Victor Audouin [Jean-Victor AUDOUIN] Henri Milne Edwards [Henri MILNE-EDWARDS]
Résumé des recherches sur les animaux sans vertèbres, faites aux îles Chausey[Summary of the Research on Invertebrate Animals Conducted in the Chausey Islands]
Crochard|Paris 1828|14 x 22 cm|Broché
Very scarce first edition, issued in a small printing, of this offprint from the Annales des Sciences naturelles for September 1828 (cf. Engelmann I, 315).
This paper is preceded by "Extrait du rapport fait à l’Académie royale des sciences sur le mémoire présenté par MM. Audouin et Milne-Edwards, par MM. Cuvier et Duméril".
The CCF records only two copies, in Paris (Muséum) and Montpellier.
The author of several entomological papers published from 1821 onwards, Victor Audouin also took an interest in marine biology: in 1826, 1828 and 1829 he undertook, together with Henri Milne-Edwards, three field trips to Brittany and Normandy.
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