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Author: Klunzinger, Carl Benjamin
Title: Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres. Dritter Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: (Schluss) Die Astraeaceen und Fungiaceen
Place Published: Berlin
Publisher:Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung
Date Published: 1879
Description: [4], 100 pp. Illustrated with 10 albumen photograph plates, each depicting numerous coral specimens. 30.5x22.5 cm (12½x9"), cloth-backed boards. First Edition.Account of the coral species in the Red Sea, from a series on the sea life of the region, still considered essential reference today. Several institutional copies located, but appears exceptionally scarce in the trade. Provenance: stamp of Johannes Walther (1860-1937) to front free endpaper. The important principal that layers in geographic strata represent changes in the environment over time is known as Walther's Law after him.
Author: Klunzinger, Carl Benjamin
Title: Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres. Dritter Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: (Schluss) Die Astraeaceen und Fungiaceen
Place Published: Berlin
Publisher:Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung
Date Published: 1879
Description: [4], 100 pp. Illustrated with 10 albumen photograph plates, each depicting numerous coral specimens. 30.5x22.5 cm (12½x9"), cloth-backed boards. First Edition.Account of the coral species in the Red Sea, from a series on the sea life of the region, still considered essential reference today. Several institutional copies located, but appears exceptionally scarce in the trade. Provenance: stamp of Johannes Walther (1860-1937) to front free endpaper. The important principal that layers in geographic strata represent changes in the environment over time is known as Walther's Law after him.
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Binding shaken and nearly loose in some places, some wear and staining to binding, annotations to front cover (possibly Walther's signature), light to moderate foxing, photographs with some fading and waviness; overall still very good.
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Red Sea Coral, 1879 w/ ten albumen photos
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