Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae ANIMALIUM SPECIES ET OBSERVATIONIBUS ICONIBUSQUE ILLUSTRANTUR. LUGDUNI BATAVORUM, Apud SAM. et JOAN. LUCHTMANS, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778].

In 4º (de 26x21 cm) com xii, 224 pags.

Encadernação da época inteira de pele com finos ferros a ouro, cansada.

Ilustrado com 14 gravuras desdobráveis em extra-texto da autoria de Bylaert, Fokke, R. Muys, abertas por Milsan em Paris, contendo anatomia interna e externa de mamíferos; de vertebrados; e de corais.

 Binding: contemporary full calf gilt at spine, worn out at edges.

Illustrated with 14 folding plates with external and internal anatomy of new discovered mamals and invertebrated animals; and also corals amongst them.

Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was a very famous German Zoologist, botanist and above all traveller. He studied at Halle, Göttingen and Leiden, where he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1760. In 1761 he went to England to study the natural history collections and to make geological observations. In 1763 he settled in The Hague, where in 1766 he published his acclaimed Elenchus zoophytorum and Miscellanes zoologica. He soon attracted the attention of Catherine II of Russia and he was invited to St. Petersburg, where he was appointed professor of natural history at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1767. At the request of Catherine, he was very quickly placed in charge of the academy expedition into Russia and Siberia (1768-1774) which expedition made him famous for his observations on the mammoth and rhinoceros fossils found in the Siberian ice.