José Vincente BARBOSA DU BOCAGE
Noticia acerca dos arvicolas de Portugal. Memoria apresentada a Academia real das sciencias de Lisboa[Notice concerning the Arvicolines of Portugal. Memoir presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon]
Typographia da Academia|Lisbon 1864|22.5 x 28 cm|Broché
First edition illustrated with a folding lithographed plate.
No copy recorded in the CCF.
Minor tears with small losses to the margins of the boards and to the spine.
Autograph inscription, in French, by José Vicente Barbosa do Bocage on the half-title.
José Vicente Barboza (Barbosa) du (do) Bocage (1823–1908), Portuguese statesman and zoologist, served as director of the National Museum of Zoology in Lisbon. He is unrelated to his namesakes, the French geographers of the Barbier du Bocage family.
Bound in, and by the same author: "Noticia acerca da descoberta nas costas de Portugal d'um zoophyto da familia hyalochaetides, Brandt (hyalomena Lusitanica nob.). Memoria presentada a Academia real das sciencias de Lisboa", printed in Lisbon in 1864.
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