FORSKAL, Petrus (1732-1763). Descriptiones Animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere Orientali observauit, Copenhagen: Mölleri, 1775, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved map (blind-stamp on dedication leaf and X2, cancel stamp on verso of a2, title soiled), later boards backed in cloth.

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FORSKAL, Petrus (1732-1763). Descriptiones Animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere Orientali observauit, Copenhagen: Mölleri, 1775, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved map (blind-stamp on dedication leaf and X2, cancel stamp on verso of a2, title soiled), later boards backed in cloth.

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Edited by C. Niebuhr after Forskal's death in Yemen.

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