Kutorga, Stepan Semenovich.

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Description

Beitrag sur Geognosie und Palaeontologie Dorpat's und seiner naechsten Umgebungen. Nebst einem Anhange ueber einige Amphibien-Ueberreste aus dem Sansteine des Andomschen Berges bei Wytegra. St Petersburg: Medicinische Buchdruckerei des Ministerium des Inneren, 1835

8vo (230 x 140mm.), 7 folding lithographed plates, contemporary green morocco, 2 narrow roll-borders in gilt and blind, central lozenge stamped in blind, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, some very light spotting

Provenance

Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstätt (1817-1852), bookplate

Catalogue Note

first edition, from the library of prince maximilian of eichstätt. This essay is on newly discovered paleozoic reptiles in Livonia and Russia; two of the plates are maps of the region, the other illustrate the fossils. A supplement was published two years later.

Prince Maximilian, husband of Maria Nikolayevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas I, and heir to the natural history, art and book collections of his father Eugène de Beauharnais, took a keen interest in Russian palaeontology.