii, 404 pp.; 40 fine, large, double-sized lithographed plates (of which one in beautiful chromolithography and many tinted), with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.

Important monograph on ostracod crustaceans of the Mediterranean Sea. The plates are morphological, and anatomical. Author is the German zoologist and - for a long time - leading ostracod specialist Christian Gustav Wilhelm Müller (1857-1940). He also wrote the ostracod parts of the Siboga-Expedition and of Die deutschen Sud-Polar Expedition. Uncut. Slight wear to wrapper edges; a few small, marginal spots, otherwise a fine, clean copy. Very rare, especially in such a good state. Nissen ZBI, 2908.